MARK HAMILTON There

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption on Saturday morning was the shockwave heard around the globe, including here in Alaska, starting at around 3:30 a.m., according to the National Weather Service. That’s 5,800 miles from the volcano itself deep in the South Pacific. The infrasound measurements from the @alaska_avo confirm that the sound some people heard was coincident with the volcanic pressure wave. One person in Homer said he distinctly heard the pressure wave at about 4 am.

Born on this day in 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. became a Baptist minister who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and was the most well-known leader of the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement in America. He championed civil rights through non-violence and his deeply held Christian beliefs. King helped organize and led the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, and a march on Washington in 1963, in which he delivered his now-famous “I have a Dream” speech.

By MARK HAMILTON There is no question the Pebble Project mine could have had a better beginning, and maybe a different outcome. I can’t tell you I would have done it differently, but with 20-20 hindsight, there was a better way. There were some efforts to involve the Bristol Bay Native Corporation, but not enough efforts. The fact that the mine site was on state land was not a reason to fail to educate all the people in Bristol Bay.