from ktoo ed went to the empire, the big paper in juneau.and for the last 15 years he's been one of the voices of southeast alaska on coast alaska, be a public broadcasting consortium of 500 communities. his nickname is dean of the douglas press corps. this is a big of -- a bit of a joke, not toward him, but what douglas means. douglas is an island of about 300 people. but as the juneau paper put it, ed has earned the status as the dean of the press corps, and that status became because of the dozens and dozens of reporters he has trained and mentored throughout the years. and that's a great legacy. but, of course, he also takes his work very seriously. he's done plenty of light-hearted features about ee questions triians, exploring caves in the largest national forest in the country, but there are also deeper dives as you would expect. he has won investigation journalism award about corruption related to a state contract. he covered our important businesses extensively, and there's nobody who has done more digging into an issue that i and m