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"It’s the only swing," she snapped back. "You can’t put a price on a life, Stanley, but this state tries to every single day."

Eileen leaned back, a cynical smirk tugging at her mouth. "Because a human life is only worth what a spreadsheet says it is." "Alaska Daily" You Can't Put a Price on a Life(...

As the deadline loomed, the editor, Stanley Cornik, hovered over them. "You’re making this an indictment of the whole system, Eileen. That’s a big swing." "It’s the only swing," she snapped back

In the gritty newsroom of the Daily Alaskan , Eileen Fitzgerald stared at a flickering monitor, the blue light catching the sharp lines of her frustration. She was chasing a ghost: the case of a missing Indigenous woman whose disappearance had been filed away under "indifferent" by local law enforcement. "You’re making this an indictment of the whole