East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray
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The East Anchorage Book Club is an interview podcast where Alaskan leaders discuss politics and community issues.
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UPCOMING SPECIAL SESSION EXPLAINED by AK Senate Rules Chair Bill Wielechowski
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Gabe Rottman: VP of Policy at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Pat Dougherty: former editor of the Anchorage Daily News
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Genevieve Mina Revisited
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Will Stapp Revisited
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Tom Hewitt: former Opinions Editor at the Anchorage Daily News & special assistant to Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Grier Hopkins
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Mara Kimmel: Director of the ACLU of Alaska discusses ICE detainees held at the Anchorage Correctional Complex
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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PRIDE 2025: Rose O'Hara-Jolley, AK state director for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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PRIDE 2025: JJ Harrier, Chair of the Anchorage Pride Parade
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Rep. Zack Fields (D-Anchorage) discusses the US Congressional Budget Reconciliation Act of 2025
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Tessa Hulls: 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner for her graphic memoir, "Feeding Ghosts," & Alaska Legislative Lounge Staff
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May 26, 2025 |
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Rep. Ky Holland (I-South Anchorage/Girdwood/Whittier): on entrepreneurship & elections
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May 19, 2025 |
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Rep. Carolyn Hall (D-Anchorage): Emmy award winning television journalist & communications director for Gov. Bill Walker & Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz
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May 05, 2025 |
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Josh Revak: Former Alaska State Senator & Iraq war veteran
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Foster Care in Alaska 2025: Deko Harbi, Shannon Smith, & Tali Stone
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Rep. Kevin McCabe (R-Big Lake): Alaska State House Representative
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Mindy O'Neall: Chair of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly & the Director of Cold Climate Housing Research Center
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Rep. Andrew Gray (D-Anchorage) interviewed by his staff Kyle Johansen at the request of his staff Claire Bredar
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Reed Stoops: Lobbyist & Co-Founder of the Juneau Community Foundation
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Rep. Jubilee Underwood (R-Wasilla): Former President of the MatSu School Board
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Michael Rovito: Deputy Director of Alaska Power Association (APA) & former Chief of Staff to Sen. Linda Menard (R-Wasilla)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Sen. Rob Yundt (R-Wasilla): MMA Fighter, former MatSu Borough Assemblyman & AK state Senator
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Sen. Matt Claman (D-Anchorage): Alaska Senate Judiciary Chair & former Anchorage Mayor
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Brock Wilson, PhD: Labor Economist at UAA's Institute of Social & Economic Research (ISER)
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Rep. Bill Elam (R-Kenai & Nikiski): Alaska State House Representative
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Rep. Frank Tomaszewski (R-Fairbanks) - Alaska State House Representative
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Pat Galvin: Alaska Commissioner of Revenue (2006-2010)
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Rep. Sarah Vance (R-Homer): Chair of the Alaska State House Judiciary Committee
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Issa Spatrisano: Alaska State Refugee Coordinator
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Hollis French: former AK Senate Minority Leader, gubernatorial candidate, and AOGCC Commissioner
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Bronson Frye: International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Local 1959 Representative
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Dr. Mimi Benjamin: founder of Bartlett Regional Hospital Hospitalist Program
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Lori Pickett & Deepika Ramesh Perumal: Executive Director(s) of the Alaska Literacy Program
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Megan Edge: Prison Project Director at the ACLU of Alaska
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Charles Wohlforth: Co-Author of "How Covid Crashed the System" & former Anchorage Assembly Member
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Kyle Johansen: former Alaska State House Majority Leader
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Michelle Macuar Sparck: Director of Get Out the Native Vote
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Michelle Turner: President of Anchorage Democrats & Carl Johnson: Small Business Owner
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Tom Pittman VIII: Director of Identity Inc.
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Maija Katak Lukin: former Mayor of Kotzebue & former superintendent of the NPS's Western Arctic National Parklands
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal: author of "An American Sickness: How healthcare became big business and how you can take it back"
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Ron Hoffman: Lead Pastor of Mountain City Church (formerly the Anchorage Baptist Temple)
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Tom Kizzia: author of "Josie's Story: from 19th-century Sitka to her escape from the Holocaust"
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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Fran Ulmer: former Lieutenant Governor of Alaska
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Jennifer Fayette: Immediate Past President of the Alaska Academy of Physician Assistants
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Lisa Aquino: CEO of Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Dr. William Sage: US Health Care Policy Expert
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Judge Elaine Andrews: the selection and retention of Alaska's judges
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Kendra Sticka: Director of healthEconnect Alaska, the state-designated health information exchange (HIE)
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Rev. Matt Schultz: Pastor of Anchorage's First Presbyterian Church on the dangers of Christian Nationalism
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Lawrence Weiss: founder of the Masters of Public Health program at the University of Alaska Anchorage
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Dr. Anne Zink: Chief Medical Officer of Alaska (2019-2024)
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Rep. Jennie Armstrong (D-Anchorage): How to be a good boss
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Tom Begich: former Alaska State Senate Minority Leader
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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2024 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: the Alaska Delegation
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Rep. Zack Fields (D-Anchorage): a Virginia childhood, unions, & bipartisanship
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Jenna Wright: President of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation discusses a sales tax & property tax relief
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Erin Baldwin Day: founder of the Mutual Aid Network of Anchorage (MANA) & an organizer of the Anchorage Housing Club
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Arianna Bellizzi: Director of Anchorage's Federation of Community Councils
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Lisa Parker: Anchorage Charter Commissioner & Soldotna City Council Member
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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THE UNIFICATION OF ANCHORAGE 1975: Jane Angvik, Charter Commission Member
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Jane Angvik: Founding Mother of Anchorage
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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JULY 4: Dr. Cal Williams, African American History Keeper and Alaskan Grio
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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PRIDE: Tafilisaunoa Toleafoa, Director of the Pacific Community of Alaska
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Kevin Berry: UAA Economics Professor on private vs. public sector growth, Assembly-proposed zoning changes, and Anchorage community councils
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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JUNETEENTH: Sen. Elvi Gray-Jackson (D-Anchorage)
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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ALASKA WORKERS' RIGHTS (SPANISH): Conoce tus derechos como trabajador en Alaska
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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ALASKA WORKERS' RIGHTS (UKRAINIAN): Знайте свої права як працівника на Алясці
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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ALASKA WORKERS' RIGHTS (ESTONIAN): teie õigused töötajana
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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ALASKA WORKERS' RIGHTS (HMONG): Koj txoj cai ua haujlwm
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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ALASKA WORKERS' RIGHTS (FILIPINO): Ang iyong mga karapatan bilang isang manggagawa
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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ALASKA WORKERS' RIGHTS (KOREAN): 노동자 권리 에피소드 한국어
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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ALASKA WORKERS' RIGHTS: short guide in English
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Amber Batts: activist for Alaska's sex workers
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Rebecca Braun: Publisher-Editor of the Alaska Budget Report & Senior Policy Advisor to Gov. Bill Walker
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May 24, 2024 |
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Donna Arduin: 2019 OMB director for Gov. Dunleavy & current staff to Rep. Ben Carpenter (R-Nikiski)
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May 18, 2024 |
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ALASKA WORKERS' RIGHTS: Jeremy Applegate, chief of Wage and Hour, State of Alaska Dept. of Labor.
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May 06, 2024 |
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Libby Bakalar: One Hot Mess Alaska
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May 01, 2024 |
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TRANS RIGHTS: Rep. Andrew Gray on garnering more support for Trans Rights
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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TRANS RIGHTS: Dr. Marci Bowers, president of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH)
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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TRANS RIGHTS: Dr. Joshua Safer, author of the Endocrine Society Guidelines for the medical care of transgender patients
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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TRANS RIGHTS: Becca Bernard, a lawyer, minister, and mom to a trans girl
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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TRANS RIGHTS: David Leslie, an Inupiaq Sipiniq (Two-Spirit)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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TRANS RIGHTS: Henry, a 15-year-old trans boy and his mom
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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TRANS RIGHTS: Retired Army 1st Sergeant Jessica Kalarchik on being trans
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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TRANS RIGHTS: wildlife biologist Aaron Poe discusses being a father to a trans daughter in Anchorage
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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James Kaufman (R-Anchorage): AK State Senator for Abbott Loop and the Hillside
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Reggie Joule: Kotzebue House Rep (1997-2012) & Northwest Arctic Borough Mayor (2012-2015)
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Sharon Gleason: Chief Judge of the US District Court for Alaska
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Lisa Wawrzonek: Statewide Guardianship Compliance Officer on Alaska's Guardianship Crisis
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Mobile Home Owners Town Hall with Attorney Charles Ward, David Andrew, and Demetria Veasy
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Charisse Millett: Director of PSEA & former AK House Majority Leader
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Chelsea Foster & Bailey Stuart: Alaska Marijuana 101
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Foster Care in Alaska: Angel Gonzalez, Mateo Jaime, Kxlo Stone, Anna Redmon, Sarah Lewis, & Abbey Redmon
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Keri Ladner: author on Jerry Falwell, the Moral Majority, and QAnon
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS: former AK House Rep Ivan Ivan (D-Akiak); Jena Crafton, Chair of the Governor's Council on Disabilities & Special Education
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS: Ed Wesley & Shenee Williams, Shiloh Community Housing's planned Community Resource Center
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS: Paul Peterson, Harvard Professor on Alaska Charter Schools
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS: Shelley Hughes, AK State Senator on establishing a religious community in Hoonah & her journey into MatSu politics
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS: CJ McCormick, state house representative discusses life in Bethel, suicide, and partisanship
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Lesil McGuire: former AK state senator on partisanship, love, and leadership
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Beth Kerttula: former AK House Minority Leader
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Ben Walker: 2018 Alaska Teacher of the Year
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Michele Girault: Director of Hope Community Resources & President of Friends of Pets
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Ben Robinson: General Director of Anchorage Opera
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Tom Kizzia: author on ghost town McCarthy
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Tyler Robinson: City Planner on Anchorage Housing
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Karen Bronga: East Anchorage Assembly Member
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Diane Hirshberg: Director of ISER discusses Alaska public education
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Louise Stutes: Alaska State House minority whip and former speaker of the house
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Jharrett Bryantt: Superintendent of Anchorage School District
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Glen Maxey: first openly gay Texas legislator
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Amanda Metivier and Les Gara: Foster Care in Alaska
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Keeley Olson: Director of STAR, Alaska's sexual trauma prevention and response organization
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Colleen Mondor: Alaska's bypass mail system
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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RENTERS' TOWNHALL: Attorney Dan Coon's on Alaska's landlord-tenant laws
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Daniel Volland: Anchorage Assembly member on housing
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Kendra Kloster & Dr. Charlene Aqpik Apok: Founders of the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, & 2-Spirit (MMIWG2S) Alaska Working Group
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Dayna DeFeo: Director of the Center for Alaska Education Policy Research
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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EJR David & Gabriel Garcia: UAA Professors on Filipino American History Month
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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David Ramseur: Russia's relationship with Alaska
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Calvin Schrage: AK State House Minority Leader
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Bob Loeffler: ISER professor on mining in Alaska
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Gary Stevens: author of "Uncle Ted" and President of the Alaska State Senate
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Travis Hedwig: co-editor of Housing, Homelessness, and Social Policy in the Urban North; Alexis Johnson: Anchorage's housing and homelessness coordinator
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Mike Jones: ISER economist on Alaska food & infrastructure
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Tom Kizzia: author of "Wake of the Unseen Object"
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Ivy Spohnholz: Alaska State Director of The Nature Conservancy and former State House Representative
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Alyse Galvin: State House Representative and former congressional candidate
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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George Martinez: Anchorage Assembly Member for East Anchorage
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Tiffany Hall: Director of Recover Alaska
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Scott Kawasaki: AK Senator and former Fairbanks City Council member
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Anna Hutchinson: campaign fundraiser and manager
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Andy Josephson: AK State House Representative
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Brett Watson: economist at ISER on the PFD and Housing
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Phyllis Rhodes: former director of Identity
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Nolan Klouda: Center for Economic Development Director on Alaska Housing
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Forrest Dunbar: AK State Senator & former East Anchorage Assembly Member
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Victor Carlson: Alaska superior court judge & Anchorage LGBTQ+ icon
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Margo Bellamy: President of the Anchorage School Board
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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East Anchorage Matters: State Senator Löki Tobin
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Dana Stabenow: Alaska’s great mystery author
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Dan O’Neill: author on Project Chariot, the government’s plan to nuke Alaska
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Chris Tuck: AK House Majority Leader
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Ivan Hodes: Iraq war veteran on Alaska State Rep. David Eastman
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Matt Pacillo: Trans Rights Activist
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Jeff Landfield: Editor of The Alaska Landmine
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Christine McClure: Racial injustice during construction of the Al-Can Highway
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Brian Brettschneider: Alaska Climate Scientist
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Kevin Berry: UAA Economist
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Dan O'Neill: author on the Bering Land Bridge
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Patricia Chesbro: US Senate Candidate
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Dan O'Neill: author on the destruction of the subsistence lifestyle on the Upper Yukon
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Anna Brawley: Anchorage Community Planner
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Care Clift: The 2022 Platform of the Libertarian Party of Alaska
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Wigi Tozzi: political strategist on volunteering for campaigns
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Christine McClure, author on the Al-Can Highway construction
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Heather Lende, author and former Haines Borough Assembly Member
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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KL Marshall: the Religious Right, Oil, and Alaska
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Judge Michael Wolverton: 38 years on the Alaska Bench
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Jason Grenn, Executive Director of Alaskans for Better Elections
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Lise Adams Sherry, minister of Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Jasmin Smith, Anchorage entrepreneur and community organizer
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Michael Burke, Episcopal priest on Anchorage's 2009 "Summer of Hate"
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Jim Obergefell: marriage equality for America
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Caitlin Shortell: Anchorage civil rights attorney on marriage equality
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Matt Hamby & Chris Sheldon: marriage equality in Alaska
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Scott Kendall, Anchorage attorney discusses redistricting
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Kameron Perez-Verdia, Assembly member on funding the shelter at Elmore and Tudor
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May 23, 2022 |
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Hrrrl Scouts: Anchorage Twitter sensation
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May 17, 2022 |
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Joe Josephson, former AK senator and municipal charter commission member
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May 09, 2022 |
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Austin and Stephanie Quinn-Davidson: former acting mayor and first lady
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May 03, 2022 |
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Meg Zaletel, Assembly Member and ACEH Director
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Eva Finch & Valeri Zahharov: Estonians on Ukraine
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Rabbi Abram Goodstein & Reverend Matthew Schultz: progressive clergy
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Natasha Aġnaŋuluuraq Gamache, homeless advocate
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Eitan Hersh, author of Politics is for Power
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Vanessa Stephens, Chugiak-Eagle River assembly candidate
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Blue Alaskan and Yarrow Silvers, experts on "Save Anchorage"
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Gretchen Wehmhoff, Chugiak-Eagle River assembly candidate
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Danyelle Kimp & Rozlyn Grady Wyche, Alaska Coalition of BIPOC Educators
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Matt Buxton, independent journalist discusses group "Save Anchorage"
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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A Tale of Two Suzannes: correcting misinformation from Must Read Alaska
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Felix Rivera & Christopher Constant, Anchorage's 1st gay assemblymen
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Donna Mears, Alaska senate candidate
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Celeste Hodge Growden, president of the Alaska Black Caucus
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Victor Fischer, signer of Alaska State Constitution
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Melanie Bahnke, Alaska Redistricting Board
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Victor Fischer, growing up in Stalin's Russia
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Bill Evans, former Anchorage Assembly Member
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Dr. Leslie Gonsette & Dr. Robin Ninefeldt, COVID-19 mitigation advocates
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Heather Flynn, former Anchorage Assembly Member
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Oct 29, 2021 |