Anchorage Podcast

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The Olympic cross-country team is packed with Alaskans; Governor Mike Dunleavy says state chief medical officer Dr. Anne Zink still has his confidence; An Idaho man arrested this month is accused of a killing in 1985; The effort to recall Anchorage Assembly member Jamie Allard will not be moving forward…

Love in Action Luke 23:34 Martin Luther King Jr. April 30, 1960Oleh firstcovenantanchorage

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, our guest is Celeste Hodge Growden who discusses the brutal racism she experienced as an Anchorage municipal employee during the 1980s and '90s. The discrimination she faced inspired her to civil rights work, and she was elected president of the Anchorage branch of the NAACP in 1993, an office she would …

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Avoiding Omicron at the Bejing Winter Games; The Alaska Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a new voter-approved elections system; A slate of grants worth more than $10 million for 36 tribal and village governments

Alaska Supreme Court weighs arguments over new election process; the chairman of the Alaska Permanent Fund’s board of trustees defended the board’s decision to fire Angela Rodell; A former Wasilla doctor was sentenced to prison for illegally distributing narcotics to his patients

A veteran developer is looking to develop housing in Girdwood; Face masks are required in the Alaska State Capitol; Kuskokwim 300 organizers have announced COVID-19 mitigations; How the volcano eruption near Tonga in the South Pacific affected Anchorage residents

How Anchorage restaurants are making drastic adjustments to deal with omicron; The latest on a new election system in Alaska; A 57-year-old Alaska pediatrician died while scuba diving

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The hot mic incident at the Anchorage Zoom meeting; The Anchorage School District will continue to require masks in its buildings; A campaign to formalize the government-to-government relationship between federally recognized tribes in Alaska and the state is moving forward; A fix for a troublesome portion of the Denali Park Road could be coming so…

A golden retriever puppy is Alyeska’s newest avalanche safety asset; The latest COVID-19 data in Alaska; The former director of the Alaska Permanent Fund is blaming her dismissal on “political retribution”; Anchorage Police Chief Kenneth McCoy's new role after retirement

Alaska's hospital system during the omicron surge; Alaska grocers are scrambling to refill shelves after the recent winter storms; A 21-year-old Anchorage man died by suicide; Anchorage will have a 24-hour COVID-19 testing site

The story of an Anchorage resident from Afghanistan; The Alaska Court System fired the state’s longest-serving magistrate judge; Biden administration officials announced plans to return to Obama-era rules for oil and gas development in the vast National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska on the North Slope; Anchorage correctional officers pepper sprayed thre…

Michael Patterson is an outspoken communist, community organizer, and one of the founders of Anchorage’s “pre-branch” of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, (PSL). He discusses growing up in East Anchorage, his time in the army, his political awakening, and the socialist movement here in Alaska.Oleh Andrew Gray

The Most Excellent Way: Speak, Know, Do 1 Corinthians 13:1-3Oleh firstcovenantanchorage

How do birds in Alaska survive the winter?; The Anchorage Downtown Partnership has changed how its safety ambassadors patrol downtown’s streets; A man was shot to death in the parking lot of the Alaska Club East; An Alaska figure skater won his first national title at the Canadian figure skating championships…

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Pastor Mike speaks on 1 Corinthians 9:24-26Oleh South Anchorage Assembly

Some Alaskans are having epic troubles trying to return home; The municipality of Anchorage spent more than $8,000 to post anti-panhandling signs; More than 500 claims for individual assistance had already been received by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough; Alaska has ended its longest stretch of population decline since World War II…

Repairing Mat-Su after the New Years storm; A new lawsuit is challenging a decision by the administration of Governor Mike Dunleavy; Edward “Ed” Rasmuson, died at 81; Police have located located the mother of a baby found abandoned

Dealing with the powerful storm in Palmer and Wasilla; Public schools in Anchorage will stay open to in-person learning; Lawmakers’ daily expense payments will be cut by almost two-thirds;

Pastor Criss MitchellOleh firstcovenantanchorage

Today we celebrate 63 years of Alaskan Statehood by continuing our conversation with Victor Fischer, the last living signer of the our State’s Constitution. We discuss Alaska in the 1950s when he was both a territorial legislator and a delegate to the 1955 constitutional convention. We also talk about the Great 1964 Earthquake when Mr. Fischer was …

1/4/22: Alaska has reported 3,700 new COVID; continue to cause chaos in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough infections in a 7-day period; A member of the seven-person board in charge of Alaska’s state fisheries has resigned; Two fines against Hilcorp totaling $64,000 have been upheld

Why doesn't Alaska salt the roads?; Strong winds hammered Southcentral Alaska on Sunday; COVID-19 cases in Alaska have again begun to rise; A newborn baby in a cardboard box was found alive after being abandoned in Fairbanks

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COVID-19 homes test kits in Alaska; COVID-19 cases in Alaska have again begun to rise; Anchorage Assembly adopted updates to the city’s procedures for handling elections

The anti-Biden figurines at the Anchorage military base mall; Lieutenant Governor Kevin Meyer will not run for re-election; Trump's conditional endorsement of Dunleavy; Cheryl Frasca's new political gig

The storm that has wreaked havoc on Interior Alaska; Alaska's first cases of the omicron variant have been detected; Republican Senator Lora Reinbold has violated state law; An environmental group is planning to sue the Interior Department to stop oil exploration work

A Christmas Story Revelation 12:1-6Oleh firstcovenantanchorage

The Big Lake ice road and the volunteers who maintain it; Cities opting out of the Alaska's news ATV regulation; There's been a spate of business openings around Anchorage; Honoring Kivalina's Lucy Adams

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Why do Alaskans call it a snowmachine instead of a snowmobile?; Alaskan airports will soon no longer have on-site COVID-19 testing; Governor Dunleavy has named the head of the criminal division of the Alaska Department of Law; Human remains were found in a remote cabin just outside Soldotna

Melanie Bahnke, president of Kawerak, the nonprofit tribal consortium representing 20 Alaska Native tribes in the Bering Strait Region, talks about her childhood in the remote western Alaskan village of Savoonga where she grew up speaking St Lawrence Island Yupik. We also discuss her contentious time this past year serving as one of the 5 members o…

Alaska doctors have received packages from a group promoting unproven COVID-19 treatments; Alaska's second omicron variant case; The Anchorage Assembly postponed a vote on an ordinance that would update the city’s election laws; Anchorage’s deputy clerk of elections is resigning

Hilcorp Energy’s latest philanthropic endeavors; The Anchorage School Board has voted to keep the school district’s mask policy in place; An earthquake shook South central Alaska Tuesday afternoon; A state employee has been charged with sexual assault

a prolonged ammunition shortage is changing Alaska’s gun culture; The Anchorage Assembly is ready to vote on code changes; Ocean farming and aquaculture in Alaska’s coastal regions could get a boost from a federal grant program

Enchanted Faith: Enchanted Everything John 1:1-14Oleh firstcovenantanchorage

Alaskan Presidential visit history continued; More details on Mayor Bronson's fluoride problem; An investigation into the death of a man found Sunday morning in downtown Anchorage

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Mayor Bronson’s fluoride problem; The Anchorage School District will no longer require universal masking among students; Alaska lawmaker pay cut talks continue

Details on the proposed Ambler Project; Mayor Dave Bronson’s proposal to make the city library a division of Parks and Recreation; ConocoPhillips continues its march west on the North Slope; Alaska reported two more COVID-19 deaths and 347 new cases

The Alaska medical board declines to take a public stance on off-label COVID-19 treatments; The mayor's fluoridation announcement; An Anchorage man was sentenced Tuesday to spend 65 years in prison for fatally shooting another man

Remembering the first Presidential visit to Alaska; Alaska’s first case of a new coronavirus variant was detected in an Anchorage resident; A group of longtime Alaska political insiders will urge Alaskans to vote “no” next year on whether to hold a constitutional convention; The Municipality of Anchorage won a major court victory over the federal g…

Supply chain hang-ups are stalling construction projects across Anchorage; Why was Angela Rodell relieved from the Permanent Fund?; Mayor Bronson filed a lawsuit against the city Assembly

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