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Opinion: You can’t hold funding for Alaska public education hostage and expect it to improve
In the fall of 2019, Tom Begich and I sat in the Atwood Building lobby, waiting to meet with Gov. Mike Dunleavy. That meeting ...
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Congress has defunded public broadcasting. Murkowski explores what’s next for Alaska stations.
The fate of Alaska’s smaller public radio stations is in doubt after Congress passed a bill to defund the Corporation for ...
Public broadcasters say GOP funding cuts could be 'devastating' to local media and make Americans less safe
But now, looming GOP-led funding cuts are concerning media allies that local public broadcasters would be forced to downsize ...
Alaska public media stations warn of dangers as US Senate prepares to vote on funding clawback
More than $15 million in annual federal funding for Alaska's 27 public media stations is at stake as the U.S. Senate this week is set to take up a Trump administration request to claw back federal ...
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Opinion: For rural Alaska, public media isn’t a luxury — it’s a lifeline
A move in Congress would eliminate federal funding for public broadcasting, and the effects in Alaska would be severe.
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Alaska public media managers warn of potential impact from federal cuts
A dozen officials and general managers for Alaska’s public media organizations across the state spelled out the potential ...
Alaska US senators split votes on cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid
Alaska’s two U.S. senators voted differently on a bill requested by President Donald Trump to block federal funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting. The cuts include $1.1 billion for public ...
Searching for pennies: With the cut in federal funding public broadcasters are looking to cope
In Alaska, a public radio station general manager took a moment from a busy day warning her community about a possible ...
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Homes lost, hundreds evacuated as wildfires ... - Alaska Public Media
Wildfire activity exploded across Interior Alaska late last week amid widespread red flag warnings and the state’s first-ever heat advisory. Dozens of lightning- and human-caused fires have ...
Public media supporters say federal funding cuts could endanger life-saving broadcasts in Alaska
The U.S. House has approved President Donald Trump’s request to cut roughly $9 billion for both foreign aid and public ...
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Talk of Alaska - NPR
Podcasts News Talk of Alaska From Alaska Public Media Alaska’s only statewide call-in forum for discussing the issues impacting life on the Last Frontier. Politics, science, culture and current ...
Alaska is the most earthquake-prone state. Here is why.
Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years ...