Latest Juneau Podcast Episodes
TRANS RIGHTS: Dr. Marci Bowers, president of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH)
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 27, 2024 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDr. Marci Bowers is a pelvic and gynecologic surgeon with more than 32 years’ experience. She is the president of WPATH – the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Her gender diverse work has been highlighted through appearances on Oprah, CBS Sunday Morning, Discovery Health and...
Newscast – Friday, April 26, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 27, 2024 01:11 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: A ban on social media accounts for children under 14 passed the Alaska House; The Alaska House passed a bill that would put more guardrails on the property assessment process in the state; More Alaskans died of opioid overdose last year than ever before; An Oregon man convicted ...
TRANS RIGHTS: Dr. Joshua Safer, author of the Endocrine Society Guidelines for the medical care of transgender patients
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 26, 2024 13:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDr. Joshua Safer is the executive director of the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York. He is the founding medical director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine, and he was the inaugural president of the United...
Newscast – Thursday, April, 25, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 26, 2024 01:25 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: Trident Seafood’s Ketchikan processing plant was officially transferred to Silver Bay Seafoods. A new Alaska Senate bill tightens residency requirements on hunting and fishing licenses. A rare bowhead whale was spotted in Sitka.
TRANS RIGHTS: Becca Bernard, a lawyer, minister, and mom to a trans girl
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 25, 2024 08:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsBecca Bernard is a former environmental lawyer and a Unitarian Universalist community minister based in Anchorage. She is also mom to two children, one of whom is trans. This episode is part of a series on trans rights. The inspiration for these interviews is three bills currently moving throu...
Newscast – Wednesday, April 24, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 25, 2024 00:20 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: A new campus slated for Juneau will be dedicated to immersing children in Alaska Native culture and languages; An Indigenous-led group, the Herring Protectors, received an unexpected contribution -- two parcels of land on an island outside of Sitka; House lawmakers removed an am...
TRANS RIGHTS: David Leslie, an Inupiaq Sipiniq (Two-Spirit)
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 24, 2024 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDavid Leslie is an Inupiaq Sipiniq (Two-Spirit) living in Fairbanks. He is a frequent testifier against the anti-trans bills moving through the Alaska State House. We discuss his specific perspective as a queer Alaska Native man. To check out the book recommended by our guest, Yuuyaraq: The Way...
Newscast – Tuesday, April 23, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 24, 2024 00:42 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: Alaska's Division of Forestry released its plan for selling timber in Southeast Alaska for the next five years and an environmental group in the region is frustrated with the public process; A recent paper in Nature attempts to set a new timeframe of when humans first appeared i...
TRANS RIGHTS: Henry, a 15-year-old trans boy and his mom
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 23, 2024 14:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsHenry is a 15 year old trans boy. He and his mother are the guests today discussing their experience in Alaska. No last names will be given in the interest of their safety. This episode is part of a series on trans rights. The inspiration for these interviews is three bills currently moving thr...
Newscast – Monday, April 22, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 23, 2024 00:47 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: The City and Borough of Juneau is creating a task force to tackle if -- and how -- they should be regulated; Juneau's emergency warming shelter closed last week and the city doesn't have a campground for people to move to this year; Tongass Voices: Holly Huber on what it takes t...
Garden Talk: Transplanting starts and seeding potatoes
Gardentalk - April 22, 2024 20:27 ★★★★ - 10 ratingsBefore you put your seedlings in the ground, you’ll have to get them ready.
TRANS RIGHTS: Retired Army 1st Sergeant Jessica Kalarchik on being trans
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 22, 2024 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsJessica Kalarchik was an Army First Sergeant who deployed with me and the Alaska Army National Guard’s 1-297th infantry battalion to Kosovo 2019-2020. 1st Sergeant Kalarchik presented as a very masculine man, and I never suspected that she was a trans woman. She was medically retired after 31 ye...
TRANS RIGHTS: An Air Force family raising a trans child
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 21, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe Banning family consists of: Lindsey, clinical psychologist, mom Charlie, age 15, non-binary trans masculine Ezzy, age 12, sister Earl, neuropsychologist in the Air Force at Elmendorf, dad This episode is part of a series on trans rights. The inspiration for these interviews is three bil...
TRANS RIGHTS: wildlife biologist Aaron Poe discusses being a father to a trans daughter in Anchorage
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 20, 2024 22:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAaron Poe has been a wildlife biologist in Alaska since 1998. He is the father of a trans daughter in the Anchorage School District, and today we discuss that experience. This episode is the first in a series on trans rights. The inspiration for these interviews is three bills currently moving ...
Newscast – Friday, April 19, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 19, 2024 16:37 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast – The Tongass National Forest has grown, with the addition of 5 acres of important fish and wildlife habitat Earlier this month, the Denver Post reported that Lingit tribal members have been requesting cultural items back from the Denver Art Museum in Colorado for years – to no a...
Newscast – Thursday, April 18, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 18, 2024 16:16 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: Scientists and Alaska Native leaders released a report this week claiming plastic waste in the Arctic is contaminating essential resources of Indigenous communities Khalil English shares his research on silverweed, a seemingly inconspicuous plant with deep roots in Pacific North...
Newscast – Wednesday, April 17, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 17, 2024 17:53 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: Wrangell’s Nolan Center hosted a screening of Blue Ticket on Monday. It’s a film of a play that KTOO documented back in 2019. The play’s author, Maureen Longworth, documented how gay men in Juneau were exiled from the city in the 1960s. The Alaska Native Birthworkers Community i...
Newscast – Tuesday, April 16, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 17, 2024 00:40 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: The Juneau planning commission agreed to let an outdoor food court expand into the empty lot that once housed the demolished Elks Hall building; The National Native Boarding School Healing Coalition will conduct interviews to document abuse at boarding schools; Alaska Public Med...
Newscast – Monday, April 15, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 16, 2024 00:41 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: Peter Pan Seafood announced Friday that it was ceasing operations; A partisan brawl is about to erupt in Congress over the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Alaska's US senators are seemingly split over it; Tongass Voices: Jeremy Kane on the philo...
James Kaufman (R-Anchorage): AK State Senator for Abbott Loop and the Hillside
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 14, 2024 15:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAlaska State Senator James Kaufman represents the Abbott Loop and Hillside areas of Anchorage. Although in his teens and 20s he was a guitar player & song writer for several successful rock bands, James began earning real money as an aircraft mechanic in Houston, Texas. He quickly found himself ...
Newscast – Friday, March 12, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 13, 2024 01:01 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: Cancer patients in Juneau who need gynecological surgery no longer have to leave town to get it; The Alaska House of Representatives passed its $6 billion operating budget today
Garden Talk: Why silverweed is ‘a beloved plant all throughout the Pacific Northwest’
Gardentalk - April 12, 2024 19:48 ★★★★ - 10 ratingsFor this week’s Garden Talk, KTOO’s Chloe Pleznac spoke with Khalil English about his research on silverweed, a seemingly inconspicuous plant with deep roots in Pacific Northwest history.
Newscast – Thursday, April 11, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 12, 2024 00:47 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: City officials in Juneau have proposed a municipal spending plan for next year that slightly raises the property tax rate; Many Alaskans have to travel a long way for certain healthcare treatments, but a bill in the state House aims to close that distance by expanding the list ...
Newscast – Wednesday, April 10, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 11, 2024 00:39 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: A group of activists in Juneau filed paperwork in the hopes of putting a question on the 2024 local election ballot about whether the city should begin enforcing "Ship-free Saturdays"; The Sitka Assembly is calling for the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium to reconside...
Newscast – Tuesday, April 9, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 10, 2024 00:39 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: The Norwegian Bliss docked in Juneau this morning, marking the beginning of the 2024 cruise ship season; State education officials continue to dispute the federal government's claim that Alaska didn't fund schools equitably during the pandemic; Athletes from across Alaska and so...
Newscast – Monday, April 8, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 09, 2024 00:41 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: Some projects the city plans to fund with marine passenger fees are being contested by cruise line officials; A look ahead at this year's cruise season, which starts tomorrow; Tongass Voices: Joey Scoggins and Khrystal Brouillette-Gillam and the Juneau Hostel
Reggie Joule: Kotzebue House Rep (1997-2012) & Northwest Arctic Borough Mayor (2012-2015)
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 07, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsReggie Joule of Kotzebue is a former Alaska State House Representative and the former Northwest Arctic Borough Mayor. He is listed in the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame as: “the greatest practitioner of the blanket toss in the long history of the World Eskimo Indian Olympics.” His skill in that Alas...
Newscast – Friday, April 5, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 06, 2024 00:47 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: Involvement in traditional games and Native Youth Olympics are growing across Alaska and two coaches from Juneau's team visited Petersburg to show students what these sports are all about; Legendary Juneau musician Buddy Tabor died in 2012, and a group of Southeast Alaska artist...
Garden Talk: It’s time to get your garden — and yourself — ready for the growing season
Gardentalk - April 05, 2024 15:00 ★★★★ - 10 ratingsMaster Gardener Ed Buyarski says it’s time to start doing the work that will set you up for success.
Newscast – Thursday, April 4, 2024
KTOO News Update - April 05, 2024 00:38 ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this newscast: Students from Juneau and across Alaska walked out of school today to protest Gov. Mike Dunleavy's education funding veto last month; Curious Juneau: the state of fast food in Juneau; State lawmakers got some new details Tuesday about the federal government's partial approval of ...