Latest Juneau Podcast Episodes
Newscast – Tuesday, March 19, 2024
KTOO News Update - March 20, 2024 00:25 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: Around 100 people faced the Alaska State Capitol last night chanting in support of a ceasefire in Gaza and in opposition of Gov. Dunleavy's proposed bill that would crack down on unpermitted street protests; The Alaska Legislature voted Monday to sustain Gov. Dunleavy's veto of ...
Mobile Home Owners Town Hall with Attorney Charles Ward, David Andrew, and Demetria Veasy
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - March 19, 2024 22:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsThe Mobile Home Owner Town Hall Episode Today our show is about mobile home parks. As the state representative for house district 20, I have several mobile home parks in my district. Mobile home owners face unique challenges: they own their home but must rent the land on which their home sits. ...
Newscast – Monday, March 18, 2024
KTOO News Update - March 19, 2024 00:59 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: A technology that typically listens for volcanic eruptions and nuclear explosions will now be used to keep track of avalanches in Juneau; Tongass Voices: Nimmy Philips came to Juneau as an engineer, but 3 years ago, she decided to buy a restaurant. Now she applies her engineer's...
Charisse Millett: Director of PSEA & former AK House Majority Leader
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - March 16, 2024 02:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsCharisse Millett is a born and raised Alaskan who represented the Abbott Loop area of Anchorage in the Alaska State House from 2009 to 2019. During her legislative career she served as both the House Republican majority and minority leaders. In this episode we discuss: growing up Alaska Native ...
Newscast – Friday, March 15, 2024
KTOO News Update - March 16, 2024 00:04 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: The Juneau school board unanimously approved a budget for the next school year, which relies on school closures and staff reductions to address a nearly $10 million budget deficit. Juneau Animal Rescue is rehoming 16 tarantulas, a ball python and a pair of bearded dragons. KCAW ...
Newscast – Thursday, March 14, 2024
KTOO News Update - March 15, 2024 00:36 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: A search for Alaska herring at Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo, Japan. Money from the bipartisan education funding package does not pay for the building maintenance and repairs that some rural Alaska public schools desperately need.
Newscast – Wednesday, March 13, 2024
KTOO News Update - March 14, 2024 00:12 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: The Juneau School Board has decided to stick with its previously adopted school closure plan; Humpback whales are often considered a conservation success story. The species was near extinction just 50 years ago — today, tens of thousands of humpbacks call the North Pacific home....
Newscast – Tuesday, Mach 12, 2024
KTOO News Update - March 13, 2024 01:04 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: The Juneau School District’s current school closure plan would have it vacate three city-owned buildings: the district office on Glacier Avenue, the Marie Drake building and Floyd Dryden Middle School. Now, the city is eyeing those buildings as possible new homes for City Hall; ...
Newscast – Tuesday, March 12, 2024
KTOO News Update - March 13, 2024 01:04 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: The Juneau School District’s current school closure plan would have it vacate three city-owned buildings: the district office on Glacier Avenue, the Marie Drake building and Floyd Dryden Middle School. Now, the city is eyeing those buildings as possible new homes for City Hall; ...
Newscast – Monday, March 11, 2024
KTOO News Update - March 12, 2024 00:44 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: The Juneau School Board will reconsider a school closure plan it approved last month to help address the district's budget deficit; Tongass Voices: Jocelyn Clark was born in Juneau but has spent decades in Korea, studying a 1500 year old folk instrument; KCAW's Katherine Rose re...
Chelsea Foster & Bailey Stuart: Alaska Marijuana 101
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - March 10, 2024 18:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsChelsea Foster of Anchorage is a director on the board of the Alaska Marijuana Industry Association and a long-time cannabis advocate. She is COO for Birch Alaskan Naturals CBD, and a consultant for the Alaskan cannabis industry. She has successfully pursued regulatory and statuary changes for t...
Newscast – Friday, March. 8, 2024
KTOO News Update - March 09, 2024 02:11 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: A majority of Alaskans support a large increase to state education funding, according to a new poll from the progressive group Data for Progress; KTOO's Curious Juneau segment explores the original Lingit names for Juneau's mountains; Leading Alaska legislators said on Tuesday t...
What are the original Lingít names for Juneauʼs mountains?
Curious Juneau - March 08, 2024 02:02 ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsA listener asked KTOO what the local mountains’ original Lingít names are. For this installment of Curious Juneau, Yvonne Krumrey spoke with Lingít educators to find out.
Newscast – Thursday, March 7, 2024
KTOO News Update - March 08, 2024 00:31 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: Most property assessments in Juneau didn't change much from last year, according to preliminary data from the city; Alaska has the lowest percentage of high school seniors who've submitted the FAFSA so far; The Southeast Alaska Land Trust says the National Park Service extended ...
Newscast – Wednesday, March 6, 2024
KTOO News Update - March 07, 2024 01:59 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: The four-legged search and rescue team at SEADOGS got some practice in urban disaster searches in a simulated disaster in Lemon Creek this weekend; A Ketchikan-born Lingit artist has been selected to visually represent this year's Celebration; Tongass Voices: Axel Brouillette-Gi...
Newscast – Monday, March 4, 2024
KTOO News Update - March 05, 2024 02:05 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: Southeast Alaska's deputy forester for the US Forest Service said its time for the Tongass National Forest to update their management plan; Juneau's Augustus Brown Pool is reopening after nearly a year of renovations; Southeast Alaska Native leaders and Chilkat weavers welcomed ...
Foster Care in Alaska: Angel Gonzalez, Mateo Jaime, Kxlo Stone, Anna Redmon, Sarah Lewis, & Abbey Redmon
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - March 03, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsFacing Foster Care in Alaska (FFCA) is a non-profit group made up of folks with lived experience in the foster care system. As former foster youth themselves, these individuals can offer expertise to make Alaska's system better from the inside out. Today on the show we hear from the most recent ...
Newscast – Friday, March 1, 2024
KTOO News Update - March 02, 2024 02:07 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: Many residents in both Juneau and Haines saw their property assessments jump in value last year. Now, an Alaska Senate bill would require state accreditation for tax assessors and prevent municipalities from raising the assessed value of properties during an appeal process; A bi...
Newscast – Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024
KTOO News Update - March 01, 2024 01:44 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: An Alaska Native group says the Canadian government is violating their human rights, by greenlighting several large gold mines in British Columbia; Another episode of Tongass Voices: T McInnis -- the person behind one of Juneau's favorite drag kings Tyquan -- gave KTOO a tour of...
Newscast – Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024
KTOO News Update - February 29, 2024 01:48 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: Juneau School District leaders say an education funding increase approved by the Legislature this week would cut its budget deficit in half; Employees of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium in Sitka have threatened to organize, following a recent rollback of their be...
Keri Ladner: author on Jerry Falwell, the Moral Majority, and QAnon
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - February 28, 2024 13:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsKeri Ladner is the author of the 2024 book End Time Politics: From the Moral Majority to QAnon. She earned her doctorate in Divinity from the University of Edinburgh and much of her doctoral research focused on researching the theological roots of Jerry Falwell, the co-founder of the Moral Maj...
Newscast – Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024
KTOO News Update - February 28, 2024 01:52 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: A blocked water line cut off running water to hundreds of Kotzebue residents earlier this month, and extra energy used to prevent water lines from freezing lead to the city running out of diesel fuel; Last week the Iditarod disqualified former champion Brent Sass from this year'...
Newscast – Monday, Feb. 26, 2024
KTOO News Update - February 27, 2024 01:51 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: More than 100 people gathered in downtown Juneau Saturday afternoon for a rally to urge city and state officials in Alaska to support a ceasefire in Gaza; Gov. Mike Dunleavy cast doubt on the future of a bill that would boost state education funding and implement other reforms o...
EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS: former AK House Rep Ivan Ivan (D-Akiak); Jena Crafton, Chair of the Governor's Council on Disabilities & Special Education
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - February 26, 2024 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsJena Crafton is the chair of the Governors Council on Disabilities and Special Education. She has been a vocal advocate for people with disabilities since she was young as Crafton has developmental disabilities herself. We discuss her childhood including how she learned about her own disabilitie...
Newscast – Friday, Feb. 23, 2024
KTOO News Update - February 24, 2024 02:10 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Alaska House passed a wide-ranging, bipartisan education bill late Thursday night, federal education officials say Alaska owes millions in state funding to Juneau, Kenai and North Slope schools, city leaders say residents aren't applying for grants to promote the construction of mother-in-law...
Newscast – Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024
KTOO News Update - February 23, 2024 01:00 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: Juneau lawmakers introduce bills that would double the amount of disaster aid Alaska can give homeowners; Juneau residents have until March 25 to give feedback on marine passenger fee project proposals; Dancers in Wrangell celebrate Elizabeth Peratrovich Day with a televised per...
EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS: Ed Wesley & Shenee Williams, Shiloh Community Housing's planned Community Resource Center
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - February 18, 2024 17:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsEd Wesley was born in Bolivar County, Mississippi, on January 9, 1951. He moved to Fort Greeley, Alaska, in 1973 after being drafted into the Army. His wife joined him shortly thereafter and the two raised all five of their children here and the two have never lived outside Alaska since. He was ...
EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS: Paul Peterson, Harvard Professor on Alaska Charter Schools
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - February 12, 2024 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsToday's episode is about Alaska's Charter Schools which were recently ranked #1 in the country. The lead author of the study is Dr. Paul Peterson of Harvard University. Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Govern...
Newscast – Friday, Feb. 8, 2024
KTOO News Update - February 10, 2024 02:04 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: Expanded Medicaid coverage for Alaska mothers. An interview with Juneau’s new police chief Derek Bos. Another winter storm warning for Juneau and the northern panhandle.
Newscast – Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024
KTOO News Update - February 09, 2024 02:03 ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this newscast: Juneau will soon have new maps of its tidal wetlands; Gov. Mike Dunleavy is casting doubt on the future of a bill that would move many public sector workers back to a pension system; Developers of Sitka's landslide warning system visited Petersburg to explore creating one there