One Alaska legislator is hoping to change the way police serve in the state.
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Alaska prisons remain closed to visitors as mistrust undermines vaccination effort
While high infection rates and the vaccination campaign have given prisoners some protection, crowded conditions mean current vaccination rates aren’t enough for prisons to reopen for visitors.
Progressive groups call for removal of Rep. Eastman and other Alaska lawmakers who challenged presidential election results
“As a state legislator he has a special responsibility not to do that kind of thing,” said Hodes. “He’s just in gross violation of the oath of office that he took as a legislator, not to mention the oath that all of us former officers swore when we were commissioned in the Army.”
We asked Dr. Anne Zink and other Alaskans what’s bringing inspiration this winter. Here’s what they said.
It’s the darkest part of winter in a very dark year marked with loss, anxiety, economic worries, political upheaval and isolation. We’ve been asking Alaskans where they find inspiration, hope and comfort on their bleakest days. Many of them said they turned to art — music, literature, film and spiritual texts — to help get through it.
Anchorage School Board renames high school after Bettye Davis, Alaska’s 1st Black state senator
Davis was the first Black woman to be elected to Alaska’s state House of Representatives, and the first Black Alaskan elected to the state Senate. She also served three terms on the Anchorage School Board.
Hundreds gather in Anchorage to commemorate ‘March on Washington’ anniversary
The event centered on Martin Luther King Jr.’s concept of the “Beloved community,” which he famously articulated in his “I Have a Dream” speech given at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.