I have also been wondering this. Where are all the movie stars and Hollywood socialites willing to write letters and make donations large enough to allow America's small and essential rural public radio stations to continue to provide the vital public service that we do?

here's what i am reading today. Why? Because these are overlooked and potentially devastating natural disasters that deserve attention before they happen, not after.

Applying for journalism jobs has hit a new low. An AI generated relevancy score is unlikely to highlight my skills in data gathering & analysis, filing records requests or my subject matter expertise in infrastructure development & disaster management. And my resume says Alaska, so I'm too far away.

This looks bad: Monday afternoon report of rock slides and building collapses at Elfin Cove, on Chichagof Island in northern Southeast Alaska. #akwx #ExtremeWeather @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social

A dark day for Northwest journalism: @cascadepbs.bsky.social is axing the @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social, laying off 17 people, per internal memo obtained by @kuow.org. Cascade PBS got ~10% of its budget from Corp. for Public Broadcasting. Unclear why its whole newsroom had to be axed.

By contrast, my high school economics teacher was the football coach. Half the team was in that class. I was the only woman. My investment strategies won a national award while the football team blew their money on the WWF, the NFL & cage fighting. My econ teacher also taught me how to smirk.

Long-form is an art and essential for context and understanding. The journalism blows just keep coming.

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."

My interpretation of this: The dream of a happy-go-lucky, fun, fabulously coifed and well-informed career in journalism is fully dead. very timely. I'll be fully unemployed in 9 days. (but who's counting?!)

Still don't see it anywhere else. Please subscribe. www.gravityisgone.com

Here's what i am reading today. Why? Because even in Alaska, we seem to all forget that America is an Arctic Nation: alaskabeacon.com/briefs/arcti...

this story says nothing about the people who actually work at these stations and for us, it's been radio silence about what happens to us. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Please read my new investigation with the amazing @wbur.org and @propublica.org about what happens when no one can be held responsible for a rape.

Hardly surprising, but terminating funding to support Alaska Native programs and services is a real gut-punch nonetheless. #UAF #AlaskaSky #UA

i am reading today. Why? Specifically because of what @scotthorton.bsky.social points out: "This story, of equal or greater important to the Kirk shooting, is getting no material media coverage."

here's what i am reading today: northernjournal.com/alaskas-top-conservative-writer-explains-why-she-left-the-website-she-founded/?ref=northern-journal-newsletter&attribution_id=68c1f5c2c8b0170001fc5191&attribution_type=post

here's what i am reading today.

This is what I am reading today: www.dermotcole.com/reportingfro... I'm still trying to make sense of this wildly historic summit in Alaska, and the more nuanced details of what it means for the American Arctic.

This is what I am reading today - and it's a big win for subsistence fishing across Alaska: nativefederation.org/wp-content/u...

What I am reading this morning.

It's not only about the war in Ukraine. There is so much nuance to this moment - two nations desperate for deeper investment & presence in the Arctic... and now in the American subarctic, for only a few hours.

definitely the most crazy, historic, surreal and fascinating thing we will see today!

watching the jet carrying Russia's president taxi on a US military base runway is absolutely wild!

watching the live c-span feed on Alaska's largest newspaper's website. Why? Because local news is the best kind of news! www.adn.com/politics/202...

guess who is here: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

This is what i am reading this morning: theconversation.com/trump-putin-...

the Housing Secretary won't talk to KYUK, months after we reported HUD helped fund inadequate housing in Mertarvik, saying Self Determination was why they didn't need to inspect or respond to a report that indicates homes exceeded HUD's own overcrowding standards. www.kyuk.org/politics/202...

The full story, from @kuow.org: www.kuow.org/stories/smok...

Yeah, um no. This isn't how FOIA works.

If you're a reporter/editor from outside AK parachuting in this week, recognize there's a lot of us well versed in the nuances of the northernmost state. Don't call for sourcing & background, unless you intend to pay for our expertise. And our friends & neighbors are humans, not fodder for content.

Here's some advice for all the PIOs out there: don't demand a correction without understanding why its necessary and then go on vacation for the rest of the week without responding to numerous emails and phone calls from the reporter you sent the demand to. Thanks. bye.

Exclusive: Funding for FEMA's disaster survivor hotline lapsed the day after the Texas floods, federal records show. It took DHS Secretary Kristi Noem five days to approve more money.

Really important story here about the shockingly (even to me) small operating budget for LA county emergency management — $15 million. This is the most populous county and one of, if not the highest, risk counties in the country. The irresponsibility of this! www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

NEW: Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools, by partner @emilyschwing.bsky.social of KYUK w/ @npr.org

But this doesn't restore vetoed capital funds that could help address a public health and safety crisis inside the walls of dozens of public school buildings across the state: www.propublica.org/article/alas...

Alaskans will never know what their lawmakers are doing if this public service goes away. Please consider a donation to Alaska's public broadcasters!

Alaska's legislature has adjourned a special session, only hours after it convened. They overrode the Governor's $50M cut to education, but it doesn't include $$$ schools need for construction & maintenance. Nearly $28 million that was cut in June won't be restored www.propublica.org/article/alas...

If you think I've forgotten about the hurricane satellites, think again. The Navy is permanently unplugging them this week, on the brink of the busiest stretch of the season. There's so much more to this story, and I have the latest scoop. ⬇️

Dunleavy’s office did not respond to a request for comment on Monday about whether he is still asking Republicans to stay away. (From @alaskabeacon.com)

Yes that is happening. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm... In more than one way projectc.biz/top50creator...

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an order for the name of North America's tallest peak Denali to revert back to Mount McKinley. More than 200 pages of documents obtained by a FOIA request reveal how that could be an uphill battle

The most important show on #PublicRadio! I listen Sunday mornings on www.kyuk.org

one of the best things about the internet - and what keeps me sane - is Bernoulli's love affair with Ginger. Also, call me a nerd (you wouldn't be the first), but Science is cool!

NEW: Here's a new scandal bigger than the Epstein mess. Trump's top intel officer is fabricating evidence so his DOJ can investigate & prosecute Obama & his aides w/ possible show trials—as Trump says, "Whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people.” link.motherjones.com/public/40858...

It’s the 122nd day that Rümeysa Öztürk is facing deportation by the United States government for writing an op-ed it didn’t like, and the 41st day that Mario Guevara has been imprisoned for covering a protest. Read this and more in our weekly newsletter (and subscribe).

this thread 👇highlights why public broadcasting matters!

Despite Dunbar's attendance, the outcome of a vote to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s public school funding veto remains uncertain, and Dunleavy has the option of canceling the session. (From @alaskabeacon.com)

Devastating

18 things Kotzebue, Alaska, is about to lose because of the defunding of public broadcasting: (according to the city's letter to Alaska's delegation)

Extremely relevant to our interests in #idaho. My family drove through the start of a brush fire on Saturday. There was a burned-out car on the side of the road and flames in the median, as a small crew of firefighters tried to keep it from jumping. Within hours, it had consumed 8,000+ acres.