Excellent journalism highlighting how the State of Alaska is failing rural—and predominantly Alaska Native—students. “over the past 25 years, state officials have largely ignored hundreds of requests by rural school districts to fix the problems that have left public schools across AK crumbling”

I’ve been reviving Rooted, my newsletter/online magazine, and I’m finally getting around to doing some of the writing. Here’s my first piece — in a minute — about Anchorage artist Liza Dizon and her debut exhibit “Reflections.”

so is alaska airlines slowly getting rid of the “alaska” branding?

I wrote about changing how and where I show up as a Filipino American trying to build a new sense of community.

shoutout to everyone who believes in me good luck everybody else ♌️ ♈️ ♊️

she never gets old #aurora

MANILA, Philippines – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared a State of National Calamity for a period of one year to hasten the rescue, recovery, relief, and rehabilitation efforts following the onslaught of Typhoon Tino (international name: Kalmaegi). Read more: tmt.news/2219338

no seriously 😭😭😭

anchorage is still so upset by the last admin’s snow response that the muni is making plowing a personality trait 😭

No big deal, but a contributor to my tiny newsletter got to interview Kristin Villanueva from "The Pitt." 🔥🔥🔥

maybe i should get back on here. what’d i miss? do people still like it here?

this is rage bait

Please donate to Western Alaska disaster relief efforts to support the response to Typhoon Halong. I won't overexplain how displacement, underfunding and marginalization of Indigenous Peoples have devastated communities. But know this: Our Alaska Native friends and family need us to show up.

Editors and reporters of the Homer News and Peninsula Clarion submitted their notices of resignation today, after management from Carpenter Media Group made changes to a published story last week in response to intimidation from a state lawmaker and without input from our newsrooms. #aknews

So much for working a final two weeks in good faith, we’ve all already been locked out of our email accounts.

#akleg The new $100k annual H1B visa fee is going to have a huge impact on Alaska's schools.

this is gourmet latch key kid cuisine

very good duck

well, we turned up the heater today. dang

wow

Is it so hard to say, this guy died horribly and we as a nation have lived with this and permitted these conditions for far too long. Something something gun reform now.

Trump confirms Charlie Kirk has died.

Charlie Kirk wasn’t the only person shot today. But, they’re not big name MAGA’s, so it’s unlikely we’ll hear much about it from this administration. At least 3 students injured in shooting at Colorado high school. #CommonsenseGunReform flip.it/5-LzW5

very rarely do i say yes to editing and publishing longform, but this one felt too good to pass up

end love teams in the philippines because wth

the alaska's news source coverage on the putin - trump summit happening right now is absolutely repulsive

in my head today so i wrote about it

trying to figure out the right balance of sharing joy in times like these

Elementary Geography: 1, Donald Trump: 0. #DonaldTrump #AnchorageAlaska #907initiative #vladimirputin #Russia

Tell us about the last time you tried to contact Sen. Dan Sullivan or Rep. Nick Begich. We're trying to see something. 🤔

hey! immigrant/naturalized citizen here! immigrants are more than just workers and what we contribute economically. was i less valuable when i was 6 y/o with a green card and couldn't make meaningful contributions to my community? no! i was a kid. we are all people first! hope this helps!

alaska ice breaker: what’s your vitamin d dosage?

anyway shinee comeback did in fact punch me in the face and has me in shambles because i too never thought we’d ever hear new (to us) vocals from jonghyun

listen, no matter how hard it gets, i am not going to pick up running for my mental health. it is not for me. art though? yes.

I thought we had to get REAL IDs a long time ago so I've had one for years now. I could've waited??!

you know, i take it back. i think news orgs should go back to twitter.

LET'S GOOOOOOO!

oh speaking of hbo max lol

wyd? i’m watching the hbo max documentary on campaign finance laws

Last night, the Anchorage Filipino community screened “Nurse Unseen” and we honored dozens of nurses in attendance. Here’s a lovely interview aired on KNBA with filmmaker Michele Josue, who came all the way from California with some of the cast, to take part in the event.

STREAM CASSIE! we really could’ve had a 2000s black and filipino pop princess. she was robbed! we were robbed!

Alaska Senate passes SB 6, AAPI history education bill 20-0! UNANIMOUS!

i made sinigang! filipino tamarind soup

idk who needs to hear this but when you congratulate people, you don't need to flip it to be about you???

let's freaking gooooo

I've gotten so much better at shutting down scope creep. Please clap.

This situation has not been talked about enough in Alaska media with empathy and the community affected at the center.

i MIGHT finally see beyonce

good design makes people feel understood

imposter syndrome is real because tell me why (even after nearly 10 years in digital/social media strategy) i'm still like, "what if it doesn't work this time and i expose myself as a fraud" except it always works, i've taught people how to do it, and i got a master's. idk why i do this to myself