$20 per hour is what I was making when I resigned as the only news reporter at the Peninsula Clarion, asked to write 2-3 stories per day. I received one raise while I was there, up from $17 when I started — that increase largely wiped out by the tripling of my insurance premium this year.

Mass resignations at two Alaska newspapers after out-of-state owners bow to political pressure, reports James Brooks for the @alaskabeacon.com

One candidate suspended his campaign, another is battling the borough in federal court over public access and the third is a retired school principal looking to dip his toe into local politics. www.kdll.org/local-news/2...

Last night 4 reporters resigned from the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai & the Homer News. Listen on my podcast to the Clarion’s lone news reporter @jakecdye.bsky.social explain his decision to walk & the future of journalism on the Kenai Peninsula: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #akleg

The editor and nearly all reporters at the Homer News, Peninsula Clarion, and Juneau Empire announced their resignations after corporate management deleted content from a story about Charlie Kirk in response to a complaint from a Republican state lawmaker. www.juneauindependent.com/post/editor-...

Proud of the staff at The Homer News and the Peninsula Clarion who are resigning. Unfortunately, thanks to Sarah's cancel culture crusade, Alaska is losing four fantastic local journalists. Vance NEEDS to be held accountable for her overreach of power.

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

A group of reporters and editors at two Kenai Peninsula newspapers are resigning over what they say was the handling of a recent article by their parent company, Carpenter Media Group, after it was criticized by a Republican state lawmaker.

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

Shame on Capenter Media for caving to political pressure and not standing up for a free, independent press in Alaska, and shame on AK State Rep. Sarah Vance for targeting the Homer News with false accusations and misinformation.

Leave it to Homer GOP Rep. Sarah Vance to try to cancel a local paper for describing a man who once said Black women like Justice Jackson do not have "the brain processing power to be taken seriously” as holding “racist and controversial views." My latest from the Memo: #akleg

Rep. Sarah Vance this morning taking a victory lap for her successful intimidation of the free press.

Moving this up in my tbr this week just for no specific reason at all.

Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, didn’t like the Homer (Alaska) News coverage of the vigil she organized for Charlie Kirk. On her official letterhead she threatened a boycott. Intimidating a free press because you don’t like what they write? I wonder who she learned that from?

Extreme-right Republican Rep. Sarah Vance this week joined the fervent movement of conservatives using their official platforms and conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death to try to silence the press.

Carpenter Media, without consultation with our newsrooms, pulled this story from the website today. A heinous dereliction of our duty and a cowardly move from the company who says they’re so invested in local news.

I was flippant about this in the original post because its dumb and I stand behind my colleague's reporting, but as I'm watching her deal with targeted harassment sent her way by Vance and by Suzanne Downing, I'm thinking about the lack of protections or support for journalists in this state.

Rep. Sarah Vance announced tonight that she’s organizing a boycott of the Homer News over their fair and accurate reporting on her Charlie Kirk memorial service. Maybe she can get our corporate overlords at Carpenter Media to remember they own newspapers in Alaska. www.homernews.com/news/homer-h...

For the second time, Soldotna’s city council has delayed action on legislation to rezone the area that is set to be part of the Riverfront Redevelopment Project. The council now will not consider the move until February. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/soldotn...

SO(l)D(otn)A pop!

If you saw me running across Soldotna Creek Park to catch the very cool Diamond Dance Project perform “Soda Pop” from “KPop Demon Hunters” at the Harvest Moon Local Food Festival no you didn’t.

Patti Truesdell, incumbent for the Kalifornsky seat on the KPBSD Board of Education, as well as challengers Donna Anderson and Shelby Oden, discussed school funding, curriculum and communications at a forum moderated by the Clarion and KDLL on Monday. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/kalifor...

Who could go outside to cover a food bank fundraiser when this sweet summer child is right here?

Crashed out about my declining employment prospects today and I’m not saying it’s because I dropped my sandwich but that didn’t help.

Incumbent Seward Mayor Sue McClure and challengers Tim McDonald and Leighton Radner sat to discuss their visions for the city at a forum moderated by the Clarion, The Seward Folly and KBBI AM 890 at the Seward Community Library last week. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/electri...

"If Men Played Cards as Women Do” and “Savannah Sipping Society," a pair of one-act comedies by the Kenai Performers, open Thursday and run this weekend and next. The two shows offer distinct depictions of femininity and friendship. www.peninsulaclarion.com/life/its-all...

The Kenai Marching Band hosted Palmer and Wasilla on Saturday for the Second Annual Kenai Marching Showcase, which director Christian Stephanos said is just one step on the band’s journey this year to compete in the Bands of America Grand National Championships in Indianapolis. #aknews

Sargeant Truesdell, one of the three candidates for the Soldotna seat on the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly, discussed his vision for the borough last week at a candidate forum moderated by the Clarion and KDLL 91.9 FM. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/truesde...

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s Board of Education on Monday unanimously voted to add nearly $2 million in spending to its budget for the current fiscal year in response to the increase in funding received from the state this year. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/school-...

The two candidates hoping to be the next mayor of Kenai, and two of the candidates running for the two open seats on the city council met last week to discuss visions for the future of the city in a candidate forum moderated by the Clarion and KDLL. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/kenai-m...

King salmon were in the spotlight last month at the annual Kenai Classic Roundtable, which centered on the decline of the species in the Kenai River and across the state. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/salmon-...

The three candidates vying for the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly’s Sterling and Funny River seat met last week to discuss their approaches to taxation, budgeting and more as part of a forum moderated by the Peninsula Clarion and KDLL 91.9 FM. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/sterlin...

You can listen to last week's KDLL and Peninsula Clarion Candidate Forum as a podcast here (or on podcast services as Kenai Conversation) and then join us tomorrow evening with candidates Leslie Morton and Dale Eicher for the Sterling/Funny River assembly seat. #aknews www.kdll.org/podcast/kena...

KPBSD administration and IT staff last week showcased the way local schools have benefited from the federal E-Rate program, which provides funding for development of network infrastructure, in a meeting with Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Commissioner Olivia Trusty of the FCC. #aknews

It's a shame that we couldn't have Scott Griebel there, but Teresa Mullican and Joan Corr talked their plans for taxes and borough services at the first KDLL and Peninsula Clarion candidate forum last week. www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/mullica...

The Kenai Peninsula Food Bank hosted a sold-out crowd on Saturday for its 30th Annual Soup Supper fundraiser, held for the first time in the recently opened Soldotna Field House. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/soup-wi...

KPop Demon Hunters in my hometown newspaper? It’s more likely than you think.

Beyond thrilled to be teaming with @a-ohara.bsky.social, as well as KDLL, KBBI and The Seward Folly for another year of live, in-person forums with candidates for local office! Join us at the library; tune in live on the radio; or check out a livestream on the Clarion’s Facebook page! #aknews

Carpenter Media yesterday told us that they won’t pay us out our vacation hours in instances of “separation of employment” — hours difficult to use with so few staff that there’s no one to cover for someone who’s out — starting on Nov. 1. Makes you wonder what they’re planning for Nov. 2.

A mayoral race between Henry Knackstedt and Alex Douthit headlines the Oct. 7 City of Kenai ballot, which also includes three candidates vying for two open city council seats. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/kenai-t...

From Delcenia Cosman at the Homer News, a look at the candidates for the three seats on the KPBSD Board of Education. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/6-candi...

With Lisa Parker and Dave Carey running unopposed for reelection to the Soldotna City Council, the big ticket item on Soldotna’s ballot this year is the proposed annexation of 2.63 square miles split between five small areas around the city. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/parker-...

Eleven candidates are running for five seats on the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in this year’s election, set for Oct. 7. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/11-cand...

They can fit a whole lotta sports in the Soldotna Field House.

The Soldotna Field House welcomed the public for the first time during a grand opening celebration today that featured soccer, basketball, pickleball and more. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/soldotn...

More than 100 protesters in Soldotna tonight in support of Ukraine, including one man who told me Trump and Putin's meeting had been a "nothing burger."

Nathan Erfurth, 37-year-old former SoHi history teacher and former head of the Kenai Peninsula Education Association, was found guilty Tuesday, by unanimous verdict of a 12-person jury, of 24 counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor and four counts of unlawful exploitation of a minor. #aknews

There could have been a future for the Clarion in a world without corporate leaders and where some form of management were actually based in and accountable to our community. Instead, my hometown newspaper has been left to wither away over the last few years.

Journalists keep us safe - from natural disasters, as well as from corruption and abuse. News help us understand our communities and the world around us. And they are WAY under-compensated and undervalued for this critical public service. #akleg A 🧵on funding news (esp. public media!) in Alaska

Celebrated three years at the Clarion last week with a paycheck only $5 greater than the one I got in August 2022 because the one raise I’ve had was wiped out by Carpenter Media Group tripling our insurance premiums this year a couple of weeks before the filing deadline.