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2 weeks ago | 
kucb.org | Maggie Nelson
A pending request from the White House to essentially eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is headed to the House floor and could spell disaster for some local media stations across the nation, including Unalaska’s KUCB. The Trump Administration formally requested last week that Congress slash the budget for CPB, cutting $1.1 billion in previously approved funding.
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3 weeks ago | 
kucb.org | Maggie Nelson
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan’s efforts to strengthen Alaska’s military system and reopen the naval base on a remote Aleutian Island are gaining traction at the federal level. Sullivan joined President Donald Trump in the White House on May 20 when the administration announced its Golden Dome missile defense system, which is aimed at protecting Americans from intensifying Chinese and Russian threats and growing arsenals.
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1 month ago | 
theparisreview.org | Maggie Nelson
By Maggie Nelson May 21, 2025 Michelle Tea once described Valencia as “a snapshot, more or less, of my twenty-fifth year on earth, written not how it happened but how I felt it happened.” It feels right, then, in a numerological sense, to be addressing Tea’s classic twenty-five years after its turn-of-the-millennium publication.
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1 month ago | 
greyjournal.net | Maggie Nelson
Growing a medical practice today presents real challenges. Rising operational costs, higher patient expectations, and rapid technological advances can leave practitioners feeling stretched thin. Scaling your practice without compromising the quality of care requires clear focus, smart strategies, and a willingness to adapt to changing demands. So how can you scale without compromising care? It starts with knowing where to focus and how to adapt.
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1 month ago | 
ktoo.org | Maggie Nelson
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation unanimously passed a seafood bill on April 30 to fight illegal fishing. The legislation would rely on efforts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which Sen. Dan Sullivan said is already struggling to complete key fisheries surveys. Sullivan co-sponsored the Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvest, or FISH, Act with seven other senators, including Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
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1 month ago | 
adn.com | Maggie Nelson
Unalaska’s Iliuliuk Family and Health Services provides a wide range of healthcare to the community, from obstetrics and routine primary care, to 24/7 emergency response. But representatives of the island’s primary clinic are worried some of those essential services could be jeopardized if they don’t receive enough funding through the city’s local grants program. Despite offering emergency services, Unalaska’s clinic is not technically a hospital.
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1 month ago | 
alaskapublic.org | Maggie Nelson
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan is pressing federal nominees to support work by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, which he says is key to an illegal-fishing bill backed by both of Alaska's senators. The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation unanimously advanced Sullivan's Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvest Act, on April 30. The bill, also known as the FISH Act, is co-sponsored by Sullivan, Sen. Lisa Murkowski and six other senators.
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1 month ago | 
alaskapublic.org | Maggie Nelson
Iliuliuk Family and Health Services officials are worried that some essential services at Unalaska's primary clinic could be jeopardized if they don't receive enough funding through the city's local grants program. The clinic provides a wide range of healthcare to the community, ranging from obstetrics and routine primary care to 24/7 emergency response. Despite offering emergency services, Unalaska's clinic is not technically a hospital. It's a Federally Qualified Health Center, or FQHC.
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2 months ago | 
bookforum.com | Maggie Nelson
“IT DOESN’T TAKE ME LONG TO REALIZE that no one wants to read this pathemata,” writes Maggie Nelson in her new book, Pathemata. Nelson is not speaking of the book itself, but rather about a document that provides much of its source material: a record she has made of her jaw pain, for the benefit of doctors––its genesis, medical imaging, and history of unsuccessful treatment.
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2 months ago | 
adn.com | Maggie Nelson
A group of Anchorage jurors was unable to come to a unanimous decision in a nearly six-year long homicide case. Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews declared a mistrial Friday morning for the young man involved in a 2019 Unalaska car crash case. Following more than three days of deliberation and over a week in trial, 24-year-old Dustin Ruckman was not convicted for his involvement in the deaths of two Unalaska teen girls, but he also hasn’t been acquitted.
