Wesley Early
Anchorage Reporter at Alaska Public Media
Reporter @AKPublicNews in Anchorage, AK. @UAAJandC grad. Previously @KotzNews I always stan for Bartlett High, Sade, Frank Ocean, Star Wars and Alaska
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5 days ago |
alaskapublic.org | Wesley Early
Two Anchorage police officers were legally justified in the fatal shooting of a man in February who police say had barricaded himself in a Midtown hotel and threatened a woman and her four children. That’s according to a letter Thursday from the state Office of Special Prosecutions, which reviewed the shooting. On Feb. 21, at around 3:50 a.m., Anchorage police were notified that a suspicious truck had parked at the Hampton Inn off West Tudor Road.
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5 days ago |
alaskapublic.org | Wesley Early
Anchorage officials are preparing to roll out funding dedicated to improving the child care sector in a city where it’s challenging to find affordable care. The move comes two years after Anchorage residents voted to dedicate the roughly $5 to $6 million the city receives annually in marijuana taxes to funding child care initiatives.
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1 week ago |
alaskapublic.org | Wesley Early
Ian Goodwin has a long history with the Anchorage landfill. He’s worked there for 25 years. “I got to bury both my elementary school and my junior high school here, by the way, because they demoed both of them,” Goodwin said. “There was kind of some satisfaction there, if I'm honest.”Goodwin, the superintendent of operations, led a tour of the landfill on a recent, windy afternoon. He walked and drove on dirt paths that cover up roughly a hundred vertical feet of garbage.
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1 week ago |
alaskapublic.org | Wesley Early
Hundreds gathered in the rain at Anchorage’s Delaney Park Strip as part of a national rally for May Day on Thursday night. The main theme of the event was to support workers, with a focus on health care, education and other union laborers, but many took the opportunity to criticize the Trump administration. Retired high school teacher Brad Fleener said he’d never been to a political rally before, but he was concerned that members of Congress weren’t standing up to the president.
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2 weeks ago |
alaskapublic.org | Wesley Early
As scientists monitor unrest at Mount Spurr, the closest community to the volcano is preparing residents for potential ashfall. The Native Village of Tyonek is about 40 miles east of Spurr and home to roughly 150 people. Tribal administrator Crystal Standifer said the tribe has put up flyers around town highlighting precautions for ashfall. She said community members have had mixed reactions to the news of a potential eruption.
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Two years after Anchorage voted to dedicate the city's marijuana taxes for child care initiatives, officials are working to roll out the funding. One chunk will go specifically to cover child care costs of those working in the child care sector. https://t.co/e6hRN4EzJM
RT @AKpublicnews: Gov. Mike Dunleavy is demanding the Legislature pass additional education policy changes, or he'll veto a compromise bill…
The Municipality of Anchorage is reviving a dormant proposal to create a waste-to-energy project that would turn the 2,000,000 pounds the city generates in garbage daily into electricity. https://t.co/OUpx63c0fU
