Voters headed to the polls on Tuesday in Anchorage to cast their votes for assembly seats, school board members and a number of ballot issues. This week on Alaska Edition host, Ellen Lockyer, discusses what the outcome of this elections means for the city. She is joined by Mayor Ethan Berkowitz and two representatives from the Anchorage School District to discuss prop 8, school bonds and more.
HOST: Ellen Lockyer
GUESTS:
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Ethan Berkowitz, Anchorage Mayor
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Ed Graff, Superintendent, Anchorage Unified School District
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Kay Ellen Schuster, Candidate, Anchorage School Board Seat B
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APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
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