Alaska News Nightly: Friday, May 21, 2021

A man in a hoody andd a glasses and short hair stands looking at the camera
Nu Xiong, aka Nutty Nu at the Park Strip in Anchorage on May 20, 2021. Xiong is a YouTuber with over 28,000 subscribers. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media)

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Friday on Alaska News Nightly:

Current Anchorage leadership has big plans for homelessness, but there’ll soon be a new mayor in town. And lawmakers discuss splitting a draw from the Permanent Fund’s earnings evenly between dividends and government services. Plus, a popular Anchorage YouTuber reveals his neurological disorder and gains fans.

Reports tonight from:

  • Lex Treinen and Kavitha George in Anchorage
  • Andrew Kitchenman in Juneau
  • Claire Stremple in Gustavus
  • Mike Swasey in Skagway

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Casey Grove is host of Alaska News Nightly, a general assignment reporter and an editor at Alaska Public Media. Reach him at cgrove@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Casey here

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