Hometown, Alaska: The Alaskan Alternative Circus
Jumping tigers, sprinting elephants, enormous tents, peanuts, zebras and clowns. Well, those might not be the things you’ll see when you go to a...
Hometown, Alaska: Youth Spending Their Vacations Serving the Community
College and high school students look forward to the summer break to get a respite from the study grind. But these days, ...
Hometown, Alaska: Ballot Measure 1
Do you know enough to vote?
Proponents call it the Anti-Corruption Act. Opponents call it an attack on free speech and capable of shutting down...
Hometown, Alaska: Ballot Measure 2
On the next Hometown, Alaska, we will be discussing the contentious ballot measure two, a bill that would make it mandatory for minors seeking...
Hometown, Alaska: The Alaska State Fair
The Guinness World Record breaking 125.9 pound cabbage from the cabbage weigh-off at the Alaska State Fair in 2009.
Giant cabbages. Homemade quilts and hand...
Hometown, Alaska: The Great Death
The epidemics that swept through Alaska Native villages in the early 20th century are among the most tragic and least known events in Alaska...
Hometown, Alaska: Volunteerism
September 11th has been declared the National Day of Service - a day to adopt a charity, or do a good deed. We’re...
Hometown, Alaska: Denali KidCare
Denali KidCare is how Alaska ensures that the health needs of kids and teens under age 18 are met, and those of pregnant mothers...
Hometown, Alaska: Annual Yearly Progress Reports
September is back to school month, and students are settling into their routine. Many are setting future goals for after graduation, but how many...
Hometown, Alaska: Federal Spending in Alaska
According to a University of Alaska study, 40% of Alaskan’s personal income comes directly or indirectly from federal spending, and more than a third...
Hometown, Alaska: God in Alaska, Part 1
On the next Hometown, Alaska we will begin a two-part series on “God in Alaska”. This show parallels the PBS series,...
Hometown, Alaska: God in Alaska, Part 2
The Pew Research Center has recently found Alaska to be the least religiously inclined state in the nation. Yet religion has played an enormous...
Hometown, Alaska: Blockbuster Musicals
Right now, Mamma Mia! is staging at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts to packed houses that promoters say will peak around 19,000...
Hometown, Alaska: Propositions A and B
The elections are less than a week away and candidates are raring to go. It seems everyone has an opinion, and faces and names...
Hometown, Alaska: Implications of the 2010 Midterm Elections
It’s over. Election Day 2010 is now history. Join us today for a conversation about what it all means on Hometown, Alaska. Host Charles...
Hometown, Alaska: Coping With the Winter Ahead
What was your life like Monday morning when seven inches of snow hit Anchorage during morning rush hour? Were you thinking: Time for a...
Hometown, Alaska: Peter Dunlap Shohl – How do you live with Parkinson’s? Creatively.
If anything, the 2002 diagnosis of Parkinson’s has make Peter Dunlap Shohl’s creative spirit flash to new heights and heats. After more than 25...
Hometown, Alaska: Anchorage International Film Festival
The Anchorage International Film Festival (AIFF) runs Dec. 3-16 and offers up a ton of opportunities from straight-up film viewing to workshops to some...
Hometown, Alaska: Marian Call
Photo by Brian Adams.
She’s funny and spunky, clever and outgoing. But more than that, she’s talented and ambitious and she hails from Anchorage. She’s...
Hometown, Alaska: Freedom of Speech – Then and Now
Freedom of speech. What does it mean? The founders of the United States had something in mind when they included this right in the...