HOUR 1
- Tom S covers Boys Division I (West won) and II (Soldotna won) High School Football championships over the weekend
- Israel releases videos of Hamas attacks / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/video/6339712069112
- Tom overviews the delay in Israel's ground offensive and why they've held off - specifically because the U.S. and EU asked Israel to consider: (per the NYT) Hostage safety, ongoing defense strategy, and disruption to the aid of food, water and meds now coming into Gaza
- "NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel reports from Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon on the latest in the Israel-Hamas war and the possibility of an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza." / (MSNBC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mfwZVp2ORs
- Americans overwhelmingly support Israel / (The Hill) https://thehill.com/policy/international/4268117-americans-overwhelmingly-support-israel-in-war-with-hamas-poll/
- Surviving victims show NPR journalists the carnage from the Oct 7th Hamas attack / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/10/20/1207549467/loved-ones-of-hamas-attack-victims-diverge-over-israels-war-on-gaza
HOUR 2
- Nine congressional members offer themselves for Speaker consideration / (NBC) https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/9-candidates-joined-house-speaker-race-jim-jordan-dropped-rcna121607
- Bill Stoltze from Chugiak on Minnesota's Congressman Tom Emmer and how they had some classes together at UAF in the 1980s and he supports Emmer for Speaker
- "Vic Fischer, a father of Alaska statehood who as a child escaped both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, died Sunday evening. He was 99." / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/politics/2023/10/22/vic-fischer-last-surviving-alaska-constitutional-convention-delegate-dies-at-99/
- "The Alaska Federation of Natives annual convention held in Anchorage this week started Saturday morning with review and adoption of several resolutions to address the issues faced by the state’s Native communities." / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/10/21/afn-resolutions-address-needs-alaska-native-communities-statewide/
- Jen from Fairbanks on subsistence and "rural preference"
- "The 2023 federal budget deficit surged by 23% to $1.7 trillion, leaving the US in its deepest yearly fiscal hole outside of the Covid era, according to the Treasury Department, which released the data on Friday." / (MB) https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2023/10/22/deficit?
