HOUR 1
- Tom overviews Rep. Dan Newhouse's (R-WA) block China from owning farmland legislation / https://newhouse.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/newhouse-introduces-bill-block-china-purchasing-american-farmland / https://newhouse.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/newhouse-introduces-bill-block-china-purchasing-american-farmland
- Gov Kristi Noem (R-SD) wants to ban Chinese businesses / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kristi-noem-fire-state-freedom-caucus-overstepping-south-dakota-constitutional-limits
- Audie Murphy / on January 26, 1945, in eastern France, 250 Germans and six tanks attacked his unit. Ordering his outnumbered men to fall back, Murphy climbed onto a burning tank destroyer and used its machine gun to hold off the enemy. Then, though wounded, he organized a counterattack. For his courage the military awarded him the Medal of Honor. https://www.audiemurphy.com/
Social media platforms face pressure to stop online drug dealers who target kids / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/01/26/1151474285/social-media-platforms-face-pressure-to-stop-online-drug-dealers-who-target-kids
- State Representative Kevin McCabe from Mat-Su with a legislative update
- Ken from Mat-Su with a carbon credit and ESG question for Rep. McCabe
- Alex Gimarc from South Anchorage called asking to get the public opinion messaging (POM) system fixed
HOUR 2
- Sen Hawley propose bill to prevent Pelosi and other in Congress to buy stocks and trade with insider financial info / (FOX) News) https://www.foxnews.com/video/6319262070112
- Sullivan Arena residents raise concern on safety / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/01/26/sullivan-arena-residents-raise-safety-concerns-following-stabbing-incident/
- Anchorage’s labor shortage will cost the economy thousands of jobs in high-wage industries like health care this yearJoe from Midtown / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/business-economy/2023/01/25/a-shrinking-workforce-is-hobbling-anchorages-recovery-economic-forecast-says/
- Joe in Midtown Anchorage on the Colony High School Mary Fulp case
- Your kids are germ vectors / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/01/26/1151333478/your-kids-are-adorable-germ-vectors-heres-how-often-they-get-your-household-sick
- Gary in East Anchorage wants to get tougher on drug dealers
- A federal agency said Wednesday it is reinstating restrictions on road-building and logging on the country’s largest national forest in Southeast Alaska, the latest move in a long-running fight over the Tongass National Forest / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2023/01/25/biden-administration-reinstates-road-and-logging-restrictions-in-alaskas-tongass-national-forest/
