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HOUR 1 

• US defense leaders said yesterday that the Chinese balloon they shot down was a high-tech spying machine likely capable of collecting communications / (MB) https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2023/02/09/chinese-spy-balloon-was-part-of-vast-balloon-surveillance-program-us-says?
• COVID tracker to be  shut down / (NPR)
  https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/10/1155790201/as-the-pandemic-ebbs-an-influential-covid-tracker-shuts-down
• Gov Huckabee-Sanders responds
  https://www.foxnews.com/video/6320058085112
• Tourism in Anchorage rebounded strongly last year as pandemic impacts continue to fade, with strong hotel demand helping to sharply boost municipal income from lodging and car rental taxes, according to a report by Visit Anchorage last week.

HOUR 2 

• An update on an Alaska’s News Source investigation into a nonprofit group that received $750,000 in federal grant money uncovered questions regarding the group’s fundraising efforts / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/02/09/embattled-anchorage-nonprofit-presents-no-proof-it-raised-matching-funds/
• Adam Holz from Focus on the Family's Plugged-In reviewing Heaven Sent on Peerflix, Your Place or Mine, Magic Mike 
• Dave Stieren from Gov Dunleavy's office calls in from Nebraska near Omaha
• Dalton from Mat-Su on Biden's State of the Union
• Brent Sass won the Yukon Quest 550 on Wednesday, finishing at 7:45 p.m. to earn his fifth victory in a Yukon Quest race. Sass finished the race in four days, eight hours, 58 minutes, crossing with 12 dogs / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/2023/02/09/brent-sass-wins-yukon-quest-550/