Episodes
Monday Feb 12, 2024
BTS: 27 – The Truth About Fentanyl - Part 2
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Fentanyl is a dangerous drug that is killing Alaskans. In a report released in September of 2023 about drug overdose deaths in Alaska it was noted that “Fentanyl was involved in four out of five opioid overdose deaths, and many of these fentanyl-involved overdose deaths involved an additional substance, such as methamphetamine or heroin.”
On this episode we hear a series of short talks from panelists at an event titled “Discover the Truth about Fentanyl in Alaska,” that was hosted January 26, 2024, by the FBI Anchorage Citizens Academy Alumni Association and held at the Petroleum Club of Anchorage.
The panelists are:
- Cornelius “Moose” Sims – Captain Alaska State Troopers, Statewide Drug Enforcement
- Randi Breager – Senior Director of Programs, Covenant House Alaska
- Carlos Diaz – Program Director, Integrated Services, VOA Alaska
For more information on how you can get involved in addressing and responding to the Fentanyl epidemic go to:
https://health.alaska.gov/osmap/Pages/hope.aspx
https://www.iknowmine.org/topic/opioid-overdose-response-kit/
https://akfentanylresponse.com
Twitter: @FBIAnchorage
Facebook: FBI Anchorage Field Office
Instagram: @FBI (Instagram)
www.facebook.com/groups/624229141091305
https://akfentanylresponse.com
https://www.facebook.com/CovenantHouseAK
@covenanthouseak
https://www.facebook.com/VOAAlaska
@ voaalaska
https://www.facebook.com/ANTHCtoday
@ anthctoday
#anchoredcity
https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://alaskapublic.org/2023/11/20/covenant-house-alaska-battling-fentanyl-crisis-100-drug-overdoses-since-july/
Monday Feb 05, 2024
BTS: 26 – The Truth About Fentanyl - Part 1
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Fentanyl is a dangerous drug that is killing Alaskans. In a report released in September of 2023 about drug overdose deaths in Alaska it was noted that “Fentanyl was involved in four out of five opioid overdose deaths, and many of these fentanyl-involved overdose deaths involved an additional substance, such as methamphetamine or heroin.”
On this episode we hear remarks from an FBI Special Agent recorded live at an event titled “Discover the Truth about Fentanyl in Alaska,” that was hosted January 26, 2024, by the FBI Anchorage Citizens Academy Alumni Association and held at the Petroleum Club of Anchorage.
For more information on how you can get involved in addressing and responding to the Fentanyl epidemic go to:
LINKS:
https://health.alaska.gov/osmap/Pages/hope.aspx
https://www.iknowmine.org/topic/opioid-overdose-response-kit/
https://akfentanylresponse.com
Twitter: @FBIAnchorage
Facebook: FBI Anchorage Field Office
Instagram: @FBI (Instagram)
www.facebook.com/groups/624229141091305
https://akfentanylresponse.com
https://www.facebook.com/CovenantHouseAK
@covenanthouseak
https://www.facebook.com/VOAAlaska
@ voaalaska
https://www.facebook.com/ANTHCtoday
@ anthctoday
#anchoredcity
https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://health.alaska.gov/dph/VitalStats/Documents/PDFs/DrugOverdoseMortalityUpdate_2022.pdf
Monday Jan 08, 2024
S4:E12 – What is Possible?: Necessary / Possible / Impossible
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
St Francis of Assisi is quoted as saying,
“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
On this episode we end season 4 by considering how each of us moves forward into doing the impossible.
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@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
www.brainyquote.com/authors/francis-of-assisi-quotes
Monday Dec 25, 2023
BTS: 25 – Christmas Special: Gingerbread Village and the Building of a City
Monday Dec 25, 2023
Monday Dec 25, 2023
Chef Joe Hickel has created his last gingerbread village and it gives us a way to make our city a better place.
https://www.captaincookchristmas.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hotel-Captain-Cook/121352828027525
@thehotelcaptaincook
#anchoredcity
https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://www.captaincookchristmas.com
Rocke, K. & Van Dyke, J., 2017, Incarnational training framework: A training guide for developing leaders engaged in city transformation, 2nd edn., Street Psalms Press, Tacoma. p.49.
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
On this episode we ask “What is Possible?” in the area of homelessness and receive two creative, community-based responses from Pastors Undra Parker and Matt Shultz.
https://www.shilohmbcalaska.org/
https://www.facebook.com/shiloh.alaska.5
https://firstpresanchorage.org/
https://www.facebook.com/FPChurchAnch
@fpchurchanch
#anchoredcity
https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Driving through the through Anchorage it’s nearly impossible to not see our unhoused neighbors. In light of our current situation I wondered how long Anchorage has had people experiencing homelessness. To answer that question I dove into the Anchorage Daily News archives and began looking for the first reference to homelessness as we understand it today.
What I found was interesting.
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Resources Used to Make This Episode:
Monday Dec 04, 2023
S4:E9 – What is Possible?: Healing from Violence w/ Krystal Kompkoff
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
The day after Thanksgiving in 2018 a bullet fired in a drive-by shooting struck Krystal Kompkoff while she was attending a party at a friend’s house. On this episode Krystal shares her journey of healing from violence.
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@AnchorageUTC
Monday Nov 27, 2023
S4:E8– What is Possible?: Serial Killers and Anchorage’s Most Violent Year
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
According to US News and World Report Anchorage, Alaska is the #3 most dangerous place to live in the United States. Alaska has had the reputation and reality of violence since the early days of the territory. On this episode we consider a couple of serial killers from Alaska’s past and Anchorage’s most violent year.
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https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/most-dangerous-places
https://www.vogue.com/article/best-true-crime-podcasts
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11691774/
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/murder-and-mystery-in-the-last-frontier/id1464610311
https://alaska-native-news.com/november-29th-1915/46015/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020657/1915-11-16/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020657/1915-11-30/ed-1/seq-1/
https://auntphilstrunk.com/alaskas-first-serial-killer-strikes/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020657/1917-04-16/ed-1/seq-1/
https://dps.alaska.gov/AST/PIO/PressReleases/Victim-of-Serial-Killer-Robert-Hansen-Identified-3
Boots, M.T., 2016, ‘Anchorage is on track to break the record for most homicides in one year. What is going on?’, Alaska Daily News, 3 September, 2016, viewed 19 February 2019, from https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2016/09/03/anchorage-is-on-track-this- year-to-break-its-annual-homicide-record-whats-going-on/.
Boots, M.T., 2016a, ‘Anchorage’s deadly year: With 34 homicide victims, violence hits home’, Alaska Daily News, 31 December, 2016, viewed 28 January 2019, from https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2016/12/31/anchorages-deadly-year-with-34- homicide-victims-violence-hits-home/.
Alaska Dispatch News, 2017, ‘Alaska Dispatch News poll: Crime’, Alaska Daily News, 18 January, 2017, viewed 19 February 2019, from https://www.adn.com/alaska- news/2017/01/18/alaska-dispatch-news-poll-crime/.
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
S4:E7– What is Possible?: Human Trafficking w/ Josie Heyano
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Underground crime is not a thing of the past in Anchorage. One of those crimes is human trafficking. Join me on this episode as I talk with Josie Heyano of Signify Consulting, about what is possible in the area of human trafficking.
Heyano is a Presidentially appointed member of the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, a formal platform to advise and make recommendations on federal anti-trafficking policies to the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF).
https://www.signifyconsultingak.org
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https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/19/alaska-homeless-youth-sex-trafficking-study
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Anchorage has always had an underground of illegal activity. Those activities might have literally taken place underground in tunnels or basement bars, or they could have figuratively been underground thinly veiled behind words like “resort” or “boarding house.” On this episode we explore some of Anchorage’s underground past.
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@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://www.ghosttoursofanchorage.com/
https://www.adn.com/our-alaska/article/host-invites-curious-anchorages-spookiest-places/2011/05/07/
https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/empress-theater-1916-2013/
https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/news/archive/2015/05/the-seedy-sudsy-history-of-the-49th-state.cshtml
https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16F87446A62E009E%402430437-16F6DD3AF4A577BD%407-16F6DD3AF4A577BD%40?search_terms=%22South%2BSeas%22&text=%22South%20Seas%22&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=14454275A04DAA79&sort=old&page=20&pdate=1942-03-18
https://www.alaskahistory.org/biographies/spenard-joseph-a-joe/
“Local Jottings about Town,” Anchorage Daily Times, June 26, 1916, 7. Quoted from Michael Carberry and Donna Lane, Patterns of the Past: An Inventory of Anchorage’s Historic Resources: 200.
Collins, Jan MacKell. Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest: A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. United States, TwoDot, 2020.
https://www.alaskahistory.org/biographies/crocker-ulysses-grant-ug/
Monday Nov 06, 2023
S4:E5 - What Is Possible?: Recovery w/ Tiffany Hall
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
On this episode we consider what is possible in the area of substance misuse as we talk about recovery with Tiffany Hall. She shares with us her story of addiction and recovery. Hall is the Executive Director of Recover Alaska and the vice chair of the board of the U.S. Alcohol Policy Alliance.
https://www.facebook.com/recoveralaska
https://www.instagram.com/recoveralaska/
#anchoredcity
https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
On this episode we will turn our attention to two different historical stories about mind altering substances…one the legal sale of beer, and the other, Alaska’s long history of semi-legal and legal marijuana.
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Resources Used to Make This Episode:
Hear Bill Howell read the section of Alaska Beer: Liquid Gold in the Land of the Midnight Sun about Prinz Brau here: https://www.kdll.org/show/drinking-on-the-last-frontier/2023-06-27/prinz-to-paupers
Howell, B. (2015). Alaska Beer: Liquid Gold in the Land of the Midnight Sun. United States: Arcadia Publishing Incorporated. Chapter 7
Watch the Alaska Review episode titled “Great Land, Great Beer, Great Problems” from 1977 here: Alaska Film Archive -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3hx7aSdCCo
https://law.justia.com/cases/alaska/supreme-court/1975/2135-1.html
https://www.adn.com/cannabis-north/article/alaska-weed-history/2014/04/14/
https://health.alaska.gov/dph/Director/Documents/marijuana/MarijuanaUse_PublicHealth_Alaska_2020.pdf
https://alaskapublic.org/2023/05/31/death-rate-from-drinking-nearly-doubles-in-alaska-over-2-years/
https://www.adn.com/features/article/dreaming-big-6-alaska-boondoggles/2011/10/10/
Monday Oct 23, 2023
S4:E3 – What is Possible?: Racial Bias w/ Patricia Wilson-Cone
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
It can often feel like racism and racial bias are impossible to overcome. Rev. Dr. Patricia Wilson-Cone joins us on this episode to help us consider what is possible in the area of racism and racial bias. Wilson-Cone is a pastor, scholar, chaplain trainer, and author. Her book Multicultural Diversity: Opening Our Hearts was released in 2019.
https://www.facebook.com/FirstAmericanBaptistChurch/
#anchoredcity
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@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
Monday Oct 16, 2023
S4:E2 – Martin Luther King Jr., Hamilton, The PAC and Racism in Anchorage
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
When Lin-Manuel Miranda said of his hit musical “This is a story about America then, told by America now” he could not have known how much that connects with the history of Anchorage. When Alaskans packed the Alaska Performing Arts Center to see Hamilton recently many did not know how that building represents the city’s resistance to the diversity of America and Anchorage now.
#anchoredcity
https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
Glavinic, T., 2014, ‘Remembering Elizabeth Peratrovich: Alaska’s civil rights legacy’, Alaska Commons, 17 February, 2014, viewed 30 January 2019, from http://www.alaskacommons.com/2014/02/17/remembering-elizabeth-peratrovich/
http://albertaschenckadams.com/
Schenck, A., 1944, ‘To whom it may concern’, Nome Nugget, 3 March, 1944, viewed 30 January 2019, from https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg21/id/2057/
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska 2009 - DVD
https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AK-01-SC006
Hartman, I.C., Reamer, D., 2022. Black Lives in Alaska: A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton/408019/
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/martin-luther-king-avenue-opens-wednesday/2010/08/03/
Monday Oct 09, 2023
S4:E1– Introducing Season 4
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Over the past three years we have explored the issues facing Anchorage, the places where things are, or are becoming, the way they are supposed to be for all people, and the hydra that is homelessness. In season 4 we will consider “What is possible?”
#anchoredcity
https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://www.anchoragememories.com/anchorage-television-was-two-weeks-old.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2009/jul/02/apollo-moon-eagle-has-landed
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armstrong_Small_Step.ogg
Monday Oct 02, 2023
BTS - 24: What is the Connection Between Seattle and Anchorage?
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
I recently flew to Seattle, on one of the routes Alaska Air flies known as a milk run. It was a long, slow, and interesting way to fly to Seattle. But the connection between Seattle and Alaska has always included long, slow, interesting journeys.
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@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://www.ragsrag.com/pr/pr.html - Echoes from the Snowball Club (Piano Roll)
https://www.ragsrag.com/vp/vp.html - Harlem Rag & Mandy’s Broadway Stroll
https://www.nordstrom.com/browse/about/company-history
Jasper, P.B., & Blasongame, B.M., 1983, A gathering of saints in Alaska: An informal chronicle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the State of Alaska, Hiller Industries, Salt Lake City.
Aunt Phil’s Trunk #3 p.36
http://www.anchoragecreeks.org/media/publications/Campbell_Creek_History.pdf
https://www.muni.org/Departments/parks/cemetery/Pages/honored.aspx
https://www.alaskahistory.org/anchorage-timeline/
https://www.loc.gov/resource/2019271003/1915-06-05/ed-1/?sp=8&r=0.402,1.045,0.692,0.31,0
Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park – Seattle - https://www.nps.gov/klse/index.htm