HOUR 1

• Child obesity a growing problem in the U.S. / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/02/15/1155521908/eating-disorder-obesity-guidance-risk-weight-loss
• Texas State Senator Lois Kolkhorst (R) on her bill that would ban China from buying property / (FOX News)  https://www.foxnews.com/video/6320463832112
• Gary from East Anchorage agrees the U.S. should prohibit  Chinese land purchases in the U.S. and that kids are too overweight 
• There was a time when shame was a powerful force in American politics. That time is not now. / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/02/15/1157049312/george-santos-politics-of-shame
• State Representative Kevin McCabe with a legislative update and touches on carbon credits and ESG
• Ken in Mat-Su on carbon credits 
• Alex Gimarc in Anchorage on POMs and carbon credits

HOUR 2

• Dalton from Mat-Su on carbon credits and Chinese balloons 
• Charitable gaming threatened by casinos and sports betting 
• John Powers from the Alaska Charitable 
• Joe from Anchorage re Rep. McCabe's call, mining, and carbon credits 
• The Anchorage Assembly chair on Tuesday issued a subpoena to Mayor Dave Bronson in final demand for documents on his hiring of the former Health Department director, Joe Gerace / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2023/02/14/anchorage-assembly-chair-subpoenas-mayor-bronson-for-internal-investigation-documents/
• President Biden announces the first Arctic Ambassador / (Arctic Today) https://www.arctictoday.com/sfraga-named-new-arctic-ambassador/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sfraga-named-new-arctic-ambassador
• Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Tuesday ordered a review of which state jobs could have four-year college degree requirements eliminated as a way to tackle the public sector’s recruitment and retention crisis. / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/politics/2023/02/14/alaska-gov-dunleavy-orders-review-of-state-jobs-that-could-have-degree-requirements-removed/

HOUR 1

• Happy Valentine's Day! Guys don't forget your sweethearts! Tom & Tom discuss the importance of reminding your significant other how much you appreciate them.
• Sen Tom Cotton (AR-R) on President Biden needing to speak to the public re: the four aerial object  shoot-downs / (FOX News)
  https://www.foxnews.com/video/6320366521112
• US workplace safety regulators have fined a Pennsylvania factory after two workers fell into a vat of chocolate and had to be rescued. / (BBC) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64620418?
• Ken/Kevin in Mat-Su on carbon credits 
• Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, has entered the race for president / (NYT) 
• Ken in Mat-Su on carbon credits and comparisons to European nations
• Lydia in Mat-Su on carbon credits
• Adolescent girls across the country are facing record levels of violence, sadness, and despair, according to new survey data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. / (NPR)  https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/13/1156663966/teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-say / (Axios) https://www.axios.com/2023/02/13/teen-girls-sadness-violence-cdc-report?utm_campaign=mb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew

HOUR 2

• Bethany Marcum  CEO of Alaska Policy Forum / https://alaskapolicyforum.org/2023/01/press-release-apf-commends-ij-for-defending-school-choice-for-alaskas-families/
• Voters on the Kenai Peninsula will head to the polls Tuesday to elect a new borough mayor in a special election. / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/02/14/kenai-peninsula-borough-elect-new-mayor/
• Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson on Monday announced his next pick for the municipal attorney — Anne Helzer, who is the chair of the Alaska Public Offices Commission. Helzer must be confirmed by the Assembly before she permanently assumes the role. / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2023/02/13/anchorage-mayor-bronson-picks-apoc-chair-anne-helzer-as-next-city-attorney/
• The state of Alaska joined a federal lawsuit Friday that seeks to overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s decades-old approval of a pill used for abortions. /  (ADN) https://www.adn.com/politics/2023/02/13/alaska-joins-federal-lawsuit-seeking-to-block-abortion-pill/
• Anthony McRae, 43, killed three MSU students and critically wounded five others when he opened fire on the East Lansing campus at 8:30 p.m. Monday, which sparked a tense and chaotic manhunt that ended about four hours later when police found McRae with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/michigan-state-shooting-updates-february-14-2023

HOUR 1

• Tom & Tom talk Superbowl and commercials 
• Remote learning day in Anchorage School District because of snow /(ADN) https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2023/02/12/several-inches-of-fresh-snow-leads-to-hazardous-driving-in-anchorage-area/
• China claimed Monday that the United States flew spy balloons into Chinese airspace more than 10 times since January 2022 without Beijing's permission / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/02/13/1156488174/china-us-spy-balloons-airspace
• Former Trump senior counselor Kellyanne Conway criticizes Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for her use of TikTok despite security concerns and discusses the lack of voter enthusiasm for Biden in 2024. / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/video/6320316718112
• Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan joins 'Fox & Friends' after multiple unidentified flying objects were shot down since the initial Chinese surveillance balloon /(FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/video/6320311513112
• Ken from Mat-Su on the HB50 DNR Carbon Capture bill / (BASIS) https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/33?Root=HB%20%2050
• Kevin in Mat-Su on carbon credits / https://wethepeoplealaska.org/

HOUR 2

• Joe from Midtown Anchorage on the carbon credit issue
• A person was found dead along a roadway in the Eagle River area early Sunday, and Anchorage police were describing it as a possible hit-and-run.
• Durham School Services, the company operating most school buses in Mat-Su, is contending with a bus worker strike about to stretch into a third week after a rocky start in August followed by months of rolling route cancellations. / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/mat-su/2023/02/12/the-embattled-company-running-school-buses-in-mat-su-is-operating-without-local-permits/
• Alex from South Anchorage on the State Legislature and supporting legalized gambling and farmed salmon 
• Tom & Tom discuss legislative issues 
• Grizz from Mat-Su on her opposition to Ranked Choice Voting

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/

HOUR 1

• Live Senate panel examines China's surveillance efforts against the US. / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/video/6320030217112
• China’s surveillance balloons have flown over more than 40 countries and are directed by the Chinese military, the State Department said. / (NYT) 
• Single women own and occupy more homes than single men in the United States, despite earning only about 83 cents for every dollar that men earn, according to a new study.  (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/realestate/single-women-own-more-homes-than-single-men.html?
• Burt Bacharach, the debonair pop composer, arranger, conductor, record producer and occasional singer whose hit songs in the 1960s distilled that decade’s mood of romantic optimism, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94 / (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/arts/music/burt-bacharach-dead.html? 
• 'Fox & Friends' co-hosts discussed how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis assured residents the corporation will pay its fair share of taxes. / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/video/6320027603112
• Tom & Dylan talk Disney and Philadelphia 
• Pete Davidson saying sorry is compelling. Taco Bell’s parent company, Yum Brands, exceeded quarterly earnings expectations yesterday, and the fast-food giant’s CEO David Gibbs credited a big chunk of that success to the guy whose dating history inspired a million Instagram graphics / (MB) https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/yum-brands-earnings-taco-bell-breakfast?
• Top fast food chains / (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_fast_food_restaurant_chai

HOUR 2

• Anchorage Assembly leadership pressed Mayor Dave Bronson Tuesday to release the results of an investigative report completed by the mayor’s administration that looked into how the former municipal health director was hired, despite a fabricated resume. / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/02/08/anchorage-assembly-pursues-litigation-release-investigative-report/
• Woodcarver Mike from Mat-Su 
• 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/
• Gary from East Anchorage
• 2022 Jr Iditarod and 2023 Yukon Quest 80 winner Emily Robinson joins Tom  / donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/emilys-2023-jr-iditarod-racing-sled-dog-kennel?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

HOUR 1

• President Biden's State of Union overview / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/video/6319953082112
• (7:15 AM to 7:45 AM) Rick Whitbeck from Power the Future on the State of the Union Address / (PF) https://powerthefuture.com/president-bidens-false-sense-of-reality/
• Gov Sarah Huckabee-Sanders of Arkansas delivered the Republican Address / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4IHZyxfCiQ
• After spending years as a punchline, Microsoft’s Bing search engine has completed its Rocky training montage and is ready to get back in the ring. Yesterday, Microsoft announced an AI-powered revamp of Bing that’s expected to reignite a dormant battle with Google over its search dominance.  / (MB)  https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/microsoft-bing-chatgpt-ai-search-google?
• LeBron James became the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, topping Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with his 38,388th career point.  / https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35583357/lebron-james-live-all-scoring-record-tracker?
• Two days after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed more than 11,600 people in Turkey and Syria / (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/08/world/turkey-syria-earthquake?

HOUR 2

• Tom talks about the biased headlines and stories against Mayor Dave Bronson from the Anchorage Daily News
• Joe from South Anchorage on Revive issues and Amy Demboski vs Bronson conflict
• The former CEO of Alaska Child & Family, an organization that provides mental health treatment for youths, was recently sentenced on federal charges he assaulted a Delta flight attendant on an Anchorage-bound flight at the end of last month / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2023/02/07/former-alaska-mental-health-program-ceo-pleads-guilty-to-assaulting-delta-attendant-on-anchorage-flight/
• Stephen Manwiller - Chair of Independence Park Advocates - neighbor to the Revive Food Pantry / Prince Nwankudu

HOUR 1

• Turkey earthquake update / (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/07/world/turkey-syria-earthquake?
• National credit card chip shortage / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/02/07/1153724823/need-a-new-credit-card-it-can-take-almost-two-months-to-get-a-replacement
• Former Gov Mike Huckabee on tonight's President  Biden's State of Union Address / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/video/6319928378112
• FTX is flouting the first rule of gift-giving—no take-backs. The bankrupt crypto exchange is telling recipients of its political donations to return the cash they got from its employees by the end of the month or wait for the judge to order it back. / (MB) https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2023/02/06/ftx-wants-its-usd93m-in-political-donations-back?
• Officials in Grand Forks, North Dakota, have voted to strike down a Chinese company's proposed corn mill after the U.S. Air Force said its proximity to a military base would pose a national security risk. /  (FOX News) https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/china-fufeng-north-dakota-corn-mill-project-halted-grand-forks-city-council
• This year's SuperBowl will be a "Booze Bowl" mostly highlighting alcohol / (MB) https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2023/02/06/crypto-is-out-booze-is-in-for-super-bowl-ads?
• Jesus Christ is now the center of a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign funded by the founder of Hobby Lobby and others, which is apparently just getting started.  / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/02/06/1154880673/jesus-commercial-super-bowl-billboard-he-gets-us-hobby-lobby-evangelical-billion

HOUR 2

• Dalton from Mat-Su on 
• Missing man in Alaska for the last 46 years remains found / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/02/07/family-man-missing-alaska-46-years-finds-closure/
• Dave Shoffner, an advertising expert behind SpotBowl – America’s Super Bowl commercial poll since 2004 /cote here on Sunday:  https://spotbowl.com/

HOUR 1

• At least 2,100 people have been killed in Turkey and Syria, where a powerful earthquake on Monday collapsed thousands of buildings and raised the specter of a new humanitarian disaster in a region already wracked by war, a refugee crisis, and deep economic troubles. / (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/05/world/turkey-earthquake?Governments around the world were quick to respond to requests for international assistance after Monday’s devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, deploying rescue teams and offering aid. (NPR) https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/05/world/turkey-earthquake?
• When President Biden delivers his State of the Union 2023 address Tuesday evening, he'll have a new person peering over his left shoulder: Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/02/06/1154253207/biden-mccarthy-state-of-the-union
• Former Hillary Clinton adviser and pollster Mark Penn says that China's ability to fly a spy balloon over the U.S. symbolizes that China could 'invade our sovereignty.' / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/video/6319880883112
• Anchorage Assembly leaders want it to be easier for residents to see how the municipality is spending public money. To that end, Chair Suzanne LaFrance and Vice Chair Christopher Constant introduced a measure that would set up an “Anchorage online checkbook,” where records of transactions, contracts, travel expenses, departmental spending, payroll data, and other fiscal items would be stored digitally in perpetuity, searchable by keyword and fund recipient. /(ADN) 
• With support from the mayor’s office, the Port of Alaska is moving forward with an expanded design that could add hundreds of millions of dollars to its already substantial price tag. / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2023/02/05/bronson-backs-expanded-port-design-that-could-add-more-than-200m-to-modernization-project/
• PETA misrepresents in media alerts why some sponsors of the Iditarod are not helping the Iditarod this year 
• A school bus worker strike in Mat-Su will continue Monday after both sides failed to come to a contract agreement in a negotiating session Friday. / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/mat-su/2023/02/03/mat-su-school-bus-driver-strike-stretches-into-monday-as-contract-impasse-continues/

HOUR 2

• Homicide rates saw a significant jump in 2022, according to a report published by the Anchorage Police Department. / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/02/03/apd-report-shows-homicide-rates-jumped-2022/Beyoncé reigns at the Grammy Awards.
  After 88 career nominations, the R&B singer and pop superstar won her 32nd Grammy on Sunday, for best dance/electronic music album, giving her the record for most Grammy victories. Solti, a Hungarian-born conductor who was the previous leader, won his last award in 1998, the year after his death. A
•      ‘It’s so vital’: New Mat-Su facility adds detox beds in a state with few options for residential addiction treatment / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/mat-su/2023/02/05/its-so-vital-new-mat-su-facility-adds-detox-beds-in-a-state-with-few-options-for-residential-addiction-treatment/
• Anchorage Assembly candidate Spencer Moore (running in East Anchorage) joins Tom / https://mooreforanchorage.com/

HOUR 1

• Beijing sought to defuse tensions with Washington on Friday over a Chinese high-altitude balloon that floated over the United States, expressing its regret over the incident, and saying the balloon was for civilian research and had “deviated far from its planned course.” / (NYT)
• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a trip to China after a Chinese spy balloon was discovered flying across the US. / (BBC) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64516218
• Former Chief Information Officer to President Bush Theresa Payton weighs in on China's possible intentions with a balloon. / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/video/6319719941112
• The employment picture started off 2023 on a stunningly strong note, with nonfarm payrolls posting their biggest gain since July 2022. / (CNBC) nbc.com/2023/02/03/jobs-report-January-2023-.html
• Global oil markets are bracing for more upheaval in the next couple of weeks after the European Union bans all Russian refined oil products in retaliation for the war in Ukraine. Starting Sunday, the 27-nation bloc will prohibit imports of Russian gasoline, diesel, and other products used throughout Europe. / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/02/03/1153833640/europe-russian-oil-products-ban
• Republican former House Speaker Louise Stutes has joined the largely Democratic minority caucus after being rebuffed by the GOP-led majority. / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/politics/alaska-legislature/2023/02/02/alaskas-republican-former-house-speaker-joins-democrat-led-minority/
• The Alaska House Committee on Community and Regional Affairs has approved a bill that would create a state pension program for police and firefighters. The committee voted 4-2 on Thursday morning to advance the bill, House Bill 22, to the House State Affairs Committee, the second of four committees slated to hear the bill. / (AB) https://alaskabeacon.com/briefs/house-committee-advances-pension-bill-intended-to-benefit-alaska-police-firefighters/
• Last month, an Alaska’s News Source investigation uncovered how the Anchorage Assembly awarded $750,000 to a nonprofit group called Revive Alaska Community Services (RACS) to build a food pantry in South Anchorage, but that group used the money to purchase a church in Midtown instead.
  Now, the nonprofit group is selling that church. / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/02/03/investigation-into-anchorage-nonprofit-exposes-broader-problems-with-how-city-monitors-millions-federal-grants/

HOUR 2

• The Department of Public Safety released a draft policy this week that details how Alaska State Troopers and other state law enforcement officers will use body cameras./ (ADN) https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2023/02/02/alaska-state-troopers-release-body-camera-policy-for-public-review-as-apd-rollout-remains-in-limbo/
• Paul Asay from Plugged in with the latest movie reviews The Chosen, The Amazing Maurice, 80 for Brady, and Marvel movies soon to come
• Dave Stieren from Gov Dunleavy's office 
• Visit Anchorage shared its projections for the upcoming tourism season at the Dena’ina Center on Thursday. The presentation was based on current industry bookings