HOUR 1

• Mayor Bronson appoints Sami Graham to his Chief-of-Staff after she failed to get enough votes to be confirmed at the Municipal Librarian / https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2021/08/24/anchorage-mayor-bronson-announces-city-librarian-appointee-as-his-chief-of-staff-immediately-after-assembly-fails-to-confirm-her/
• Cliff Groh Jr gives a legislative special session report from Juneau 
• Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at age 80 (60 Minutes clip and then CNN story) /  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQdFskgh0wY
• Dalton from Mat-Su says Facebook is distracting and unnecessary and Tom argues it has great value for family communications 

HOUR 2

• Tom & Rick talk State Fair
• The baby, now an adult, on the Nirvana album “Nevermind” sues the remaining band member because he didn’t consent to “child porn” as the cover showed his periwinkle / https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/arts/music/spencer-alden-nirvana-nevermind.htmlDo you know what color periwinkle and tartan are? /
• Tom McGrath on last night’s Anchorage Assembly meeting highlights the new Chief-of-staff Sami Graham appointment and thoughts on the Assembly members and reapportionment 
• Anchorage has mask mandates surfacing / https://www.adn.com/business-economy/2021/08/24/lacking-a-mandate-businesses-and-patrons-make-their-own-masking-policies-in-anchorage/
• Joe in South Anchorage talks about 13 deaths from COVID and says if he was the Governor or Mayor he’d mandate masks and vaccinations 
• Arthur Keyes on farming and farmers markets