Your Alaska Correspondent
Point Barrow, AK
Dear Colleagues:
I will be in Alaska for elections! I used to live in Sitka for many years, working at the community radio station, KCAW. It was glorious and I’m excited to go back, especially since the nation’s eye has turned to The Last Frontier lately.
My first task is to find former New Yorkers living there and interview them for an election walk-up piece. Yes, there really are transplanted New Yorkers living in the great white North (even though proper bagels do not exist anywhere outside the Lower 48).
This is for our News Service, and I’d like your input: What would you like to ask an Alaskan New Yorker about the upcoming elections? Or about politics in general?
Please comment below or contact me directly with your ideas.
Thank you!
Valerie
p.s. That’s a little picture of me with a hummer in Barrow, at the edge of North Slope. It was midsummer at about 11:30 p.m., and the temperature was just below freezing. Behind me is sand, imprinted with polar bear bellies.
October 21st, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Awesome Val. Ask them how Alaska is relevant for the rest of us “Outside” AK.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:35 am
And vice versa to Mike’s question: how is the rest of the country relevant to Alaska?
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I’d like to know how they think Alaska’s image has been affected, positively or negatively, by all the attention Sarah Palin’s candidacy has generated.