With a $18,589 grant from the Alaska Community Foundation’s Alaska Native Social Justice Fund, the Alutiiq Museum is launching the Alutiiq Arts Advocacy project. This one-year effort will assist Native artists with marketing their work to encourage artistic practice and support economic development. Gallery Coordinator Marlise Lee will oversee the daily work of the project […]
Tsukuba, Japan – Hearing loss is the world’s fourth-leading cause of years lived with disability. The condition may worsen an array of mental, physical, and social complications. As over 90% of hearing loss is age-related, its burden is notably growing amid aging populations. Hearing ability is integrally tied with communication, and hearing loss leads […]
JUNEAU – The Department of Health and Social Services recently entered into a contract with Wellpath, an out-of-state company that has a troubling track record of health and safety issues, to take over operation and management of the Alaska Psychiatric Institute. The State made the unusual decision of awarding Wellpath a sizable contract without […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] draft report prepared for the U.S. Senate, and seen by the Washington Post, says Russia used every major social media platform to target voters with misinformation to try to get Donald Trump elected president. The Post said Sunday the report was done by Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project and network analysis firm Graphika. The […]