The AnchorED City
The AnchorED City Podcast is connecting with Anchorage’s soul through her history, stories, and people.
Episodes
BTS 36: Returning to The Hydra of Homelessness – Micro-Unit Housing
Season three of this podcast was titled “The Hydra of Homelessness.” In that season, back in 2022, we looked at a number of different issues connected to homelessness to get a more complete view of the complexity of that issue. On this episode we are returning to the Hydra of Homelessness.
Joel talks with Julie Graham the Board Chair of In Our Backyard – “a nonprof...
On Saturday November 8, 2025 there will be a Day of Storytelling for the Tikahtnu Upper Cook Inlet as part of an effort to have our area designated as a National Heritage Area. At that event more than fifty "storytellers from across the Anchorage-Tikahtnu Upper Cook Inlet area are coming together to reflect on who we’ve been, who we are now, and who we want to become. " On this episode we hear Jasmine ...
The Dashboard Diaries #4: Wenatchee, WA
It can be hard for Alaskans to feel connected to the rest of the country. I recently went on a nearly coast to coast drive with my daughter and her family as they moved from South Carolina to Washington State. As we drove 500-mile days for a week a few connections between places on our drive and my home city of Anchorage emerged.
Welcome to the Dashboard Diaries a special four-part mini-serie...
You are invited to end the summer by going on a road trip with us on the Dashboard Diaries – brush up on the topic of homelessness with “The Hydra of Homelessness” – and look forward to Season 5: “North to the Future.”
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It can be hard for Alaskans to feel connected to the rest of the country. I recently went on a nearly coast to coast drive with my daughter and her family as they moved from South Carolina to Washington State. As we drove 500-mile days for a week a few connections between places on our drive and my home city of Anchorage emerged.
Welcome to the Dashboard Diaries a special four-part mini-series brought to you by the AnchorED City Po...
Anchorage’s desire to be a Minor League city goes back further than you might imagine. Join us a for a bit more as a bonus to our recent episode.
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Anchorage has had its share of minor league sports teams over the years – The Northern Knights of the Continental Basketball Association, the Anchorage Aces Hockey team, and the short-lived Arena Football team the Wild – but it has never had a professional baseball team. However, one team was a frequent guest in Alaska’s largest city back in the late 1950’s. We tell that story on this special July 4th edition of the Anchored City P...
There was just too much to fit in the last episode of The Dashboard Diaries!
On this episode we consider another way the history of black baseball connects Kansas City, MO and Anchorage.
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It can be hard for Alaskans to feel connected to the rest of the country. I recently went on a nearly coast to coast drive with my daughter and her family as they moved from South Carolina to Washington State. As we drove 500-mile days for a week a few connections between places on our drive and my home city of Anchorage emerged.
Welcome to the Dashboard Diaries a special four-part mini-series brought to you by the AnchorED City Po...
Summer time means a lot of different things in Alaska. Camping, fishing, hiking and for many it also means live music. On this episode I’m talking to two Anchorage musicians that you might see at a show this summer.
Pepper Kit is a local singer-songwriter and one of the folks behind the popular Girl Crush events.
Travis Carbaugh is a guitarist that has played in a number of top local bands. He is currently playing in the band Red F...
BTS: 31 – The Alaska Myth w/ Kaitlin Armstrong
May 26, 2025
Alaskans are serious about who is a real Alaskan and who isn’t. The pursuit of understanding who is a real Alaskan is more often than not tied to a Frontier mentality and the legend that has been created around the 49th State.
The mythology of Alaska is the topic of the award-winning podcast The Alaska Myth. On this episode we talk with Kaitlin Armstrong the host & exe...
The Dashboard Diaries #1: Greenville, SC
May 19, 2025
Alaska feels a bit removed from the rest of the United States because it is separated from the contiguous 48 states by a minimum of 500 mile. Anchorage is even further away. That distance can leave residents not only distinct and different, but often detached.
It can be hard for Alaskans to feel connected to the rest of the country. I recently went on a nearly coast to coast d...
The Dashboard Diaries – Starting May 19
May 16, 2025
This summer on the AnchorED City Podcast we are proud to present The Dashboard Diaries. During this four-part mini-series we will connect with Anchorage’s soul through her histories, stories, and people by connecting to places along the road from our drive across this vast land of ours. The series starts May 19.].,
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The Dashboard Diaries – Coming Soon
May 12, 2025
This summer on the AnchorED City Podcast we are proud to present The Dashboard Diaries. This four-part mini-series connects with Anchorage’s soul through her histories, stories, and people by connecting to places along the road from a nearly coast-to-coast drive across the vast lower 48.
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ACCEE Series #3: w/ Trevor Storrs & Jessica Simonsen
April 21, 2025
Last year we talked twice with members of the Anchorage Child Care and Early Education Fund implementation team. During 2024 they were doing research, hearing from the community, and making recommendations to the Anchorage Assembly about how to spend the $5 million dollars of marijuana tax money earmarked for Child Care and Early Education made possible by Prop...
Back on April of this year I talked with members of the Anchorage Child Care and Early Education Fund implementation team. At that time they were doing research and hearing from the community about how to spend the $5 million dollars of marijuana tax money earmarked for Child Care and Early Education made possible by Proposition 14 in 2023.
They have now arrived at their recommendations for the Mayor LaFrance and thew Anchorage Ass...
There have been a good number of Major Leaguers to have their start in Alaska playing summer college baseball. Only two are in the Hall of Fame – Tom Seaver and Dave Winfield. But before there ever was summer college baseball in the state, one Hall of Fame player spent a part of their early career in Alaska. For that story we need to go back to 1946.
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The neighborhood of Fairview, on the Northside of Anchorage, is considered one of Anchorage’s original four neighborhoods along with Downtown, South Addition and Mountain View. However, what is less known is that Fairview was once its own individual town independent of Anchorage.
Today most Anchorage residents don’t think about Fairview too much. In fact most residents only interact with this neighborhood when driving through the ...
Anchorage has its first elected female mayor. In light of the election of Suzaane LaFrance as Anchorage’s mayor we are returning to a previous episode - S2:E10: Anchorage, Boston, Elections and All Male Mayors – which outlines the city’s history of electing only men to the Anchorage’s top office.
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In April of 2023 Anchorage Voters passed Proposition 14 by a 12-point margin. That proposition dedicates marijuana tax money to child care and early child care education – estimated to be between $4 & $6 million per year. These funds seem to come at just the right time.
Due to the scarcity of programs as well as the cost of care and lack of high-quality child care means that 51% of Alaskan families cannot fully participate in t...
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