- 243
- Episodes
- 18
- Transcribed
- 33
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 8M
- YouTube views
About Talk of Alaska
Alaska’s only statewide call-in forum for discussing the issues impacting life on the Last Frontier. Politics, science, culture and current events are covered by host Lori Townsend and members of the Alaska Public Media news team along with guests and callers.
- Publisher
- Alaska Public Media
- Category
- news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Jul 2021
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
18 of 243 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Recovery 1 year after ex-Typhoon Halong | Talk of Alaska
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Aviation safety in Alaska | Talk of Alaska
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Education funding and the state of Alaska public schools | Talk of Alaska
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Recovery 1 year after ex-Typhoon Halong | Talk of Alaska
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Raina, you're the environmental director for KIPNUC. Tell us about how recovery efforts are going in your community, and do you see areas where more communication is needed, as Lucy mentioned? I think there's a lot of debris still. There's still houses halfway into the river, across the river, and 20-plus homes that were swept away from the floodwaters. and recovery is not as fast as we hoped. There was widespread contamination. Still a lot of homes that need to be inspected. So some of them haven't even had that process done yet, a thorough inspection to see what the actual needs are? Second week of September, we flew down with the inspections team and assessed all the inventories that were damaged for public assistance. […]
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- Alaska education leaders
- Treg Taylor
- Department leaders
- Industry experts
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 7,539,645
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.1 / 5
- 31 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 76
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 92
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