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Kyle Hopkins @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social · 12d

Been stuck in traffic northbound Minnesota for half an hour …

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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you @adn.com for publishing my obituary for perhaps the most beloved bear in the world: the late, great, king 480 Otis.

Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 17d

Fat Bear Week has arrived, featuring some of the biggest and brawniest bears of Brooks River. But longtime fans will note that there are several beloved bears missing from this year’s bracket.

Remembering 480 Otis, the ‘Buddha of Brooks Falls’ and Fat Bear Week’s greatest champion

With four Fat Bear Week titles and a Zen master approach, the bear had garnered plenty of fans since it was first sighted in 2001.

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Kyle Hopkins @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social · 17d

How many old fire department training towers are in Anchorage? Where are they?

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 17d

I personally know one nurse who already moved and another who's working on it.

Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 17d

The BC government just said in a press release that the number of US healthcare workers, including doctors, has doubled since May. The province is making it easier to practice here.

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Kyle Hopkins @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social · Aug 31

DPS wouldn’t answer many of our questions. Including how is it possible that they can’t extract names from their records keeping software.

This story might provide some answers: www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Alaska government spent nearly $28 million on botched database project

The Alaska Department of Public Safety spent 11 years and $27.9 million trying to replace the states aging criminal information database before the project was abandoned, derailed by problems with fu...

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Kyle Hopkins @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social · Aug 31

It’s knowable but would require DPS looking at incident reports that it would argue are not public record (open cases) or in some cases the victim name would be redacted.

Data for Indigenous Justice says the state could have done that research in the time it’s taken to deny the requests & appeals

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Kyle Hopkins @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social · Aug 31

The four investigators focus on MMIP cases and were working on six cases as of May/June, including this one: www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

One woman died on an Alaska mayor’s property. Then another. No one has ever been charged.

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Kyle Hopkins @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social · Aug 31

Print won’t last forever but for now it still warms my cold heart to see a story on the racks

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Aug 30

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has said again and again that the state government would work with Alaska Natives to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people.

BUT…the state is refusing to release lists of Indigenous murder victims. @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social

Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.

When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 29

NEW: Alaska publishes a quarterly list with the names of Indigenous people reported missing — but it still doesn’t issue a list for those who’ve been killed.

When a local nonprofit requested that information, the state said no.

By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social of @adn.com