Support for Alaska Public Media On Demand comes from Aleut, an Alaska Native regional corporation serving over 5,000 Unangak shareholders and descendants with a mission to provide economic growth. Aleut's portfolio includes government contracting, real estate, technology, and energy. Learn more at aleutcorp.com. You're listening to Statewide News from Alaska Public Media. I'm Ava White. Lieutenant Governor and former U.S. House candidate Nancy Dahlstrom is running for governor.
Dahlstrom says the state's dire budget situation, the economy, education, and public safety will be especially important issues in her campaign. I love the state of Alaska and even though we have a lot of challenges, going on right now. I think that we can bring the appropriate people together and we can come up with some solutions. Dahlstrom joined Governor Mike Dunleavy's administration in 2018 as Corrections Commissioner. Dunleavy picked her as his running mate for his second term in 2022.
she also ran for u.s house in 2024 and stressed her ties with now president donald trump who endorsed her she dropped out after coming in third in the primary and through her support behind nick beckett the third who went on to win She echoes some of Don Levy and Trump's priorities, including bolstering parental rights and resource development.
Though she closely aligned herself with Trump during her campaign for US House, Dahlstrom says she's willing to work across the aisle too. I'm a good Republican that has the ability to work with all Alaskans. And I respect the values of all Alaskans and know that we have to find compromises on things in order to be successful in our state. Dahlstrom says she's planning to stay on as lieutenant governor and work on the campaign during nights and weekends. She's the second candidate in the race.
Former Fairbanks Senator Click Bishop also filed to run Monday. Governor Don Levy can't run again because of term limits. A Geno-based author's graphic memoir won the Pulitzer Prize Monday for autobiography and memoir. Tessa Hull spent close to 10 years writing and drawing what would become Feeding Ghosts. KTOO interviewed her last month about the memoir. I didn't feel like I had a choice.
My family ghost literally told me I had to do this. The story is detailed and meta. It isn't a quick read. Every page takes time to digest. It's the story of her grandmother's life, living through the Maoist revolution in Shanghai and chronicling that experience in a book after fleeing Hong Kong. And for her... writing was the way in which she tried to assert her own reality even as she watched the government take over and deny everything that was happening.
Then, her mother began to lose her sense of reality, and the story follows her daughter, Hole's mother, and eventually Hole's herself as they travel to China and Hong Kong, piecing their family history together. has lived in and out of Alaska for years. About a decade ago, Hulse felt a deep calling to start the project that would eventually become her memoir. This is Alaska Public Media.