An hour with Anchorage's new mayor, Suzanne LaFrance

Anchorage's new mayor, Suzanne LaFrance, has pledged to fix what she describes as a broken city hall. 

The team that she's hired so far is a group of technocratic policy nerd all-stars, and their three year term will function as a kind of test: Can an administration rooted in professional competence and policy expertise make meaningful progress in solving some of the deep-rooted, intractable problems facing the city? Namely, its homelessness crisis, but also the housing crunch, a looming spike in energy costs and the always annoying inability of snowplows to clear out streets within 15 minutes of a snowfall.

LaFrance joined the Northern Journal podcast for an hourlong interview on her background and the priorities and vision for her administration.

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