Join John and Rachel this week as they review how congressional resistance to Trump has saved Alaska’s Ocean Station Papa and how it might also improve Alaska’s housing supply. We also discuss how the Supreme Court’s lifting of limits on political party assistance to federal candidates will likely land in Alaska.

This week, in honor of July 4th, we focus on the meaning of our nation’s founding. We review news items from 1776, some quotes of the Founders, and consider why we celebrate July 4th, and not some other important day, as the birthdate of America.

This week we take a break from analyzing how the federal government effects Alaska in order to review some relevant American history, especially the Dred Scott decision, the problem of judicial supremacy, and the election shinannigans of 1876 and 1877.

This week we review Trump’s plan to require grants and scientific research to pass his political litmus tests, we discuss the dismantling of Ocean Station Papa, the most sophisticated deep sea monitoring system off Alaska’s coast, and we consider the Constitutional basis for federal funding of science.

Join us as we discuss how millions of dollars in federal coal subsidies could cost Alaskans billions in higher utility bills, and how the Trump administration is trying to stifle public workers. We also play “Who Said It?” and wonder what the American Founders would have thought of the expansion of ICE.

This week, we discuss new medicaid rules, new proposed mail-in ballot rules, and new threats to Alaska’s tourism industry. We also host two special guests for this week’s rendition of "Who Said It?'

This week we discuss rising inflation, delayed Department of Energy grant payments, and how political pressure on immigration judges recalls one of the grievances the Declaration of Independence stated against King George III. We also discuss fake money, fake monuments, and the real Ben Franklin.

This week, we look at Trump's growing power over Republican primaries and how Alaska's open system limits such power; we review how changes at FEMA are affecting Western Alaska; and we read what the Declaration of Independence says about immigration. We also play "Who Said It?", our unusual news quiz game.