Alaska has a second pandemic it needs to address: the brain-drain
Print article Alaska has the opportunity to reverse the brain-drain that plagues our state. Each year, many college-bound students leave the state, never to call it home again. When I left for school, I thought I would too. I’m a lifelong Alaskan from Talkeetna. I graduated as valedictorian from Susitna Valley High School and with the Early Honors Achievement award from Alaska Pacific University’s Early Honors Program in Anchorage. After spending my senior year living in Anchorage, skiing for Alaska Pacific University and interning for Assemblyman Forrest Dunbar, I left for Brunswick, M...