Politics

The Azachorok Corporation in Mountain Village is working to set up a coalition of communities in order to get a more powerful economic voice for their region.

Continuing our series profiling the candidates running for Bethel City Council in the upcoming municipal election.

Six candidates from Bethel are running for three Bethel City Council seats. KYUK is profiling these candidates in the coming days before the Oct. 4th election. Our first profile in the series is Mary Weiss. Weiss began serving on Council in June after Chuck Herman’s resignation. She moved to Bethel in 2006 and works at UAF’s Kuskokwim Campus as a Certified Nursing Assistant Instructor.

The Association of Village Council Presidents Executive Board and its legal counsel want to amend the organization’s bylaws to give the Board more power and its members longer terms. They say the changes would bring the nonprofit into better compliance with state law. 

Zach Fansler is the presumed winner of Tuesday’s House District 38 Democratic Primary, beating out incumbent Bob Herron. With only one precinct uncounted in the district, Fansler has received 56.7 percent, or 1,099 votes, compared to 43.3 percent, or 839 votes, for Herron.

Today is the first day since the primary that Fansler has agreed to media interviews. I talked with him this afternoon via phone from his hotel room in Anchorage where he’s visiting for the weekend to buy shoes, jeans, and do the usual bush shopping.