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Thumbs up:
GDP growth: It looks like Alaska is emerging from its recession.
Indigenous emojis: Don’t see yourself represented in emojis? Haida artist creates his own.
Deep freeze: Yes, temperatures were uncomfortable, but the cold may have killed some of those pesky spruce bark beetles.
Rural DMV: First-of-its-kind partnership brings a mobile DMV to rural Alaska.
Thumbs down:
Population: We keep losing people, and Alaska’s birth rate has slowed.
Layoffs: There have been more layoffs in local journalism. Time to renew that subscription.
Cancer: Alaska ranks near the bottom when it comes to lung cancer survival rates. Getting screened helps.
– Sarah Erkmann Ward, Blueprint Alaska