The Techstars Startup Weekend was held in Seward over the first weekend of October. The event is a business plan workshop for participants from the University of Alaska. Emilie Springer spoke with Tommy Sheridan, director of the Alaska Blue Economy Center, for more details on this and future events with Alaska EPSCoR’s Interface of Change project.

After months of back-and-forth, negotiations and uncertainty, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has hashed out a hodgepodge plan to keep some of its swimming pools open; and if it seems like you’re getting more political calls and text messages than ever before, it’s not just in your head. Politicians – and their supporters – rely on cheap, easy text messages and survey calls to fundraise, get out the vote, and collect data – And as Alaska Public Media’s Hannah Flor found out, the more races matter, the more they do it.