On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Governor Dunleavy’s new pro-family policy adviser resigned on Tuesday after discovery of his extreme views. One person is dead, and another four are missing and presumed lost after their charter fishing vessel sank in rough seas near Sitka on Sunday. And delicious Native dishes will be available at the state fair.
Jeremy Cubas, pictured May 23 at Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference in Anchorage, was Dunleavy’s pro-family policy adviser. Dunleavy, in April, named Cubas to the position in spite of years’ worth of offensive comments that Cubas made on his podcast, Contra Gentiles.Nathaniel Herz for Alaska Public Media