On today’s Midday Report with host Kirsten Dobroth: Sen. Bill Wielechowski, has revived a proposal to have Alaska join the of states seeking to elect the president by a popular vote, instead of the Electoral College. A state scholarship program to encourage students to stay in-state for college reported its lowest eligibility numbers last year since the program began. And wolves are eating lots of otters on one remote Alaska island.
Midday Report February 10, 2023
![A wolf on Pleasant Island near Gustavus, Alaska peers at the camera. (Photo by Bjorn Dihle)](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/62d2428/2147483647/strip/true/crop/686x468+0+0/resize/880x600!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F22%2Fe9%2F83fc226443159e62cb9c0db40256%2Fpleasant-island-wolf-photo-by-bjorn-dihle-2048x1451-1-830x588-1-e1676068071523.jpg)