Emily Schwing

i'm over here now: bsky.app/profile/emilys…

The flush toilets in my public school worked. So did the heat & fire alarm. It's not the case for AK rural schools & despite reliance on state $$$, AK lawmakers this weekend failed to restore nearly $28M in maintenance & construction dollars vetoed in June propublica.org/article/alaska…

current mood: I keep writing "incite" instead of "insight."

dogs. just dogs. that is all.

oh hey. Come find me over here: bsky.app/profile/emilys…

ICYMI: I recently published an investigation on the conditions inside Alaska's rural public schools for @KYUKNews, @propublica and NPR. Today, I talked about the project on @180099native: nativeamericacalling.com/thursday-march…

@ElBeardsley stay safe. I will be listening for you and wishing you well!

I’m lying in bed my first night in Kyiv and there are drones being shot down. And sirens. There is somebody in Russia launching drones at a city full of people. I’m sorry, but this is severely messed up.

jumping in to say "Unrest continues with significant gas emissions" isn't only a description applicable to Mt. Spurr.

This NPR story, with local reporting from around the country, including from me in Seattle, paints a picture of the haphazard downsizing if not dismantling of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. buff.ly/FHd0MIy

@edlavaCNN Thank you Ed. That’s so kind of you!

This is why journalism matters. Absolutely inspiring reporting. Read the story and take the time to read this insightful Q&A with the reporter. Just brilliant work!! link.propublica.net/view/665e24836…

Conditions inside Alaska’s rural public schools put teachers and students in danger. Listen to the first in a three part series. kyuk.org/2025-03-03/dec…

I spent the last year crawling around in Alaska’s rural public schools. What I found is a public health and safety crisis and the state’s Indigenous students are likely to feel the greatest impact. propublica.org/article/rural-…

just getting lost in dog stuff... as per usual.

After Trump’s executive order laying off federal employees last week, Haskell Indian Nations University lost almost a third of its staff, leaving students without teachers.

(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.

Hot tips for radio editors: I'm a radio reporter. Please stop editing out all my audio engineering notes, my formatted tape cuts and for the love of PETE, stop creating a new file of the script with every edit. Google Drive is already unnavigable. Thx for coming to my ted talk.

We have no meaningful SAR operations in the American #Arctic. We don't have an active icebreaker in the region. There's no major law enforcement presence, we haven't ratified UNCLOS. The list is long for why it's unreasonable to think we'd be able to take this on.

@wesley_early that is actually a great name for a club... a possible location might be the parks highway igloo

Anchorage's hottest club is... Dead Whale

@kylehopkinsAK @MikeDickenson7 i had the identical thought.

@MikeDickenson7 was just thinking there's probably a reporting project there

"About 22.5% of Alaska’s workforce lived outside Alaska in 2023" (!) Including many police officers in rural hubs. As one Kotzebue officer said on "Alaska PD," at the end of each shift, he gets to leave Alaska and "go someplace nice." adn.com/business-econo…