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Heidi Hedberg

58:49 - 59:06

"And so we have had to pivot in the last year to address those changes."

“And so we have had to pivot in the last year to address those changes.”
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Alaska News
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Anchorage
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October 20, 2026

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And so we have had to pivot in the last year to address those changes. And so I will talk about that in my next slide of what the next administration needs to know, but this one of the areas that we really do need to focus in on.

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