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Jeannette Lee

Jeannette Lee was Sightline's Alaska Research Director, based in Anchorage and focused on democracy and housing issues. Prior to Sightline, Jeannette consulted at the Adaptation Fund and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and worked as a federal natural gas researcher. She was also a business and policy journalist for The Associated Press in Alaska and Hawai'i, Atlantic Media Company in Washington, DC, and the former Alaska Dispatch News (previously and currently the Anchorage Daily News). Jeannette earned her BA in history from Yale University and her MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she focused on economics and Arctic energy and climate issues. Jeannette is very pro-noncontiguous states, having moved to Alaska in 2005 from her home state of Hawai'i. She spends many hours trying to be a decent cross-country skier, mountain biker, and gardener. Find her research here.

Jeannette Lee

Jeannette Lee

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Three Ways Anchorage Leaders Could Unlock More Homes

$524,000. That’s the average price of a home built for one family in Anchorage today. The average cost of new ...
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Alaskans Keep Their Model Election System

Alaska voters narrowly decided to retain their groundbreaking election system. By a margin of just 664 votes, a ballot initiative to roll ...
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What’s Different in Alaska Since Election Laws Changed

Takeaways In 2020 Alaska led the country on election reform by adopting a combination of nonpartisan open primaries and ranked choice ...
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Despite Candidate Dropouts, Alaska Elections Are Becoming More Competitive

Takeaways A spate of candidates in Alaska made headlines for dropping out of November’s general election. This, after running successfully in the ...
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A Guide to Alaska’s November 2024 Election

Authors’ note: We’ll be updating this FAQ regularly with new information and additional questions we hear from readers. We invite ...
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Open Primaries and Ranked Choice Voting Strengthened Moderate Republicans in Alaska’s Legislature

Takeaways Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, and Apple. The ...
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Voter participation jumped when Alaska opened its primaries

Takeaways Low voter turnout in primary elections is the default across the country, but Republicans, Democrats, independents, and third-party voters ...
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Nonpartisan Open Primaries Let Alaskans Choose Values Over Party

Takeaways Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Google, and Apple. In ...
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Lawmakers Across the Political Spectrum Should Help More Alaskans Vote

Takeaways In Alaska, Republicans, independents, and Democrats vote at about the same middling rates. That means laws aimed at making ...
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Anchorage Removes Barriers to Small Multifamily Homes

Takeaways Leaders in Alaska’s largest city just freed triplex and fourplex homes from a slew of regulatory barriers that made ...
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Recent Reforms Could Make a Real Neighborhood of Downtown Anchorage

Takeaways The Anchorage Assembly passed reforms earlier this year that make changes to downtown zoning code, bringing the city closer ...
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A Fairer Election System in Alaska Helped More Independents Win Office 

Takeaways In 2022, Alaska held its first elections with open primaries and ranked choice voting. Sightline analyzed the diversity of ...
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