At right, holding the microphone, is Steve MacDonald.  He worked as a television reporter and anchor in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorage,_Alaska" class="extiw" title="w:Anchorage, Alaska">Anchorage, Alaska</a> from 1982 until his retirement in December 2016, at first at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTVA" class="extiw" title="w:KTVA">KTVA</a> but mostly at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTUU" class="extiw" title="w:KTUU">KTUU</a>.  He is standing by, waiting for his cue that he's live on the air, with Frank Robert "Bob" Bell.  Bell is a businessman, engineer and politician, who has also written several humor-tinged books on the Alaskan outdoors.  Bell represented south Anchorage on the Anchorage Assembly, the community's borough assembly/city council, and on this occasion was challenging <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollis_French" class="extiw" title="w:Hollis French">Hollis French</a> for a seat in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Senate" class="extiw" title="w:Alaska Senate">Alaska Senate</a>.
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