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• Newscast – Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018

  21-02-2018 22:28 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  Stories include a proposed appropriation for ANWR seismic testing, University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen advocating for increased funding, publishers of Anchorage Daily News buying three more publications, and a winter storm watch issued for Juneau and parts of Southeast Alaska on Thursday.
  
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• Haines fire chief resigns after DUI arrest

  21-02-2018 21:36 via ktoo.org
  Haines Borough Public Safety Building. (File photo from KHNS)
  A few days after he was arrested for driving under the influence, Haines Fire Chief Brian Clay resigned from his position.
  Haines police arrested Fire Chief Brian Clay on Feb. 10. A few days later, Haines Borough Manager Debra Schnabel announced publicly at an assembly meeting that Clay had resigned.
  “Chief Clay, the fire chief has resigned from his position,” she said. “Assistant Chief, Al Giddings, has moved into h
  
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• ‘We will not give up’: Florida school shooting survivors march for tougher gun laws

  21-02-2018 21:27 via ktoo.org
  Updated at 1:50 p.m. ET
  A week after a gunman killed 17 people at a Florida high school, students who survived the attack brought their #NeverAgain protest movement to Tallahassee to demand action on guns and mental health. Thousands of activists marched on the state Capitol to pressure lawmakers Wednesday, even as their peers elsewhere in the U.S. staged protests of their own in solidarity.
  “Dear Congress: How can you claim to stand for the people but let your kids get slaughtered like an
  
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• Skagway residents sell sandwiches to raise funds for Florida shooting victims

  21-02-2018 20:29 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Skagway residents hope to raise funds to help those affected by a Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
  Seventeen people, including students and staff, were killed. Many others were injured.
  Thousands of miles away, in Skagway, Alaska, one family wanted to help those affected.
  http://media.aprn.org/2018/ann-20180220-10.mp3When Skagway resident Greg Getz heard the news, he knew he wanted to offer some sort of support.
  “My wife and I saw tha
  
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• Walker appoints Air Force veteran to Dunleavy Senate vacancy

  21-02-2018 20:18 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Lt. Col. Mike Shower prepares for an F-22 Raptor training sortie Feb. 4 at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott Wolfe)
  Gov. Bill Walker has appointed retired Air Force Lt. Col. Mike Shower to fill the vacancy in Senate District E.
  Shower lives in Wasilla, and currently works as a pilot for FedEx.
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  Mike Shower is the third person appointed by Walker to fill the seat once occupied by Mike Dunleavy.
  Dunleavy resigned from the se
  
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• CBJ Regular Meeting – 1-8-18

  21-02-2018 19:37 via ktoo.org
  
  
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• CBJ Assembly Meeting – 1-22-18

  21-02-2018 19:34 via ktoo.org
  
  
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• Morning update — Wednesday, February 21, 2018

  21-02-2018 19:32 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:Alaska Pacific University skier wins gold in cross-country team sprint: Kikkan Randall grew up in Anchorage and skies competitively for Alaska Pacific University. She has multiple gold medals from World Cup races but has had her eyes on an Olympic medal since Sochi four years ago.
  Remember NAFTA? It might keep Atlantic salmon farms in Puget Sound: New Brunswick, Canada-based Cooke Aquaculture says it wil
  
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• CBJ Assembly Regular Meeting – 2-12-18

  21-02-2018 19:31 via ktoo.org
  
  
  CBJ Meeting – 2-12-18
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• Remember NAFTA? It might keep Atlantic salmon farms in Puget Sound

  21-02-2018 19:19 via ktoo.org
  Cooke Aquaculture’s ruined Atlantic salmon farm off Cypress Island on Aug. 28. (Photo courtesy Washington Department of Natural Resources)
  The Canadian owner of an Atlantic salmon farm that collapsed last summer near Anacortes vows to use the North American Free Trade Agreement to save its fish farms in Puget Sound.
  New Brunswick, Canada-based Cooke Aquaculture says it will pursue mandatory arbitration under NAFTA if the Washington legislature tries to phase out Atlantic salmon farming.
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• Alaska Pacific University skier wins gold in cross-country team sprint

  21-02-2018 19:01 via ktoo.org
  An Alaskan skier made Olympic history today. Kikkan Randall and her teammate from Minnesota Jessie Diggins won gold in Pyeongchang in the cross-country team sprint.
  In that event, two skiers take turns skiing one and a quarter kilometers around the arena, completing three legs each.
  And for almost the entire 15 minute race, the Americans were behind the Norwegians and the Swedes.
  Jessie Diggins skied the last leg for the Americans and, coming up on the last curve of the race, she slips between N
  
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• Winter weather advisory upgraded to warning for Juneau, parts of Southeast Alaska

  21-02-2018 18:28 via ktoo.org
  Updated | 6:36 a.m. Thursday
  The National Weather Service has upgraded the alert to a winter storm warning. It is in effect from 3 p.m. today to 9 a.m. Thursday.Original story | 8:28 a.m. Wednesday
  Ravens flock around a pedestrian Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, along the path outside of the Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff Library, Archives and Museum Building. (Photo by Tripp J Crouse/KTOO)
  The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for Juneau and other parts of Southeast Alaska.
  The w
  
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• Winter storm watch issued for Juneau, parts of Southeast Alaska

  21-02-2018 18:28 via ktoo.org
  Ravens flock around a pedestrian Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, along the path outside of the Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff Library, Archives and Museum Building. (Photo by Tripp J Crouse/KTOO)
  The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for Juneau and other parts of Southeast Alaska.
  The watch is in effect beginning Thursday morning until Thursday night, and it includes areas such as Petersburg and Wrangell.
  Rick Fritsch, a lead forecaster, said the Juneau area can expect a total 5 t
  
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• End of an era: Juneau’s Dennis Egan reflects on why his successor must learn to ‘get along’

  21-02-2018 16:43 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Sen. Dennis Egan uses a display cabinet in the Capitol for support Feb. 8, 2018, while chatting with KTVA reporter Steve Quinn, left, and camera operator Ken Kulovany, after doing an interview. Egan suffers from multiple sclerosis and severe vertigo, to which he attributed his decision not to run for re-election following the end of his term. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2018/02/egan_long.mp3
  For decades, Dennis Egan’s voice has been one of the
  
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• New Anchorage airport manager looks to China for growth

  21-02-2018 16:05 via ktoo.org
  Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport general manager Jim Szczesniak stands in front of an aerial photo of the airport Monday in the Capitol. He said he would like to see the airport build on its role in global cargo transport. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO)
  The new general manager for Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is looking to add flights to China.
  Jim Szczesniak started work Jan. 22 and discussed his plans during a recent visit to Juneau. He said the airport’s rol
  
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• University of Alaska president appeals for public support for more funding

  21-02-2018 05:15 via ktoo.org
  UA president Jim Johnsen delivers his State of the University address at Lucy Cuddy Hall at the University of Alaska Anchorage. (Photo by Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)
  In his State of the University address Tuesday, University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen stressed the need for an increase in state funding after four years of cuts.
  Addressing Commonwealth North’s monthly public affairs luncheon at the University of Alaska Anchorage, Johnsen described the challenges the university has
  
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• State leaders push to take next steps on ANWR drilling

  21-02-2018 04:10 via ktoo.org
  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and U.S. Rep. Don Young pose for a photos after speaking about the future of oil development in ANWR at an Anchorage event. (Photo by Elizabeth Harball/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  Now that Congress has approved drilling in part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Alaska’s leaders are eagerly pursuing the next steps needed for oil development.
  This week, the Walker administration asked the legislature for $10 million to help pay for seismic testing on the
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 2-21-18

  21-02-2018 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Wednesday at 3, on A Juneau Afternoon, Sheli DeLaney will be your host;
   
  We’ll get a preview of this weekend’s Con Brio concert;
   
  We’ll meet, Kueni Maake and Lauree Morton, two of AWARE’s Women of Distinction;
   
  We’ll talk with Jeffra Clough about Eaglecrest;
   
  Alan Davis will be here to highlight recitals by Jay Query;
   
  That, Bird Note, music and more, Wednesday on A Juneau Afternoon, live at 3 on KTOO-News, repeated at 4 on KRNN, a
  
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• Ask a Climatologist: The connection between sea ice and global weather

  21-02-2018 01:11 via ktoo.org
  Sea ice extent is near record low levels in the Arctic ocean and that has implications for weather patterns around the globe.
  Brian Brettschneider says that in the past climate models have struggled to connect ocean conditions with what happens in the atmosphere. But he says two new studies (you can find here and here) do a much better job describing that link.
  He says what happens in one, really drives the other.
  Interview Highlights:
  What we’re learning is that the reduction of sea ice
  
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• Kentucky moves to add guns to schools after school shooting

  21-02-2018 00:07 via ktoo.org
  The school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that took 17 lives followed one in rural western Kentucky by three weeks. The Kentucky shooter killed two high school sophomores and injured 18 other people.
  In the wake of the tragedy at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky’s Republican governor and legislature say they won’t consider gun any control proposals. Rather, a measure allowing teachers or staff to carry guns on campus has gained traction.
  Republican state Sen. Steve West a
  
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