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• Market Fresh: Still time to send the gift of Alaska Grown for Christmas - Alaska Dispatch

  17-12-2014 23:56
  
  Market Fresh: Still time to send the gift of Alaska Grown for Christmas
  Alaska Dispatch
  Summit Spice and Tea (summitspiceandtea.com): While the tea leaves are grown elsewhere, the combinations are mixed up here in Alaska. Share some Afternoon Spice green tea, Alyeska Spice black tea or the Denali Breakfast Blend with Darjeeling.
  
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• Pictures: Alaska's Wondrous Bristol Bay, Now Off-Limits to Gas and Oil Drilling - National Geographic

  17-12-2014 23:51
  
  Pictures: Alaska's Wondrous Bristol Bay, Now Off-Limits to Gas and Oil Drilling
  National Geographic
  President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he is taking Bristol Bay "off the bidders block" to protect the pristine southwestern area of Alaska from oil and gas interests. "It is a beautiful national wonder," Obama said in a video address from the ...
  
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• Alaska's New Governor Sets Sights on Medicaid Expansion - MedPage Today

  17-12-2014 23:33
  
  RH Reality Check
  Alaska's New Governor Sets Sights on Medicaid Expansion
  MedPage Today
  To make good on that, he'll have to face Alaska's Republican-controlled legislature that hasn't been willing to even consider the idea. But for Walker, it's a no-brainer. Around 40,000 low-income Alaskans -- mostly childless adults -- would receive ...
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• Algo Nuevo: December 14, 2014

  17-12-2014 22:55
  
  Here’s the Sunday, December 14, 2014 edition of Algo Nuevo con Dave Luera — Something New with Dave Luera. If you have questions, comments or music requests for host Dave Luera, send email to algonuevo [at] alaskapublic [dot] org or post your comment at the… Read More
  
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• Algo Nuevo: December 7, 2014

  17-12-2014 22:32
  
  Here’s the Sunday, December 7, 2014 edition of Algo Nuevo con Dave Luera — Something New with Dave Luera. If you have questions, comments or music requests for host Dave Luera, send email to algonuevo [at] alaskapublic [dot] org or post your comment at the… Read More
  
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• Ukraine: Peril and Opportunity

  17-12-2014 22:13
  
  
  Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s JFK Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Chair of the National Board of Directors of the World Affairs Councils of America. From 2010-2012, she was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Thomson Reuters. In this position, she was responsible for designing and implementing corporate strategy in Washington, DC and other key capitals around the globe. During this time, she
  
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• Shared Waters: Conflict, Cooperation, and Transformation

  17-12-2014 22:00
  
  
  Aaron Wolf is a professor of geography in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. He has an M.S. in water resources management (1988, emphasizing hydrogeology) and a Ph.D. in environmental policy analysis (1992, emphasizing dispute resolution) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses on issues relating transboundary water resources to political conflict and cooperation, where his training combining environmental science with disput
  
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• Hundreds of smuggled turtles intercepted at Anchorage airport - Alaska Dispatch

  17-12-2014 19:49
  
  Alaska Dispatch
  Hundreds of smuggled turtles intercepted at Anchorage airport
  Alaska Dispatch
  Anchorage Museum animal care technician Nicole Abeln holds a young Box Turtle at the museum on Tuesday, December 16, 2014. The museum received 210 young turtles from the US Fish & Wildlife Service and has been caring for them until they can be ...
  
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• Officials: Alaska pilot killed in Montana plane crash - Alaska Dispatch

  17-12-2014 18:24
  
  Officials: Alaska pilot killed in Montana plane crash
  Alaska Dispatch
  POLSON, Mont. -- Lake County authorities say they believe that a small plane that crashed in northwest Montana near Flathead Lake, killing the pilot and injuring a passenger, had taken off from the Polson airport. Karen Sargeant, public information ...
  
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• Obama Takes Executive Action To Protect Alaska's Coastline Forever - ThinkProgress

  17-12-2014 15:37
  
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  Obama Takes Executive Action To Protect Alaska's Coastline Forever
  ThinkProgress
  On Tuesday, President Obama announced he was withdrawing a pristine and ecologically rich region of Alaska from any future oil and gas development. Using section 12 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Obama signed a memorandum removing ...
  
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• Alaska's Prostitution Law Isn't Working - The Atlantic

  17-12-2014 14:47
  
  The Atlantic
  Alaska's Prostitution Law Isn't Working
  The Atlantic
  Prostitution is illegal in Alaska, as it is in all of the United States except for Nevada. But the relationship between law enforcement and sex workers in Alaska has supposedly altered in recent years. In 2012, Alaska passed laws against sex ...
  
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• Obama Bars Oil And Gas Development In Alaska's Bristol Bay - Huffington Post

  17-12-2014 14:22
  
  Obama Bars Oil And Gas Development In Alaska's Bristol Bay
  Huffington Post
  WASHINGTON –- President Barack Obama announced new protections on Tuesday for Alaska's Bristol Bay, barring oil and gas development in the region. Obama said in a video Tuesday that he had issued a memorandum withdrawing the region from all ...
  
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• Obama protects Alaska's Bristol Bay from oil and gas drilling - Los Angeles Times

  17-12-2014 14:12
  
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  Obama protects Alaska's Bristol Bay from oil and gas drilling
  Los Angeles Times
  In a boon to commercial fishermen, conservationists and Native Alaskans, President Obama on Tuesday withdrew the waters of Alaska's Bristol Bay from oil and gas development, vowing to protect the world's biggest sockeye salmon fishery. Calling the ...
  Obama Withdraws Alaska's Bristol Bay From DrillingABC News
  Obama Protects Bristol Bay, Alaska from Future Oil and Gas DrillingNe
  
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• Anchorage Police Department to Get $3.1M to Fill Budget Gap

  17-12-2014 12:24
  
  Department had to rely on overtime hours to cover shifts after a wave of retirements, back-to-back training academies, and a misunderstanding with a municipal agency.
  
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• Proposed Anchorage Ban on Commercial Pot Fails in Assembly

  17-12-2014 12:15
  
  Nearly a hundred people came to the meeting, many of them to share their feelings on the marijuana ordinance. The majority of those who spoke during public testimony opposed the ban.
  
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• Cold temperatures still absent from Alaska this winter - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  17-12-2014 10:02
  
  Cold temperatures still absent from Alaska this winter
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  As of Tuesday, the official temperature in Anchorage had not dropped below 10 degrees this winter, the latest date since recording began in 1916, according to the National Weather Service. The 10 inches of snow that has fallen on Alaska's largest city ...
  
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• Assembly kills proposal to ban marijuana sales in Anchorage - Alaska Dispatch

  17-12-2014 08:49
  
  Alaska Dispatch
  Assembly kills proposal to ban marijuana sales in Anchorage
  Alaska Dispatch
  But she had also heard from the other side, she said, mostly in emails from the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol in Alaska. The group moved swiftly to work against the ordinance, encouraging people via social media to come to the Assembly ...
  
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• Detroit native installed as Catholic bishop in Alaska - The Detroit News

  17-12-2014 06:45
  
  The Detroit News
  Detroit native installed as Catholic bishop in Alaska
  The Detroit News
  In this photo taken on Monday, Dec. 15, 2014, The Most Reverend Chad W. Zielinski prostrates himself during his Ordination and Installation Ceremony as the Sixth Bishop of the Diocese of Fairbanks, at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. (Photo ...
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• Alaska's Governor Eager To Expand Medicaid - NPR (blog)

  17-12-2014 05:09
  
  NPR (blog)
  Alaska's Governor Eager To Expand Medicaid
  NPR (blog)
  Alaska's new governor won his election in one of the tightest races in the country, a race that was too close to call even a week after election night. Bill Walker, who ran as an independent (unaffiliated with the Republicans or Democrats), took office ...
  New AK Governor Sets Sights On Medicaid ExpansionWebMD
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• Obama Has Taken Alaska's Bristol Bay Off the Market for Drilling - TIME

  17-12-2014 05:03
  
  TIME
  Obama Has Taken Alaska's Bristol Bay Off the Market for Drilling
  TIME
  President Barack Obama on Tuesday listed Alaska's Bristol Bay as a no-go zone for oil and gas drilling, promising to protect the coastal area's booming fisheries, as well as preserve a linchpin of Native American heritage. The bay, home to a $2 billion ...
  
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• Oil price collapse prompts agency to lower Alaska credit outlook - Alaska Dispatch

  17-12-2014 03:49
  
  Oil price collapse prompts agency to lower Alaska credit outlook
  Alaska Dispatch
  FAIRBANKS -- Moody's Investors Service said Tuesday it lowered the credit outlook for Alaska because the plunge in oil prices "threatens to rapidly and significantly reduce the state's budgetary reserves." The rating agency said the change in outlook ...
  Alaska Bond Credit Outlook Dropped With Crude Oil Price PlungeBloomberg
  UPDATE 1-Moody's revises Alaska outlook to negative on oil plungeReut
  
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• Alaska Power Company Customers Will See 11 Percent Rate Hike - Alaska Public Radio Network

  17-12-2014 03:46
  
  Alaska Power Company Customers Will See 11 Percent Rate Hike
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Thousands of rural Alaskans will see their power bills go up after the first of the year. That's because the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, or RCA, approved an 11 percent rate increase last week for Alaska Power Company customers. That's lower than ...
  
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• Obama makes Alaska's Bristol Bay permanently off-limits to drilling - The Seattle Times

  17-12-2014 03:34
  
  Obama makes Alaska's Bristol Bay permanently off-limits to drilling
  The Seattle Times
  ANCHORAGE — President Obama announced Tuesday that he's removing more than 52,000 square miles of waters off Alaska's coast from consideration for oil and gas exploration or drilling. The president said in a video announcement that Bristol Bay and ...
  
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• Girl Scouts of America And The Digital Cookie Program

  17-12-2014 03:32
  
  
  Today we’re trying to sell cookies online. Last week the Girl Scouts of America announced that in 2015 they will introduce the Digital Cookie program. The program will allow Girl Scouts to sell their cookies online. The only problem? Alaska won’t be participating.
  
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• Obama bans drilling in Alaska's Bristol Bay, citing risk to salmon fishery - Washington Post

  17-12-2014 03:09
  
  Obama bans drilling in Alaska's Bristol Bay, citing risk to salmon fishery
  Washington Post
  President Obama on Tuesday declared a large swath of southwest Alaska's coast off-limits to oil and gas drilling, saying energy development in the region could endanger an environmentally sensitive waterway and imperil vital fisheries. Obama announced ...
  
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• President Obama Makes Bristol Bay Off-Limits For Oil, Gas Development

  17-12-2014 03:09
  
  
  President Obama today extended an executive action that puts Bristol Bay off-limits to oil and gas development.
  
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• President Obama Bans Drilling Lease Sales in Bristol Bay

  17-12-2014 03:09
  
  President Obama today extended an executive action that puts Bristol Bay off-limits to oil and gas development.
  
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• State Hires Project Lead for Medicaid Expansion

  17-12-2014 03:08
  
  
  The Department of Health and Social Services has created a new position to help the state work toward the goal of expanding Medicaid. The job is “Medicaid expansion project director” and it's being filled by Chris Ashenbrenner, who spent two decades working for the department and came out of retirement to take on this challenge.
  
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• North Slope-Bound Tanker Wrecks, Spills 1,200 Gallons of Diesel, Catches Fire

  17-12-2014 03:07
  
  
  A fuel tanker headed to the North Slope wrecked at a remote spot along the Dalton Highway Sunday and overturned, spilling 1,200 gallons of diesel. The wrecked rig later caught fire and burned up.
  
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• Juneau School Board to Decide if Montessori Borealis Should be its Own School

  17-12-2014 03:05
  
  
  Montessori Borealis has been part of the Juneau School District for 20 years as an optional program. After a couple years of planning, the Montessori Borealis community submitted a proposal last spring to become its own school.
  
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• Troopers Release Names of Missing Kuskokwim Travelers

  17-12-2014 03:04
  
  
  Alaska State Troopers have released the names of the two other travelers that remain missing on the frozen Kuskokwim River.
  
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• Alaska Power Company Customers Will See 11 Percent Rate Hike

  17-12-2014 03:03
  
  
  Thousands of rural Alaskans will see their power bills go up after the first of the year. That’s because the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, or RCA, approved an 11 percent rate increase last week for Alaska Power Company customers. That’s lower than the hike the company asked for. But it’s still more than many residents in Southeast and the Interior say they can afford.
  
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• Are Agencies Prepared for Effects of Climate Change?

  17-12-2014 03:02
  
  
  As Alaskans grapple with the effects of a warming planet, they look to federal and state agencies to help with problems that are too big for an individual or even a community to tackle. But it’s not clear if statutes and regulations, and agency fundingare up to the task.
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: December 16, 2014

  17-12-2014 03:01
  
  
  President Obama Makes Bristol Bay Off-Limits For Oil, Gas Development; State Hires Project Lead for Medicaid Expansion; North Slope-Bound Tanker Wrecks, Spills 1,200 Gallons of Diesel, Catches Fire; Anchorage School Board Puts Money into Savings, Rilke Schule Facility; Juneau School Board to Decide if Montessori Borealis Should be its Own School; Troopers Release Names of Missing Kuskokwim Travelers; Alaska Power Company Customers Will See 11 Percent Rate Hike; Are Agencies Prepared for Effects
  
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• Why Alaska Airline's Stock Has Room to Climb in 2015 - Motley Fool

  17-12-2014 02:01
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  Why Alaska Airline's Stock Has Room to Climb in 2015
  Motley Fool
  Knowing if a particular equity's run has come to an end is often as difficult as identifying a key purchase in the first place. At the end of 2013, we evaluated Alaska Air Group's (NYSE: ALK ) prospects to determine if the stock's ascent could continue ...
  Zacks' Bull Of The Day: Alaska Air (ALK)Seeking Alpha
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• President Obama: No oil and gas leasing in Alaska's Bristol Bay - seattlepi.com (blog)

  17-12-2014 01:27
  
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  President Obama: No oil and gas leasing in Alaska's Bristol Bay
  seattlepi.com (blog)
  Alaska's great Bristol Bay, home to the nation's greatest salmon fishery. will be off-limits to oil and gas leasing under a decision announced late Tuesday by President Obama. The resource of Bristol Bay is “too precious to be put out to the highest ...
  
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• Alaska State Parks fees to increase in 2015 - KTUU.com

  17-12-2014 01:01
  
  KTUU.com
  Alaska State Parks fees to increase in 2015
  KTUU.com
  As fears of lower oil prices have put budget-watchers on guard, the State of Alaska will be in need of tightening its belt. The director of the University of Alaska Anchorage's Institute of Social and Economic Research recently told Channel 2 that as ...
  Fees for Alaska state parks set to increase in 2015Alaska Dispatch
  Alaska State Parks stocking stuffer passSewardcity News
  Overnight camping, annual parking, boat launch fees to
  
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• Obama bars oil, gas development in Alaska's Bristol Bay - KTUU.com

  17-12-2014 00:57
  
  Obama bars oil, gas development in Alaska's Bristol Bay
  KTUU.com
  President Obama has placed an indefinite ban on oil and gas development in Alaska's Bristol Bay. Environmental groups hailed the move Tuesday, billed by the president as a necessary safeguard, while the state's U.S. senators offered a mixed response.
  
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• Obama shields Alaska bay from oil, gas leasing - The Hill

  17-12-2014 00:31
  
  Obama shields Alaska bay from oil, gas leasing
  The Hill
  “I took action to make sure that one of America's greatest natural resources and a massive economic engine for not only for Alaska but for America, Bristol Bay, is preserved for future generations,” Obama said in a video released by the White House.
  
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• President Obama says no oil and gas leasing in Bristol Bay - Alaska Dispatch

  17-12-2014 00:08
  
  President Obama says no oil and gas leasing in Bristol Bay
  Alaska Dispatch
  Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said in a written statement. “I think we all recognize that these are some of our state's richest fishing waters.” Still, she questioned why the announcement came ahead of the Obama administration's overall plan for offshore ...
  
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