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• Anchorage Democrats seek to overhaul Alaska's code of military justice - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-01-2015 23:18
  
  Anchorage Democrats seek to overhaul Alaska's code of military justice
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  Anchorage Democrats Rep. Chris Tuck and Sen. Bill Wielechowski are heading to Juneau with plans to beef up Alaska's Uniform Code of Military Justice. The effort is intended to improve the culture within the Alaska National Guard, which came under heavy ...
  
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• Let's recognize lawmakers' spirit of public service as Alaska Legislature gathers - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-01-2015 23:13
  
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  Let's recognize lawmakers' spirit of public service as Alaska Legislature gathers
  Alaska Dispatch News
  I want to congratulate all the candidates who ran for elected office and all those who ran ballot initiative campaigns ... and lost. In my nearly half a century in Alaska, I have worked on my share of unsuccessful campaigns and when the votes do not go ...
  
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• Landbank Lawsuit Aimed at USACE Regs

  15-01-2015 21:48
  
  An obscure lawsuit filed by a Matanuska Susitna wetlands mitigation bank could have national implications. The suit, now in Federal Claims Court, alleges breach of contract by the US Army Corps of Engineers, and land developers are closely watching the outcome.
  
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• Grand Jury Hands Down 3 Murder Charges in White Mountain New Year’s Day Killing

  15-01-2015 21:33
  
  The man accused of killing his girlfriend on New Year’s Day in White Mountain now faces a total of three murder charges in her death.
  
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• 21 Jaw-Dropping Photos Of The US Coast Guard In Alaska - Business Insider

  15-01-2015 20:09
  
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  21 Jaw-Dropping Photos Of The US Coast Guard In Alaska
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  Sparsely populated, disconnected from the contiguous states, subjected to a harsh Arctic climate, and almost unimaginably vast, the mere mention of Alaska conjures images of forbidding wilderness. But it's in these conditions that the US Coast Guard in ...
  Coast Guard transports ailing fisherman to KodiakEnquirerherald
  
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• Health Insurance Prices: Highest In Alaska, Lowest In Sun Belt - NPR (blog)

  15-01-2015 18:56
  
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  Health Insurance Prices: Highest In Alaska, Lowest In Sun Belt
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  In health insurance prices, as in the weather, Alaska and the Sun Belt are extremes. This year Alaska is the most expensive health insurance market for people who do not get coverage through their employers, while Phoenix, Albuquerque, N.M., and Tucson ...
  
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• The Alaskan Town Living Under One Roof - Gizmodo

  15-01-2015 16:01
  
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  The Alaskan Town Living Under One Roof
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  Except instead of a sprawling, urban center, this town has been scaled to fit almost entirely into one lonely Alaskan tower. The two-and-a-half mile-long tunnel leading into Whittier is never that crowded—it physically can't be. At about 16 feet wide ...
  
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• Best U.S. airline? Wall Street Journal says Alaska Airlines - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)

  15-01-2015 15:12
  
  Best U.S. airline? Wall Street Journal says Alaska Airlines
  Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)
  The Journal used seven criteria such as on-time and cancelled flights, mishandled baggage, and consumer complaints, in its annual rankings, which has seen Alaska Airlines, a unit of Seattle-based Alaska Air Group Inc. (NYSE: ALK) come out on top for ...
  
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• ConocoPhillips Earnings Preview: Capex And Alaska (COP) - Seeking Alpha

  15-01-2015 07:53
  
  ConocoPhillips Earnings Preview: Capex And Alaska (COP)
  Seeking Alpha
  Investors should pay attention to how much ConocoPhillips plans to spend in light of oil sliding below $50 a barrel, and how that will impact ConocoPhillips's 3% production growth guidance. Moving forward with GMT1 project is a vote of confidence for ...
  
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• Reality Check: Examining 'Battle on the Bay,' Brown family wardrobe - Alaska Dispatch

  15-01-2015 06:24
  
  Reality Check: Examining 'Battle on the Bay,' Brown family wardrobe
  Alaska Dispatch
  This weekend I was flipping through the channels and there was a show called “Building Alaska.” It's on the DIY Network, which I had no idea was part of my cable package -- or even existed. I write a column about this unpopular topic, and I didn't know ...
  
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• Alaska officials hear law enforcement view of legal marijuana at Colorado ... - Alaska Dispatch

  15-01-2015 05:49
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  Alaska officials hear law enforcement view of legal marijuana at Colorado ...
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  Most of the Alaska delegation attending the Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police conference on "Marijuana Impact on Public Health and Safety in Colorado" in Lone Tree, Colo., gathered for a group photograph Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015. The delegation ...
  Police chiefs from across U.S. in Colorado to learn about pot lawsThe Denver Post
  
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• Surviving the Great Alaska Beer and Barley Wine Festival - Alaska Dispatch

  15-01-2015 05:24
  
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  Surviving the Great Alaska Beer and Barley Wine Festival
  Alaska Dispatch
  If you're targeting Alaska breweries, stay left -- on the west side of the room you'll find Baranof Island Brewing, Last Frontier, HooDoo, Kodiak, Broken Tooth, King Street, Alaskan, Sleeping Lady, Midnight Sun, Denali, Kenai River, St. Elias, Kassicks ...
  
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• Outside basketball teams join Alaska squads at Alaska Airlines Classic - Alaska Dispatch

  15-01-2015 04:40
  
  Outside basketball teams join Alaska squads at Alaska Airlines Classic
  Alaska Dispatch
  Four high-flying teams from Outside will join a quartet of Alaska squads at this year's Alaska Airlines Classic boys basketball tournament, which begins Thursday at West High. This year's tournament includes two teams from Florida, one from Georgia and ...
  
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• Mat-Su mayors want public's input on implementation of Alaska's new marijuana ... - Alaska Dispatch

  15-01-2015 04:26
  
  Mat-Su mayors want public's input on implementation of Alaska's new marijuana ...
  Alaska Dispatch
  But despite the statewide success of a ballot measure that made Alaska one of four states to approve the legalization of recreational marijuana, Valley voters in November at best were evenly divided and may have narrowly rejected the initiative ...
  
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• Keystone XL Pipeline: A classic case of failed groupthink - Alaska Dispatch

  15-01-2015 03:53
  
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  Keystone XL Pipeline: A classic case of failed groupthink
  Alaska Dispatch
  OPINION: Keystone XL isn't necessarily a bad thing for Alaska, and people should contemplate the global situation before they close their minds forever on the issue. Picture: Oil storage tanks sit at the trans-Alaska oil pipeline terminal in Valdez ...
  
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• Anchorage man arraigned in beating of women, toddler - Alaska Dispatch

  15-01-2015 03:49
  
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  Anchorage man arraigned in beating of women, toddler
  Alaska Dispatch
  Valerie Demientiff, grandmother of the 2-year old assault victim, hugs Daniel Demientiff, the father, after the arraignment of Alexie Kapotak Jr. at the Anchorage jail on Wednesday, January 14, 2015. Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News. Alexie Kapotak ...
  
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• Making walking in Anchorage safer

  15-01-2015 03:15
  
  
  Nearly 8 percent of Alaskans walk to work. It's the highest rate in the nation according to American Community Survey data. The national average is only 2.8 percent. But the state is also ranked #3 for the rate of pedestrian deaths. Three people have been killed in Anchorage the past month. So what's happening to help keep walkers safe?
  
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• UAF Anticipates Cutting Over 200 Jobs

  15-01-2015 02:58
  
  
  The University of Alaska Fairbanks anticipates cutting between 200 and 250 jobs this year. That from UAF Chancellor Brian Rogers, who in an address to the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce yesterday focused on the affect of slumping oil prices on state funding for the university.
  
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• About 16,000 Alaskans Sign Up On Healthcare.gov

  15-01-2015 02:57
  
  
  The federal government says about 16,000 Alaskans have signed up for health insurance on healthcare.gov. That's about 3,000 more than signed up during the initial open enrollment period.
  
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• Over 40,000 Earthquakes Detected In 2014

  15-01-2015 02:56
  
  
  The Earthquake Information Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks logged more earthquakes in 2014 than in past years, a lot more. 40,000. An increase of about 10,000 from the average of the years before it. Michael West is the state seismologist at the center. He says part of the reason they counted more last year was because of better technology.
  
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• More Than 40,000 Earthquakes Detected In 2014

  15-01-2015 02:56
  
  
  The Earthquake Information Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks logged more earthquakes in 2014 than in past years, a lot more. 40,000. An increase of about 10,000 from the average of the years before it. Michael West is the state seismologist at the center. He says part of the reason they counted more last year was because of better technology.
  
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• New Regulations Unlikely To Change Coal Ash Disposal In Alaska

  15-01-2015 02:55
  
  
  The Environmental Protection Agency recently issued the first ever federal standards for the disposal of coal ash by electric utilities. The toxin containing ash has gotten national attention in recent years due to spills in the Lower 48, but the situation is different in Alaska.
  
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• Tustumena 200 Sled Dog Race Postponed

  15-01-2015 02:54
  
  
  Wind, heavy rain, and temperatures at times nearing 50 degrees on the Kenai Peninsula mean the Tustumena 200 sled dog race won’t be running February 7th as planned. And race coordinators aren’t even confident it will run at all this year.
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: January 14, 2015

  15-01-2015 02:53
  
  
  In Underground Rooms, Sullivan's Senate Office Takes Shape; UAF Anticipates Cutting Over 200 Jobs; About 16,000 Alaskans Sign Up On Healthcare.gov; Over 40,000 Earthquakes Detected In 2014; How Safe Are Alaska’s Pedestrians?; Anchorage Measure Will Tax Alcohol to Pay For Treatment and Services; New Regulations Unlikely To Change Coal Ash Disposal In Alaska; Tustumena 200 Sled Dog Race Postponed
  
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• Marijuana Stores Prohibited In Alaska's Capital Until October - The Weed Blog (blog)

  15-01-2015 02:42
  
  Marijuana Stores Prohibited In Alaska's Capital Until October
  The Weed Blog (blog)
  alaska marijuana legalization As I'm sure you are well aware, Alaska voted to legalize marijuana during the last election. The successful initiative made it legal to grow, possess, consume, and if you want to, sell marijuana (with a license). Effective ...
  Increased cigarette tax to get public hearingJuneau Empire (subscription)
  Juneau considers raising cigarette tax to discourage smokingAlaska Dispatch
  
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• In Underground Rooms, Sullivan’s Senate Office Takes Shape

  15-01-2015 02:23
  
  U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, like other Republicans in Congress, is on a two-day retreat in Hershey Penn. Speakers include former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Jay Leno. Meanwhile, Sullivan Chief of Staff Joe Balash provides a status report on new hires and how long he expects they'll work in their underground office.
  
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• Alaska Sports Hall of Fame to honor runner, musher, pair of coaches - Alaska Dispatch

  15-01-2015 01:44
  
  Alaska Sports Hall of Fame to honor runner, musher, pair of coaches
  Alaska Dispatch
  Musher Aliy Zirkle of Two Rivers, runner Allie Ostrander of Kenai, ski coach Erik Flora of Alaska Pacific University and track and cross-country coach Michael Friess of UAA will receive Directors' Awards at the March 5 induction ceremony at the ...
  Ostrander given Alaska Sports Hall of Fame awardKenai Peninsula Online
  
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• Lisa Murkowski: Alaska Beer Week celebrates Alaska small business - Alaska Dispatch

  15-01-2015 00:35
  
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  Lisa Murkowski: Alaska Beer Week celebrates Alaska small business
  Alaska Dispatch
  OPINION: Alaska's 22 craft breweries are hubs of innovation and economic progress for their communities. Celebrate them with me this week and the Great Alaska Beer and Barleywine Festival. Pictured: Sen. Murkowski at Kodiak Island Brewing Company ...
  Alaska's breweries serve up successFairbanks Daily News-Miner
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• Attorney general says public airing of Alaska National Guard issue needed for ... - Alaska Dispatch

  15-01-2015 00:08
  
  Attorney general says public airing of Alaska National Guard issue needed for ...
  Alaska Dispatch
  Attorney General Craig Richards says for healing to occur following allegations of misconduct within the Alaska National Guard, there needs to be a public vetting of what happened. Richards is expected to recommend to the governor a special ...
  Attorney general: Public vetting of Alaska National Guard needed for healingFairbanks Daily News-Miner
  
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