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• Will Pregnancy Tests In Alaska Bars Dissuade Moms-To-Be From Drinking? - NPR

  10-05-2015 23:23
  
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  Will Pregnancy Tests In Alaska Bars Dissuade Moms-To-Be From Drinking?
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  "Remember the last time you had sex? Were you drinking? Alcohol use during pregnancy can cause lifelong problems for the child." That's part of the warning on a poster in the women's bathroom at the Peanut Farm bar in Anchorage. It depicts the ...
  Pregnancy tests in Alaska bars aim to dissuade moms-to-be from drinkingFox News
  Alaska program offers free pregnancy tests in bar bathroomsWashington Time
  
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• The last philosopher in Alaska's Interior contemplates extinction - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-05-2015 04:53
  
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  The last philosopher in Alaska's Interior contemplates extinction
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  Well, I should have said “the last philosopher holding an associate professor job,” but then the title would've been less catchy. Details aside, I am, in a very real and lonely sense, the last member of my species within 353 miles in every direction ...
  
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• Anchorage votes for reason; Legislature isn't there yet - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-05-2015 04:37
  
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  Anchorage votes for reason; Legislature isn't there yet
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  OPINION: Looks like Alaskans are getting wise, and that's bad news for pious hypocrites and most of the Legislature. Pictured: Anchorage Mayor-elect Ethan Berkowitz walks with his family to Election Central at the Dena'ina Center in downtown Anchorage ...
  
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• 'Etok' Edwardsen, impassioned Native land settlement activist, dies - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-05-2015 04:15
  
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  'Etok' Edwardsen, impassioned Native land settlement activist, dies
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  A brilliant but controversial Eskimo activist who played an influential role during the Alaska Native land claims movement died on Friday on a whaling trip outside Barrow. Charles “Etok” Edwardsen Jr. was 71. With his defiant approach and bold views on ...and more »
  
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• Don't expand Alaska's Medicaid system until it's been reformed - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-05-2015 04:07
  
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  Don't expand Alaska's Medicaid system until it's been reformed
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  As the state stares down the barrel of perhaps a $4 billion budget deficit, it is beyond baffling that anybody -- even a liberal clinging desperately to freebie medical care as some sort of talismanic human right -- could justify adding even one person ...
  Alaska lawmakers' Capital City plans still unclearAlaska Public Radio Network
  New law allows Alaska Railroad to issue bon
  
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• Names of two fallen officers added to the Alaska Peace officer Memorial - KTUU.com

  10-05-2015 02:16
  
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  Names of two fallen officers added to the Alaska Peace officer Memorial
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  Two new names were added to the Alaska Peace Officer Memorial Friday, as part of National Police Memorial Day. Trooper Gabe Rich and Sergeant Scott Johnson were honored in a service at the Alaska State Crime Detection Lab, along with the 65 other ...
  Fallen Heroes: Alaska honors law enforcement agents who gave their allKTVA.com - Alaska News and Weather
  Troopers' names added to fallen officers'
  
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• Just 8 bids in Cook Inlet lease sale - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-05-2015 01:22
  
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  Just 8 bids in Cook Inlet lease sale
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  The Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas received just eight bids on seven tracts in its areawide Cook Inlet lease sale held Wednesday in Anchorage. There were no bids on Alaska Peninsula acreage. Division of Oil and Gas ...and more »
  
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• Jeff Rasic / NPS - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-05-2015 00:04
  
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  When an aquatic ecologist was surveying shallow lakes in Northwest Alaska three years ago, she and the pilot who traveled with her came upon an unusual sight in the treeless Arctic region: a pair of terns that kept flying around and perching on what ...
  
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