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• Night Music: September 12, 2015

  13-09-2015 08:07
  Here is the Night Music Playlist with Kirk Waldhaus.All tracks played are listed below in the following format:
  TitleArtist / Composer (if blank artist is composer or unknown)AlbumLabelSong Duration
  8:00 – 9:00
  Rhythm PeopleSteve ColemanRhythm PeopleRCA 3092-2-N7:08
  Blues ShiftingSteve ColemanRhythm PeopleRCA 3092-2-N7:08
  Howdy DoodyMichiel BraamHowdyRN SJP 3888:12
  Body & SoulBruce Cameron / HaymonA Blue CornetCexton CR30014:58
  Here’s That Rainy DayBruce Cameron / BurkeA Blue Cor
  
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• Religion and climate change – can you talk about both?

  13-09-2015 06:27
  
  
  Is climate change a religious issue? A group of Alaskans says yes. They joined together this weekend in Anchorage for an interfaith Earth Care Jamboree.Download Audio.
  Thick fog enveloped the mountains as about 75 people from Anchorage and the Mat-Su Valley attended workshops and panels on climate and faith.
  “Any person who has a devotion to God in any form should think of the Earth as a creation that needs to be protected, needs to be cared for in a proper way,” said panelist Orthod
  
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• Equal rights law expected to sail through Anchorage Assembly

  13-09-2015 05:07
  
  An equal rights ordinance that divided Anchorage before failing in a ballot vote is expected to sail easily through the city’s Assembly this week.
  The ordinance was originally introduced by South Anchorage Assembly Member Bill Evans and modified with input from Downtown’s Patrick Flynn. It adds sexual orientation and gender expression as categories under which city residents are protected from discrimination in housing, at work, or at public facilities.
  Evans works as an employm
  
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