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• Traveling Music 11-1-15

  21-10-2015 23:09
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  11-1-15
   
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  Hello, Stranger
  Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt / A.P. Carter family
  Live on KSWM
  Laser Media
  4:08
   
  Coffee’s Cold
  Abigail Washburn / Abigail Washburn, B. Stapleton
  Song of the Traveling Daughter
  Netwerk
  2:55
   
  Heart Like A Wheel
  Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt / Anna McGarrigle
  Live on KSWM
  Laser Media
  3:35
   
  I Rose up at the Dawn of the Day
  Martha Redbone
  
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• Mat Su Borough mayor sworn in

  21-10-2015 21:08
  
  The Matanuska Susitna Borough ‘s new mayor was sworn in on Tuesday.
  Vern Halter is sworn in as the Mat-Su’s new mayor Oct. 20. Photo: Ellen Lockyer, KSKA.
  Despite a contest filed against the outcome of the Borough’s District 7 race, all other winners in the Borough’s October election were certified and sworn in before Tuesday night’s Borough Assembly meeting. New mayor Vern Halter will take the reins at the next Assembly meeting. He thanked his wife, Susan, and his
  
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• With cat, French sailor leaps to safety at sea south of Cold Bay

  21-10-2015 18:30
  A Frenchman with his cat tucked inside his clothing made a daring leap of faith Tuesday when he jumped to a waiting rescue ship from his sailboat, which was being battered by high seas south of Alaska.
  Motor vessel Tor Viking crew rescues a distressed mariner from his disabled 30-foot sailboat approximately 400 miles south of Cold Bay, Alaska, Oct. 20, 2015. The mariner alerted the U.S. Coast Guard with his emergency position indicating radio beacon. U.S. Coast Guard video.
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• Scientists ID dead killer whale found in Southeast

  21-10-2015 18:12
  
  NOAA Fisheries marine mammal expert Sadie Wright examines the carcass of a killer whale discovered near Petersburg, Alaska. (Photo: NOAA Fisheries/John Moran)
  Scientists have identified the dead killer whale found on a shoreline in Southeast Alaska last week. The dead whale was discovered by a moose hunter last week, about 25 miles from Petersburg.
  NOAA fisheries spokesperson Julie Speegle said a team of scientists made it to the Portage Bay on northern Kupreanof Island Monday.
  “They were
  
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• Marine debris waiting on permit in Seattle

  21-10-2015 17:19
  Marine debris in Bulldog Cove on the western shore of Resurrection Bay in 2011. Photo credit: Kip Evans/courtesy of Anchorage Museum
  A barge that picked up marine debris along coastlines in Alaska and British Columbia this summer has delivered its cargo to Seattle, but organizers are waiting for a permit to go through before they can move the debris into storage and sort it.
  Chris Pallister is the president of Gulf of Alaska Keeper, a nonprofit involved in tsunami debris cleanup and one of the m
  
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• Mat-Su Borough certifies election results

  21-10-2015 16:57
  
  The Matanuska-Susitna Borough’s new mayor was sworn in Tuesday.
  Vern Halter was declared mayor after the Borough Assembly certified the Oct. 6 election Tuesday night.
  “I thought we ran a very positive, very good campaign. We just tried to let people know who I was and why I was running and things like that,” Halter said. “And sometimes the outcome comes out the way you want it, and sometimes it doesn’t – I’ve been both directions, by the way.”
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• Port of Nome hires McDowell Group for port expansion research

  21-10-2015 16:13
  Aerial view of Nome’s port. (Photo: Joy Baker/Nome Port Director)
  Updating and streamlining the strategic plan for Nome’s port expansion was the theme of the hour-long work session that preceded last week’s Port Commission meeting.
  Joining the session via phone were Susan Bell and Garrett Evridge from the McDowell Group, a research and consulting firm based in Anchorage.
  For a price tag of over $23,000 the McDowell Group has been hired by the Port of Nome for their “profe
  
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• Savoonga man marooned in Russia, hoping for a charter home

  21-10-2015 05:47
  
  
  A man from the Bering Sea island community of Savoonga is stuck in Russia after traveling there through a unique visa-free travel program for Alaska Natives. Despite not needing a visa for the trip, Sivoy Miklahook now finds himself on the wrong side of the Strait as his Russian papers inch closer to expiration. 
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  Sivoy Miklahook flew just over 230 miles across the Bering Strait—from Nome, Alaska to Provideniya, Russia—in late August. He&rs
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015

  21-10-2015 04:05
  
  
  Stories are posted on the APRN news page. You can subscribe to APRN’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @aprn.Download Audio
   
  UAF comes clean about disciplinary failures in sex abuse, rape cases
  Lisa Phu, KTOO – Juneau
  The University of Alaska Fairbanks violated its own policy regarding sexual misconduct cases between 2011 and 2014. University students respo
  
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• UAF comes clean about disciplinary failures in sex abuse, rape cases

  21-10-2015 04:01
  
  
  The University of Alaska Fairbanks violated its own policy regarding sexual misconduct cases between 2011 and 2014. University students responsible for rape and other sex crimes were not expelled or suspended during that time.
  It’s unclear how far back the improper punishment goes, but UAF said it is committed to turning that culture around.
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  (Creative Commons photo by Jimmy Emerson)
  The University of Alaska Fairbanks has found five instances of sexual misconduct when pr
  
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• Mayor intros new measure to combat wave of Anchorage spice emergencies

  21-10-2015 03:41
  
  
  Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz is proposing a new measure the administration sees as necessary for combating a wave of emergencies connected with Spice.
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  A draft of the ordinance slated for introduction before the Assembly on October 27th.
  One of the problems trying to enforce existing rules is that “spice” refers to a wide umbrella of drugs containing a number of different synthetic substances.
  “Street names for illicit synthetic drugs,” said Mun
  
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• Unalaska museum closes after ancient Bible found in director’s house

  21-10-2015 03:40
  
  
  Museum of the Aleutians’ Oct. 12 board meeting. Board members (at table, L-R) Melissa Good, Sharon Svarney-Livingston, Eilleen Scott and executive director Zoya Johnson. (Photo by Greta Mart/KUCB)
  The Museum of the Aleutians in Unalaska remains closed after the discovery of museum materials–including a Russian Orthodox Bible from 1801–at the executive director’s house disrupted normal operations last week.
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  The museum’s board of directors voted Oct. 12
  
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• Murkowski’s irate; Interior nominee heard all about it

  21-10-2015 03:39
  
  
  Photo: Liz Ruskin
  Murkowski, as chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has a pretty big gavel to pummel the Interior Department with. Her committee oversees that department. Nominees for high office at Interior and other departments have to clear her committee en route to Senate confirmation. This morning, with three nominees from Interior and three from Energy before her, Murkowski wasn’t shy about tying the nominees to their bosses and declaring favorites. The senator sa
  
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• Under US chairmanship, Arctic Council convenes in Anchorage

  21-10-2015 03:38
  
  
  The United States has taken the helm of the Arctic Council and the eight-nation body is meeting in Anchorage this week.The borders of the Arctic Ocean, according to the CIA The World Factbook[5] (blue area), and as defined by the IHO (black outline – excluding marginal waterbodies). Image: Wikimedia Commons.
  Nils Andreassen is the executive director of the Institute of the North. The Institute is facilitating the meetings. He says the U.S. has identified several priorities for its cha
  
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• Fairbanks Police Department under fire at city council meeting

  21-10-2015 03:37
  
  
  The Fairbanks Police Department came under criticism at last night’s city council meeting.
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  During citizen’s comments, Fairbanks resident and Alaska Native Daisy Stevens questioned the department’s handling of recent and past homicide investigations.
  “There’s been several murders in this town, all involving Natives, and not one of them has been solved. What’s up with that?” Stevens said. “It didn’t take them long to arrest the F
  
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