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• American Experience: Mine Wars

  16-01-2016 23:03
  
  (Photo courtesy of Library of Congress)
  Go inside the bitter battle to unionize coal miners at the dawn of the 20th century. The struggle over the power that fueled America led to the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War, and turned parts of West Virginia into a bloody war zone.
  Tuesday, January 26. 8:00 p.m. 
  
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• EPA cleared of bias in Alaska mine controversy despite lost emails - Fox News

  16-01-2016 15:03
  EPA cleared of bias in Alaska mine controversy despite lost emails
  Fox News
  Despite acknowledging it could not obtain more than two years of emails from a key employee, the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Inspector General on Wednesday effectively cleared the EPA of allegations of bias in its quest to preemptively ...
  

• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Jan. 15, 2016

  16-01-2016 03:39
  
  
  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
   
  Red Dog Mine owners sue borough over severance tax
  Associated Press
  A world-class zinc mine operating in northwest Alaska is suing the Northwest Arctic Borough, claiming the municipality has enacted an unfair severance tax.
  An obscure rule may b
  
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• Red Dog Mine owners sue borough over severance tax

  16-01-2016 03:35
  
  
  The Delong Mountain Transportation System, financed by AIDEA, was opened in 1990 to serve the Red Dog Mine. It includes this 52-mile gravel industrial haul road from the mine to the port facility. (Photo: AIDEA)
  A world-class zinc mine operating in northwest Alaska is suing the Northwest Arctic Borough, claiming the municipality has enacted an unfair severance tax.
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  Teck Alaska Inc. claims the tax will double or triple payments by the Red Dog Mine to the borough.
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• Winter campers on the Homer Spit get the boot

  16-01-2016 03:32
  
  
  Rv’s and campers in the Seafarer’s Memorial parking lot. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KBBI)
  The City of Homer is trying to kick out campers at an unofficial campsite on the Homer Spit. Police are telling people living in a parking lot beside the Seafarer’s Memorial to move to an official campground down the road. One camper is willing to move, but he has one request.
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  Ken Boyle is smoking a cigarette and listening to the radio in his tiny camper powered by a borrowe
  
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• Amid icy trail conditions, mushers ready for K300

  16-01-2016 03:31
  
  
  Mushers, handlers and organizers attend the Kuskokwim 300 Musher’s Hall meeting Jan 14. (Photo by Chris Pike/ KYUK)
  Twenty-five mushers, some local, some international – all prepared to race this evening along icy river trails — are in Bethel for the Kuskokwim 300. The race starts tonight at 6:30 p.m. It’s the longest of three races that’ll take place over the weekend.
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  Last year’s champion, Pete Kaiser is competing again this year. Kaiser was th
  
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• AK: David Bowie’s Alaskan name-twin adopts rocker’s rebel streak

  16-01-2016 03:04
  
  
  For one Alaskan, David Bowie’s death is… a bit complicated.
  Left: David Bowie, rock icon. Right: David Bowie, Alaska linguistics professor.
  “Just imagine walking out of an airplane and seeing ‘Breaking News [Insert Your Name Here] Dies.’ And that was a very weird feeling.”
  UAA linguistics Professor David Bowie — pronounced BOO-wee, but spelled b-o-w-i-e — has a vexed relationship with the celebrity he shares his name with. He resented th
  
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• Roger Sparks of Eagle River

  16-01-2016 02:08
  
  
  This week, we’re hearing from Roger Sparks, a pararescueman with the Alaska Air National Guard. Five years ago, Sparks was involved in a heavy firefight in the mountains of Afghanistan. What happened after that changed his life.
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• Soldotna karate teacher faces child porn charges

  16-01-2016 01:51
  
  A longtime Soldotna resident and martial arts instructor is being charged with 14 counts related to the possession and distribution of child pornography.
  Michael Dean Hancock, 57, was indicted by the Anchorage Grand Jury on Thursday with charges stemming from an ongoing investigation by the Alaska Bureau of Investigations.
  Hancock has operated Peninsula Martial Arts for over 17 years, for most of that time at the “Y” intersection in Soldotna, last year m
  
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• Musher Brent Sass’ lead dog dies days before K300

  16-01-2016 00:52
  
  Musher Brent Sass is no stranger to the Kuskokwim 300. Photo: Chris Pike/KYUK-Bethel.
  Brent Sass’ lead dog, Basin, led him across the finish line at last year’s Yukon Quest. But this week Basin died from an undetermined illness, just days before the Kuskokwim 300. Sass says he’s not sure how his team will react to having a new leader.
  The Kuskokwim 300 is a nearly 300-mile race that takes place on the icy Kuskokwim River every year.  
  Brent Sass, dog musher and former
  
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• An obscure rule may be driving up Alaska health care costs

  16-01-2016 00:12
  
  Buried deep in the October 2004 supplement of the Alaska Administrative Code are a few sentences a lot of Alaska health care experts are talking about right now. It’s called the 80th percentile rule. It was adopted as a consumer protection measure, but insurers say  it’s encouraging excessive prices for specialty care.Imagine this: Your knee feels funny so you make an appointment at an orthopedic clinic. The doctor isn’t in your insurance network — so you know y
  
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• Adventures with Chuck Sassara, by Air and by Sea

  16-01-2016 00:00
  
  Chuck Sassara first arrived in Alaska in a VW bus in 1955 with his wife Ann. They built a life that encompassed aviation, government and business and witnessed the beginnings of statehood and the growth of the Alaskan community. He’s also logged over 28,600 hours flying his 160 various planes, and even more at the helm of nine sail boats. He can list them all too! We’ll talk with him about some of his adventures and about his  book, “Chuck Sas
  
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