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• Finding a lawyer: What are the options?

  15-04-2016 23:00
  
  How do you know if you need a lawyer?  And if you do, how do you go about finding one?
  That’s the topic this week on Justice Alaska, a once-a-month special edition of Hometown Alaska. It aims to give citizens a clearer understanding of how our courts, our laws and our system of justice works.
  Senior Judge Elaine Andrews will be back as co-host and legal expert. Guests include Stacey Marz, director of self-help services with the Alaska Court System, and Monica Elkington, a private atto
  
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• JetBlue Goes on the Offensive After Alaska Takes Over Virgin - Condé Nast Traveler

  15-04-2016 22:40
  
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  JetBlue Goes on the Offensive After Alaska Takes Over Virgin
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  The merger of Alaska Airlines and Virgin America may be one of the few airline takeovers where consumers will see some immediate benefits. But that's coming courtesy of an arch-rival. JetBlue, which unsuccessfully sought the hand of Virgin America in ...
  Alaska Air CEO Tries to Say All the Right Things to Virgin America EmployeesSkift
  Aquisition set to increase Alaska's jet fuel bu
  
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• The joys and dangers of Alaska wilderness

  15-04-2016 22:00
  
  Overlooking Aialik Glacier and the Kenai Fjords south of Seward on the Kenai Peninsula from the Harding Icefiled at about 5,000 feet elevation on Friday, April 8, 2016. (Photo courtesy of Jenny Neyman)Alaska is a state known for extremes: Both beauty and risk. The dramatic rescue of two skiers from a glacier this month highlights the need to be prepared for the what ifs of fast-changing weather that could leave you stranded in a storm We’re talking with the adventurers who were huddled in
  
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• Recounting a glacier rescue

  15-04-2016 22:00
  
  Bear Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park.
  (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)Alaska is a state known for extremes: Both beauty and risk. The dramatic rescue of two skiers from a glacier this month highlights the need to be prepared for the what ifs of fast-changing weather that could leave you stranded in a storm We’re talking with the adventurers who were huddled in a snow cave for five days and the Air National Guard who rescued them on the next Talk of Alaska.
  HOST: Lori Townsend
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• The Ecology of Breast Cancer

  15-04-2016 21:00
  
  “Ecology of Breast Cancer”, by Ted Schettler, MDOur genes are the ultimate book of instructions for all that happens in our body. However when and where genes “turn on” to “print” their instructions are influenced by our constantly changing environment. Breast cancer results from mistakes in genes or their instructions; and these mistakes are often caused by environmental influences. This program discusses known and suspected environmental
  
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• Legislature set to consider Walker appointees for confirmation

  15-04-2016 20:45
  Legislature set to consider Walker appointees for confirmationThe Alaska Legislature plans to meet in joint session to consider for confirmation Gov. Bill Walker's appointees to boards and commissions and his pick for commissioner of the Department of Corrections.April 15, 2016
  
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• The impacts of childhood trauma on overall health

  15-04-2016 20:15
  
  
  April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. On this week’s Alaska Edition, we look at the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, or ACEs study, and the link between childhood trauma and health issues later in life. Studies have shown that these experiences lead to a wide variety of problems including asthma, cancer and arthritis. The good news is that research shows that these effects can be reversed.
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  HOST: Ellen Lockyer
  GUESTS:Jennifer Morrow, Alaska Department of Health and
  
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• Perseverance’s In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play

  15-04-2016 18:35
  
  In The Next Room, or The Vibrator PlayPerseverance Theatre is presenting two opportunities for theatre goers this week: Sarah Ruhl’s Tony nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist play, In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play and The Third Alaska One-Minute Play Festival. Josh Lowman, playwright and director and actors Katie Jensen and James Sullivan join Stage Talk this week to talk about both. Both events are happening in the Sydney Laurence Theatre in the Performing Arts Center, running April
  
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• Sarah Palin: 'Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I am' when it comes to climate change

  15-04-2016 17:07
  
  Sarah Palin: 'Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I am' when it comes to climate change Sarah Palin tried to take down Bill Nye the Science Guy on Thursday at the Washington premiere of a documentary film seeking to "debunk the myth" about climate change.April 15, 2016
  
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• Correctional farm saves money, redirects lives

  15-04-2016 17:00
  
  The 640-acre Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm outside of Wasilla provides food for the state’s prisons and local food banks. Inmates raise pigs, cattle, and chickens, and farm thousands of pounds of potatoes, tomatoes, and other produce each year. But the farm does more than provide food and savings for the state. It helps people turn their lives around.
  John McElwain walks through his pig barn past lounging sows with swollen teats and suckling piglets. Other little ones nap in a small w
  
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• Walker says he’d veto Anchorage legislative office purchase

  15-04-2016 15:57
  
  The Anchorage Legislative Information Office, March 4, 2016. (Photo by Megan Ahleman)Gov. Bill Walker says he would veto the purchase of a legislative office building in Anchorage if that item remains in the state infrastructure budget.
  Walker says the purchase is not compatible with where the state is financially right now.
  He says he thinks legislators should know as they put the budget together where he stands on that issue.
  The current Senate version of the capital budget includes $32.5 mill
  
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• University of Alaska faces $50 million cut due to committee vote

  15-04-2016 06:30
  
  University of Alaska Fairbanks (Creative Commons photo by Jimmy Emerson)The University of Alaska faces a $50 million budget cut, due to a legislative committee vote on Thursday.
  The conference committee voted five to one to adopt the House version of the university budget, which cuts $35 million more than the $15 million cut proposed by Governor Bill Walker.
  The portion of the budget directly controlled by the Legislature would be $300 million, as opposed to Walker’s proposed $335 mil
  
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• Legislature proposes deep cut for University of Alaska budget - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-04-2016 05:39
  
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  Legislature proposes deep cut for University of Alaska budget
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  The Legislature's conference committee on the state budget has proposed a $50 million cut to the University of Alaska's budget in a Thursday evening vote. Of the three possible budget revisions UA President Jim Johnsen presented last week, this cut was ...
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• Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Apr. 14, 2016

  15-04-2016 03:21
  
  
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  Poorest Alaskans hit hardest by new proposed budget solutions
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  The Legislature is trying to close the four billion dollar budget deficit this week. But a new report says the burden of closing the gap will fall too h
  
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• ‘Justice Beyond Borders’ highlights stories of local immigrants

  15-04-2016 03:07
  
  
  According to the Pew Charitable Trusts, in 2012, about 52,000 Alaskans were born outside of the United States. The organization estimates that a quarter of them are here without authorization, some because they came as children and had no way to get documents. The Alaska Institute for Justice is highlighting some of their stories and the contributions immigrants are making to the community through their event “Justice Beyond Borders.”
  One of the storytellers is Maxim Mamontov, who mo
  
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• Invasive species may have stowed on Homer drill-rig from Singapore

  15-04-2016 03:03
  
  
  The Randolph Yost, a drill-rig came to Homer from Singapore. A Homer environmental group is worried the Yost, now docked in the Homer port, could have brought invasive species into Alaska waters. The group is criticizing the Department of Fish and Game for not checking the rig before it docked in Kachemak Bay.
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  Randolph Yost (Photo by Quinton Chandler, KBBI – Homer)
  Invasive species are foreign animals, plants or fungus that move into new territory and damage or use up the re
  
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• Poorest Alaskans hit hardest by new proposed budget solutions

  15-04-2016 02:53
  
  
  The Legislature is trying to close the four billion dollar budget deficit this week. But a new report says the burden of closing the gap will fall too heavily on the poorest Alaskans.
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  Randall Hoffbeck, Comm. Dept. of Revenue, governor’s press conference, January 22, 2016. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North.)If every element of Governor Bill Walker’s current fiscal plan is adopted,low income Alaskans would lose nearly 10 percent of their income, middle-income residents would
  
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• Bill fixing alcohol and marijuana laws sails toward passage

  15-04-2016 02:48
  
  
  Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux, R-Anchorage, and chair of the Judiciary Committee speaking to the House in February. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)A bill with big implications for alcohol and marijuana has sailed out of the House Judiciary committee without opposition.
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  SB 165, sponsored by Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, deals primarily with reforming the rules around alcohol consumption for minors and adults younger than 21.
  The bill changes the Minor Consuming Alcohol violation under Ti
  
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• Walt Monegan reappointed as Commissioner for Department of Public Safety

  15-04-2016 02:45
  
  
  Walt Monegan is, again, the Commissioner for the Department of Public Safety.
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  Walt Maegan, Commissioner, AK. Dept of Correction, at a governor’s press conference, January 22, 2016. Monegan will now replace Gary Folger as the Commissioner for the Department of Public Safety.(File Photo by Skip Gray/360 North.)Governor Bill Walker announced the appointment in a press release Thursday morning that Monegan will replace outgoing commissioner Gary Folger, who is retiring at t
  
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• Mallott, Murkowski try to put human face on King Cove road

  15-04-2016 02:42
  
  
  Aleutians East Borough Mayor Stanley Mack and Sen. Lisa Murkowski prepare to meet with reporters in the Senate Press Gallery. Photo: Liz Ruskin/APRNLt. Gov. Byron Mallott joined residents of King Cove in Washington, D.C. this morning to make another plea for a road between King Cove and the all-weather airport in Cold Bay.
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  Mallott likens the road effort to other public land-use conflicts, in which, he says, federal policymakers put concern for wildlife habitat and the &l
  
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• Murkowski and King Cove road advocates launch new DC campaign

  15-04-2016 02:19
  
  Murkowski and King Cove road advocates launch new DC campaign Sen. Lisa Murkowski went for the heartstrings on Thursday in an effort to garner attention for her long-running fight with the federal government over a road through a wildlife refuge to connect the remote towns of King Cove and Cold Bay.April 14, 2016
  
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• Bill strengthening Alaska’s Code of Military Justice passes out of one committee into another

  15-04-2016 02:07
  
  The Senate State Affairs Committee passed HB126, where it continues onto the House Judiciary Committee. (Screenshot from the Alaska Legislature video stream)House Bill 126, aimed at strengthening the dated Alaska Code of Military Justice, passed out of the Senate State Affairs Committee Thursday morning and now moves on to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
  “It’s almost like you guys have been frozen in time or something,” Anchorage Republican Senator Lesil McGuire said,
  
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