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• Traveling Music 5-22-16

  19-05-2016 22:21
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  5-22-16
   
  In memory of Guy Clark, singer / songwriter who died this past week.
   
  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
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  L.A. Freeway
  Guy Clark / Guy Clark
  Old No. 1
  Sugar Hill
  4:48
   
  Homegrown Tomatoes
  Guy Clark / Guy Clark
  Keepers – A Live Recording
  Sugar Hill
  4:35
   
  Texas – 1947
  Guy Clark / Guy Clark
  Old No. 1
  Sugar Hill
  3:10
   
  She Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
  Guy Clark / Guy Clark
  Keepers –
  
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• Justice still sought a year after Kavairlook killing

  19-05-2016 21:17
  
  May 17 marked the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of John Kavairlook Jr. outside of the Rock n Rodeo Bar in Fairbanks.
  John Kavairlook (Photo courtesy of City of Fairbanks)Based on witness accounts and video surveillance, police initially went after four suspects in connection to the incident.  Two of those suspects have been apprehended and remain in custody, awaiting trial.
  Even though one suspect is facing murder charges, the alleged shooter remains at large.
  John Kavairlook w
  
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• Governor calls special session after legislature fails to pass budget

  19-05-2016 19:06
  Gov. Bill Walker has called the legislature into a special session to address the budget and other bills lawmakers failed to pass during the 121-day session that ended Wednesday.It didn’t take long. The governor, at midnight, called a special session starting Monday at 11am in Juneau. #akleg pic.twitter.com/PUbWwVlfZT
  — Austin Baird (@AustinBaird) May 19, 2016A minute past midnight, Walker called for legislators to return to Juneau on Monday. He asked them to consider the capital and
  
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• Former Ariz. lawmaker held in Alaska shooting - USA TODAY

  19-05-2016 05:28
  
  USA TODAY
  Former Ariz. lawmaker held in Alaska shooting
  USA TODAY
  PHOENIX — A former Arizona state representative has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a Juneau jeweler on a hunting trip in southeast Alaska, according to court documents. Mark De Simone, 53, was charged in the death of ...
  One man's strange, sad descent from Ariz. lawmaker to Alaska murder suspectWashington Post
  Man believed to be ex-Arizona lawmaker held in Alaska deathFox News
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, May 18, 2016

  19-05-2016 03:34
  
  
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  Legislature looks to finish budget, but special session is likely
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  The Legislature is preparing  to vote on the capital and operating budgets Wednesday. But how the state will pay for the spending plans remains
  
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• House slides $19M toward unpopular road with no long-term plan

  19-05-2016 03:33
  
  
  Rep. Lance Pruitt, R-Anchorage, during discussions about the state operating budget in March 9, 2016. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)On Tuesday, House legislators moved $18,852,256 for a controversial road project in Anchorage opposed by community groups and the mayor’s administration, but long sought after by area businesses.
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  According to one of the amendment’s sponsors in House Finance, Rep. Lance Pruitt, R-Anchorage, the reason for moving the un-obligated funds
  
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• Lawmakers take oil tax debate down to the wire

  19-05-2016 02:49
  
  
  Sen. Mike Dunleavy, R-Wasilla, and Sen. Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, talk after a Senate floor session on Wednesday, May 18, 2016, in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/KTOO)Lawmakers are taking the contentious oil tax debate down to the wire.
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  On Wednesday afternoon, the Senate passed its version of the oil tax bill — handing it off to the House with less than twelve hours left in the session.
  The Senate legislation left out key elements of the House bill that passe
  
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• Body of missing man found in Ketchikan identified

  19-05-2016 02:46
  
  
  The State Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the body found underneath a fish processing plant in Ketchikan as that of a man who was reported missing in January.
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  Ketchikan Police Department building. Photo courtesy KRBD.The Ketchikan Daily News reports that the body was identified as Thomas Booth on Monday. A cause and manner of death haven’t been released.
  Booth was found dead May 10 by fish plant employees, who had been doing work on the structure. Police Chief
  
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• Legislature looks to finish budget, but special session is likely

  19-05-2016 02:42
  
  
  The Legislature is preparing  to vote on the capital and operating budgets Wednesday. But how the state will pay for the spending plans remains uncertain. And there’s much work left to do. So legislators expect Gov. Bill Walker to call them back into a special session.
  It’s not clear if the House minority caucus – with 12 Democrats and an Independent – will vote to close a more than $3 billion budget deficit with funds from the Constitutional Budget Reserve.
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• Lawmakers move $13M from education to oil & gas tax credits

  19-05-2016 02:41
  
  
  Protesters led by Great Alaska Schools speak out about potential last minute education funding cuts. (Hillman/KSKA)State lawmakers cut education funding in the proposed budgets by nearly $13 million Tuesday night. They moved the money into the oil and gas tax credit fund.
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  The House and Senate Operating Budget Conference Committee met Tuesday evening to try to get the two bodies’ budgets to match. Both the House and the Senate allocated full funding for education. That includ
  
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• Secretary of Agriculture discusses wildfire season with regional forest officials

  19-05-2016 02:37
  
  
  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack met with the nation’s regional forest heads on Tuesday to discuss the upcoming wildfire season. This year is expected to be worse than average in the Southwest US, Alaska and Hawaii.
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  The US Forest Service is part of the Agriculture Department. Last year, the Forest Service spent more than $1.7 billion fighting fires, which burned 15,800 square miles nationwide. Seven firefighters died in the line of duty last season. State fire information o
  
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• Denali wolf killed in “no wolf kill buffer zone”

  19-05-2016 00:32
  
  Another Denali wolf has been killed outside the National Park’s boundary. It’s the latest of several park based animals harvested in recent years on state land along the park’s northeastern edge.  The kill occurred in an area long sought for protection by wolf advocates.
  Denali wolf (Photo courtesy of National Park service)Denali National Park Science and Resources team leader Dave Schirokauer said a Denali wolf was observed May 7th from the air at a hunting camp on state
  
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