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• Getting around in Southcentral

  09-09-2016 23:00
  
  Alaska has two seasons: winter, and road construction. (US. DOT image)Do you commute to Anchorage from the Valley? By car? By bus?
  Or, are you a bike commuter around Anchorage, or a bus rider? Or maybe you just love driving your own car, everywhere.
  Transportation mural in Spenard. (AMATS photo)Today’s show is for you.
  Roads and transit are big issues all over Southcentral. As the saying goes, Alaska has two seasons: winter, and road construction.
  The seed for this show dates to an email f
  
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• The Arctic in Action: Accomplishments of the Arctic Council as we Look to the Future

  09-09-2016 22:30
  
  Admiral Papp speaking to the AWAC. Photo: Eric Bork/KSKAAdmiral Papp speaking to the AWAC. Photo: Eric Bork/KSKAAdmiral Papp became the State Department’s Special Representative for the Arctic in July of 2014. He is leading the effort to advance U.S. interests in the Arctic Region, with a focus on Arctic Ocean governance, climate change, economic, environmental, and security issues in the Arctic region as the United States holds the chairmanship of the Arctic Council from 2015-2017.
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• The Environment and Health

  09-09-2016 21:00
  
  Photo: Vicky Vinch ON/OFFModern humans evolved 200,000 years ago yet our immediate environment hardly changed until the onset of the industrial revolution about 250 years ago. Antibiotics, plastics, gasoline, and in fact much of what we are exposed to in our environment every day did not even exist 100 years ago. Daily our genes, our skin, our respiratory tract, our intestines, our brains are exposed to relatively new substances compared to exposures for 200,000 years. What a
  
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• Lawmaker says Alaska child welfare agency practices 'legal ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  09-09-2016 15:15
  
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  Lawmaker says Alaska child welfare agency practices 'legal ...
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  North Pole Republican Rep. Tammie Wilson has launched her latest salvo at the state agency charged with protecting Alaska's children, saying a grand jury ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Airlines welcomes football season with perks and promotions - USA TODAY

  09-09-2016 14:48
  
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  Alaska Airlines welcomes football season with perks and promotions
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  As the 2016 NFL season goes into full swing, Alaska Airlines is rolling out a new round of perks for Seattle Seahawks fans and airline customers and introducing a third season of commercials featuring Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson , who serves as ...
  Alaska Airlines is giving Seahawk fans a break - KVEWTV.comKVEW
  Alaska Airlines releases new commercials featuring Alaska Airlines CFO Russell Wilson;
  
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• Boos and cheers as residents question officials on crime

  09-09-2016 09:04
  
  Mayor Ethan Berkowitz, along with APD Chief Chris Tolley took questions for more than an hour-and-a-half from concerned residents of neighborhoods around Valley of the Moon Park. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes – Alaska Public Media, Anchorage)A large crowd of Anchorage residents gathered in a popular park that recently saw a double murder to question the mayor and police chief about crime.
  It was a scene that at times devolved into impassioned shouting. Though there were a few boos of disap
  
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• Meet the Alaska woman who could be NASA’s Arctic astronaut

  09-09-2016 07:34
  
  Jessica Cherry is among 100 finalists to become a NASA astronaut. Photo from UAF International Arctic Research. Center.One of NASA’s new astronauts could come from Fairbanks. A University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher has been selected by NASA as one of a 100 finalists for the job. More than 18,000 people applied. International Arctic Research Center and Institute for Northern Engineering Associate professor Jessica Cherry’s work focuses on water and climate. She says a lot of the t
  
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• Erosion fix will hold, but residents worry not for long

  09-09-2016 07:16
  
  Crew are working to stabilize the Matanuska River. Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of Transportation via Mat-Su Borough.Efforts to stem riverbank erosion along a stretch of the Matanuska River have been largely successful. A massive job by the state Department of Transportation is keeping water from flooding the Old Glenn Highway near Palmer. the current work was spurred by emergency conditions, but it’s unclear if it will it solve a recurring problem.
  DOT work crews were dumping massi
  
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• Kuskokwim safety experts explain how to stay safe on the river

  09-09-2016 07:10
  
  The BSAR search boat “Yuarta” or “the searcher.” Photo by Charles Enoch, KYUK.
  As fall time rolls in and the air takes on the familiar chill, Kuskokwim residents begin their subsistence activities, and that requires traveling in conditions that can turn hostile. Two Bethel Search and Rescue members have tips for those traveling the rivers as the weather becomes rainy, windy and often more unpredictable. Bethel Search and Rescue Chief Mike Riley gives hunters and travelers
  
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• New federal predator hunting restrictions to face state legal challenge

  09-09-2016 06:54
  
  New federal predator hunting rules are in effect. (Photo courtesy of ADFG)A series of predator hunting restrictions for national wildlife refuges in Alaska took effect on Tuesday.That same day, Governor Bill Walker revealed that the state is organizing a lawsuit against the federal government to resist the new rules. And Alaska’s congressional delegation is looking for ways to reverse the changes as well. But as of now, the new rules are in effect on Alaska’s national wildlife refuge
  
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• Alaskans protest North Dakota pipeline by paddling in solidarity

  09-09-2016 06:37
  Members of the One People Canoe Society from Juneau paddled in unison today down the Missouri River in North Dakota. The trip is a show of solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux who are protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline Project. A federal court is expected to rule on whether pipeline construction goes forward tomorrow.
  Elizabeth Harball from Alaska’s Energy Desk talked with one Alaskan who is there and has this story.
  Wearing traditional hats and blue life vests, the Alaskans are ther
  
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• Alaska’s first commercial retail cannabis businesses receive state approval

  09-09-2016 06:35
  
  The Alaska Marijuana Control Board approved the first commercial license Thursday. (Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)The state approved its first licenses for commercial cannabis businesses Thursday, a major step for prospective retailers hoping to open shop before year’s end. Officially, the state’s first shop to be approved was Fairbanks’ Frozen Budz. The first for Anchorage is called Enlighten Alaska, located in Spenard. Jane Stinson is one of the co-owners of the bus
  
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• What is the future of the Bush Caucus?

  09-09-2016 05:54
  
  Willie Hensley served in the Alaska Legislature in the 1960s as part of the Bush Caucus. Creative Commons photo by Philanthropy Northwest.The outcome of the disputed primary contest between Representative Benjamin Nageak and Dean Westlake is uncertain. Whoever wins, it may unsettle what’s been a unique tradition in Alaskan politics.Democratic legislators have a long history of joining Republican-led legislative majorities.To understand why Alaska is so different, it pays to go back to the
  
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• WA man charged with defrauding $2.7M from Alaskans

  09-09-2016 04:00
  A Washington man has been indicted for fraudulently taking about $2.7 million from Alaskans. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Alaska is charging Floyd Jay Mann, Jr., 55, with 11 counts of wire fraud and eight counts of money laundering.Mann allegedly told his victims that he was going to receive millions of dollars from a class action lawsuit with a pharmaceutical company. He promised the victims that if they helped pay his medical expenses and his legal fees, he would give them a substantial
  
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• Traveling Music 9-11-16

  09-09-2016 03:26
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  9-11-16
  Dedicated to all whose hearts were broken on 9-11-2001.
  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
  Label
  Duration
   
  It’s Another Day
  Darrell Scott / Darrell Scott & Tim O’Brien
  Couchville Sessions
  Full Light Records
  5:42
   
  Everything is Possible
  Sam Bush / Sam Bush, Deborah Holland
  Storyman
  Sugar Hill
  4:01
   
  Magpie
  Aoife O’Donovan / Aoife O’Donovan
  In the Magic Hour
  Yep Roc Records, www.aoifeodonovan.com
  4:14
   
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Sept. 08, 2016

  09-09-2016 03:19
  
  
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  Armed conflict in Chevak leaves one dead
  Adrian Wagner, KYUK – Bethel
  One person is dead and another wounded after an armed conflict yesterday inthe village of Chevak.
  Alaskans protest North Dakota pipeline by paddling in solidarity
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• We Are Marine Acousticians in Glacier Bay | INDIE ALASKA

  09-09-2016 02:10
  
  In Glacier Bay National Park, a crew of six researchers spent the summer studying the underwater communication of humpback whales and harbor seals. Ph.D. students Michelle Fournet and Leanna Matthews teamed up with wildlife biologist Chris Gabriele to better understand the relationship between marine mammal communication and vessel traffic, as part of the park’s long-term acoustic marine monitoring program.
  
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• Alaska pot regulators OK first retail license - Fox Business

  09-09-2016 01:53
  
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  Alaska pot regulators OK first retail license
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  Destiny Neade of Fairbanks reacts after receiving the first ever permit for a marijuana retail store in Alaska during a meeting of the Alaska Marijuana Control Board on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, in Anchorage, Alaska. Neade and her husband, Nick, hope ...
  Alaska's first marijuana retail stores OK'd by stateAlaska Dispatch News
  Alaska's first commercial retail cannabis businesses receive state approvalAlaska Public Radio Netwo
  
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• Tlingit linguist Lance Twitchell receives Judson L. Brown award - Alaska Dispatch News

  09-09-2016 00:54
  
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  Tlingit linguist Lance Twitchell receives Judson L. Brown award
  Alaska Dispatch News
  The Sealaska Heritage Institute has selected Lance Twitchell as the recipient of the annual Judson L. Brown Leadership Award. Twitchell, whose Tlingit name is X'unei, is an associate professor of Alaska Native languages at the University of Alaska ...
  
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