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• For rural pot companies, legal sales still mean breaking rules

  15-10-2016 04:13
  
  Mark Malagodi is CEO of CannTest, one of just two testing facilities in Anchorage racing to open and bring the state’s commercial cannabis operations online. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)In just a few weeks, the first legal pot shops in Alaska will open their doors.
  In the two years since voters approved Ballot Measure 2, prospective business owners and state regulators have worked to create a new industry that’s as complicated as it is content
  
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• Traveling Music 10-23-16

  15-10-2016 04:06
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  10-23-16
   
  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
  Label
  Duration
   
   
  No Parking
  Ann Reed / Ann Reed
  Timing is Everything
  A Major Label
  2:38
   
  Dress of Laces
  Nanci Griffith with Lyle Lovett / John Grimaude, Saylor White
  Other Voices, Too
  Elektra
  4:55
   
  Mr. Mudd & Mr. Gold
  Robert Earl Keen / Townes Van Zandt
  A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt, Poet
  TVZ Records
  3:22
   
  Forgotten Beech Grove
  The Bills / Frye, Moody
  Trail of Tales
  Boreali
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Oct. 14, 2016

  15-10-2016 03:45
  
  
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  Listen NowBarrow votes to change name to Utqiagvik
  Lori Townsend, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  By a margin of six votes, residents of Barrow have voted to change the name of their city back to its Inupiaq name, Utqiagvik. City council member Qaiyaan Harcharek started the process this summer.
  Wielechowski, Kastner
  
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• Wielechowski, Kastner fight for votes in East Anchorage

  15-10-2016 03:37
  
  
  For a decade, Democrat Bill Wielechowski has represented an East Anchorage Senate district where Republicans outnumber Democrats. He attributes part of his success to one of the oldest political activities: knocking on neighbors’ doors, one at a time.
  Listen NowSusan Williams, left, talks with Sen. Bill Wielechowski, who is running for re-election. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau)This year, Republican Kevin Kastner is trying to beat Wielechowski using his own door-knocking
  
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• The race for U.S. House: Steve Lindbeck

  15-10-2016 03:00
  
  Steve Lindbeck is running against Don Young for Alaska’s lone U.S. House position. Lindbeck is a first time candidate. He’s worked for non-profits for decades including as General Manager of Alaska Public Media. We’ll find out what he would work to achieve if Alaskans decide to send him to Washington.
  Steve Lindbeck is challenging U.S. Rep. Don Young. (Photo by Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.)HOST: Lori Townsend
  GUESTS:
  Steve Lindbeck – D
  
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• Barrow votes to change name to Utqiagvik

  15-10-2016 02:52
  
  (Utqiagvik, the city formally know as Barrow, AK (File photo courtesy of Wikipedia)Utqiagvik. That’s the name that Barrow will now be identified as.
  By a margin of six votes, residents of Barrow have voted to change the name of their city back to its Inupiaq name. City council member Qaiyaan Harcharek started the process this summer.
  TOWNSEND: I realize that Inupiaq words may not have a direct translation into English, but tell us about the meaning behind the name of your city now.
  HARCHAR
  
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• 19 years later, justice still wanted for John Hartman’s murder

  15-10-2016 01:54
  
  Fairbanks residents gathered Thursday to remember John Hartman. The 15 year old was beaten to death in downtown Fairbanks 19 years ago this week, a murder that resulted in the long questioned convictions of four local men, who were freed last year under a deal with the state.
  John Hartman’s obituary photo (Photo of the Fairbanks Newsminer)Shirley Lee, an Episcopal Priest and chair of Tanana Chiefs Conference Justice Task Force, led the group in a prayer and vigil for the unsolved murder of
  
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• AK: Transformation through fire, a state-wide mask tour comes to an end

  15-10-2016 01:10
  
  Drew Michael stands with the mask labeled Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (Photo by Lori Townsend, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)Museums are usually a place for appreciating art that will be around for centuries. But earlier this month, the Anchorage Museum hosted a ceremony to burn ten beautiful Alaska Native masks. The artists who created the masks wanted to inspire community conversations about illness and healing.
  Following Drew Michael around is like trying to keep up with a humm
  
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• AK: Transformation through fire, a stade-wide mask tour comes to an end

  15-10-2016 01:10
  
  Drew Michael stands with the mask labeled Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (Photo by Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)Museums are usually a place for appreciating art that will be around for centuries. But earlier this month, the Anchorage Museum hosted a ceremony to burn ten beautiful Alaska Native masks. The artists who created the masks wanted to inspire community conversations about illness and healing.Following Drew Michael around is like trying to keep up with a h
  
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• 49 Voices: Kate Mongeon of Eureka

  15-10-2016 01:05
  
  This week we’re hearing from Kate Mongeon in Eureka. Mongeon works and lives at the Eureka Roadhouse.
  Kate Mongeon at the Eureka Lodge (Photo by Rashah McChesney, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Juneau)MONGEON: We’re at Eureka Roadhouse at mile 128 on the Glenn Highway. I live right here at the lodge. I was living in Palmer and I was tired of the city life. I came up here and been here ever since.
  I wait tables, I bar tend, I clean rooms. I yell at employees. (laughs) I&rsquo
  
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• Revisiting Rockhounding and Fossils

  15-10-2016 01:00
  
  A paleontologist holds a carnivorous dinosaur tooth found on the Colville River on Alaska’s North Slope, by Paxson Woelber via Wikimedia CommonsRarely do we walk on the beach on Kachemak Bay without coming back with rocks and shells in our pockets. The simple act of picking things up and learning about them can be a rich part of exploring the outdoors, adding depth and a sense of belonging to the place. Collecting is a deep urge for a lot of us. Of course, you have to do it ethically, with
  
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