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• Traveling Music 10-30-16

  26-10-2016 22:33
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  10-30-16
   
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  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
  Label
  Duration
   
  Runboy
  Spirit of the West / Mann, Kelly
  Labour Day
  Flying Fish
  4:10
   
  Tramps and Hawkers / The Elevator (instrumental included)
  Old Blind Dogs / Traditional, Johnny Hardie
  Fit?
  Green Linnet
  5:21
   
  A Kiss in the Morning Early
  Niamh Parsons with Graham Dunne / Traditional
  Heart’s Desire
  Green Linnet
  2:51
   
  The 3-Headed Monster (instrumentals)
  Sharon Shannon / Donnal
  
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• Kenai Borough Assembly overrides mayor’s veto of invocation policy resolution

  26-10-2016 22:29
  
  
  The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly has voted to override Mayor Mike Navarre’s veto of the Assembly’s new invocation policy resolution.
  Listen NowJoshua Decker is the Executive Director of The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska.
  Decker said he is disappointed in the Assembly’s action.
  “As we wrote in our letter to the Assembly last week, we think this resolution is unconstitutional. We had hoped that they would do the right thing and go back to the way things used
  
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• On Alaska Day, Russians Still Dream of Getting Alaska Back - Observer

  26-10-2016 14:30
  
  Observer
  On Alaska Day, Russians Still Dream of Getting Alaska Back
  Observer
  As in the U.S., the attention given to Alaska Day—October 18—in Russia doesn't rise to the level of the national front page news. So far, it is not an official holiday in Russia—but, who knows, maybe that's about to change. This year, on Sailors ...
  
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• Husband of ADN owner hosts TV show featuring fellow billionaires - Alaska Public Radio Network

  26-10-2016 07:58
  
  Husband of ADN owner hosts TV show featuring fellow billionaires
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  If you like to watch billionaires on TV, you don't have to wait for Donald Trump to launch his own media network. The husband of Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff now has his own prime-time television talk show. Listen Now. “I began to take on ...and more »
  
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• Putting bees to bed: Overwintering honeybee hives in Alaska - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  26-10-2016 06:39
  
  Putting bees to bed: Overwintering honeybee hives in Alaska
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  The fields at Dee Barker's Earthworks Farm in Palmer are frozen, the last of her vegetables are covered in a few inches of fresh snow. That first sign of winter means it's time to put her honeybees to bed. “When they go into hibernation, they go into a ...
  
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• Libertarian presidential campaign eyes Alaska, with visit planned by VP candidate - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-10-2016 04:46
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Libertarian presidential campaign eyes Alaska, with visit planned by VP candidate
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Libertarian vice presidential hopeful Bill Weld will visit Alaska this week and may be followed by presidential candidate Gary Johnson before Election Day on Nov. 8, campaign staff said Tuesday. Poll results that show support from up to 18 percent of ...and more »
  
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• For the first time, Pick.Click.Give. donations take a dip

  26-10-2016 03:57
  
  The Permanent Fund Dividend website prominently features the Pick. Click. Give. program. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh, KTOO – Juneau)It has been a difficult year for nonprofits. The state’s budget is shrinking. Alaskans’ wallets are emptying.
  And, for the first time since Alaskans began donating in 2009, the Alaska Community Foundation’s Pick.Click.Give. program saw a drop in donations.
  The program allows Alaskans to donate a portion of their annual oil-wealth payments to
  
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• More than a decade later, one man’s discrimination case is still in limbo

  26-10-2016 03:55
  
  
  Listen NowOn average, an investigation into a discrimination case in Alaska may take a year or two, according to the agencies that handle them.
  But for one Chugiak man it’s taken more than a decade.On a recent afternoon in September, just off a wooded road in Chugiak, John Suter, 67, is outside his home with his grandson, who’s running around. Suter’s wearing an Army airborne veteran’s hat and a light blue shirt that said “The NSA, the only part of government
  
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• Alaska's youngest voters pose questions for candidates at high school forum - KTUU.com

  26-10-2016 03:55
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska's youngest voters pose questions for candidates at high school forum
  KTUU.com
  Anchorage, ALASKA (KTUU) Students from across the Anchorage School District listened to Alaska House and Senate candidates answer questions during an hour long forum put on by their peers, some of whom are now are preparing to vote for the first time ...
  US attorney fights against voter fraud in AlaskaFairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Alaskans make picks for president and more as early voting
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016

  26-10-2016 03:42
  
  
  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
  Listen NowWalker puts the brakes on issuing bonds to pay pensions
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  The state of Alaska won’t issue bonds to pay for public worker pensions – for now. Gov. Bill Walker pressed pause on the sale Tuesday of up to $3.3 billion dollars of pension obligation bonds after meeting
  
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• Rockfall inside tunnel shuts down only road to Whittier - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-10-2016 03:13
  
  Rockfall inside tunnel shuts down only road to Whittier
  Alaska Dispatch News
  The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, North America's longest combined rail-highway tunnel, on Thursday, June 19, 2014. The tunnel connects the town of Whittier to Portage, and the rest of Alaska. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News). Fallen rock ...and more »
  
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• Alaska governor halts sale of pension obligation bonds - Reuters

  26-10-2016 03:12
  
  KFQD
  Alaska governor halts sale of pension obligation bonds
  Reuters
  Alaska Governor Bill Walker has called off the planned sale of up to $3.3 billion in state pension obligation bonds due to a lack of support from members of the state senate, he said on Tuesday. Low oil prices have contributed to a multibillion budget ...
  Facing opposition, Alaska Gov. Walker halts pension bond salesAlaska Dispatch News
  Alaska governor put pension bond plan on holdFairbanks Daily News-Miner
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• The race for US Senate: Ray Metcalfe - Alaska Public Radio Network

  26-10-2016 01:48
  
  The race for US Senate: Ray Metcalfe
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Ray Metcalfe is in the mix of candidates vying for incumbent Lisa Murkowski's U.S. Senate seat. He's spent years working to draw attention to political corruption within state government. He worked in the legislature as a Republican and now he's ...
  With the US Senate majority trending blue, Murkowski's chairmanship at riskAlaska Dispatch Newsall 2 news articles »
  
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• The race for U.S. Senate: Ray Metcalfe

  26-10-2016 01:43
  
  Ray Metcalfe is in the mix of candidates vying for incumbent Lisa Murkowski’s U.S. Senate seat. He’s spent years working to draw attention to political corruption within state government. He worked in the legislature as a Republican and now he’s running as a Democrat, but has told the state party, he doesn’t want their help.
  Former Republican legislator Ray Metcalfe is running for U.S. Senate with an anti-corruption focus. (Photo by Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media –
  
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• Former Skagway Assemblyman claims he misunderstood public office disclosure forms

  26-10-2016 00:38
  
  Alaska’s campaign finance watchdog group held a hearing Tuesday morning on a complaint against former Skagway Assemblyman Dan Henry. The complaint against Henry involves incomplete public office financial disclosure forms. During the hearing, Henry said he misunderstood what information is required on those filings.
  Dan Henry (Photo courtesy The Skagway News)Candidates for elected office in Alaska are required to file financial disclosure statements with the Alaska Public Offices Commissio
  
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• Fairbanks campus rape case draws scrutiny

  26-10-2016 00:08
  
  The University of Alaska Fairbanks is under fire for its response to a campus rape case. A UAF student accuses the university of failing to adequately support and protect her. The criticism follows efforts by the university to improve its sexual assault response process.
  Nineteen-year-old University of Alaska Fairbanks sophomore Jessie Wattum said she was raped at the Bartlett Hall dormitory on the first weekend of the semester after accepting a drink from a male student.
  ”I’m assumi
  
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