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• Upcoming program: Power & Privilege

  03-01-2017 23:52
  
  When: Thursday, Jan. 19 – doors open at 6:30pm, recording starts at 7pm
  Where: Alaska Public Media Studios – 3877 University Drive, Anchorage
  Who: Everyone
  We all have complicated identities defined by the labels we attach to ourselves and are given by others. With those intersecting categories come different levels of power and privilege, both acknowledged and denied.
  How does our society’s system of privilege impact you? How can we change it to be more equitable? Those are so
  
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• Alaska Airlines poised for historic flight to Cuba on Jan. 5 with local dignitaries aboard - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)

  03-01-2017 19:47
  Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)
  Alaska Airlines poised for historic flight to Cuba on Jan. 5 with local dignitaries aboard
  Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)
  An Alaska Airlines plane -- a Boeing 737-900 marked as flight 286 -- will take off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport off for Cuba on Thursday Jan. 5 . This historical flight will head to Los Angeles before it goes non-stop to Havana, and will ...and more »
  
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• Alaska folk schools offer lessons in countering 'convenience culture' - Alaska Dispatch News

  03-01-2017 06:29
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska folk schools offer lessons in countering 'convenience culture'
  Alaska Dispatch News
  John Moriarty founded Folkskills, a folk school launched earlier this year in Anchorage with a focus on providing classes in traditional skills. Instructors have connected with learners through Folkskills to teach leatherworking, urban chicken keeping ...
  
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• Agency for Alaska's mentally ill tests legal limits with $40 million real estate investment - Alaska Dispatch News

  03-01-2017 04:08
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Agency for Alaska's mentally ill tests legal limits with $40 million real estate investment
  Alaska Dispatch News
  The board of the $600 million state government trust charged with caring for Alaska's mentally ill has purchased tens of millions of dollars of Outside real estate as investments, in apparent defiance of state law. Since 2011, the Alaska Mental Health ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Jan. 2nd, 2017

  03-01-2017 03:41
  
  
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  21 year old pedestrian dies in Sunday morning collision
  Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
  Police say a 21-year-old woman was killed after she was hit by a car in Fairbanks, just a few hours after she had been released from the city jail yesterday morning.
  Restoring Ohmer creek
  Joe Viechnicki, KFSK – Peter
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: January 2nd, 2017

  03-01-2017 03:41
  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
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  21 year old pedestrian dies in Sunday morning collision
  Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
  Police say a 21-year-old woman was killed after she was hit by a car in Fairbanks, just a few hours after she had been released from the city jail yesterday morning.
  Restoring Ohmer creek
  Joe Viechnicki, KFSK – Peter
  
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• Letter from past found inside wall of Kodiak home

  03-01-2017 01:57
  
  Houses can be historic in many senses – for instance, in the history that families create. Recently, the owner of one house on a hill in Kodiak found a little of that family history while renovating.
  Letter written on the wall by Phyllis Sundberg, framed in the house in which it was found. Photo by Kayla Desroches/KMXTDave Wilmot and his girlfriend, Ella, live in the house with Ella’s sons, Leo and Zeke, and their cat, Stewart. It’s an old cat — the kind of old cat w
  
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• Restoring Ohmer Creek

  03-01-2017 01:56
  
  The U.S. Forest Service is moving forward with a project to restore a stream damaged by decades-old logging and road-building south of Petersburg. The work will likely mean logging some other trees on another part of the island, and that’s generated some opposition.
  Ohmer Creek crosses under Mitkof Highway about 21 miles south of Petersburg. During construction of the roadway in 1959 and 1960, trees were cut from about 20 acres around the stream. Crews also removed stumps and dug out sand
  
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• Homeless in Dillingham: one man’s tough life, lived on his terms

  03-01-2017 01:55
  Christmas lights are up and a chilly wind is blowing on a snowy December day in downtown Dillingham. A gentle, smiling 61-year-old man hanging near the grocery store finishes off a cigarette butt he rescued from the trash. Then Matfie McCarr pulls out a harmonica with crushed metal sides that changes its tone and blows a few notes. He’s thankful for the company his music keeps during lonely hours at his camp.
  “That’s really helped my thoughts,” McCarr said.
  McCarr is
  
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• Alaska's retail sector is shedding jobs after years of growth - Alaska Dispatch News

  03-01-2017 00:01
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska's retail sector is shedding jobs after years of growth
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Shoppers visit the Target store in Wasilla on Oct. 8, 2008, in this file photo. (Stephen Nowers / ADN archive). As retail employment hits record highs nationally, Alaska's retail jobs numbers are headed in the opposite direction. Job losses in oil and ...
  
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