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• Traveling Music 1-22-17

  14-01-2017 04:34
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  1-22-17
   
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  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
  Label
  Duration
   
  Midnight Wander (instrumental)
  Mean Lids / Matt Turino
  Kalyx
  meanlids.com
  4:04
   
  Well for Zoe
  Karine Polwart and Tim O’Brien / Karine Polwart
  Wells for Zoe
  Compass
  3:33
   
  Music in your Eyes
  Stan Rogers / Willie P. Bennett
  From Coffee House to Concert Hall
  Fogarty’s Cove
  4:40
   
  Eveline
  Cathie Ryan / Cathie Ryan
  Cathie Ryan
  Shanachie
  4:10
   
  Tears for Lot&rs
  
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• Board of Game approves Kenai wolf control program

  14-01-2017 03:56
  
  
  (Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of Fish and Game)The Alaska Board of Game reauthorized a proposal to reduce the Kenai Peninsula wolf population on Jan. 9. It aims to increase the region’s annual moose harvest by reducing the number of predators.
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  The proposal would allow Fish and Game and members of the public to kill wolves in the area north of Kachemak Bay through July 2022.
  “It’s obvious to anyone who pays attention that if you have an imbalance, this is what
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Jan. 13, 2017

  14-01-2017 03:52
  
  
  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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  ConocoPhillips’ big new find on the North Slope could help replenish pipeline
  Elizabeth Harball, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  On Jan. 13, ConocoPhillips announced a major oil find in the National Petroleum-Reserve Alaska (NPR-A). The company is calling it the Willow Discovery. Experts say
  
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• Traveling Music 1-15-17

  14-01-2017 03:12
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  1-15-17
   
  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
  Label
  Duration
   
  Another Man Done Gone
  The Giddens Sisters / Traditional
  I Know I’ve Been Changed
  www.musicmaker.org
  2:29
   
  Sisters Are Doing it for Themselves
  Maura O’Connell & The Duhks, with Tim O’Brien and John Doyle / Lennox, Stewart
  Wells for Zoe
  Compass Records
  4:38
   
  Lies
  Stan Rogers / Stan Rogers
  Home in Halifax
  Fogarty’s Cove
  5:40
   
  Don’t Leave
  
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• Alaska Pioneer Homes escape state budget cuts, for now

  14-01-2017 03:12
  
  The Sitka Pioneer Home was the first such facility. It and others in Ketchikan, Juneau, Anchorage, Palmer and Fairbanks have lost staff due to budget cuts. (Photo by Emily Kwong, KCAW – Sitka)When the Alaska Legislature convenes later this month, it will consider a budget that makes no further cuts to Alaska’s Pioneer Homes. Final decisions are months away.
  But Gov. Bill Walker’s spending plan would help level the senior-care program’s funding after several years of reduc
  
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• ConocoPhillips’ big new find on the North Slope could help replenish pipeline

  14-01-2017 03:07
  
  Pipelines stretch twoards the horizon on NPR-A land leased by ConocoPhillips. The company announced it has found 300 million barrels of recoverable oil nearby. (photo by Elizabeth Harball/Alaska’s Energy Desk)On Jan. 13, ConocoPhillips announced a major oil find in the National Petroleum-Reserve Alaska (NPR-A). The company is calling it the Willow Discovery. Experts say coupled with several other recent big discoveries in the region, it could portend a new wave of oil development on the No
  
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• March for women’s rights

  14-01-2017 03:00
  
  Alaska Women Speak Fall 2016 CoverWomen started the idea as a protest, but a march in Washington DC planned for the day after the presidential inauguration has grown into something much larger. Now it’s being called a march for human rights and raising awareness of a broad range of concerns from affordable housing to health care to immigration.
  HOST: Lori Townsend
  GUESTS:
  Various Alaska Organizers – TBA
  Statewide callers 
  Participate:
  Call 550-8422 (Anchorage) or 1-800-478-
  
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• Fairbanks Assembly backs code enforcement

  14-01-2017 03:00
  
  The Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor has a green light actively enforce land use ordinances. The Assembly passed a resolution targeting neighborhood junk yards. The resolution sparked intense assembly debate.
  The resolution sponsored by Assembly members John Davies and Matt Cooper was prompted by complaints the Borough turns a blind eye to unsightly neighborhood junk yards. The sponsors wanted to give the Mayor clear directions to enforce code. In public comments, Jeff Austin said when he hear
  
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• Alaska’s warming waters could slow coral growth, impacting fish

  14-01-2017 02:25
  
  Bob Stone prepares to measure a tagged coral colony. (Photo by Linc Freese/NOAA Fisheries)The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said warming ocean temperatures, due to climate change, could slow the growth of some Alaska coral. In a study released Thursday, scientists warned about the potential impact to fish, which take refuge in thickets of coral.
  Bob Stone, a fisheries research biologist, dove in the waters of Southeast Alaska to photograph one group of sea fans — a type o
  
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• A Rampage in Florida Shines a Light on Alaska

  14-01-2017 02:13 via nytimes.com
  It’s not easy getting mental health care in this state, with its distinctive demographic, geographic and cultural characteristics and a fierce libertarian streak.
  
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• AK: Club Baby Seal provides new artistic outlet in Juneau

  14-01-2017 01:01
  
  From left to right, Club Baby Seal is: Allison Holtkamp, Grace Lee, Alicia Hughes-Skandijs, Brady Ingledue, Nate Williams, Hali Duran and Corin Hughes-Skandijs. (Photo by Scott Burton/KTOO)It’s awful out in Juneau on a Saturday night. After a bunch of snow, it’s raining, and moat-like ponds of water fill the streets, the sidewalks, everywhere.
  Bad conditions however, have not affected attendance at a Club Baby Seal show, a new comedy troupe in Juneau.
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  The group of fou
  
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• 49 Voices: John Borg of Eagle

  14-01-2017 01:00
  
  
  Post Office building in Eagle during spring ice break-up. John Borg was the postmaster and mayor of Eagle when author John McPhee came through in 1976. (Photo courtesy of Brad Snow & Lilly Allen Collection. Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, University of Alaska Fairbanks)This week on 49 Voices, we’re doing something a little different. John Borg was the mayor and postmaster of Eagle, Alaska, in 1976 when author John McPhee came through to research for his best-selling book Coming i
  
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• Greenhouse grows inspired young people

  14-01-2017 00:03
  
  
  Quavon Bracken checks the progress of his favorite plants at the Seeds of Change greenhouse. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)A new Anchorage greenhouse is sprouting more than seeds – it’s helping young people develop life skills and improve their mental health. Anchorage Community Mental Health Services recently began the new program Seeds of Change.
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  Nineteen-year-old Quavon Bracken walked through the facility’s rows and rows of tall, dangling racks of hydroponic grow
  
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