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• Traveling Music 2-5-17

  01-02-2017 22:38
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  2-5-17
   
  Upcoming Concerts:
   
  Willie Nile Sat. Feb. 11, 7:30 PM, Tap Root, Anchorage
  Sun. Feb. 12, 6 PM, Vagabond Blues in Palmer
  Peter Mulvey, with guest Heather Maloney, Sat. Feb. 25, 7:30 Tap Root
  Sun. Feb. 26, 6 PM, Vagabond Blues
   
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  Thirsty in the Rain
  Peter Rowan / Peter Rowan
  The Walls of Time
  Sugar Hill
  3:04
   
  No Place Like Home
  Willie Nile / Willie Nile
  American Ride
  
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• Alaska Sen. Murkowski to vote against Trump nominee for education secretary - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-02-2017 21:12
  
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  Alaska Sen. Murkowski to vote against Trump nominee for education secretary
  Alaska Dispatch News
  WASHINGTON — Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski will vote "no" on confirming Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump's nominee to head the U.S. Department of Education, she announced Wednesday. Murkowski's announcement on the Senate floor — mirrored ...and more »
  
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• Unconventional Journey: Student Forges Her Own Summer Project in Alaska - Yale News

  01-02-2017 20:57
  Yale News
  Unconventional Journey: Student Forges Her Own Summer Project in Alaska
  Yale News
  As the summer break between her first and second year approached, Christina Stone felt the pressure to land a prestigious internship that others seemed to land easily. Then she created an opportunity in Alaska that was right for her. stone moulin drop.
  
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• Murkowski says she’ll vote ‘no’ on DeVos; Sullivan to vote ‘yes’

  01-02-2017 20:43
  
  President Donald Trump’s nominee for Education secretary, Betsy DeVos. (Screenshot of U.S. Senate video)Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced Wednesday she will vote “no” on the confirmation of Betsy DeVos to be Education secretary. Her decision follows intense pressure from her constituents, who have flooded her office with emails, calls and visitors. But Alaska’s two U.S. senators are split over DeVos.
  Murkowski, in a speech on the Senate floor, said thousands of Alaskans
  
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• Murkowski says she’ll vote ‘no’ on DeVos

  01-02-2017 20:43
  
  President Donald Trump’s nominee for Education secretary, Betsy Devos. (Screenshot of U.S. Senate video))Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced on the Senate floor today that she will vote against President Trump’s nominee for Education secretary. Murkowski said she’s heard from thousands of Alaskans who are concerned that Betsy DeVos lacks public school experience, and Murkowski said she shares that concern.
  Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, also announced today that she’s voting agai
  
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• Alaska board mulls pot use in retail stores - KTUU.com

  01-02-2017 20:42
  
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  Alaska board mulls pot use in retail stores
  KTUU.com
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Thousands of cruise ship passengers could soon be getting a different taste of Alaska this summer. The state's marijuana regulators will meet Thursday to consider letting pot retail stores allow onsite consumption. Critics fear ...
  Alaska regulators consider allowing pot-shop smoking loungesHawaii News Now
  Alaska collects $145800 marijuana tax in DecemberJuneau Empire (subscription)all 5 news articles &raqu
  
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• Alaska Aerospace looking for new launch site - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  01-02-2017 19:56
  
  Alaska Aerospace looking for new launch site
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Welcome! We hope you enjoy our content and decide to subscribe for full access. Visit newsminer.com/subscribe or call 907-456-6661. KODIAK, Alaska (AP) - Alaska Aerospace Corp. is weighing options for a second launch facility outside the state, but CEO ...and more »
  
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• Walker criticizes Trump’s handling of refugee issue

  01-02-2017 03:52
  
  
  Gov. Bill Walker delivers his State of the State Address to the Alaska Legislature on Wednesday. Behind him, left to right, are Senate President Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, and House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, D-Dillingham. (Photo: Skip Gray/360 North)Gov. Bill Walker criticized President Donald Trump’s order that halted immigration from seven heavily Muslim countries, indefinitely banned Syrian refugees and temporarily banned all other refugees.
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• Sweeping criminal justice overhaul under fire — and revision

  01-02-2017 03:49
  
  
  Sen. John Coghill, R-North Pole, at a Senate Majority press availability, March 21, 2016. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)Legislators are considering changes to a seven-month-old law that overhauled the criminal justice system. The commission that helped shape the law has recommended 14 changes to it.
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  The law allowed some low-risk offenders to avoid jail time. And it made other changes in sentencing, bail and probation that are aimed at reducing the number of repeat offenders.
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017

  01-02-2017 03:44
  
  
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  Murkowski votes to advance DeVos, angering Alaska school advocates
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski Tuesday morning voted in the Education Committee to send President Trump’s choice for education secretary to the full Senate for a vote. But Murkowski says sh
  
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• A wood bison from a herd released in Southwest Alaska has been killed illegally - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-02-2017 03:04
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  A wood bison from a herd released in Southwest Alaska has been killed illegally
  Alaska Dispatch News
  BETHEL – Bison 124 was special, an unusually strong and adventurous animal. Biologists had high hopes for it. Its wanderings in a new world made it an important member of the captive wood bison herd released into the wild in 2015, said Tom Seaton, ...
  Officials call shooting of rare Alaska wood bison a "restoration setback"KTUU.comall 6 news articles »
  
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• Seeing the value of the forest in the trees: Chugach enters California’s carbon market

  01-02-2017 02:48
  
  
  An aerial view of the eastern edge of Alaska’s Copper River Delta. The area is the focus of an innovative deal that safeguards old-growth forests and major coal reserves. (Photo courtesy David Little/Eyak Preservation Council)Instead of harvesting their forests for timber, the Chugach Alaska Corporation is selling an innovative new forest product: the carbon stored in the trees.
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  “Anyone who’s been to Prince William Sound can tell you it’s an area of tremendous
  
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• Juneau’s downtown cruise terminal preparing for bigger boats

  01-02-2017 02:38
  
  
  New cruise ship terminal on January 25, 2017. (Photo: David Purdy/KTOO)A $54 million project to add a pair of floating cruise ship berths to Juneau’s downtown waterfront is within months of completion.
  The project will expand the port’s capacity to accommodate larger vessels. That’s because cruise ships in Alaska are getting bigger.
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  Juneau’s Ports and Docks has been working to expand its terminal to keep up with industry requirements.
  The city’s Depu
  
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• Bethel native sets American record in women’s powerlifting squat

  01-02-2017 02:34
  
  Natalie Hanson set a new American record in women’s powerlifting on January 28, 2017 in Milwaukee, WI when she squatted 578.7 pounds at the USA Power Lifting Wisconsin State Open Championship. (Photo: Ryan Carrillo / Lurchman Productions)Bethel native Natalie Hanson has set a new American record in women’s powerlifting. On Saturday (Jan. 28) in Milwaukee, Hanson squatted 578.7 pounds, more than three times her body weight, and more than 33 pounds over the former record. The 26-year-o
  
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• Army Aviation unit’s deployment reduces military role in remote civilian rescues

  01-02-2017 01:46
  
  A medevac Blackhawk assigned to 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment sets down last summer on a range near Fort Greely during annual Arctic Anvil field training exercises.(Photo: U.S. Army)About 190 members of a Fort Wainwright-based aviation unit will be largely unavailable for civilian search-and-rescue for at least a year. The Alaska Aviation Task Force regularly helps find and pick up missing and injured from remote backcountry locations, but personnel in a key Army unit that’s part o
  
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• As APU seeks fiscal sustainability, tribal college transition possible

  01-02-2017 01:32
  
  Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage is weighing its options to become more financially sustainable.
  Among its top prospects: to seek tribal college status.
  Alaska Pacific University. (Photo by Josh Edge, APRN – Anchorage)APU entered into a partnership in December with Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. And high on the priority list following the partnership was to investigate the possibility of transitioning into a tribal college.
  Dr. Bob Onders, the interim president of APU, said
  
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• Volcanic ash falls on Unalaska in Bogoslof’s longest eruption yet

  01-02-2017 01:15
  
  A fine layer of volcanic ash covers a car in Unalaska. Scientists say the minimal ash fall is not a health risk for island residents. (Photo by Zoe Sobel/KUCB)After more than two dozen explosions, Bogoslof Volcano has finally dropped ash on Unalaska.
  In its longest eruption since activity began six weeks ago, the volcano dusted the island with less than a millimeter of ash Monday night (Jan. 30) and produced a strong sulfurous smell.
  The eruption lasted eight hours, starting at 8:20 p.m. with a
  
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• How will climate science in Alaska fare under Trump? No one knows yet

  01-02-2017 00:31
  
  “[Climate change] is real. It is happening. We can see it out our windows,” said John Neary, who heads the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center “And we’ll continue to say that. But we’ll say it in an engaging, positive way that connects people instead of just infuriates people.” (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/Alaska’s Energy Desk)Federal agencies and scientists both inside and outside government endured a roller coaster of a week as President Donald Trump&rsqu
  
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