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• Alaska senators stick by Trump, but how close? - KTOO

  03-02-2017 21:09
  
  Alaska senators stick by Trump, but how close?
  KTOO
  WASHINGTON — It's a messy process, and unusually slow, but President Donald Trump made headway this week in filling his cabinet. Alaska's U.S. senators have helped him, in different degrees. With a new, colorful president in the White House, each of ...and more »
  
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• Upcoming Program: Experiencing Mental Illness

  03-02-2017 21:08
  
  What’s it like to live with a mental illness? How do people react to you? How do we reduce prejudices associated with mental illness? Learn more about how mental illness can shape people’s lives during the next Community in Unity.
  The event is part of Alaska Public Media’s community dialogue series. This conversation will include a group of individuals who will share their experiences of living with a mental illness and answer questions from the community.
  Everyone is welcome
  
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• Pediatric Health and Wellness- Open Phone Lines

  03-02-2017 21:00
  The first 18 years of a child’s life presents the special opportunity for parents to shape and guide their children through a very confusing time. Kid’s health and wellness is a complex thing. Youth is riddled with challenges, big and small. Loving parents are at a loss for how to deal with issues such as ADHD, Depression, anxiety, chronic illness, and drugs. Cell phones, pornography, and social media challenge our best parenting efforts at every turn. At a l
  
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• Arctic Entries: Who’s Laughing Now?

  03-02-2017 20:00
  
  Arctic Entries this month brings you Who’s Laughing Now: Stories of Comeuppance, Revenge, and Underdogs. In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, people tell a seven-minute long true story about themselves relating to the show’s theme. Local musicians perform a few songs as well. Proceeds made from
  
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• For the Disabled Traveler, Strategies for a Successful Trip

  03-02-2017 12:00 via nytimes.com
  To get the most out of a vacation, people with disabilities should make sure destinations are accessible; a good travel companion also matters.
  
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• To counter cuts, Anchorage weighs unified snow plow plan

  03-02-2017 04:18
  
  
  The state’s map of priority roads within Anchorage during a snow event. Courtesy of the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.Officials in Anchorage are considering a change to snow plow policies after a “flood” of complaints in the last few weeks. Responsibility for clearing many of the city’s biggest and busiest roads after a snow storm is shared between the municipality and the state. But city leaders say state budget cuts have left a mess that may
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017

  03-02-2017 04:10
  
  
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  Senators stick by Trump, but how close?
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  Alaska’s U.S. senators helped President Trump fill out his cabinet this week, but in different degrees. With a new, colorful president in the White House, each of them has to decide how close to stand to the st
  
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• Meet Tes Mutton from Australia

  03-02-2017 03:55
  
  
  “New Arrivals” is Alaska Public Media’s profiles of people who recently moved to Anchorage, one of the most diverse cities in the world. Every Tuesday, we meet a New Arrival from another country, another state, or another part of Alaska. The stories air at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesdays during Morning Edition here on KSKA, Alaska Public Media.
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  This week’s New Arrival 
  Guest – Tes Mutton
  Age – 29
  Last Location – The Bird Treatment and Learn
  
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• Meet Tes M. from Australia

  03-02-2017 03:55
  
  
  “New Arrivals” is Alaska Public Media’s profiles of people who recently moved to Anchorage, one of the most diverse cities in the world. Every Tuesday, we meet a New Arrival from another country, another state, or another part of Alaska. The stories air at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesdays during Morning Edition here on KSKA, Alaska Public Media.
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  This week’s New Arrival 
  Guest – Tes M.
  Age – 29
  Last Location – The Bird Treatment and Learning
  
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• Meet Tes from Australia

  03-02-2017 03:55
  
  
  “New Arrivals” is Alaska Public Media’s profiles of people who recently moved to Anchorage, one of the most diverse cities in the world. Every Tuesday, we meet a New Arrival from another country, another state, or another part of Alaska. The stories air at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesdays during Morning Edition here on KSKA, Alaska Public Media.
  LISTEN NOW
   
  This week’s New Arrival 
  Guest – Tes M.
  Age – 29
  Last Location – The Bird Treatment and Learning
  
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• Senators stick by Trump, but how close?

  03-02-2017 03:45
  
  
  Photo by Liz RuskinWASHINGTON — It’s a messy process, and unusually slow, but President Donald Trump made headway this week in filling his cabinet. Alaska’s U.S. senators have helped him, in different degrees. With a new, colorful president in the White House, each of them has to decide how close to stand to the standard-bearer of their party.
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  The vote on one controversial nominee in the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee was unanimous, 11-0, b
  
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• Refugee art show highlights local stories of people impacted by the ban

  03-02-2017 03:27
  
  
  Mohammed Almeliya and his son Adam. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)President Trump’s executive order that temporarily suspends refugee resettlement is having impacts in Alaska, where about 140 people are resettled every year. One refugee, an artist from Iraq, is working to help the community learn more about the new arrivals and what the executive order means to our community through a temporary art show.
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  Mohammed Almeliya sat in his small Anchorage apartment, drawings and paintin
  
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• Newest Willow sled-dog race a labor of love

  03-02-2017 03:26
  
  Wade Marrs pulling into Galena during the 2016 Iditarod. Marrs is one of the organizers of the new Willow 300 dog sled race. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media)A new sled-dog race kicks off Friday (Feb. 3). At noon, mushers will take off from Willow Lake as part of Southcentral Alaska’s latest mid-distance race, the Willow 300.
  The event was put together by a young couple with support from the Willow Dog Mushers Association. 26 year old Wade Marrs, who placed 4th in last year&
  
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• Alaska Marijuana Control Board nixes on-site consumption

  03-02-2017 03:14
  
  
  (Creative Commons photo illustration by Chuck Grimmett)The state’s Marijuana Control Board was set to regulate the consumption of marijuana at licensed retailers. If it had been approved, Alaska would have been the first state in the nation to allow on-site consumption.
  But that’s now moot.
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  A 3-2 majority voted Thursday (Feb. 2) to shelve the regulations after the control board’s staff said public notices contained errors and a decision would have to be postponed for
  
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• Following travel ban, an Anchorage lawyer may have less family at his wedding

  03-02-2017 02:59
  
  
  John Parsi is an Anchorage attorney and immgrated to the United States at a young age from Iran. (Photo by Wesley Early/ Alaska Public Media)Iraq’s neighbor Iran is on President Donald Trump’s recent travel ban list. John Parsi is of Iranian descent and is an Anchorage attorney. He was born in London during the Islamic revolution in Iran. Parsi’s father was a translator for the British and U.S. governments. He said they were forced to move back to Iran when he was three years o
  
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• ConocoPhillips still struggling globally, but profitable in Alaska

  03-02-2017 02:13
  
  
  ConocoPhillips’ Alpine facility on the North Slope. (Photo by Elizabeth Harball/Alaska’s Energy Desk)ConocoPhillips on Thursday announced it netted $115 million in Alaska last quarter — almost double what it earned in the third quarter. But the Houston-based company is still grappling with a multi-billion dollar global loss.
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  The increase in Alaska was largely due to rising oil prices and increased production, according to company spokeswoman Natalie Lowman.
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• Lawmakers consider protecting ‘ballot selfies’ as part of free speech

  03-02-2017 01:55
  
  I Voted Today stickers may not be the only popular form of social media expression for voters if an Alaska measure passes. A measure going though the Alaska House could add so-called ballot selfies to recognized forms of political speech. House Bill 7 is sponsored by state Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, D-Sitka. (Photo by Maggie Schoenfeld)In Alaska it’s illegal to “exhibit” a picture of a marked ballot. Sharing a ballot selfie isn’t a criminal offense as in some stat
  
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• At a safe distance: Monitoring remote volcanoes from remote locations

  03-02-2017 01:23
  
  Dave Schneider, a research geophysicist with the USGS, explains how volcanoes around the state can be monitored remotely by satellite from the AVO Operations Room in Anchorage. (Photo by Eric Keto/Alaska’s Energy Desk)Across Alaska there are monitoring instruments on 31 of the most active volcanoes, but there’s nothing on the one that’s erupting now.
  Bogoslof is a volcano on a tiny uninhabited island in the middle of the Bering Sea. Since mid-December, Bogoslof has erupted more
  
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• North Slope oil companies ask lawmakers for stable tax laws

  03-02-2017 00:52
  
  Rep. Geran Tarr and Rep. Andy Josephson, Anchorage Democrats and co-chairs of the House Resources committee hear testimony from oil and gas industry representatives on Wednesday Feb. 1, 2017 in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo: Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)A state House committee heard testimony Wednesday afternoon from the big three North Slope oil producers. ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and BP representatives gave several members of the House Resources Committee their perspectives on how t
  
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• Whale Pass vote certified, voters OK new city on Prince of Wales Island

  03-02-2017 00:35
  
  Whale Pass (Photo from the Alaska Division of Community and Regional Affairs community photo archive)The results are final and residents of Whale Pass have approved the incorporation of Alaska’s newest second class city. The small community on Prince of Wales Island voted this winter on forming a new city government. Residents also elected seven people to a new Whale Pass city council.
  The state’s division of elections counted 46 ballots and certified the results on January 19th. The
  
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