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• Meet Emily Harcum from Washington D.C.

  08-02-2017 23:12
  
  
  Emily HarcumThis week’s New Arrival is Emily Harcum, 32, from Washington D.C.
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  “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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• Traveling Music 2-12-17

  08-02-2017 22:42
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
   
  Upcoming Concerts:
   
  Peter Mulvey, with guest Heather Maloney, Sat. Feb. 25, 7:30 Tap Root
  Sun. Feb. 26, 6 PM, Vagabond Blues
  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
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  Frankie Belle
  Rhonda Vincent and the Rage / Molly Cherryholmes
  Ragin’ Live
  Rounder
  3:12
   
  Pearls
  The Mammals / Merenda, Rodriguez
  Rock That Babe
  Signature Sounds
  4:57
   
  Don’t Put Off Til Tomorrow
  The Wayfaring Strangers / Bill Monroe, Pete Pyle
  
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• Fairbanks School District eliminates graduate tests

  08-02-2017 21:38
  
  Fairbanks High School seniors scheduled to graduate this spring won’t need to take a college entrance exam. At its meeting last night, the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board revamped its graduation requirements. The board also heard from some educators unhappy with the district’s new personalized learning model.
  Last summer, state lawmakers repealed a requirement that high school students take the ACT, SAT or WorkKeys tests before graduating. The move was meant to cut costs. S
  
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• Alaska ranks worst in the nation for wastewater systems, report card shows - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  08-02-2017 06:33
  
  Alaska ranks worst in the nation for wastewater systems, report card shows
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Alaska got a report card on its infrastructure for the first time Tuesday. Overall, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) gave the state a C-minus. The state got a failing grade on one tough subject — water and wastewater systems. According ...
  
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• Team Alaska: Carving up Manchuria on limited time, strange diet - Skagwaynews

  08-02-2017 06:08
  Team Alaska: Carving up Manchuria on limited time, strange diet
  Skagwaynews
  From left, Team Alaska members Ken Graham, Michael Yee and Peter Lucchetti post in front of the event banners. Photos courtesy Team Alaska. By JEFF BRADY. Three snow carvers from Skagway's Team Alaska just returned from a trip to China, where they ...
  
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• Stand up for refugees, immigrants - Alaska Dispatch News

  08-02-2017 05:01
  
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  Stand up for refugees, immigrants
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  A protest is held outside Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., on Jan. 30. In a filing to a federal appeals court dated Sunday, nearly 100 technology companies, including Google, argued that President Donald Trump's temporary ban on all ...and more »
  
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• Motor fuel tax would triple under bill, but remain below national average

  08-02-2017 04:37
  
  
  If enacted, Alaska’s motor fuel tax would triple, but remain less than half of its inflation-adjusted high. (Screen capture of Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy report).Lawmakers are considering tripling the state’s motor fuels tax over the next two years. A bill would raise the tax from a national low of 8 cents per gallon to 16 cents in July, then 24 cents per gallon in July 2018.
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  The money raised by House Bill 60 would be designated to maintain the state’s
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  08-02-2017 04:33
  
  Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017
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  Lawmakers are considering tripling the state's motor fuels tax over the next two years. A bill would raise the tax from a national low of 8 cents per gallon to 16 cents in July, then 24 cents per gallon in July 2018. Following winter storms, Governor ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017

  08-02-2017 04:30
  
  
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  Motor fuel tax would triple under bill, but remain below national average
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  Lawmakers are considering tripling the state’s motor fuels tax over the next two years. A bill would raise the tax from a national low of 8 cents per gallon to 16 cents in July, then 24 cents p
  
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• Alaska Waste wants to know why so few Anchorage customers opt for curbside recycling - Alaska Dispatch News

  08-02-2017 04:25
  
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  Alaska Waste wants to know why so few Anchorage customers opt for curbside recycling
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  Gregg Schomaker empties a container into one of the mixed paper bins at the WestRock Anchorage Recycling Center on Rosewood Street on February 6, 2017. Customers using drop-off centers may be one reason they don't use curbside recycling, ...
  
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• Dawson serves as marathon racing test for Yukon mushers

  08-02-2017 04:01
  
  Paige Drobny runs her team out of Pelly Crossing Monday Feb 6th. (Photo: Molly Rettig / KUAC)The race is tight between top Yukon Quest mushers, headed toward the race‘s halfway point at Dawson City, Yukon. 2015 Quest champion Brent Sass, defending champion Hugh Neff, veterans Ed Hopkins, and Matt Hall, two-time past winner Allen Moore, and top rookie Katherine Keith, are within about 20 miles of one another along a 105-mile stretch of trail into Dawson. The long remote portion of the race
  
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• Fairbanks considers becoming a sanctuary city

  08-02-2017 03:52
  
  The Fairbanks City Council heard testimony last night from members of the public concerned about executive actions by president Trump blocking Syrian refugees and a temporarily halting travel to the US from seven primarily Muslim countries. Rose O’Hara was one of several who asked that the council make Fairbanks a sanctuary city for immigrants.
  ”Immigrants are the building blocks of what makes America great,” O’Hara said. “Since our grandparents and great-grandparen
  
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• North Pole municipality expands water system to areas impacted by sulfolane spill

  08-02-2017 03:38
  
  An agreement between the State of Alaska, City of North Pole and Flint Hills Resources will expand the municipal water system to properties impacted by spills at a former refinery. The refinery, closed by Flint Hills two years ago, was the site of historic spills of the industrial solvent sulfolane. The settlement covers more than 650 parcels of land, where North Pole Mayor Bryce Ward said affected residents will have access to public drinking water.
  ”Provides for an expansion of the full
  
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• Due to damaged reservoir, St. George Island waits for water delivery

  08-02-2017 03:21
  
  Location of St. George, Alaska. (Image: Google)St. George Island is waiting on an emergency water delivery after falling ice damaged the community’s reservoir yesterday (Feb. 6).
  In St. George, water is stored in a 280,000-gallon steel tank that draws from an aquifer. The reservoir isn’t insulated. So when cold winds batter the island from the north, water freezes inside the tank, usually near the top.
  Mayor Pat Pletnikoff said that leaves ice hanging dangerously as the water level d
  
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• Spike in alcohol related calls straining Bethel resources

  08-02-2017 03:14
  
  Bethel Search and Rescue President Mike Riley and Vice President Fritz Charles address BSAR members at a regular meeting on February 2, 2017. (Photo: Anna Rose MacArthur/KYUK)It’s the first winter in Bethel since a liquor store opened after almost 40 years of illegal sales. Alcohol is easier than ever to get, and Bethel Search and Rescue said the number of calls they receive, almost all alcohol-related, has spiked. Volunteers are getting worn out, resources are depleting, and the organizat
  
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• Doctors discuss the high cost of medical care

  08-02-2017 03:03
  
  Anchorage health care costs are third highest in the nation. The only one’s higher? Fairbanks and Juneau. We’ll explore why medical costs are so high and growing so fast from the perspective of doctors. They are frustrated, too. We’ll explore the causes they see and the solutions they’d be willing to try.
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  Charles Wohlforth
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  Dr. Alec Glass, president, Alaska State Medical Association
  Noah Laufer, president, Medical Park Family Care
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• Best all-around caliber for Alaska big game hunting? Can there be just one? - Alaska Dispatch News

  08-02-2017 02:56
  
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  Best all-around caliber for Alaska big game hunting? Can there be just one?
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  I suspect that the argument of what rifle cartridge is the best "all-around" caliber for Alaska big game hunting has burned as many calories in heated debate as what truck is better, Ford or Chevy. Forests have been decimated to publish various opinions.
  
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• Remote Alaska island community without water after ice damages reservoir - Alaska Dispatch News

  08-02-2017 02:40
  
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  Remote Alaska island community without water after ice damages reservoir
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  The remote Alaska island community of St. George was almost entirely without water Tuesday after cold weather took a toll on the community's main reservoir over the weekend, according to the city's mayor. The reservoir was damaged when the temperature ...
  
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• After mediocre last month, Alaska Aces could use a rink resurgence - Alaska Dispatch News

  08-02-2017 02:36
  
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  After mediocre last month, Alaska Aces could use a rink resurgence
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  They were 18-7-5 and third in the ECHL's Mountain Division, one point out of first place. They were on the safe side of the cut-off line to qualify for the Kelly Cup playoffs, sitting on a 12-point cushion. After missing the playoffs for two straight ...
  
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• Following winter stroms, Governor Walker declares disaster in Savoonga and Gambell

  08-02-2017 02:09
  
  Savoonga. (Photo by Anna Rose MacArthur, KNOM – Nome)Governor Bill Walker has issued a disaster declaration for the winter storms that struck Savoonga and Gambell at the end of 2016. Almost $3 million in public assistance, state individual assistance and temporary housing assistance will be given to the St. Lawrence Island communities.
  According to a press release, Governor Walker signed the disaster declaration on February 1st. This declaration allows the State of Alaska’s public an
  
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• Following winter storms, Governor Walker declares disaster in Savoonga and Gambell

  08-02-2017 02:09
  
  
  Savoonga. (Photo by Anna Rose MacArthur, KNOM – Nome)Governor Bill Walker has issued a disaster declaration for the winter storms that struck Savoonga and Gambell at the end of 2016. Almost $3 million in public assistance, state individual assistance and temporary housing assistance will be given to the St. Lawrence Island communities.
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  According to a press release, Governor Walker signed the disaster declaration on February 1st. This declaration allows the State of Alaska’
  
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• Court to issue opinion on possible DNA testing in decades-old Juneau homicide

  08-02-2017 02:04
  
  Manny Tells, left, and Newtown Lambert stand as Judge Pegease (SP?) enters the court. (Photo by Brian Wallace)After four years, convicted murderer Newton Lambert of Juneau may finally get an answer about whether he will get a DNA test in his case.
  The Alaska Court of Appeals in October heard arguments in the Lambert case that may have been one of the first applications of a 2010 law that allows for post-conviction DNA testing. The appeal stemmed from consideration of the case by a Ketchikan Supe
  
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• Progressive income tax is essential to a fair fiscal plan for Alaska - Anchorage Press

  08-02-2017 01:57
  
  Progressive income tax is essential to a fair fiscal plan for Alaska
  Anchorage Press
  The sheer size of Alaska's budget crisis makes it difficult to comprehend, let alone to solve. Many people, including myself, find it hard to picture a million dollars as only a tiny fraction of a billion dollars. It takes a thousand million to make a ...
  
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• Alaska senators ultimately split as DeVos becomes Education secretary

  08-02-2017 01:43
  
  Betsy DeVos is sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence as the Secretary of Education. (Screenshot from White House video)The U.S. Senate today (Feb. 7) voted to confirm Betsy DeVos as Education secretary. DeVos is the only one President Trump’s cabinet nominees so far to face serious trouble on the Senate floor. Senators were evenly divided, 50 to 50, and Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaker in favor of confirmation. Alaska’s two senators were split. Sen. Lisa Murkowski was o
  
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• Alaska marijuana office seeks 2 examiners to help with workload - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  08-02-2017 01:25
  
  Alaska marijuana office seeks 2 examiners to help with workload
  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. JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A top state marijuana regulator says her office needs more staff to handle its workload.and more »
  
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