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• Alaska – Ever Resilient - Anchorage Press

  09-02-2017 22:49
  
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  Alaska – Ever Resilient
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  C. B. Bernard, an aspiring writer, gets offered two jobs in Alaska, both working for local newspapers. Nome offers him a reporter's slot on the Nome Nugget, while Sitka's Sentinel pitched him a similar deal. It was not a tough decision as the Southeast ...
  
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• With fireweed cosmos and spruce tip gin, Skagway distillery set to open in May

  09-02-2017 22:39
  
  This fireweed-infused Cosmo is one of the drinks Janilyn Heger plans to include on Skagway Spirits’ cocktail menu. (Photo by Emily Files/KHNS)A family of self-described “serial entrepreneurs” in Skagway think they’ve found their final adventure: a craft distillery.
  After more than a year of paperwork and preparation, Skagway Spirits is set to open this spring.
  The new business is part of a growing craft distilling industry in Alaska.
  “So I’m gonna put an ice c
  
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• Latest oil tax credit bill off to a rough start in state House

  09-02-2017 22:34
  
  
  Rep. Chris Birch, R-Anchorage, argues over the debut of an oil tax credit bill, during a floor session of the state House, on Wednesday, February 8, 2017, in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)Last session, the fight over oil tax credits was one of the biggest questions lawmakers sought to answer.  And while they did manage to pass a bill, it focused on Cook Inlet. Now, many lawmakers are saying it’s time to look at the North Slope.
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• Checking in with Erik Fossum, from Washington D.C.

  09-02-2017 21:54
  
  
  Erik Fossum, happy to be in Alaska.This time on New Arrivals, we’re checking back in with Erik Fossum, 33, from Washington, D.C. In this interview we caught up with him after he’d been living in Alaska for 3 months.
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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.
  
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• Alaska's infrastructure report card probably not going on the fridge - Alaska Public Radio Network

  09-02-2017 21:24
  
  Alaska's infrastructure report card probably not going on the fridge
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  Alaska scored a B- on its bridges, the state's highest infrastructure grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers. (Photo by KDLG). Is Alaska on the honor roll for its energy grid and water systems? According to the American Society of Civil ...
  
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• Alaska’s infrastructure report card probably not going on the fridge

  09-02-2017 21:22
  
  Alaska scored a B- on its bridges, the state’s highest infrastructure grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers. (Photo by KDLG)Is Alaska on the honor roll for its energy grid and water systems? According to the American Society of Civil Engineers the answer is “no.” The professional organization graded Alaska’s infrastructure for the first time, releasing the report card on Tuesday. And while the state didn’t ace anything, it could always be worse.
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• Legislature considers new contract to sell royalty oil

  09-02-2017 20:00
  
  
  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)The state gets the bulk of its royalties from oil produced on the North Slope in the form of oil rather than in payments from the producers.
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  This week, lawmakers are considering a contract to sell some of that royalty oil to the Alaska-owned refinery and fuel marketing comp
  
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• 'Paltry' bonding for oil operators puts Alaska at risk, agency says - Alaska Dispatch News

  09-02-2017 06:18
  
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  'Paltry' bonding for oil operators puts Alaska at risk, agency says
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  Alaska's oil-well regulators are tackling concerns over nonproducing "orphan wells" that may not be properly abandoned by financially struggling operators, following a year in which two companies went bankrupt and two others surrendered leases with wells.
  
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• Alaska House Democrats introduce oil-tax bill, sparking heated debate - Alaska Dispatch News

  09-02-2017 05:52
  
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  Alaska House Democrats introduce oil-tax bill, sparking heated debate
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  JUNEAU — Alaska House Democrats unveiled their proposal Wednesday to raise oil taxes and limit cash subsidies and oil-tax credits, officially launching a legislative debate over how much more the industry should contribute to filling the state's ...
  Oil tax debate reignites in Alaska Capitol yet againKTUU.com
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017

  09-02-2017 04:16
  
  
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  University of Alaska president addresses lawmakers after no-confidence votes
  Caroline Halter, KTOO – Juneau
  The faculty senate at the University of Alaska Fairbanks voted no-confidence in University President Jim Johnsen’s leadership on Monday, Feb. 6. The vote followed the same move by the Anchorag
  
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• University of Alaska president addresses lawmakers after no-confidence votes

  09-02-2017 03:53
  
  
  President Jim Johnsen explains Strategic Pathways at University of Alaska Southeast’s Egan Lecture Hall Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)The faculty senate at the University of Alaska Fairbanks voted no-confidence in University President Jim Johnsen’s leadership on Monday, Feb. 6. The vote followed the same move by the Anchorage faculty Jan. 13.
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  Johnsen addressed the issue Jan. 8 at a meeting of the Senate Education Committee.
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• Chief justice urges lawmakers to collaborate and compromise

  09-02-2017 03:44
  
  Sen. Mia Costello prepares to escort Chief Justice Craig Stowers with
  Rep. Zach Fansler into the House Chambers on Feb. 8, 2017, for the annual State of the Judiciary Address. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)State Supreme Court Chief Justice Craig Stowers said Alaska’s courts are leading the way in cutting costs in a way that doesn’t threaten vital services.
  In the annual State of the Judiciary address Stowers gave Wednesday, he told lawmakers this Legislature has a chan
  
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• Presbyterian Church formally apologizes to North Slope Natives for denouncing culture

  09-02-2017 03:40
  
  Utgiagvik, Alaska (File photo by Steven Kazlowsk)At 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 8, 2017 in Utqiagvik, an apology from the head of the Presbyterian Church will be offered to the Alaska Native people of the North Slope. The idea is to start a process of healing by acknowledging that the Church, however well intended, was wrong, when it denounced the cultures of Native people, both in Alaska and across the nation. Reverend Joe Reid is the pastor for the Utqiagvik Presbyterian Church. It is the oldest on the
  
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• New play tells stories of homelessness, inspires action

  09-02-2017 03:36
  
  George Holly rehearses a scene from “Home But Not Less” in Anchorage. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)A new play showing in Anchorage this weekend tells the stories of homelessness from around the state. But for the writers and actors, “Home But Not Less” isn’t a story about sadness. It’s about understanding.
  Rumpled tarps hang against the walls of an old church, serving as back drops for the eight actors that circle the audience’s seating area.
  “So m
  
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• Fishermen forced to share pounds in herring fishery

  09-02-2017 01:41
  
  These herring pounds near Craig are floating pens used to hold herring while they spawn on kelp. (Photo: ADFG)New restrictions are being put into place for the upcoming spawn-on-kelp herring fishery in Southeast Alaska to address a declining population. For the first time, fishermen are required to share spawning structures with several others.
  The spawn-on-kelp fishery allows fishermen to catch herring near Craig and Klawock and put them into floating net pens called pounds. Blades of kelp are
  
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• Ask a Climatologist: What the fog, Anchorage?

  09-02-2017 01:39
  
  Morning fog in Anchorage on Monday, Feb. 6th, 2017 (photo by Brian Brettschneider)This week we’re responding to a listener who asked: What the fog? Why has there been so much fog in Anchorage this winter?
  Anchorage has had a record amount of dense fog this winter. The main culprit is a dramatic temperature inversion between the mountains and the city. On average, it’s been nine degrees warmer on the upper hillside than in town.
  Since Dec. 1, Anchorage has seen 26 days of fog with vis
  
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• Rep. Young named ‘chairman emeritus,’ loses power of the gavel

  09-02-2017 00:52
  
  Alaska Rep. Don Young. Photo: Liz Ruskin.For most of the past 20 years, Alaska Congressman Don Young has been either a committee or subcommittee chairman. But now he wields no gavel.
  Spokesman Matt Shuckerow said Young reached the end of a six-year term as chairman of the subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
  “House and Senate Republicans instituted a term-limit on committee chairmanship or leadership roles in 1994. And so that’s kind of the nature of where
  
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