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• Chasing thunder: Searching for Alaska's most legendary cannabis strain - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-02-2017 22:19 via adn.com
  
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  Chasing thunder: Searching for Alaska's most legendary cannabis strain
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  Ron Bass' marijuana plant, which he believes is the legendary Matanuska Thunder F— strain, pictured July 22 in Big Lake. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News). "This isn't it," said Roger J. Cobb, looking at a marijuana bud between his fingertips ...
  
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• A morning in Alaska's little-known federal immigration court - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-02-2017 22:00 via adn.com
  
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  A morning in Alaska's little-known federal immigration court
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  On Friday morning, a dozen people waited in the hallway of a federal building near downtown Anchorage to find out whether they had a future in the United States. Alaska does not have its own full-time federal immigration judge. So hearings are handled ...
  
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• Meet Marcia LaSalle, from Wisconsin

  18-02-2017 04:00
  
  On this show we meet Marcia Lasalle, 23, originally from Wisconsin.
   
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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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  Independent producer Vikram
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Feb. 17, 2017

  18-02-2017 03:52
  
  
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  Veteran of Alaska campaigns said to be in line for White House job
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  Multiple news outlets report Mike Dubke is about to be named as President Trump’s new communications director. The Washington-based political strategist has worked on several Alaska c
  
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• Denali wolf protection back before Game Board

  18-02-2017 03:13
  
  
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  (Photo by Kent Miller, Denali National Park)Proposals to reinstate a no wolf kill area on state land along Denali National Park’s northeast edge, will be considered by the Alaska Board of Game. The board imposed a moratorium on the controversial buffer zone proposals when it eliminated a previous one in 2010, but the issue returns to the board agenda during a week-long meeting in Fairbanks that began Friday (Feb. 17).
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  One of two Denali wolf buffer proposals comes fro
  
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• Building Interfaith Communities

  18-02-2017 03:00
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama gestures during a meeting with religious leaders at the White House Sept. 11, 2014 (CNS photo/Pete Souza, courtesy White House)The program will focus on how we create understanding and have conversations about faith with people who are different from us. We’ll talk about common misconceptions about the three major Western/Abrahamic religions and how they overlap.
  HOST: Anne Hillman
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  Heather Barbour, Islamic Community Center
  Rabbi Michael Oblath, Cong
  
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• New York hedge fund slams Northern Dynasty, Pebble Mine in investor report

  18-02-2017 02:52
  
  
  A 20 page report prepared by Kerrisdale Capital, a New York based hedge fund specializing in activist shorts, slammed Northern Dynasty stock as “worthless,” driving the price down quickly Tuesday.
  (Kerrisdale Capital)“Worthless” is how a New York hedge fund labeled the value of Northern Dynasty stock in a report issued Tuesday. Northern Dynasty is the Vancouver-based company behind the proposed Pebble Mine, which Kerrisdale said is a project that will never be commerciall
  
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• Veteran of Alaska campaigns said to be in line for White House job - Alaska Public Radio Network

  18-02-2017 02:47 via alaskapublic.org
  
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  Veteran of Alaska campaigns said to be in line for White House job
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  The Wall Street Journal and other national news outlets are reporting that Mike Dubke is about to be named as President Trump's new communications director. The Washington-based political strategist has worked on several Alaska campaigns. He helped ...
  Officials: Mike Dubke to be named as White House communications directorCNNall 87 news articles »
  
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• Veteran of Alaska campaigns said to be in line for White House job

  18-02-2017 02:44
  
  
  Michael Dubke (Facebook photo)The Wall Street Journal and other national news outlets are reporting that Mike Dubke is about to be named as President Trump’s new communications director. The Washington-based political strategist has worked on several Alaska campaigns. He helped Sen. Lisa Murkowski win re-election last year, and in 2014 his firm was the lead strategist behind Dan Sullivan’s election to the U.S. Senate.
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  Sen. Sullivan said in a written statement he could
  
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• Waiting for winter: ice roads mean the North Slope can get to work

  18-02-2017 02:26
  
  
  A water truck and blade add layers of ice chips and water to an ice road near one of ConocoPhillips’ flow lines on the Western North Slope. (Photo by Elizabeth Harball/Alaska’s Energy Desk)Every winter, a massive infrastructure project takes place on the North Slope — one that’s designed to disappear. Ice roads are built to minimize the oil industry’s footprint on the sensitive tundra, and melt away in spring. Many of the oil industry’s multi-million dollar pr
  
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• AK: Fleeing violence and feeling fearful in a new home

  18-02-2017 01:10
  
  
  Attendees of the Refugee Assistance & Immigration Services (RAIS) art show held Feb. 3 in support of those affected by President Trump’s executive order (Photo: RAIS)After three years of waiting for special immigrant visas, a family from Iraq finally arrived in Anchorage last fall. They were seeking safety. Then, on January 27, President Trump signed an executive order, and everything seemed to change. At the family’s request because of concerns for their security, Alaska Public
  
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• 49 Voices: Zion Phillips of Anchorage

  18-02-2017 01:05
  
  
  Zion Phillips, UAA’s Black Student Union president. (Photo: Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media)This week we’re hearing from Zion Phillips in Anchorage. Phillips is a UAA freshmen and president of UAA’s Black Student Union.
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  PHILLIPS: I was born in Kansas – Wichita. Then I moved to Dover, DE, then to Lajes Field, Azores – it’s one of nine islands owned by Portugal – and then I moved to Texas and then I’m here. I think I was able to see basi
  
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• Skijoring with dogs and family in winter

  18-02-2017 01:00
  
  Photo courtesy: Anson Chappell on FlickrSeeing skijoring randomly at Kincaid Park can blow your mind. A dog can pull you on your skis faster than you believed possible. The feeling is much like dog mushing, but much easier to get into because you don’t need an entire team. Your own pet may be able to do it, if you both learn how. In the first half of this next show we’ll talk about skijoring, how it is done, and what it takes to start. In the second half, we’ll f
  
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• Skijoring and winter dog care

  18-02-2017 01:00
  
  Photo courtesy: Anson Chappell on FlickrSeeing skijoring randomly at Kincaid Park can blow your mind. A dog can pull you on your skis faster than you believed possible. The feeling is much like dog mushing, but much easier to get into because you don’t need an entire team. Your own pet may be able to do it, if you both learn how. In the first half of this next show we’ll talk about skijoring, how it is done, and what it takes to start. In the second half, we’ll f
  
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