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• Alaska Jewish Community Center Among Bomb-Threat Targets - U.S. News & World Report

  28-02-2017 23:38
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  Alaska Jewish Community Center Among Bomb-Threat Targets
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  An Anchorage Jewish community center is among those targeted in a wave of bomb threats around the country. Feb. 28, 2017, at 6:42 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Alaska Jewish Community Center Among Bomb-Threat Targets.
  Alaska political leaders speak out against bomb threat on Jewish Center of AlaskaKTUU.com
  Anchorage Jewish center receives bomb threat amid inciden
  
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• Survey rates Alaska Airlines tops among domestic carriers - Alaska Dispatch News

  28-02-2017 23:21
  
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  Survey rates Alaska Airlines tops among domestic carriers
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  Alaska Airlines is the best domestic airline and Spirit is the worst, according to a top 10 list that sifted through a variety of data and research to arrive at its conclusion. To compile its report, ThePointsGuy.com hoovered up data from federal ...
  Alaska Airlines Named Best US Carrier By The Points GuyForbes
  Best US airlines ranking: Alaska soars to topWTOP
  'The Points Guy' Names Alaska Airlin
  
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• Alaska Fishing Town Rejects Inclusivity Measure - U.S. News & World Report

  28-02-2017 22:06
  Alaska Fishing Town Rejects Inclusivity Measure
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  A resolution aimed at promoting inclusivity in a small Alaska fishing community has been rejected after it proved too divisive. Feb. 28, 2017, at 6:52 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Alaska Fishing Town Rejects Inclusivity Measure.and more »
  
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• Islander, friend kayaking to Alaska - Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber (subscription)

  28-02-2017 20:33
  
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  Islander, friend kayaking to Alaska
  Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber (subscription)
  Come Saturday, islander Connor Herrington and his friend Michael Stone will head to Vancouver, British Columbia, slip their kayaks into the water and begin what may be the journey of a lifetime: paddling to Alaska. The two men will make their way some ...
  
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• Man set fire to pickup with people inside, Fairbanks police say - Alaska Dispatch News

  28-02-2017 18:43
  
  Man set fire to pickup with people inside, Fairbanks police say
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  An argument over a stolen vehicle in Fairbanks last week escalated to a man setting a pickup truck on fire while two people were inside, troopers said. Fairbanks resident Dexter Reedy, 27, faces one count each of first-degree arson, third-degree ...and more »
  
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• Alaska can no longer afford a sense of entitlement - Alaska Dispatch News

  28-02-2017 06:31
  
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  Alaska can no longer afford a sense of entitlement
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  Homer Republican Rep. Paul Seaton describes new legislation that would restructure the Permanent Fund and levy an income tax to reduce the state's $3 billion deficit during a briefing with reporters Feb. 10 in Juneau. (Nathaniel Herz / Alaska Dispatch ...
  Light on Trump, Sullivan aims for optimism in address to Alaska LegislatureKTOOall 8 news articles »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Feb. 27, 2017 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  28-02-2017 04:19
  
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  Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Feb. 27, 2017
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  Differences between lawmakers are emerging on how deeply to cut the state budget. For example, the House Finance Committee discussed the billion dollars the state spends on the Department of Health and Social Services, and recommended $21 million ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Feb. 27, 2017

  28-02-2017 04:16
  
  
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  Lawmakers ideas on budget range from OCS to cuts
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  Differences between lawmakers are emerging on how deeply to cut the state budget. For example, the House Finance Committee discussed the billion dollars the state spends on the Department of Health and Social Services, and r
  
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• Tribe’s Herring Committee drafts proposals to protect subsistence

  28-02-2017 03:57
  
  Herring caught during the 2014 Sitka Sound sac roe fishery. A recent study suggests that managers should take a longer view when managing fisheries like this one. (KCAW photo/Rachel Waldholz)The Sitka Tribe of Alaska wants to see more protection for subsistence harvesters when herring season begins next month. The Tribe’s Herring Committee is recommending a pair of proposals to reserve more areas for subsistence and to cut the commercial harvest by half.
  Just a few weeks from now Sitka Sou
  
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• Alaska has one of nation's widest wage gaps between men and women - Alaska Dispatch News

  28-02-2017 03:50
  
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  Alaska has one of nation's widest wage gaps between men and women
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  Women in Alaska earn about 76 percent of what men here earn, placing the state among the worst when it comes to the gender wage gap, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2015, women in Alaska had median weekly earnings of ...and more »
  
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• State to hold meetings on evaluation process for controversial water protections

  28-02-2017 03:46
  
  The Chilkat River. (Abbey Collins)Four Alaska communities from Haines to Bristol Bay have applied for high-level water body protections. The Outstanding National Resource Water, also known as Tier 3, nominations have been in limbo for a few years. That’s because the state is still figuring out what evaluation process to use. A series of public meetings in March aim to gather input on that question.
  Last year, Outstanding Resource protection was one of the most hotly-debated topics in Haine
  
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• ‘I Am Inuit’ goes from Instagram to Anchorage Museum

  28-02-2017 03:21
  
  Photographer Brian Adams stands before a few of the 50 images featured in the Anchorage Museum’s exhibition for his ‘I Am Inuit’ project. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media)Who lives in the Arctic? And what are their stories? Those are questions posed by a new photography exhibit more than a year in the making. The “I Am Inuit” show is a body of images from artist Brian Adams that premiered last week at the Anchorage Museum. The project has built an audie
  
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• Students work to reduce ocean trash, one spork at a time

  28-02-2017 03:17
  
  McNeil Canyon Elementary students Hannah Stonorov and Jenna Lapp work on their spork dragon mascot (student Alex LeBlanc shown in background). (Photo: Joanna Greene)A new educational program is working to stop marine debris before it starts. Students from schools across the Kenai Peninsula have partnered with the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies to cut down on their consumption of single-use plastics.
  Even on the most remote beaches in Alaska, trash is a problem.
  According to a recent study, c
  
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• Column: An ode to Alaska Thunderfuck - The Daily Tar Heel

  28-02-2017 03:11
  
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  Column: An ode to Alaska Thunderfuck
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  In the last verse of her “Only”-inspired song “The T,” Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 — reigning queen of the RuPaul empire — throws out one line that always strikes me in particular. “I feel blessed, but I'm stressed. I wanna be the best; I just wanna be ...and more »
  
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• Fairbanks police officer won’t be charged for fatal summer shooting

  28-02-2017 02:56
  
  Fairbanks Police Department commander’s Dodge Charger. (Flickr Creative Commons photo by Steven H. Robinson)A Fairbanks police officer will not be charged for fatally shooting a man last summer. On Friday, Fairbanks Police Chief Eric Jewkes announced the findings of an Alaska Office of Special Prosecutions investigation of the downtown shooting. The report said Sgt. Gregory Foster took reasonable actions.
   
  Fairbanks police Chief Eric Jewkes punctuated his briefing Friday (Feb. 24) by
  
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