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• Adjusting Senate Bill 91

  10-03-2017 23:00
  
  The Alaska Legislature passed the crime reform bill, SB 91, in 2016. Senators John Coghill and now-retired Johnny Ellis co-sponsored the bill, which passed both houses with a two-thirds majority vote. In July, Governor Bill Walker signed it into law.
  Alaska’s bill is a part of criminal justice reform sweeping many states. It  aims to spend public money within the criminal justice system much more effectively, shifting almost $100 million in savings to crime-reduction programs over six
  
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• Texas, Alaska Senators Look Ahead To Trump Energy Policies - Houston Public Media

  10-03-2017 22:53
  
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  Texas, Alaska Senators Look Ahead To Trump Energy Policies
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  “Nobody believes that no regulations is a good answer,” Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said. Travis Bubenik. | Posted on March 10, 2017, 3:53 PM. 00:00 /00:00. Travis Bubenik | Houston Public Media. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) mingles with attendees of ...and more »
  
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• Musher suffers dog loss at Galena checkpoint

  10-03-2017 22:45
  
  The trail between Ruby and Galena (Photo: Ben Matheson: KNOM)A dog has died in this year’s Iditarod. It happened shortly before midnight at the Galena checkpoint.
  The dog was part of race veteran Seth Barnes’s team. Upon arriving at the checkpoint vets tried resuscitating the animal, but to no avail.
  There is no official cause of death yet, or official statement from the Iditarod Trail Committee. Typically a necropsy is performed on dogs that pass away during the race.
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• Mitch Seavey is first to Huslia

  10-03-2017 22:35
  
  Huslia residents came out in force to welcome the first musher, Mitch Seavey. (Photo: Ben Matheson, KNOM)Iditarod racer Mitch Seavey is the first musher to reach the halfway checkpoint of Huslia. The two-time champion was the first to leave Galena early Thursday and arrived in Huslia more than 80 miles up the trail at 8:18 p.m. A big crowd lined the main street to welcome in Seavey.
  Mitch Seavey was the first musher to reach Huslia on Thursday night. (Photo: Ben Matheson, KNOM)For being the firs
  
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• Going undercover in North Korea

  10-03-2017 22:30
  
  Photo courtesy: Suki KimSuki Kim is a South Korean-born, American novelist and investigative journalist and the only writer ever to go live undercover in North Korea. She is the author of recent New York Times-bestselling literary nonfiction, Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite, has traveled to North Korea since 2002, witnessing the country during both Kim Jong-Il’s 60th Birthday Celebration and his death at age 69 in 2011. Her six months in
  
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• Iditarod strategies on view as mushers take “24’s”

  10-03-2017 22:29
  
  The Galena checkpoint hosts dog teams on Thursday. (Photo: Ben Matheson, KNOM)At this point in the Iditarod, just about every top team has declared their mandatory 24-rest, and is either recuperating, or else charging back onto the trail. The rest gives both dogs and mushers a chance to catch their breath and rebuild some strength. And it’s one of the main indicators of a musher’s strategy, finally giving shape to the accelerating race in the days ahead.
  All over the dog lot on a fro
  
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• Alaska Senate Panel Moves Bill to Use Oil Wealth Fund Money - U.S. News & World Report

  10-03-2017 21:25
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  Alaska Senate Panel Moves Bill to Use Oil Wealth Fund Money
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  A state Senate committee has advanced legislation calling for structured draws from Alaska's oil-wealth fund to help pay for government as Alaska grapples with a multibillion-dollar deficit. | March 10, 2017, at 3:17 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon ...
  Alaska Editorial: Nothing easy about permanent fund earnings planJuneau Empire (subscription)all 9 news articles&
  
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• Alaska Airlines flight attendant finds an unlikely kidney donor - ABC News

  10-03-2017 21:09
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  Alaska Airlines flight attendant finds an unlikely kidney donor
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  Jenny Stansel, an Alaska Airlines flight attendant, has battled chronic kidney disease for the last 15 years, but things took a turn for the worse last March when she became ill on a flight. "I had to take a passenger's seat on my last flight," Stansel ...
  Alaska pilot to donate kidney to flight attendantKIRO Seattle
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• Iditapod: Iditarod Mushers Reach Huslia

  10-03-2017 20:18
  
  In Episode 10, we talk about: Mitch Seavey the first into Huslia, 24-hour rests and how mushers determine when to take them, and the Iditarod’s educational aspects.
  I-Kid-A-Pod podcast
  If you have a question about the Iditarod, email us at [email protected] entire wall of Wisconsin teacher Felecity Treptow’s 4th grade is filled up with Iditarod knowledge. (Photo courtesy Felecity Treptow)
  
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• What newer neuroradiologic techniques tell us about traumatic brain injury and other disorders of the nervous system

  10-03-2017 20:00
  
  Photo courtesy – NIH Image GalleryWith traumatic brain injury it can be difficult to assess how much the brain has been injured and to predict the outcome. New neuroradiologic techniques are helping to better understand traumatic brain injury and other disorders of the brain like Parkinson’s Disease, dementias, and multiple sclerosis. Why not join us to learn more.
   
  HOST: Dr. Thad WoodardGUESTS:
  Dr Gerry York, a neuroradiologist with Imaging Associates in Anchorage
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• Cyrano’s presents Noel Coward’s Private Lives

  10-03-2017 19:07
  
  Jay Burns (Victor) and Stefanie Suydam (Sibyl)Cyrano’s Theatre Company is presenting Noel Coward’s classic Comedy of Manners, Private Lives about a divorced couple, now on honeymoons with their new spouses, who meet and discover that they are still attracted to each other. Director Teresa Pond and actors Frank Delaney and Stefanie Suydam drop by Stage Talk this week to talk about how this play is still as “fantastically funny” as it was back when it was first produced in
  
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• Alaska Air Prices May Have Leveled Off - TheStreet.com

  10-03-2017 17:51
  
  Alaska Air Prices May Have Leveled Off
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  The price action and slowing momentum figures on Alaska Air (ALK) suggest we can see a leveling off of prices in the near term. In this daily bar chart of ALK, above, we can see prices are testing the rising 50-day moving average line. A close below ...and more »
  
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• Massive oil discovery in Alaska is biggest onshore find in 30 years - CNNMoney

  10-03-2017 17:18
  
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  Massive oil discovery in Alaska is biggest onshore find in 30 years
  CNNMoney
  Some 1.2 billion barrels of oil have been discovered in Alaska, marking the biggest onshore discovery in the U.S. in three decades. The massive find of conventional oil on state land could bring relief to budget pains in Alaska brought on by slumping ...
  Massive Oil Find in Alaska Is Largest in 30 YearsFox Business
  Repsol finds massive new oil field in AlaskaMarketWatch
  The largest onshore oil discovery i
  
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• Alaska Communications, Quintillion to bring broadband to rural Northwest Alaska communities - FierceTelecom

  10-03-2017 16:47
  
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  Alaska Communications, Quintillion to bring broadband to rural Northwest Alaska communities
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  Leveraging Quintillion's new submarine cable, Alaska Communications will bring new services to Utqiaġvik (formerly known as Barrow), Nome, Kotzebue, Point Hope and Wainwright, some of Alaska's northernmost communities. Share Facebook Twitter ...
  
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• 4 face charges tied to ATM thefts in Anchorage - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-03-2017 16:47
  
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  4 face charges tied to ATM thefts in Anchorage
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Four people have been charged in Anchorage federal court with crimes tied to thefts of bank automated teller machines. The first of two cases filed Tuesday charges Jerd Thacker, Cristi Cozzeti and Jordan Cook with possession of stolen bank property ...
  
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• Alaska Air adds 13 routes from Bay Area in major expansion - KING5.com

  10-03-2017 15:34
  
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  Alaska Air adds 13 routes from Bay Area in major expansion
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  Seattle-based Alaska Airlines unveiled 13 non-stop routes from the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday in what the company called its “single largest new market announcement” in its history. The routes – 10 from San Francisco International and three ...
  Having bought Virgin, Alaska Airlines plans big SFO expansionSan Francisco Chronicle
  Alaska Airlines to offer new flights from San Jose, San Francisc
  
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• Alaska governor proposes bill aimed at bolstering public safety - Police News

  10-03-2017 11:00
  
  Alaska governor proposes bill aimed at bolstering public safety
  Police News
  JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska communities that lack their own police forces would be allowed to contract for service from the Alaska State Troopers under legislation proposed by Gov. Bill Walker. The bill would allow the state Department of Public Safety to ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Airlines pilot's life-saving donation - kgw.com

  10-03-2017 09:07
  
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  Alaska Airlines pilot's life-saving donation
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  An Alaska Airlines pilot and flight attendant are about to become much more than co-workers, or even friends. One of them is making a sacrifice so the other can live a healthy, full life. KING 11:58 PM. PST March 09, 2017 ...
  
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• Vision of trans-Pacific trade drove Alaska purchase - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-03-2017 06:14
  
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  Vision of trans-Pacific trade drove Alaska purchase
  Alaska Dispatch News
  There aren't many Alaskans familiar with the Treaty of Wangxia, but when William Seward sat down with Eduard de Stoeckl in March 150 years ago to talk about Russian America, he was very familiar with it. It was an 1844 agreement between China and the ...
  
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• Judge to rule on whether laws broken when Barrow became Utqiaġvik - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-03-2017 05:17
  
  Judge to rule on whether laws broken when Barrow became Utqiaġvik
  Alaska Dispatch News
  A fight over what the northernmost city in the United States should be called is playing out in court, and the immediate focus is on technicalities of public notice, not whether Utqiaġvik is the right name for what used to be Barrow. On Thursday ...
  
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• A father of fracking seeks to emulate shale boom in Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-03-2017 04:29
  
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  A father of fracking seeks to emulate shale boom in Alaska
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  Pipelines at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope on Friday, May 22, 2015. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News). A pioneer of the U.S. shale revolution wants to take fracking to America's final frontier. Success could help revive Alaska's flagging oil ...
  
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• State concerned about tanker escort design for Prince William Sound

  10-03-2017 04:01
  
  
  Crowley Marine Services currently holds the contract to provide oil tanker escorts and spill response and prevention in Prince William Sound. (Photo: Eric Keto, Alaska’s Energy Desk)State regulators are asking the operator of the trans-Alaska pipeline and oil shippers to offer more proof that new tugboats being built for Prince William Sound are up to the job of preventing major oil spills.
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  In late February, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation wrote that design i
  
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• Now in minority, House Republicans fail to cut budget

  10-03-2017 03:57
  
  
  Rep. Lance Pruitt, R-Anchorage, during a discussion in the House Finance Committee in February. He wants further budget cuts. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)The Republican House caucus is pushing to cut the state government budget. But they no longer hold the majority. Instead of shrinking, the House version of the budget has actually grown.
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  The House Finance Committee has been working through $150 million in proposed cuts by minority-caucus Republicans. So far, the mostly De
  
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• Sorry, Alaska - TPM (blog)

  10-03-2017 03:51
  Sorry, Alaska
  TPM (blog)
  You have to see this eye-popping chart from the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities analysis of the difference in subsidies between the ACA and the Ryan/House plan, i.e., TrumpCare. This is the average difference in credits in 2020 for people ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, March 9, 2017

  10-03-2017 03:51
  
  
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  Companies trumpet 1.2 billion-barrel oil discovery on North Slope
  Elizabeth Harball, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  The companies behind an already significant oil find on Alaska’s North Slope on Thursday said they’ve confirmed the biggest onshore discovery in the U.S. in three decades
  
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• With sick dogs, Zirkle takes her 24-hour rest earlier than planned

  10-03-2017 03:28
  
  
  Aliy Zirkle getting water while stopped at the Nenana checkpoint. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media.)Iditarod veteran Aliy Zirkle has had to upend her race plans and declare a 24-hour rest in Galena because of sick dogs.
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  After pulling off the Yukon River, Zirkle had several vets checking out her team. She said the leaders started looking ill on Tuesday afternoon.
  “My dogs aren’t extremely healthy right now; they all have this bug, and a few of ‘em have a
  
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• Judge weighs lawsuit over Alaska town's new name - Newsday

  10-03-2017 03:17
  
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  Judge weighs lawsuit over Alaska town's new name
  Newsday
  A boat drives past a skin boat display near whale bones and an arch made of a whale jaw on the beach in a town that was known as Barrow, Alaska, on Aug. 12, 2005. Photo Credit: AP. advertisement | advertise on newsday. ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Those ...and more »
  
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• Push or pause? Near Iditarod’s mid-point, mushers decide when to rest

  10-03-2017 03:16
  
  
  A team travels on the Iditarod trail to Tanana. (Photo: Ben Matheson, KNOM)It’s break time on the Iditarod trail, as teams hunker down for 24 hours of uninterrupted rest along the Yukon River or consider pushing down the trail to a later checkpoint. As the race approaches the halfway point mushers try to plan how to get the most from their tactical breaks.
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  As Jason Mackey laid out beds for his team’s rest he bangs tug line clips against one another to break off frozen dog
  
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• Companies trumpet 1.2 billion-barrel oil discovery on North Slope

  10-03-2017 03:05
  
  
  A rig in the Pikka unit, where oil companies Armstrong Oil & Gas and Repsol say they’ve found 1.2 billion barrels of oil. (Photo courtesy Armstrong Oil & Gas)The companies behind an already significant oil find on Alaska’s North Slope on Thursday said they’ve confirmed the biggest onshore discovery in the U.S. in three decades.
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  Spanish company Repsol said two wells it drilled this winter with partner Armstrong Energy show the companies have found 1.2 bil
  
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• 3 things to know about the GOP health care bill in Congress

  10-03-2017 03:00
  
  
  Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., spoke to reporters after the committee he chairs passed a health care bill. Photo by Liz Ruskin/APRN.A Republican bill to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act is advancing in the U.S. House. It would end the tax penalty for going uninsured and lift regulatory burdens on employers. But its effects across the country are uneven. Here are three things an Alaskan should know about the proposed American Health Care Act.
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  1. Alaskans would be the
  
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• Short-lived proposition to cut funds for Alaska’s gasline corporation dies in committee

  10-03-2017 02:57
  
  
  Rep. Tammie Wilson, R- North Pole, reads through a series of amendments to the state’s budget during the House Finance Committee meeting on Tuesday in Juneau. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)Two House Republicans want to cut funding for the state’s gas line corporation. During a House Finance committee meeting, Rep. Tammie Wilson proposed cutting more than $10 million from the state’s operating budget, earmarked for the Alaska Gasline Development Corporati
  
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• Village of Napaimute is opening a commercial lumber sawmill below Kalskag

  10-03-2017 01:58
  
  Oscar Samuelson hauling the last load of the sawmill components. The Napaimute crew will continue hauling a small building and returning equipment this week. (Mark Leary / Native Village of Napaimute)The Native Village of Napaimute is starting a commercial lumber business in the middle Kuskokwim this year. The workers are currently moving the sawmill 40 miles downriver from Chuathbaluk to three miles below Kalskag where the mill will cut commercial lumber on demand, creating jobs and providing c
  
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• Balto returns: Hero of the serum run visits Alaska - KTUU.com

  10-03-2017 01:50
  
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  Balto returns: Hero of the serum run visits Alaska
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  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - As the mushers and their teams race down 4th Avenue each year, for the ceremonial start of the Iditarod, they pass by a tribute to the most famous sled dog of them all. It's the statue of Balto, the leader of the sled dog team that ...
  Record Cold Grips Alaska, Tests Iditarod Race ParticipantsThe Weather Channel
  Beware the 57-year-old: Mitch Seavey throws down gauntletAlaska Dispatch News
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• Rep. Ortiz introduces state version of Mental Health land trade

  10-03-2017 01:42
  
  Deer Mountain is seen during a break in the snowstorms on March 7. (Photo by Pam Davies)While waiting for federal legislation to expedite a land exchange between the U.S. Forest Service and Alaska Mental Health, state officials are working on a companion bill in the Alaska Legislature.
  Rep. Dan Ortiz of Ketchikan introduced House Bill 155 to help move the land trade forward. The bill would approve exchanging about 18,000 acres of Mental Health land for about 20,000 acres of Forest Service land.
  
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• APD’s new targeted crime plan focuses on connections

  10-03-2017 01:19
  
  Acting Deputy Chief Sean Case speaks during a press conference in Mountain View on March 9, 2017. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)The Anchorage Police Department announced its new targeted crime plan Thursday. It focuses on getting into the community and developing relationships. APD will expand its foot patrols beyond downtown and into Mountain View, Fairview and Spenard.
  Acting Deputy Chief Sean Case spoke during a news conference at the Mountain View Community Center.
  “The goal of the foot
  
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