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• House Majority Leader Chris Tuck pushes reforms to improve voter turnout

  21-03-2017 23:55
  
  Sally Williams uses a sticker that says cucuklillruunga, or “I voted” in Yup’ik to teach the phrase at the Togiak voting site on Aug. 16, 2016. (Photo by Molly Dischner/KDLG)In the last Legislature, a Democrat-sponsored bill aimed at increasing voter turnout in Alaska, especially in the Bush. It didn’t get a single hearing in the Republican-led House of Representatives.
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  Now, Rep. Chris Tuck, an Anchorage Democrat, is in a powerful position leading the new House
  
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• Backcountry Biking to Remote Hut in Alaska Wild - Red Bull

  21-03-2017 23:38
  
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  Take the scenic route to an epic backcountry hut with bike adventurers Eric Porter and Kevin Murphy. The first option in the dictionary for the word adventure is “an exciting or very unusual experience.” While the experience that is adventure varies ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Bike Exploration | Backcountry Hut | Red Bull - RedBull.com - Red Bull

  21-03-2017 23:38
  
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  Take the scenic route to an epic backcountry hut with bike adventurers Eric Porter and Kevin Murphy. The first option in the dictionary for the word adventure is ...and more »
  
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• State health commissioner, Rep. Young concerned about health care bill

  21-03-2017 03:10
  
  Health Commissioner Valerie Davidson during a discussion on Medicaid reform in Senate Finance Feb. 24, 2016. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)Alaska’s top health official said the federal health care bill scheduled for a vote on Thursday would devastate the Medicaid program in the state. The bill’s effect on Alaska has prompted U.S. Rep. Don Young to say today he won’t vote for it in its current form.
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, March 20, 2017

  21-03-2017 03:04
  
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  State health commissioner, Rep. Young concerned about health care bill
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  Alaska’s top health official said the federal health care bill scheduled for a vote on Thursday would devastate the Medicaid program in the state. The bill’s effect on Alaska has prompt
  
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• Never Quit: Being a pararescueman

  21-03-2017 03:01
  
  Jimmy Settle knows what it is to struggle back to health after being shot in the head. Settle and co-author Don Rearden recently released their new book, Never Quit. It tells of Settle’s experiences as a pararescueman in the Alaska Air National Guard and his time in Afghanistan, in the elite 2-12th pararescue unit known as PJs. The PJs are highly skilled rescue personnel who train by plucking stranded hikers off mountains or pulling mariners out of frigid seas.  Alaska Public Media&rs
  
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• Feed Me Hope culinary school teaches skills for life beyond the kitchen

  21-03-2017 02:18
  
  
  Julia Moore displays her tray of apple crumble at the Feed Me Hope Culinary School in downtown Anchorage. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)A new culinary school that teaches more than the difference between saute and simmer opened in Anchorage last fall to provide classes for people who are homeless or are leaving prison. Instructors at Feed Me Hope go beyond teaching cooking skills to teach life skills.
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• Alaska partners with Condor ahead of flights between Seattle and ... - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)

  21-03-2017 01:55
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  Condor Airlines will offer nonstop flights from seven Alaska gateways to Europe, including a new route between Sea-Tac and Germany.
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• Citizen scientists monitor North Pole air

  21-03-2017 01:52
  
  The B.A.M. monitor sits inside a heated tent. The unit draws in outside air through a stack that extends through the tent ceiling. (Photo: Dan Bross / KUAC)Fairbanks and North Pole have suffered numerous Clean Air Act violations again this winter due to fine particulates from wood, coal and other burning. Smoke pollution persists despite long term government efforts to assess and remedy the problem, and a local group has taken air quality monitoring into their own hands.
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• Nome Finishers’ Banquet marks end of Iditarod 45

  21-03-2017 01:22
  
  A trophy of Joe Redington, Sr. — known as the father of the Iditarod — awaits the 2017 champion at the finisher’s banquet in Nome on Sunday afternoon. (Photo: David Dodman, KNOM)The 2017 Iditarod Sled Dog Race is over. The 45th running, rerouted from Fairbanks to Nome, came to an end Sunday night with the Finishers’ Banquet held at the Nome Rec Center.
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  Each musher was recognized individually starting with this year’s Red Lantern, Cindy Abbott.
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• The Open North American Championship sled dog race comes to a close

  21-03-2017 01:17
  
  Salcha musher Amy Dunlap lets a spectator pet one of her dogs after the race.
  (Photo by Robyne / KUAC)Roxy Wright won the Open North American Championship sled dog race in Fairbanks over the weekend.  The hometown favorite was followed by defending ONAC champ Buddy Steeper of British Columbia, and his wife Lina Steeper, in the three stage, 70 mile sprint competition.
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  This is the fourth time 66-year old Roxy Wright has won both of Alaska’s two big sprint races in the same ye
  
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