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• Debate continues over role of Suboxone in primary care

  04-05-2017 23:01
  
  Sublingual Suboxone(Buprenorphine/Naloxone 8mg/2mg) Tablets (Jr de Barbosa via Wikimedia Commons)Buprenorphine is one of the medications used to treat opioid addictions. A speaker at a recent medical conference in Anchorage said getting the medication to heroin users through their primary care providers is an essential way to reduce overdose deaths. But some addiction treatment professionals in Alaska say not so fast.
  Buprenorphine is a synthetic opioid that’s often combined with another d
  
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• Young votes for House health care bill, says it will improve

  04-05-2017 22:51
  
  Protestors at the U.S. Capitol before a vote on the health care bill. Photo by Liz Ruskin.A Republican bill to replace the Affordable Care Act squeaked through the U.S. House today, with help from Alaska Congressman Don Young.
  Under the bill, Alaskans would lose the generous subsidies they have now for plans purchased on the individual market. Young said the legislation will change before final passage, and he said he has secured promises Alaska will get more help.
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• Juneau adult ed center outperforms national GED graduation rate

  04-05-2017 22:37
  
  Joyanne Bloom teaches the What’s Up? class at The Learning Connection on on Tuesday, April 25, 2017. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)It’s time for What’s Up? a social studies class that focuses on current events. When teacher Joyanne Bloom asks what’s up around Juneau, Kristina Arnold brings up a playground that burned down.
  “It was saying last night on the Empire page that it was over $250,000 worth of damage done,” Arnold said.
  Arnold is in th
  
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• Alaska Air execs ask Wichita to invest in Seattle service - Wichita Eagle

  04-05-2017 22:10
  
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  Alaska Air execs ask Wichita to invest in Seattle service
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  Alaska Airlines typically gives new markets three years to prove themselves, and the Seattle-based airline will be using a new regional carrier in Wichita during the next few months. That's some of what came from a joint Wichita Aero Club and Wichita ...
  
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• David Wilson, GOP lawmaker, accused of slapping Alaska Dispatch News reporter - Washington Times

  04-05-2017 20:05
  
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  David Wilson, GOP lawmaker, accused of slapping Alaska Dispatch News reporter
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  This Jan. 23, 2017, file photo shows Alaska state Sen. David Wilson posing in his Capitol office in Juneau, Alaska. A reporter for the Alaska Dispatch News on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, claimed Wilson slapped him Tuesday in a Capitol ... more >. Print.
  An Alaska State Senator Allegedly Slapped A Reporter For Doing Their JobVibe
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• Federal budget deal maintains Alaska arts funding, state lawmakers OK arts restructuring - Alaska Public Radio Network

  04-05-2017 18:47
  
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  Federal budget deal maintains Alaska arts funding, state lawmakers OK arts restructuring
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  The federal budget deal cut by Congress includes some good news for arts in Alaska. The compromise continues funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. The federal agency provides $800,000, about 30 percent, of the Alaska State Council on the ...and more »
  
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• Correction: Trump-Offshore Drilling Story - U.S. News & World Report

  04-05-2017 17:56
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  Correction: Trump-Offshore Drilling Story
  U.S. News & World Report
  FILE - This Jan. 7, 2013, file photo, shows the Shell floating drill rig Kulluk in Kodiak Island, Alaska's Kiliuda Bay as salvage teams conduct an in-depth assessment of its seaworthiness after it ran aground off an island near Kodiak as it was being ...
  Green groups sue over Trump executive order on Arctic drillingAlaska Dispatch Newsall 124 news articles »
  
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• Constant Alaska Earthquake Monitoring Threatened by Cutbacks - U.S. News & World Report

  04-05-2017 17:45
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  Constant Alaska Earthquake Monitoring Threatened by Cutbacks
  U.S. News & World Report
  Officials say funding cuts from a wide variety of sources are raising the risk that Alaska may lose constant earthquake monitoring and analysis performed by the Alaska Regional Seismic Network. | May 4, 2017, at 11:50 a.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon ...
  Years of budget cuts hamper monitoring of Alaska earthquakes, including Monday'sAlaska Public Radio Networkall 3
  
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• State lawmaker says Alaska women get abortions for travel vouchers, offers no proof - KTUU.com

  04-05-2017 07:10
  
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  State lawmaker says Alaska women get abortions for travel vouchers, offers no proof
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  JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU - TV) A conservative state lawmaker faces criticism after he suggested Alaska women get abortions so they can get the government to pay for an out-of-state trip. Rep. David Eastman, R-Wasilla, speaks with House Speaker Bryce ...
  Alaska Lawmakers Mull Measure Calling Abortion 'Child Abuse'U.S. News & World Reportall 17 news articles »
  
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• Rep. Young mum on health care bill; Murkowski knocks it

  04-05-2017 05:03
  
  Rep. Don Young, center, in the U.S. Capitol in January. With him are his wife, Anne Young, and spokesman Matt ShuckerowThe U.S. House plans to vote Thursday on a Republican bill to replace the Affordable Care Act, and Alaska Congressman Don Young isn’t declaring a position. His office says Young is studying the proposal and has no new comments on the subject.
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  Sen. Lisa Murkowski wasn’t so reticent Wednesday afternoon.
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• Study asks why species bounced back – or didn’t – after Exxon Valdez

  04-05-2017 05:00
  
  A sea otter in Resurrection Bay. (Photo by Heather Bryant)When the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound in 1989, the immediate effects were pretty obvious. Researchers estimate that hundreds of thousands of sea birds and thousands of sea otters died within months, among other impacts.
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  But in the years that followed, some populations bounced back quickly, while others may never recover. Now, nearly three decades later, scientists are start
  
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• Conoco gives up stake in North Slope project seen as precursor to gas line

  04-05-2017 04:52
  
  Construction on Exxon Mobil’s Point Thomson field in December 2015. Image courtesy of Exxon Mobil/MSI CommunicationsConocoPhillips has confirmed it’s giving up its small stake in the Point Thomson field on the North Slope.
  The move has some observers wondering if it’s a bad sign for the state’s effort to build a massive natural gas line.
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  Point Thomson is one of the state’s newest oil and gas projects. It’s about 60 miles east of Prudhoe Bay and star
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, May 3, 2017

  04-05-2017 04:42
  
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  Rep. Eastman: Some women ‘glad’ to be pregnant for Medicaid-funded travel for abortions
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  State Rep. David Eastman said some Alaskans are glad to become pregnant, so that they can have a Medicaid-funded trip to Anchorage or Seattle to have an abortion. Eastman di
  
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• Rep. Eastman: Some women ‘glad’ to be pregnant for Medicaid-funded travel for abortions

  04-05-2017 03:50
  
  Rep. David Eastman, R-Wasilla, during a House floor session, March 1, 2017. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)State Rep. David Eastman said some Alaskans are glad to become pregnant, so that they can have a Medicaid-funded trip to Anchorage or Seattle to have an abortion. Eastman didn’t provide evidence for this, but said he had been told this by friends and acquaintances.
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  Eastman said Medicaid funding for travel for health care provides an incentive to become pregnant and have
  
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• Alaska reporter says state senator slapped him - ABC News

  04-05-2017 03:46
  
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  Alaska reporter says state senator slapped him
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  FILE - This Jan. 23, 2017, file photo shows Alaska state Sen. David Wilson posing in his Capitol office in Juneau, Alaska. A reporter for the Alaska Dispatch News on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, claimed Wilson slapped him Tuesday in a Capitol stairwell when ...
  Alaska state senator accused of slapping political reporterKTUU.com
  Alaska Dispatch News reporter slapped by Wasilla lawmakerAlaska Dispatch News
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• Traveling Music 5-7-17

  04-05-2017 03:29
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  5-7-17
   
  Upcoming Concerts:
  Dougie MacLean:  Saturday May 13, 7:30 PM, Vagabond Blues, Palmer
  Sunday May 14, 7 PM Sydney Lawrence Theater / PAC
   
  Richard Thompson: Sunday, May 21, 7:30 PM Discovery Theater, PAC
   
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  Song TitleArtist / Composer
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  Gloomy Winter
  Dougie Maclean / Robert Tanahill
  The Essential Dougie Maclean
  www.dougiemaclean.com
  3:59
   
  Schoolday’s Over
  Damien Dempsey / Ewan MacColl
  Joy of L
  
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• ADN reporter allegedly slapped by legislator in a stairwell

  04-05-2017 03:23
  
  The Alaska state capitol building in Juneau. (Public Domain photo)The Alaska Dispatch News is reporting one of its reporters was slapped by a state senator.
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  According to an article put up Wednesday afternoon, the event happened Tuesday in Juneau. Mat-Su Republican Sen. David Wilson is alleged to have lightly hit legislative reporter Nathaniel Herz in a stairwell at the capital.
  Herz recently reported on legislation the freshman senator from Wasilla had introduced, SB90. Acco
  
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• Enviros challenge legality of Trump’s Arctic order

  04-05-2017 02:27
  
  Map of Obama Arctic withdrawal area. (Map: BOEM)As expected, environmental groups have filed a lawsuit over an order President Trump signed last week to reverse a ban on Arctic offshore oil and gas leasing.
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  Late last year, then-President Obama withdrew most of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas from the possibility of leasing, for an indefinite period of time. The law Obama used, section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, doesn’t say anything about how a president c
  
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• Effort to ban Valdez pot sales fails in Municipal Election

  04-05-2017 01:09
  
  (Creative Commons photo by Brett Levin)It looks like Alaska’s first retail marijuana store isn’t going anywhere for a while. Ballot Proposition 1, which would have banned the sales and cultivation of marijuana within Valdez city limits, is on its way of failing following preliminary results from last night’s Municipal Election.
  Opponents of Proposition 1 were “happy” after the preliminary results from Tuesday night’s Valdez Municipal Election were announced. 8
  
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• Ask a Climatologist: April flips the warm switch in Alaska

  04-05-2017 00:24
  
  Potter Marsh and Turnagain Arm on April 29th, 2017. (Photo by Brian Brettschneider)After a cold winter, the month of April turned warmer than normal across the state.
  Alaska’s Energy Desk is checking in with climatologist Brian Brettschneider each week as part of the segment, Ask a Climatologist.
  Brettschneider said April broke the string of below normal temperatures that dominated the winter months.
  Interview Transcript:
  Brian: Certainly March was exceptionally cold in Alaska. In April, w
  
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• Divisions deepen as lawmakers tinker with Alaska’s oil tax credits

  04-05-2017 00:04
  
  The sun rises on the North Slope between drill rigs, Nov. 6, 2012. (Creative Commons photo by Kevan Dee)Lawmakers in Juneau are still tinkering with the state’s oil tax credit system.
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  Ranking members of both the Senate and the House seem to agree that the state needs to break free of a system that will leave it owing nearly $700 million in cash payments to oil companies by the end of the year. But Senate Republicans have completely rewritten the House’s version of a reform
  
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