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• Alaska GOP strategy to avoid taxes at any cost, regardless of the ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  06-05-2017 21:58
  
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  The biggest differences between the House and Senate are that the Senate wants to spend about $100 million less on K-12 schools and the University of Alaska ...
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• Southeast Alaska Secures Land Trade With Approved Bill - U.S. News & World Report

  06-05-2017 20:22
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Southeast Alaska Secures Land Trade With Approved Bill
  U.S. News & World Report
  KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — A recently approved U.S. Senate bill secures a long-awaited land trade. The $1.1 spending bill approved by the Senate on Thursday will permit a land trade between the U.S. Forest Service and the Alaska Mental Health Trust, the ...
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• A slow trip across Alaska begins - Alaska Dispatch News

  06-05-2017 15:38
  
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  A slow trip across Alaska begins
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  I'm now sitting on the muscled root of a Sitka spruce by the pleasant rush of a creek. A bald eagle shrieks from the top of a tree nearby while a diesel ship engine thrums from the Valdez Marine Terminal a few miles away. Ned Rozell and his friends Ian ...
  
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• Rural House members demand apology from Rep. Eastman over abortion remarks

  06-05-2017 04:00
  
  Rep. David Eastman, R-Wasilla, speaks during a House floor session in March. He hasn’t apologized for comments he made about Alaska women being glad to become pregnant so they can travel for abortions. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)Alaska House members are demanding Rep. David Eastman apologize for saying some women are glad to become pregnant so they can receive Medicaid-funded travel to have abortions. So far, he’s declined.
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• Alaska’s first Hall of Fame teacher talks about mixing dancing and math

  06-05-2017 03:57
  
  Alaska Public Media’s Lori Townsend talks with Bob Williams about his lenghty career in education. Williams is Alaska’s first member of the National Teacher’s Hall of Fame. (Staff photo)For a teacher who loves nurturing confidence in students as much as he loves mathematics, being the first Alaskan to be inducted into the National Teacher’s Hall of Fame was the fitting cap on nearly 30 years of inspiring young people in Alaska and other parts of the world. Bob Williams gr
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, May 5, 2017

  06-05-2017 03:56
  
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  Rural House members demand apology from Rep. Eastman over abortion remarks
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  Alaska House members are demanding Rep. David Eastman apologize for saying some women are glad to become pregnant so they can receive Medicaid-funded travel to have abortions. So far, he’s dec
  
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• Traveling Music 5-14-17

  06-05-2017 03:36
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  5-14-17
  Upcoming Concert:
  Richard Thompson: Sunday, May 21, 7:30 PM Discovery Theater, PAC
   
  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
  Label
  Duration
   
  Poor Ditching Boy
  Richard and Linda Thompson / Richard Thompson
  The End of the Rainbow: An Introduction to Richard and Linda Thompson
  Island
  3:04
   
  Freeborn Man
  Paul Brady / Ewan Maccoll
  Joy of Living: A Tribute to Ewan MacColl
  Compass Records
  4:21
   
  The Strathspey Set
  (Cha Robh Meang Air a Ghil
  
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• After losing managing editor, Alaska Commons to close - Alaska Public Radio Network

  06-05-2017 02:56
  
  After losing managing editor, Alaska Commons to close
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Alaska's media landscape is undergoing some changes, as an influential political website has announced its shutting down. In a press release Thursday night, the board of Alaska Commons said they will end the operation after a five year run. Listen now.
  
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• After large haul, Togiak herring fleet closes in on quota

  06-05-2017 02:51
  After a big haul Thursday, the Togiak herring purse seine fleet is closing in quickly on its quota. As of this morning’s tally, the fleet had about 2,800 tons left to fish. Tim Sands is the area management biologist with the Department of Fish and Game.
  “They took 2,800 tons yesterday,” Sands said. “I don’t think there’s quite enough capacity today for them to take another 28 (hundred) so we’ll give them all of today and then tomorrow we’ll look at
  
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• After losing managing editor, Alaska Commons to close

  06-05-2017 02:45
  
  Alaska’s media landscape is undergoing some changes, as an influential political website has announced its shutting down. In a press release Thursday night, the board of Alaska Commons said they will end the operation after a five year run.
  The news comes less than two weeks after the site’s managing editor, John Aronno, said in Facebook post he’d be retiring from the venture.
  Alaska Commons would occasionally drive news on state and Anchorage politics, and received 3
  
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• Cultural landscape conference focuses on Native education

  06-05-2017 02:08
  
  James White teaches a lesson on halibut fishing during Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Open the Box Math and Culture Academy in July 2016. (Photo by Nobu Koch/Sealaska Heritage Institute)Teachers from around Southeast Alaska will gather in Juneau next month to discuss culturally responsive education.
  A conference called Our Cultural Landscape will focus on helping educators better teach Native students.
  Jackie Kookesh is education director of the Sealaska Heritage Institute, which is or
  
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• 25-acre fire hits Delta Junction

  06-05-2017 02:03
  
  A wildfire charred 25 acres in Delta Junction yesterday.
  The Alaska Division of Forestry said state and local firefighters corralled the blaze, which raced through dry grass in breezy conditions Thursday afternoon.
  The origin of the fire was a three-week-old burn pile.
  Delta area fire prevention officer Gabe Pease-Madore said the property owner was on sight and tried to suppress the flames. He said the fire got away despite previously burned ground surrounding the pile. Smoke from the fire force
  
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• Fairbanks sees third unsolved killing since April

  06-05-2017 02:01
  
  A Fairbanks man is dead in a suspected homicide. Fairbanks Police report that 47-year-old Carlos Alberto Zuniga was found dead at a Bunnell Street address at about 11:30 p.m. last night. Police spokeswoman Yumi McCullough said no cause of death is being released at this time, but that officers responded to the area after receiving a call about shots fired.
  The case is the third unsolved homicide in the city since early last month.
  Jose Alfonso Sifuentes Morales was found shot to death on April 4
  
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• Fairbanks sees third killing since April

  06-05-2017 02:01
  
  Update by Associated Press: 05/08/17 at 2:21 p.m
  An arrest warrant has been issued for a 29-year-old man suspected in a Fairbanks homicide.
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  Joseph Vance Arabie is wanted on a first-degree murder warrant in the death last week of 47-year-old Carlos Zuniga.
  Fairbanks police describe Arabie as 6-foot-1-inch, about 185 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
  Photos show he has neck tattoo in a spike pattern extending down for inches around the front of his neck.
  Arabie was last seen in So
  
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• As fire season approaches, trees and grasses have yet to green up

  06-05-2017 01:42
  
  Surface fuels burn in the Moose Creek Fire last October near Sutton. (Photo by Sarah Saarloos/Alaska Division of Forestry)With temperatures rising and little rainfall across much of the state: fire season is here.
  But Alaska’s trees and grasses aren’t quite ready, according to Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service spokesperson Beth Ipsen.
  “Greening up is, is when leaves, when the trees start to leave, leaf up and we have green grass,” Ipsen said. “So ri
  
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• AK: Close combat trooper training in Sitka

  06-05-2017 01:08
  
  Recruits warm up for their fight on human-shaped punching bags. The exercise is a lesson in determining what is a reasonable amount of force. (Photo by Emily Russell, KCAW – Sitka)Twice a year the Trooper Academy in Sitka gets a new class of recruits. Over a 15-week period they go through everything from spelling tests to target practice. They also get close combat training. KCAW’s Emily Russell visited the Trooper Academy to get a glimpse of how officers are trained to respond to ph
  
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• Creating an active transportation network

  06-05-2017 01:00
  
  Alaska is known for trail sports, from backpacking to sled dog racing, that began as practical means of transportation. That’s happening again. More and more people are using bikes and feet to get to work, even in Anchorage, with our car-oriented urban design. On the next Outdoor Explorer, we’ll talk about building an active transportation network that can help human-powered travelers stay safe, and take advantage of all the health benefits. 
  HOST: Charles WohlforthGUESTS:
  
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• 49 Voices: Nina Lee of Anchorage

  06-05-2017 00:07
  
  Nina Lee of Anchorage. Lee is UAA’s Spring 2017 Commencement Speaker (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)This week we’re hearing from Nina Lee in Anchorage. On Sunday, Lee will serve as UAA’s Spring 2017 Commencement Speaker.
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  LEE: My parents are from South Korea. They work at a restaurant, so they work really, really hard. They work with their hands. They always make fun of me because, you know, my nails are usually always done, when I ask m
  
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