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• Algo Nuevo May 14, 2017

  16-05-2017 23:58
  
  Here’s the Sunday, May 14, 2017 edition of Algo Nuevo con Dave Luera —Something New with Dave Luera.
  If you have questions, comments or music requests for host Dave Luera, send email to [email protected] or post your comment at the bottom of this post.
  All tracks played are listed below in the following format:
  Song TitleArtist NameAlbum TitleCD LabelDuration
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  Canela
  Santana
  Shape Shif
  
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• Meet Mak and MOCHA: Trooper drug dogs get new names from Alaska students - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-05-2017 19:53
  
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  Meet Mak and MOCHA: Trooper drug dogs get new names from Alaska students
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska State Troopers asked for the public's help in naming two new drug-detection dogs, K9-A, left, and K9-B. (Photos courtesy Gov. Bill Walker's office). Alaskans, meet M.O.C.H.A. and Mak — Alaska State Troopers' two newest drug dogs, named in a ...
  
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• In first townhall in Interior Alaska, crowd engages with Sullivan

  16-05-2017 19:51
  
  U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, in his Washington, D.C. office. Photo: Liz RuskinSenator Dan Sullivan said he’s looking forward to being briefed on the firing of FBI Chief James Comey this week. Sullivan said the Assistant Attorney General will talk with the entire Senate. Sullivan’s remarks were made at his first Town Hall meeting in interior Alaska Friday.
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  Before Friday’s Town Hall meeting in North Pole began, organizers urged respectful dialogue rather than a shouting mat
  
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• Time pressure makes special session likely

  16-05-2017 19:40
  
  The Alaska Capitol. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)The Alaska Legislature is scheduled to end its session Wednesday, under a deadline set by the Alaska Constitution. But that doesn’t mean its work is over.
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  It’s not at all likely that the Legislature will finish its work by when it’s supposed to, for a few reasons.
  Work has just started on the operating budget conference committee – it named Homer Republican Rep. Paul Seaton as its chairman and Bethel D
  
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• Bill allowing Uber, Lyft in Alaska clears House - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  16-05-2017 10:14
  
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Bill allowing Uber, Lyft in Alaska clears House
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  FAIRBANKS — The House on Monday approved legislation that would permit companies like Uber and Lyft to operate throughout Alaska. House Bill 132 by Rep. Adam Wool, D-Fairbanks, would allow the transportation network companies broad latitude to ...
  Alaska House, Senate agree to comply with Real ID Act, but pass different billsKTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Conference committee set to
  
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• DJs discuss the sound of the Arctic at NxN festival

  16-05-2017 04:29
  
  Musicians from several Arctic countries gather at the Anchorage Museum for a “DJ Discussion,” which happened in a gallery displaying works from Brian Adams’s “I Am Inuit” exhibit. The event was part of the North by North festival. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)On the tail of the Arctic Council meeting in Fairbanks last week, the Anchorage Museum hosted a multi-day series of events focused on the high north. Artists, academics and po
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, May 15, 2017

  16-05-2017 04:11
  
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  With deadline looming, how much does the legislature still have on its plate?
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  The Legislature is scheduled to end its session Wednesday, under a deadline set by the Alaska Constitution. But that doesn’t mean its work is over.
  In first townhall in Interior Alaska, cro
  
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• Alaska had more visitors last summer than ever before - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-05-2017 03:58
  
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  Alaska had more visitors last summer than ever before
  Alaska Dispatch News
  More than 1.8 million people visited Alaska from May through September of 2016, "the highest visitor volume on record" for that period since such estimates began in 1985, according to a new report put together by consulting firm the McDowell Group for ...
  Alaska tourism rates at an all-time high last summerAlaska Public Radio Network
  Report: Alaska Has Record Number of Visitors in 2016U.S. News &
  
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• New regulations to reduce fine particle pollution in Interior Alaska

  16-05-2017 03:07
  
  The State of Alaska is implementing two new regulations aimed at reducing wintertime fine particulate pollution in the Fairbanks-North Pole area. Department of Environmental Conservation program manager Cindy Heil said one of the measures effects the real estate transactions of properties with wood stoves or wood boilers.
  ”If property is being sold or leased, a non-complying wood fire keeping device need to be removed or replaced,” Heil said.
  Heil said the DEC has a list of heating u
  
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• Alaska tourism rates at an all-time high last summer

  16-05-2017 02:30
  
  (Graphic from the Alaska Travel Industry Association)2016 was a record year for Alaska tourism.
  According to a report from the Alaska Tourism Industry Association, the state had 1,857,500 visitors last summer — that reflects a four percent increase since the previous year and the highest amount on record.
  Over a million of those visitors came by cruise ship, but air travel to Alaska increased by 6 percent, according to the ATIA report — contributing a large part to the tourism bump.
  
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• Boat owners fooled by website charging high prices for vessel documentation

  16-05-2017 00:38
  
  Haines fisherman Norm Hughes received two letters telling him to renew his Coast Guard documentation. The one on the left is from the Coast Guard. The one on the right is from a third-party company that charges three times as much. (Emily Files)This is the time of year when Alaska fishermen make sure they have their paperwork in order so they’re ready to hit the water. But recently, some of those boat owners were targeted by a third-party service that charges much higher rates for Coa
  
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