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• Melting the “Ice Curtain”

  16-06-2017 23:00
  
  How far away is Russia? Sometimes, when Russian bombers test Alaska military defenses, it seems very close. But in the 1990s, it was even closer, as Alaskans and Siberians formed warm cultural and business relationships across the border. In the 1990’s Alaskans and Russians built strong ties across the Bering Sea between our two countries. David Ramseur’s new book, Melting the Ice Curtain, recounts that history.
   
  HOST:   Charles Wohlforth
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• Climber dies of unknown illness descending Alaska mountain - The ... - Washington Post

  16-06-2017 22:39
  
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  Climber dies of unknown illness descending Alaska mountain - The ...
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  The National Park Service in Alaska says a climber has died on Denali, North America's highest mountain.
  Denali climber collapses and dies during descentAlaska Dispatch Newsall 9 news articles »
  
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• Governor calls lawmakers for 2nd special session after House budget gambit fails

  16-06-2017 22:33
  
  House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, D-Dillingham, addresses reporters in the Capitol in Juneau on Friday. The House had pushed an operating budget through the night before then adjourned sine die, leaving the Senate few options. Other House Majority Coalition leaders pictured: Chris Tuck, Paul Seaton, Neal Foster and Gabrielle LeDoux. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)Alaska Gov. Bill Walker has called the Alaska Legislature back for a second special session to begin at 1 p.m. today, after lawmakers failed to
  
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• Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame, 2017

  16-06-2017 22:30
  
  The Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame is dedicated to honoring, in perpetuity, women whose contributions have influenced the direction of Alaska in any field, including, but not limited to the arts, athletics, business, community service, conservation, education, government, health, the humanities, Native affairs, philanthropy, politics, theology and science, among others. In May, the induction ceremony was held for all of the Class of 2017 women. 11 women were inducted into the Hall of Fame th
  
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• Alaska has the highest unemployment rate in the US - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-06-2017 21:13
  
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  Alaska has the highest unemployment rate in the US
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  The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in May was 6.7 percent, according to preliminary numbers from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. That's up just slightly from April's 6.6 percent. Nationally, the unemployment ...and more »
  
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• Former Alaska district attorney dies in traffic crash - KTOO

  16-06-2017 20:47
  
  Former Alaska district attorney dies in traffic crash
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  FAIRBANKS — A former Kodiak, Fairbanks and Bethel district attorney died in a motorcycle crash as he traveled in Canada. Mike Gray, 64, died Sunday near Mile 820 Alaska Highway, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports. Gray, traveling alone, left Fairbanks ...and more »
  
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• House pushes budget through and quits, leaving Senate few options and Republicans seething

  16-06-2017 20:09
  House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, D-Dillingham, left, confers with Rep. Paul Seaton, R-Homer, and Rep. Chris Tuck, D-Anchorage, during a break in floor debate on the House Majority’s budget proposal on Thursday. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO and Alaska Public Media)The Alaska House passed a new budget Thursday night. It combined the operating and capital budgets.
  The House adjourned from the special session, leaving the Senate with no option but to accept or reject the House budget. Republica
  
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• Environmental exposure to chemicals and breast cancer

  16-06-2017 20:00
  
  Breast cancer awareness pin; Flickr: Williami5Breast cancer results from the both genetic and environmental factors. This program hosts a discussion on the chemicals in our environment and the origins of breast cancer. Can they be avoided? What else can we do to limit our exposure? Let’s talk about it on this next Line One.
   
  HOST: Dr. Thad WoodardGUESTS:
  Meg Schwarzman, MD MPH, Associate Physician, UCSF Dept. of Family & Community Medicine, Associate Director, Berkeley C
  
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• Manager of Alaska general store to retire after 42 years - KFQD

  16-06-2017 19:27
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  Manager of Alaska general store to retire after 42 years
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  Alaska Public Media reported (http://bit.ly/2s8K9EG ) Thursday Dave Pritchard, the manager of Brooks Range Supply in Deadhorse, is set to clock out for the last time. He first clocked in at the carry-everything store in 1975, longer than oil has flowed ...and more »
  
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• Brothers Overcome Extreme Conditions To Win Race To Alaska ... - Here And Now

  16-06-2017 17:19
  
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  Brothers Overcome Extreme Conditions To Win Race To Alaska ...
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  It took Tripp, Chris and Trevor Burd four days to travel 750 miles from Port Townsend, Washington, to Ketchikan, Alaska.
  Team Pure and Wild Freeburd wins 2017 Race to AlaskaAlaska Public Radio Network
  Burds win Race to AlaskaScuttlebutt Sailing Newsall 8 news articles »
  
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• The Latest: Kelly Sees Signs of Progress Near Session End - U.S. News & World Report

  16-06-2017 07:16
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  The Latest: Kelly Sees Signs of Progress Near Session End
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  The Alaska Senate must decide whether to accept a capital budget that would pay Alaskans a full dividend from the state's oil-wealth fund. June 15, 2017, at 8:00 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. The Latest: Kelly Sees Signs of ...
  Alaska's House passes a budget and adjourns, leaving the Senate to take it — or await another special sessionAlas
  
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• The Latest: Alaska House Adjourns After Budget Vote - U.S. News & World Report

  16-06-2017 07:03
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  The Latest: Alaska House Adjourns After Budget Vote
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  A divided Alaska House late Thursday approved a state spending package and adjourned from the special legislative session. The package approved combines state operating and capital budgets. June 16, 2017, at 1:08 a.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon ...
  Alaska's House passes a budget and adjourns, leaving the Senate to take it — or await another special sessionAlaska Dispatch Ne
  
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• Why we're closer to understanding earthquakes in Alaska - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  16-06-2017 05:48
  
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  Why we're closer to understanding earthquakes in Alaska
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  There's a big science experiment going on in Alaska. In fact, it's one of the most important on earth according to Popular Science Magazine, and it's revolutionizing the way scientists can read earthquakes. Right now, there is a whole team of them in ...
  
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• Uber and Lyft are starting operations in Alaska. Here's everything you need to know. - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-06-2017 04:09
  
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  Uber and Lyft are starting operations in Alaska. Here's everything you need to know.
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  Former taxi cab driver David O'Malley in his Toyota Venza, which he plans to drive for Uber, on Thursday, June 15, 2017. O'Malley drove for Uber in Anchorage in 2014, and said that he made “much more” money doing that than as a cab driver. (Loren ...
  Lyft launches in Alaska Thursday, Uber to follow on FridayKTUU.com
  Gov. Walker signs bill to open door f
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, June 15, 2017

  16-06-2017 04:07
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  With one day left in special session, little public progress on budget
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  Senate President Pete Kelly said leaders should focus on the budget.
  Uber, Lyft cleared to launch in Alaska
  Zcahariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  Governor Bill Walker signed House Bill
  
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• Naming rights and the battle for Alaska oil on federal land - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-06-2017 03:35
  
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  Naming rights and the battle for Alaska oil on federal land
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  Caribou from the Porcupine herd gather in a drainage of the Brooks Range in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, June 2009. (Richard J. Murphy / ADN archive). It would be easy to justify oil exploration in something called the "Arctic Oil Reserve," a ...
  
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• Travleing Music 6-18-17

  16-06-2017 03:32
  Traveling Music
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  6-18-17
   
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  Under Calico
  The Company /  George Jackson, Michael Patrick
  Six and Five
  www.thecompanybluegrass.com
  3:05
   
  Shame
  Rachel Baiman / Rachel Baimna
  Shame
  Free Dirt Records
  3:35
   
  So Far From Home
  The Company /  Jamie Clark
  Six and Five
  www.thecompanybluegrass.com
  4:16
   
  In the Space of A Day
  Rachel Baiman / Rachel Baiman
  Shame
  Free Dirt Records
  5:00
   
  Nothing B
  
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• Shareholders consider shrinking Sealaska board

  16-06-2017 03:13
  
  Sealaska Plaza, the corporation’s headquarters. (KCAW photo)Should Southeast’s regional Native corporation shrink its governing board? That’s a question before Sealaska’s more than 22,000 shareholders. Management opposes the change.
  Juneau-headquartered Sealaska has 13 members on its board of directors.
  Shareholder Karen Taug thinks that’s too many — and costs too much.
  “I believe that if we were a moneymaking machine and we were just rolling in successf
  
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• U.S. Senate committee advances bill to make Native tribes eligible for Amber Alert grants

  16-06-2017 03:08
  The U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on Tuesday approved a bill, S.722, that would make Native tribes eligible for Amber Alert grants.
  Amber Alerts are emergency broadcasts in the event of a child abduction.
  The bill would also create a permanent program that provides tribes with Amber Alert training.
  According to a draft resolution from the National Congress of American Indians, more than 7,000 American Indian children are listed as missing in the U.S.
  Amber Alerts were first i
  
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• Team Pure and Wild Freeburd wins 2017 Race to Alaska

  16-06-2017 03:08
  
  Chris Burd laughs as his brothers tie up the boat. (Photo: KRBD)Four days and 750 miles after departing from Victoria, British Columbia, Team Pure and Wild Freeburd sailed into Ketchikan, making them the winners of the 2017 Race to Alaska.
  Amidst light rain, with fog eclipsing the tops of the surrounding mountains, brothers Tripp, Chris and Trevor Burd guided their trimaran, “Mama Tried,” into Thomas Basin Harbor. They were met with a booming gunshot, cheers and whistles.
  Around 30 p
  
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• With one day left in special session, little public progress on budget

  16-06-2017 03:04
  
  Senate President Pete Kelly gives a statement on the budget on Thursday. Kelly wants legislative leaders to focus on the budget. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO and Alaska Public Media)Leaders from both chambers of the Legislature met behind closed doors Thursday as they tried to reach a budget agreement.
  But there was little public progress.
  The 30-day special session will end Friday and the House and Senate majorities remained far apart.
  Fairbanks Republican Senate President Pete Kelly said&n
  
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• Federal officials make formal apology for WWII internment of Unangan people

  16-06-2017 02:12
  
  On Wednesday, Federal officials apologized for their role in the World War II internment of the Unangan people.
  Jim Kurth — acting director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — traveled to St. Paul Island to speak with survivors and descendants.
  “As much as we wish, we cannot take back the course of history,” Kurth said. “But what we can do now is heal together. We can work together.”
  Fish and Wildlife agents oversaw the internment of the people of the
  
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• Longevity crucial to teachers’ impact in classroom

  16-06-2017 02:06
  
  While school is in session, students spend about 30 hours in the classroom every week. That’s more than 1,000 hours each academic year.
  This means teachers play a pivotal role, not only in a student’s education, but in their development as a person.
  Tom Bowerman is a music teacher, and he has been at Willow Crest Elementary School in Anchorage for 13 years. It’s not just his job to educate, it’s to inspire.
  Unlike most educators who work in one classroom with the same chi
  
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• Anchorage Opera’s 2017-2018 season

  16-06-2017 01:27
  
  Glory Denied from the 2016-17 seasonStage Talk continues its summer series of focusing on upcoming seasons and this week we invite Reed Smith, General Director of Anchorage Opera to drop by and let us know what they have in store for their “Happily Ever After” 2017-18 season.
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  Anchorage Opera’s 2017-2018 Season
  Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti. November 3, 4 and 5
  As One Music and Concept by Laura Kaminsky, Libretto by Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed. February 9, 10 an
  
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• After over 40 years at Prudhoe Bay, general store manager to retire

  16-06-2017 01:01
  
  Dave Pritchard retires on June 27 after working at Prudhoe Bay for 42 years. (Photo by Elizabeth Harball/Alaska’s Energy Desk)The North Slope community of Deadhorse is an unusual place. Its No. 1 purpose is to serve the oil field it’s next to: Prudhoe Bay. There are no houses, no downtown and no parks; just a series of industrial lots and gravel roads in the middle of the tundra.
  But Deadhorse does have a store. And the man who runs it is retiring this month, after 42 years
  
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