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• The Senate’s Health Care Bill

  07-07-2017 23:50
  
  Fairbanks Memorial Hospital in Fairbanks, Alaska (Wikimedia commons photo)The US Senate is taking a stab at replacing Obamacare. The newest healthcare reform bill reduces tax credits for buying health insurance and cuts Medicaid funding for the state. So how do these potential changes affect you and your ability to get treatment?
  HOST: Anne Hillman
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  Valarie Davidson – Commissioner, DHSS
   
  Jennifer Tolbert – Kaiser Family Foundation
   
  Aviva Aron-Dine –
  
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• Audiogram: Fast times and fat wallets

  07-07-2017 23:25
  
  The trans-Alaska pipeline was the largest privately-funded construction project in the world, built across the biggest U.S. state and faced with unprecedented natural obstacles. It came with an $8 billion price tag, but true costs and benefits of the pipeline are still being calculated.
  
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• Memoranda won't get Alaska a gas line - Alaska Dispatch News

  07-07-2017 23:14
  
  Memoranda won't get Alaska a gas line
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  Reading the breathless news that Korea Gas Corp. and the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. have inked yet another in a long line of memorandums of understanding for the proposed $45 billion Alaska LNG Project, one could be forgiven for thinking things ...and more »
  
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• Meet Leanna Hefner, from New Mexico

  07-07-2017 22:00
  
  This week we meet Leanna Hefner, 35, who is originally from New Mexico.
   
  “New Arrivals” is Alaska Public Media’s profiles of people who recently moved to Anchorage, one of the most diverse cities in the world. Every Tuesday, we meet a New Arrival from another country, another state, or another part of Alaska. The stories air at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesdays during Morning Edition here on KSKA, Alaska Public Media.
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• Placebos and placebo mechanisms

  07-07-2017 21:00
  
  (Photo by John Moore, Getty Images)
  On this edition of the Line One we discuss placebos and the work of Dr. Fabrizio Benedetti and others, who are researching the mechanisms behind placebo effects. Our guest is Dr. Virginia Campbell, creator of the Brain Science Podcast.HOST: Dr. Thad WoodardGUESTS:
  Virginia Campbell, MD is an emergency room and palliative care physician and creator of the Brain Science Podcast that discusses recent discoveries from the world of neuroscience in a way that
  
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• Alaska Legislature has nothing to show for two weeks after budget

  07-07-2017 20:12
  
  
  The Alaska Capitol Building in Juneau on June 6, 2017. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)The Legislature’s special session hasn’t ended, two weeks since most state lawmakers left Juneau after passing the operating budget.
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  While senators plan to return July 10, it’s not clear whether the Senate and House will reach any agreements before the session ends July 15.
  Many lawmakers wanted to get out of Juneau after they voted to pass the budget.
  Gov. Bill Walker asked them to co
  
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• Midnight Sun Theatre presents The Dock Brief

  07-07-2017 19:39
  
  
  L-R R. Scott Cantrell, Frank DelaneyEvery July since 2010, Midnight Sun Theatre has joined forces with Anchorage Community Theatre to bring an exciting offering for the summer and this year is no different. Opening July 7th and running Friday-Sundays through July 29 at ACT will be the John Mortimer British comedy The Dock Brief about the hapless barrister Morgenhall (played by Frank Delaney) trying to defend the equally hapless confessed criminal Fowle (played by R. Scott Cantrell). Delaney
  
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• Use caution eating walrus meat in Alaska, report urges - CNN

  07-07-2017 14:26
  
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  Use caution eating walrus meat in Alaska, report urges
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  (CNN) Anyone looking to enjoy some walrus meat should be sure it's thoroughly cooked, officials say. Alaska has had two outbreaks of trichellosis over the past year, which is a disease caused by ingesting animals that eat meat, namely walrus, according ...
  Orphaned walrus at Alaska marine centre getting plenty of cuddles, massagesCTV Newsall 22 news articles »
  
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• Hawaii, Alaska contemplate coming into North Korean missile range - Reuters

  07-07-2017 10:02
  
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  Hawaii, Alaska contemplate coming into North Korean missile range
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  An old WWII bunker is used as a National Guard command center in Diamond Head Crater in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 6, 2017. REUTERS/Hugh Gentry. 1/11. left. right. An overview of Diamond Head crater seen from the National Guard command center in ...and more »
  
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• What enviros won by losing the pipeline battle

  07-07-2017 04:05
  
  Attorney Jim Moorman and his dog, Ginger. He filed the lawsuit that forced the oil companies to design a better pipeline. The case also showed a brand new environmental law had teeth.In the late 1960s, the oil companies knew they needed a pipeline to get Prudhoe Bay oil to market, and they needed the U.S. government to grant permits. But just as this was happening, the environmental movement was taking hold in America. With the pipeline turning 40, we look back at how Bi
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, July 6, 2017

  07-07-2017 03:54
  
  
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  Remains of two people missing in Marmot Bay found and identified
  Kayla Desroches, KMXT – Kodiak
  The remains of the two people missing in Marmot Bay have been located.
  Fatal December plane crash ruled a suicide
  Teresa Cotsirilos, KYUK – Bethel
  Last December, Mark and Cecilia Matter lost their lives w
  
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• Korean buyer eyes Alaska LNG but also signs deals with ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  07-07-2017 03:44
  
  Korean buyer eyes Alaska LNG but also signs deals with ...
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  The Alaska Gasline Development Corp. has signed a preliminary deal with Korea Gas Corp. But it might lead to nothing at all.and more »
  
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• Summer SE Dungeness crab season shortened by three weeks

  07-07-2017 02:45
  
  Dungeness crab. (NOAA photo)The summer season for the commercial Dungeness crab fishery in Southeast Alaska will be three weeks shorter than usual, closing on July 25th.
  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made the announcement on June 29, after tallying the harvest from the first seven days of the crab season. The catch from that first week came in at 605,000 pounds.
  Joe Stratman is the state lead crab biologist for the Southeast region.
  “I would say it’s unprecedented. It’
  
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• Alaska wildfires aren’t heating up this year

  07-07-2017 02:32
  
  It’s been a slow wildfire season so far. As of July 6, just over 200,000 acres have burned from 273 different fires. Which, according to Tim Mowry, spokesman for the State Division of Forestry, puts 2017 well below normal.
  ”In a typical season, we average about 1.2 million acres a year and about 500 fires,” Mowry said.
  Mowry cautioned that at this time last year, even less acreage had burned, but then came an uptick in activity that boosted the total. While that could still hap
  
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• Wrangell contract talks end, strike may resume

  07-07-2017 02:23
  
  International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers representative Julius Matthew walked the picket line with Wrangell municipal workers Lorne Cook, Dwight Yancey and Andrew Scambler before the strike ended. (Photo courtesy IBEW)Wrangell officials have pulled out of contact talks with the union representing municipal workers.
  Interim Borough Manager Carol Rushmore posted a letter on the municipal website Wednesday evening stating she had decided to not accept the union’s most recent proposal.
  
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• Fatal December plane crash ruled a suicide

  07-07-2017 02:20
  
  Mark Matter and his plane.
  (Courtesy of Dave Cannon)Last December, Mark and Cecilia Matter lost their lives when their red plane crashed into Marvel Dome, a snow-covered mountain near the family’s mine. Authorities now consider the Aniak couple’s death to be a suicide.
  According to a report released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), authorities couldn’t find any mechanical issues with the Matters’ plane that could have caused the acci
  
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• In Sitka: A mobile plant built to chill out the Bristol Bay fishery

  07-07-2017 02:06
  
  Pat Glaab (r.), Ben Blakey, and Roger aboard their processor at Sitka’s Gary Paxton Industrial Park. Their staking around $2 million on the idea that fish buyers will pay a premium for Bristol Bay sockeye that’s been chilled down immediately after harvest. (KCAW photo/Robert Woolsey)Alaska’s Bristol Bay sockeye fishery is intense, lucrative — and also remote. Much of the fish landed there is frozen whole and shipped long distances for secondary processing.
  Although the pr
  
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• Some Alaska marijuana shops' Facebook pages are being taken ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  07-07-2017 02:05
  
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  Some Alaska marijuana shops' Facebook pages are being taken ...
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  Arctic Herbery owner Bryant Thorp waits outside his shop before its official opening on Dec. 15, 2016. Arctic Herbery was the first legal marijuana retail store to ...and more »
  
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• Remains of two people missing in Marmot Bay found and identified

  07-07-2017 01:26
  
  The remains of the two people missing in Marmot Bay have been located.
  The Alaska State Troopers followed up on the incident from last Thursday where a fishing vessel, the Miss Destinee, capsized in Marmot Bay.
  The Coast Guard searched the area for more than 35 hours before suspending the area investigation late Friday night.
  According to a troopers press release, at the time of the incident that brought down the Miss Destinee, a “rogue wave” had struck the vessel on the port side an
  
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• Parasitic Worm in Walrus Meat Infects 10 People in Alaska - Live Science

  07-07-2017 01:14
  
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  Parasitic Worm in Walrus Meat Infects 10 People in Alaska
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  Ten people in Alaska were recently infected with what is now a relatively rare parasitic worm that they got from eating walrus meat, according to a new report. The cases occurred between July 2016 and May 2017, the report said. All 10 were infected ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Airlines and American Airlines scale back mileage plan ... - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)

  07-07-2017 01:01
  Alaska Airlines and American Airlines scale back mileage plan ...
  Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)
  Alaska Airlines and American Airlines are making big changes to their mileage reward plan agreements and reciprocal benefits they offer to each other's ...and more »
  
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• Free Tlingit workbook part of language revitalization

  07-07-2017 01:00
  
  Richard Radford writes on a whiteboard during the Monday night Tlingit language learners workshop in the Juneau Public Library. (Photo by Carter Barrett/KTOO)This isn’t a class, and there is no teacher. About 15 people are participating in a Tlingit language workshop at the Juneau Public Library on a Monday night.
  The group of Natives and non-Natives are learning a language that only about 100 people speak fluently.
  The non-structured workshop studies the complicated sounds
  
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