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• CMS approves Alaska waiver aimed at stabilizing individual market - ModernHealthcare.com

  11-07-2017 23:31
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  CMS approves Alaska waiver aimed at stabilizing individual market
  ModernHealthcare.com
  The CMS has approved a first of its kind waiver for Alaska that will allow federal money to create a high-risk fund. It will allow the state to continue trying to entice cash-strapped insurance companies to stay on the individual market in the state ...
  Alaska draws major federal funding to shore up individual health ...Alaska Dispatch News
  Trump administration waives some Obamacare rules
  
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• After months of fighting, House offers Senate a compromise on oil, gas tax credits

  11-07-2017 22:35
  
  
  After five months of back and forth, the legislature may be close to compromising on changes to the state’s oil and gas tax credit system.
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  Lawmakers in the House and Senate seem to agree that the state needs to overhaul a system that has it paying cash for tax credits to oil companies. It will owe nearly $700 million by the end of the year.
  But a bill to change that system — House Bill 111 — has been tinkered with by both houses and neither has budged.
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• After months of fighting, House offers Senate a compromise on oil and gas tax credits

  11-07-2017 22:35
  
  
  After five months of back and forth, the legislature may be close to compromising on changes to the state’s oil and gas tax credit system.
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  Lawmakers in the House and Senate seem to agree that the state needs to overhaul a system that has it paying cash for tax credits to oil companies. It will owe nearly $700 million by the end of the year.
  But a bill to change that system — House Bill 111 — has been tinkered with by both houses and neither has budged.
  The House vers
  
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• Frauds, scams, and schemes cost Alaskans millions last year

  11-07-2017 21:35
  
  (Photo illustration by Flickr user photosteve10)In 2016, Alaskans lost $2,745,716 to financial frauds and scams. And that’s just from the people who filed complaints. Officials suspect many more residents were victims but never contacted authorities.
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  Federal Trade Commission data show that last year, 3,031 complaints were filed in Alaska, about a third of them in Anchorage.
  Now, the FTC is making a big push to raise awareness about online and phone scams and is highlighting
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, July 10, 2017

  11-07-2017 21:29
  
  
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  Murkowski speaks with constituents about health care during Senate recess
  Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska – Juneau
  Senator Lisa Murkowski was one of just four of the Senate’s 52 Republicans to make a public appearance over the fourth of July. She spoke with constituents about healthcare.
  From Anchorage,
  
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• Trump Chooses Foreign Miner Over People of Alaska - Natural Resources Defense Council

  11-07-2017 19:41
  
  seattlepi.com
  Trump Chooses Foreign Miner Over People of Alaska
  Natural Resources Defense Council
  We're six months into Donald Trump's tenure as President, and there's no denying his aggressive animus against public health and the environment. His appointments, his budget, his Executive Orders from energy to regulatory reform to water, and his ...
  Connelly: EPA resurrects big, salmon-killing Alaska mineseattlepi.com
  Trump's EPA wants to give a massive mining project in Alaska another chanc
  
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• Murkowski speaks with constituents about health care during Senate recess

  11-07-2017 05:08
  
  
  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski speaks with reporters following her annual address to the Alaska Legislature on Feb. 22, 2017. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)Wrangell got some national attention on the Fourth of July, but it wasn’t for its parade.
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  It was because of a visit from Lisa Murkowski.
  She was one of just four of the Senate’s 52 Republicans to make a public appearance during the national holiday.
  Longtime Alaska journalist Julia O’Malley covered Murkowski’s Wra
  
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• From Anchorage, Walker tells lawmakers to get back to Juneau

  11-07-2017 04:48
  
  
  Reporters hear from Gov. Bill Walker on a variety of issues during a Monday press conference in Anchorage. (Photo by Casey Grove/Alaska Public Media)Lawmakers have been meeting in Juneau for nearly half a year, but Gov. Bill Walker told reporters on Monday in Anchorage that he doesn’t think they’re done yet.
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  He wants lawmakers to fix the state’s beleaguered budget this year rather than waiting until next session to find new sources of revenue.
  They barely avoided a s
  
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• Bethel scientist returns home to study climate change

  11-07-2017 03:27
  
  
  Jasmine Gil, originally from Bethel, is studying the effects of wildfires on permafrost with the Polaris Project, 50 miles north of the YK hub. (Katie Basile / KYUK)What happens after fire scorches the tundra, and what follows when carbon that’s been locked away for millennia gets released? Currently, a group of scientists is camping 50 miles north of Bethel, attempting to answer these questions. For one scientist the research is personal, because it means coming home.
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• Could LKSD support of Alaska Native teacher training put an end to teacher turnover?

  11-07-2017 03:19
  
  
  Isabelle (left) and Hugh (right) Dyment, at their home in Bethel. Isabelle is one of the first four assistant level teachers in the LKSD Two and Done program. Photo taken June 27, 2017. (Christine Trudeau / KYUK)The Lower Kuskokwim School District (LKSD) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks have teamed up to try and solve two problems with one new program. The aim is to address high rates of teacher turnover, as well as to improve Yup’ik cultural and language competency among the region&
  
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• Big ships asked to slow down to reduce noise for iconic whales

  11-07-2017 02:52
  
  Critical habitat for endangered southern resident killer whales overlaps with busy shipping lanes in the Salish Sea. (Joan Lopez / Echo)If you think trying to carry on a conversation in a noisy restaurant or bar is difficult, imagine how whales in the noisy waters of the Salish Sea feel.
  Whale scientists think rising levels of underwater noise are having a harmful effect on the Northwest’s iconic killer whales. Now the Port of Vancouver, in British Columbia, is spearheading an experiment t
  
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• Video: Fairbanks pipeline boom

  11-07-2017 01:09
  
  The building of the trans-Alaska pipeline drew thousands of young workers from around the country to Alaska. Larry “Hack” Hackenmiller found himself working in Fairbanks bar scene just as the boom was taking off.
  
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• Rodeo Alaska rides again in celebration of Wasilla's centennial - Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman

  11-07-2017 01:08
  
  Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
  Rodeo Alaska rides again in celebration of Wasilla's centennial
  Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
  WASILLA — The Wasilla Centennial Rodeo took place over the weekend, filling the area on the west side of the Curtis D. Menard Center with cowboys, cowgirls and little cowpokes, all performing a variety of spectacles. The event is both a segment of ...and more »
  
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