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• Amid Alaska's fiscal crunch, voters in cities across the state are being asked to consider local tax increases - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-08-2017 21:55
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  Amid Alaska's fiscal crunch, voters in cities across the state are being asked to consider local tax increases
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Elected officials in the Kenai Peninsula Borough were debating a new tax on hotels, motels and other accommodations last month when Larry Persily put some feelers out. Persily, the borough mayor's chief of staff, wanted to show members of the borough ...
  State's credit trouble trickles to street level | Juneau Empire ...Juneau Empire (subs
  
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• Miners, Advocates Eye Alaska Land Exposed by Melting Glacier - U.S. News & World Report

  26-08-2017 18:23
  Miners, Advocates Eye Alaska Land Exposed by Melting Glacier
  U.S. News & World Report
  Gold miners and environmentalists alike are paying close attention to a melting glacier north of Alaska's capital city. KTOO-FM reports (http://bit.ly/2xBHPWC). Aug. 26, 2017, at 12:23 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Miners ...
  
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• US Govt, Alaska Trust Have 2-Year Deadline for Land Swap - U.S. News & World Report

  26-08-2017 17:46
  US Govt, Alaska Trust Have 2-Year Deadline for Land Swap
  U.S. News & World Report
  The Alaska Mental Health Trust and federal government have a bunch of work that needs to be done before a land swap approved last year can happen_ work that has to be completed within the next two years. Aug. 26, 2017, at 11:46 a.m.. MORE.and more »
  
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• Alaska Supreme Court says attorney's claim against Legislature was “creative advocacy,” not frivolous - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-08-2017 16:04
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  Alaska Supreme Court says attorney's claim against Legislature was “creative advocacy,” not frivolous
  Alaska Dispatch News
  The Alaska Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a lower court's sanction against an Anchorage attorney who sought a whistleblower payment for saving the state millions of dollars though a lawsuit. Though no state law provides for such a payment, the ...
  
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• Alaska business owner builds floor cleaning robot | News & Observer - News & Observer

  26-08-2017 11:18
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  Alaska business owner builds floor cleaning robot | News & Observer
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  The janitorial contract for the old Palmer Hospital, now medical offices, involves thousands of square feet of floor space to clean using above average sanitary ...and more »
  
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• Alaska, France on Genesee Chamber's itinerary - The Daily News Online

  26-08-2017 11:15
  Alaska, France on Genesee Chamber's itinerary
  The Daily News Online
  BATAVIA — Despite all of the local attractions and amenities the Genesee County Chamber of Commerce likes to promote, Tonawanda Creek is never going to be confused for La Seine. Nor the Genesee County Park & Forest for Denali National Park. Trips to ...
  
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• Alaska prison looks to expand garden for inmates, community - SFGate

  26-08-2017 11:13
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  Alaska prison looks to expand garden for inmates, community
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  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — In a twist on the popular farm to table movement that has swept the country, with restaurants and cities promoting ways to bring fresh-from-the-dirt produce directly to consumers, state prisons are experimenting with ways to ...and more »
  
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• Charlton: Add Alaska to your Bucket List - Quad City Times

  26-08-2017 08:33
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  Charlton: Add Alaska to your Bucket List
  Quad City Times
  What comes to mind when you think of our 49th state? Bears? Mountains? Glaciers? Me, too. And that's why I went. There were three reasons, actually, and all were on my Bucket List: Visit the only state I had not yet seen, go on my first cruise, and ...
  
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• Traveling Music 9-2-17

  26-08-2017 04:09
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  9-2-17
   
  Upcoming concerts: Fred Eaglesmith Thursday, Sept. 7, Vagabond Blues, Palmer
  Fred Eaglesmith, Gurf Morlix, Mary Gauthier, Fri. Sept. 8,
  Hard Rock Cafe, Anchorage
   
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  Song TitleArtist / Composer
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  Miss Mary Jane
  Fred Eaglesmith / Fred Eaglesmith
  Standard
  www.fredeaglesmith
  2:05
   
  Key to the Highway
  B.B. King & Eric Clapton / William Broonzy, Charles Seger
  Riding with the King
  Reprise Records
  3:40
   
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Aug. 25, 2017

  26-08-2017 03:52
  
  
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  Alaska Supreme Court upholds PFD cuts
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  On Friday, The Alaska Supreme Court upheld Gov. Bill Walker’s veto that halved Permanent Fund dividends last year.
  State to replace Accu-Vote machines
  Johanna Eurich, KYUK – Anchorage
  The State of Alaska is on target to pro
  
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• Fleet consolidation and loss of fishing jobs a hot topic at MSA hearing

  26-08-2017 02:28
  Timed to coincide with the 25th annual Kenai River Classic invitation-only fishing derby, Senator Dan Sullivan brought his Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard to Soldotna on Wednesday for a hearing on the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
  Congress periodically reviews the Act, giving lawmakers a chance to fine-tune or make changes where needed. One theme was addressed by many of the dozen invited experts who testified
  
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• Alaska Authorities Identify Pilot in Plane Deadly Crash - U.S. News & World Report

  26-08-2017 02:10
  Alaska Authorities Identify Pilot in Plane Deadly Crash
  U.S. News & World Report
  Authorities have identified the pilot who died in a plane crash in Alaska as an Anchorage resident. Aug. 25, 2017, at 8:02 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Alaska Authorities Identify Pilot in Plane Deadly Crash ...and more »
  
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• State to replace Accu-Vote machines - Alaska Public Radio Network

  26-08-2017 01:55
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  State to replace Accu-Vote machines
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  The State of Alaska is on target to provide election materials in Alaska's Native languages in order to meet a court-ordered deadline in a voting rights case. Listen now. Many at yesterday's hearing, held by the Alaska Advisory Committee of the U.S. ...
  Civil Rights Commission Reviews Alaska Native Voting RightsKYUKall 2 news articles »
  
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• State to replace Accu-Vote machines

  26-08-2017 01:54
  (Katie Basile / KYUK)The State of Alaska is on target to provide election materials in Alaska’s Native languages in order to meet a court-ordered deadline in a voting rights case.
  Many at yesterday’s hearing, held by the Alaska Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to review the language translation effort, praised the state, but also worried that plans to move Alaska to a vote-by-mail system would disenfranchise Alaska Native voters whose primary language is not
  
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• 49 Voices Brittney Anderson of McGrath

  26-08-2017 01:40
  
  
  Brittney Anderson of McGrath (Photo courtesy of Brittney Anderson)This week we’re hearing from Brittney Anderson in McGrath. Anderson moved to McGrath in January of 2016.
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  ANDERSON: I don’t know what my first impression was. There were a lot of people out and I thought there was an awful lot of activity for such a small town. Between commercial flights and the little planes, we probably have a dozen planes that come and go everyday. It didn’t quite jive with my impres
  
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• AK: Gold claims expand as Herbert Glacier retreats

  26-08-2017 01:26
  
  
  The Herbert Glacier viewed from the banks of the eponymous river on August 12, 2017. (Photo by Jacob Resneck/KTOO)A retreating glacier is exposing virgin territory about 20 miles north of Juneau.
  Mining claims around the Herbert Glacier has a Canadian prospecting company excited and environmentalists concerned.
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  Along the river bank, a bluish hue shines off the Herbert Glacier dominating the horizon. It’s near this wide spot in the Herbert River where mining claims begin.
  Two dec
  
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• Update: PFD supporters plan to make case to voters

  26-08-2017 01:08
  
  
  The Alaska Supreme Court hears arguments in the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage on June 20, in a case that seeks to overturn Gov. Bill Walker’s veto of about half of Alaska Permanent Fund dividend money last year. Pictured from left to right: Justices Joel Bolger, Daniel Winfree, Craig Stowers, Peter Maassen and Susan Carney. The court upheld a lower court opinion upholding the veto. (Photo by Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)Update: 5:52 p.m. Aug. 25, 2017
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• Alaska Supreme Court upholds PFD cuts

  26-08-2017 01:08
  The Alaska Supreme Court hears arguments in the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage on June 20, in a case that seeks to overturn Gov. Bill Walker’s veto of about half of Alaska Permanent Fund dividend money last year. Pictured from left to right: Justices Joel Bolger, Daniel Winfree, Craig Stowers, Peter Maassen and Susan Carney. The court upheld a lower court opinion upholding the veto. (Photo by Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)On Friday, The Alaska Supreme Court upheld Gov. Bill Wal
  
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• Rugby in Alaska

  26-08-2017 01:00
   
   
   
   
   
  We’re going a little bit off the reservation with the next show’s topic– we’re talking about rugby. We got the idea to cover something that you do on a field rather than out in the wild when we saw a photograph of a new rugby pitch right here in Anchorage, which is up in the Chugach Mountains and has amazing views. It is the product of one man’s imagination and drive, and we’ll have him here to talk about this amaz
  
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