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• Video: Tom Walsh is confident things will turn around in Alaska’s oil industry

  08-07-2016 22:07 via ktoo.org
  Alaska has lost more than 2,000 jobs in the oil and gas industry since last year, as the state faces its first real recession in nearly three decades.
  This week, Alaska’s Energy Desk is spotlighting those who have been affected by the downturn, as part of the series An Uncertain Future.
  Tom Walsh is a founding partner of Petrotechnical Resources Alaska, an oil and gas consulting firm.
  The company has lost about half its workforce in the last year.
  
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• Alaska tweaks draft rules for use of pot at licensed stores

  08-07-2016 21:51 via ktoo.org
  
  Marijuana. (Creative Commons photo by Katheirne Hitt)
  Alaska marijuana regulators aren’t ready to buy into Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes just yet and are going back to the public for more feedback.The Marijuana Control Board on Thursday considered a draft regulation that would have allowed cannabis shops to sell product for onsite use only, like a bar would sell alcohol. However, after a member raised concerns, the board is now looking at a narrower plan that would allow people to buy mar
  
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• Dallas Police Officers Killed In Sniper Attack: What We Know Friday

  08-07-2016 21:48 via ktoo.org
  
  This is a developing story. Last updated 2:51 p.m. ET
  A sniper attack in Dallas killed five police officers at a protest Thursday, in a bout of violence that didn’t end until an suspected gunman was killed by police in a parking garage. Police say at least four people were involved in the attack and that they have three suspects in custody. It remains unclear how many people might have been firing upon police.
  The suspect who died in the parking garage was named Micah Xavier Johnson, fede
  
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• Ambush In Dallas: What We Know Friday

  08-07-2016 21:48 via ktoo.org
  
  This is a developing story. Last updated 7:23 p.m. ET
  Officials say a gunman shot and killed five police officers Thursday at a Dallas protest against police shootings of black men, in a bout of violence that didn’t end until the suspected gunman was killed by police using explosives delivered by a robot. Seven other officers and two civilians were also injured.
  The suspect, who died in a parking garage, was Micah Xavier Johnson, authorities say. Johnson was a U.S. military veteran who ha
  
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• Late night fire engulfs Cascade Street home

  08-07-2016 19:07 via ktoo.org
  
  Firefighters work to extinguish a house fire on Cascade Street on July 8, 2016 in Juneau. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/KTOO)
  Just after midnight on Friday, fire crews were called to a house fire on Cascade Street.
  Chief Rich Etheridge of Capital City Fire/Rescue said the one-story, single-family home belongs to one of their own.
  Property records show the home belongs to firefighter Kim Mahar who retired from the department in 2009.
  “So this is not the way we wanted to do a little reunion. Bu
  
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• 4 Police Officers Killed, At Least 7 Others Wounded By 2 Snipers In Dallas

  08-07-2016 06:38 via ktoo.org
  
  Dallas police detain a driver after several police officers were shot Thursday evening in downtown Dallas. Snipers shot police officers — killing several — during a peaceful protest, the city’s police chief said at a news conference. (Photo by L.M. Otero/AP)
  Dallas Police Chief David Brown says three officers were shot and killed, and seven others and one civilian wounded by two snipers. He said at a late-night press conference that one of the suspects appears to have been corn
  
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• Police: 5 officers killed during Dallas protests

  08-07-2016 05:55 via ktoo.org
  
  5:05 a.m. (all times local)
  Police Chief David Brown says a suspect in the overnight attack that killed five police officers, wounded seven others and wounded two civilians said he was upset over the recent police shootings of black men and wanted to kill white people.
  Brown said at a news conference Friday that the suspect made the comments before he was killed by an explosive used by police.
  He says his department and their families are grieving and that the divisiveness between police an
  
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• Police: 4 officers killed during Dallas protests

  08-07-2016 05:55 via ktoo.org
  
  11:05 p.m. (all times local)
  Dallas police say four officers have died after at least two snipers opened fire during protests downtown. Seven other officers were wounded.
  Police Chief David O. Brown said police have a suspect cornered in a garage and are negotiating with that person. He says the snipers fired upon officers “ambush style.”
  Brown had said three officers were killed, and police issued a tweet later saying a fourth officer had died.
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• Police: 3 officers killed during Dallas protests

  08-07-2016 05:55 via ktoo.org
  
  The Dallas skyline from the east in July 2015. (Creative Commons photo by Daxis)
  10:45 p.m. (all times local):Dallas police chief says it appears two snipers shot 10 police officers during protests, and three of the officers are dead.
  Dallas police chief David O. Brown said in a statement that three of the officers who were injured are in critical condition Thursday night.
  The officers were shut during a protest over two recent fatal police shootings.
  10:30 p.m.
  Police say one rapid-transit
  
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• Obama administration announces new rules for Arctic drilling

  08-07-2016 05:15 via ktoo.org
  
  Shell’s Polar Pioneer leaving Dutch Harbor on Oct. 12, 2015, heading for Washington state. (Photo by John Ryan/KUCB)
  The Obama administration Thursday issued new regulations covering offshore drilling in the Arctic.
  The new rules will hold oil companies in the Arctic Ocean to a higher standard than those drilling in, say, the Gulf of Mexico.
  No company currently has any plans to drill in the Arctic and that seems unlikely to change any time soon.
  The Interior Department began formulating t
  
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• Sullivan: ‘I was probably as surprised as you’ by VP buzz

  08-07-2016 05:14 via ktoo.org
  
  U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, speaks with supporters of U.S. Sen. John McCain at a campaign rally at Team McCain headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, May 6, 2016. (Creative Commons photo by Gage Skidmore)
  Is Donald Trump considering Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan for vice president? A piece by People magazine speculating the senator may be on the list of potential VP picks was ricocheting around social media Wednesday. So, what does the senator say?
  “Look … I was out of state,” Sul
  
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• Gov. Walker faces recall bid backed by two-time U.S. Senate candidate Miller

  08-07-2016 05:14 via ktoo.org
  
  Gov. Bill Walker faces a potential campaign to recall him from office.
  Joe Miller in 2010. (Creative Commons photo by Ryan McFarland/www.zieak.com)
  Joe Miller backs the effort. He was the runner-up in the 2010 U.S. Senate campaign and 2014 Senate Republican primary.
  In explaining why he supports ousting the governor, Miller cited Walker’s veto of half of Permanent Fund dividend funding.
  “Cutting the people’s money before really much substance in anything else; the fact he misre
  
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• Watch: Obama Says Of Police Shootings, ‘Change Has Been Too Slow’

  08-07-2016 04:41 via ktoo.org
  
  President Barack Obama speaks on the recent police shootings in the U.S. at a hotel in Warsaw early Friday morning.(Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
  President Obama laid out stark statistics on the systemic racial inequities of the criminal justice system late Thursday, shortly after arriving in Poland for a NATO conference.
  Speaking from Warsaw just after midnight local time, he addressed police violence and race in the wake of two high-profile shootings of African-American men by law enf
  
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• Minnesota Gov. Calls Traffic Stop Shooting ‘Absolutely Appalling At All Levels’

  08-07-2016 04:37 via ktoo.org
  
  A screenshot from the live video feed that was posted by a woman whose boyfriend was shot and killed in Falcon Heights, Minn., on Wednesday. (Diamond Reynolds via Facebook/Screenshot by NPR)
  Philando Castile, 32, was shot Wednesday night by a police officer in suburban St. Paul, Minn., in the second fatal encounter between police and an African-American man to gain national attention this week.
  Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, began streaming video live on Facebook immediately after
  
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• Fact Check: Air Force One, Who Pays?

  08-07-2016 04:15 via ktoo.org
  
  President Obama and Hillary Clinton walk off Air Force One in Charlotte, N.C., to attend a Clinton campaign event. The costs of that flight will be repaid by the Democratic National Committee. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
  Air Force One: Who pays?
  That’s the question a lot of people were asking after Hillary Clinton hitched a ride to Charlotte, N.C., this week with President Obama for their first joint campaign appearance.
  While it’s unusual for an incumbent president to
  
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• Live Video After Police Shooting Brings New Immediacy To Bearing Witness

  08-07-2016 04:07 via ktoo.org
  
  A screenshot from the video that Diamond Reynolds live-streamed in the aftermath of a police shooting. (Diamond Reynolds via Facebook/Screenshot by NPR)
  Seconds after a policeman shot a man named Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn., his girlfriend started live-streaming the aftermath live on Facebook.
  In the graphic, emotional video, streamed as she sits next to Castile, who is bleeding profusely from gunshot wounds, Diamond Reynolds calmly tells viewers that they have been pulled over by
  
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• Art born of math on display in Anchorage exhibition

  08-07-2016 03:41 via ktoo.org
  
  Bill Lee with some of his artwork at Boheme Coffee Lounge in Anchorage. (Photo by Graelyn Brashear/Alaska Public Media)
  On the walls of the Boheme Coffee Lounge in Anchorage hang 18 glass panels. Most are 1 foot by 1 foot, some are bigger. All of them feature brilliant, luminous shapes. They seem familiar, like objects from nature — nautilus shells, flowers, branching capillaries — but a closer look reveals they’re not quite of this world.
  They are the creations of Bi
  
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• Troopers say Big Lake man’s 2015 disappearance suspicious

  08-07-2016 03:40 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska State Troopers say a Big Lake man’s disappearance last year is suspicious and they are investigating it as a death.Troopers say 46-year-old Daniel Roy Buckwalter was last known to be alive the afternoon of Aug. 4, 2015, at a home in the Meadow Lakes area.
  Two days later, troopers happened upon his pickup truck but could not find the owner.
  The vehicle was impounded after Buckwalter was reported missing Aug. 12.
  Troopers say is a foul play is suspected in the disappearance and they a
  
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• Alaska House spokesman charged with assault is now unemployed

  08-07-2016 03:38 via ktoo.org
  
  Jeremiah Campbell and Will Vandergriff, right, monitor a House Majority press availability in the speaker’s chambers in the Capitol, Feb. 8, 2016. Vandergriff was the majority’s press secretary at the time and Campbell his deputy. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  The Alaska House majority spokesman facing assault charges is no longer employed by the state.Will Vandergriff’s last day was Friday, according to Jeremiah Campbell, who has replaced Vandergriff as press secretary.
  Vande
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 7-7-16

  08-07-2016 02:21 via ktoo.org
  
  Friday on A Juneau Afternoon, Andy Kline will host;
  We’ll get a preview of Saturday’s CD release party for Playboy Spaceman;
  We’ll get the details for this Saturday’s Rhythm of Polynesia Luau show.
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, Friday on A Juneau Afternoon.
  
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• VIDEO: Tony DeHaven can’t afford to lose his job

  08-07-2016 00:41 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska has lost more than 2,000 jobs in the oil and gas industry since last year, as the state faces its first real recession in nearly three decades.
  This week, Alaska’s Energy Desk is spotlighting those who have been affected by the downturn, as part of the series An Uncertain Future.
  Tony DeHaven can’t afford to be out of work. He has two teenage kids at home with their college years just around the corner.
  So far, DeHaven has been lucky to hold onto his job as a au
  
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• New Weather Service website offers superlocal forecasts

  08-07-2016 00:40 via ktoo.org
  
  Partial screenshot of new National Weather Service page for the Juneau office.
  Frequent visitors to the National Weather Service’s webpages will have to reset their bookmarks. The federal agency went live on Wednesday with a planned overhaul of their Alaska sites.
  “For standardization and, ironically, for simplicity is the main reasons behind our changes,” said Tom Ainsworth, meteorologist-in-charge at the Juneau office of the National Weather Service.
  Ainsworth said it’s
  
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