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• Timely rains help Alaska to a mild wildfire season so far

  14-07-2016 23:59 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska saw record-breaking wildfire seasons in recent years. (Photo courtesy Alaska Division of Forestry)
  Wildfires burned an area larger than Massachusetts in Alaska last year but the state is nowhere near that for 2016.Last year saw 7,969 square miles, or 5.1 million acres, scorched.
  As of Wednesday morning, just 217 square miles, or fewer than 139,000 acres, have burned in 2016.
  Tim Mowry of the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center says firefighters have responded quickly to limit fire
  
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• Sullivan in contact with GOP convention organizers

  14-07-2016 09:49 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)
  U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan could have a speaking role at next week’s national Republican convention.A spokesman for Alaska’s junior senator on Wednesday said Sullivan has been in contact with event organizers but a potential speaking role hasn’t yet been confirmed.
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• Anchorage police arrest man after fatal crash

  14-07-2016 09:28 via ktoo.org
  
  Anchorage police have arrested the 49-year-old driver of a minivan that crashed early Wednesday, killing a passenger.
  Luther Rollins was held on suspicion of manslaughter, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and felony assault.
  Online court records did not list his attorney.
  Police say Rollins at about 1 a.m. was driving at high speed on Debarr Road and failed to negotiate a curve.
  The minivan with four passengers rolled multiple times and landed in the overflow parking lot of Alaska
  
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• Man shot in vehicle at Anchorage park; police arrest woman

  14-07-2016 09:26 via ktoo.org
  
  A 24-year-old Anchorage woman suspected of shooting a former boyfriend during an argument in a vehicle was arrested Tuesday.Christina Kehl is being held on suspicion of felony domestic violence assault and weapons misconduct.
  Anchorage police at 2:30 p.m. took a call that a man had suffered a gunshot wound at Russian Jack Park.
  The man had a previous dating relationship with Kehl and picked her up. An argument turned physical and the man pulled into the park parking lot.
  Police say Kehl grabbed
  
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• Walker addresses Anchorage’s local budgeting woes

  14-07-2016 09:10 via ktoo.org
  
  Gov. Bill Walker’s budget vetoes have carved at $17 million hole in Anchorage’s revenues, with the bulk of that drop hitting the school district.
  In a move he called “unprecedented,” Walker spoke by phone through a hoarse voice to the Anchorage Assembly during its Tuesday night meeting. The brief remarks addressed how the gridlock in Juneau is beginning to directly impact the local budgeting process.
  “Pushing this off to local government is not at all what
  
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• Why a Wrangell boarding school plan stirs bad memories — and opportunity

  14-07-2016 08:43 via ktoo.org
  
  An undated photo of the Wrangell Institute school from a collection spanning 1898 to approximately 1946. (Photo courtesy Alaska State Library Historical Collections)
  For one family, a proposal to build a 400-bed boarding school on the site of the former Wrangell Institute boarding school, which had a history of abusing students, is stirring up bad memories.
  As an Alaska Native child living in Fairbanks in the ‘50s, Jim LaBelle wasn’t the most likely candidate to be sent to
  
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• Legislature may try Friday to override budget vetoes, dividend cut

  14-07-2016 08:40 via ktoo.org
  
  An Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend check from 2008. (Creative Commons photo by Travis)
  The fate of the estimated $1,000 Permanent Fund Dividend cut could be decided on Friday.
  That’s the day the House has invited the Senate to meet in Juneau to determine if they’ll override Gov. Bill Walker’s budget vetoes.
  Walker vetoed $1.29 billion in spending. He also delayed $250 million in transportation projects.
  Rep. Charisse Millett, R-Anchorage, speaks last year. (Photo by Sk
  
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• Forest Service, Trail Mix partner to boost Alaska trail and cabin repairs

  14-07-2016 05:20 via ktoo.org
  
  A Trail Mix volunteer crew adds gravel to a muddy part of Juneau’s Lemon Creek Trail on National Trails Day, June 4. The trail crosses city and Forest Service land. (Photo courtesy Trail Mix)
  Alaska’s national forests will see more cabin and trail improvements under a new public-private partnership. A nonprofit group long involved in Juneau maintenance work is increasing its role in the Tongass and Chugach National Forests.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/07/12Trails.mp3A
  
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• Anchorage police kill man wielding hatchets, axes suspected in Home Depot robbery

  14-07-2016 02:45 via ktoo.org
  
  Anchorage Police Chief Chris Tolley addresses reporters at after police officers killed a Home Depot robbery suspect on July 12, 2016. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media)
  A young man is dead after a police-involved shooting in Anchorage on Tuesday evening.
  Anchorage Police Chief Chris Tolley spoke to reporters during a short press conference at APD headquarters two hours after the event.
  According to law enforcement, the incident started with a call about a robbery at an Ea
  
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• Obama Walks Fine Line On Race And Policing

  14-07-2016 02:12 via ktoo.org
  
  President Obama pauses during remarks at an interfaith memorial service for the victims of the Dallas police shooting at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on July 12 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
  President Obama is challenging Americans to have an honest and open-hearted conversation about race and law enforcement. But even as he sits down at the White House with police and civil rights activists, Obama is mindful of the limits of that approach.
  “I’ve
  
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• Opioid Bill Reframes Addiction As A Health Problem, Not A Crime

  14-07-2016 02:10 via ktoo.org
  
  A woman lobbying Congress holds two versions of naloxone which can be used to reverse an opioid overdose. (Photo by Al Drago/CQ-Roll Call Inc.)
  The Senate is set to approve a bill intended to change the way police and health care workers treat people struggling with opioid addictions.
  The bill is an amalgam of more than a dozen proposals passed through the year in the House and Senate. And while it has lots of new policies and provisions — from creating a task force to study how best to tr
  
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• Republican Platform Tilts Right Of Trump On LGBT Issues

  14-07-2016 02:09 via ktoo.org
  
  The platform will be voted on Monday at the start of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. (Photo by Angelo Merendino/Getty Images)
  The Republican Party, as it prepares for its convention next week has checked off item No. 1 on its housekeeping list — drafting a party platform. The document reflects the conservative views of its authors, many of whom are party activists. So don’t look for any concessions to changing views among the broader public on key social issues.
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• FBI Is Giving Up On Solving The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper

  14-07-2016 02:03 via ktoo.org
  
  This undated artist’ sketch shows the skyjacker known as D.B. Cooper from recollections of the passengers and crew of a Northwest Airlines jet he hijacked between Portland and Seattle on Thanksgiving eve in 1971. (AP)
  The FBI says it is giving up on the D.B. Cooper investigation, 45 years after the mysterious hijacker parachuted into the night with $200,000 in a briefcase, becoming an instant folk figure.
  “Following one of the longest and most exhaustive investigations in our history
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 7-14-16

  14-07-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Thursday on A Juneau Afternoon, Joan Pardes hosts.
  We’ll talk with Kristin Price about an upcoming Gospel Singing Workshop;
  Author Paul Berg will be here to highlight his book, Sandra’s Hands; Booksigning Friday at Hearthside Books;
  We’ll get a preview of Friday night’s Poetry Slam at Perseverance Theatre;
  And Pat McLear, from the Juneau Interfaith Council, will be here with details about Sunday’s Peace Vigil at Northern Light Church;
  And Nancy DeCherney will be her
  
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• After decades of research, Steller sea lion decline still puzzles scientists

  14-07-2016 01:27 via ktoo.org
  
  Aerial view of Steller sea lions captured by a hexacopter. (Courtesy NOAA Fisheries)
  Every summer, biologists visit Alaska to count Steller sea lions. The western stock of the population has been in decline for nearly 40 years — hitting a low in 2002. The count helps determine whether sea lions stay on the endangered species list, which puts costly restrictions on the commercial fishing fleet. Even after decades of research, the reason for the decline is still a mystery.
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• Telling Tales – 7-12-16

  14-07-2016 00:25 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Woosh Kinaadeiyi  Poetry for the People, joined me in the studio. Bill Merk and Ryan Carrillo recited poetry and performed.
  Pray for Me, performed by Ryan Carrillo
  Common Crows in a Winter Tree, written by Alberto Rios, recited by Bill Merk
  Dear Souls in Earthsuits, written by Summer Osborne, performed by MsG
   Music accompaniment was “Sorban Palid” by E Koestyara and Group Gapura
  And“Sit & Listen (Instrumental)” by Wax Tailor
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