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• In an effort to pressure Trump, Clinton releases tax rate

  12-08-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton delivers a speech on the U.S economy in Warren, Mich., on Thursday.
  (Bill Pugliano, Getty Images)
  Hillary and Bill Clinton paid $3.2 million in federal income tax last year, a rate of 34.2 percent. Their 2015 return was released today by the Clinton campaign, almost five months after they signed it for filing.
  The Clintons overpaid the Treasury and got a refund of more than $1 million.
  The couple’s income plunged last year. Adjusted gross inc
  
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• Fairbanks borough delays rules for cannabis cafes

  12-08-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  FAIRBANKS — Rules for cannabis cafes outside Fairbanks will be delayed for three months.
  Fairbanks North Star Borough on Thursday put the matter on hold.
  The state Marijuana Control Board says cannabis cafes will be allowed as attachments to retail pot stores.
  But borough assembly members say they want state regulations in place before they decide what to do locally.
  Assemblyman Matt Cooper proposed the delay. He says he feels as if local officials are currently operating in a vacuum.
  The
  
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• Gardentalk – Rock gardening

  12-08-2016 22:53 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Portion of the rock garden and rock features at Juneau’s Fred Meyer store. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  Looking for something to make your yard or garden stand out among your neighbors? Try a few big rocks. Maybe some little ones, too.
  Master Gardener Ed Buyarski discussed rock features, how to use rock and where to get rock during this week’s edition of Gardentalk that aired on KTOO’s Morning Edition.
  Listen to the August 11 edition of Gardentalk about rock:http://s3-us-west-2.
  
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• Red Carpet Concert: Silver Jackson

  12-08-2016 21:19 via ktoo.org
  
  In our debut Celebration Sessions Red Carpet Concert, we present Silver Jackson led by Sitka artist Nicholas Galanin. He is accompanied by guitarist Zak D. Watt, Stephen Qacung Blanchett on vocals and Seattle-based artist OCnotes on synth. Here is their song “Perfect Mistake” off of the album Starry Skies Opened Eyes.The Celebration Sessions Red Carpet Concerts are a collaboration between KTOO, Kindred Post and Trickster Company. Watch other Red Carpet Concer
  
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• Why doctors want a computerized assistant for cancer care

  12-08-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Researchers at the New York Genome Center are working with IBM Watson to make better treatment plans for cancer patients. (New York Genome Center)
  A computer may soon be able to offer highly personalized treatment suggestions for cancer patients based on the specifics of their cases and the full sweep of the most relevant scientific research.
  IBM and the New York Genome Center, a consortium of medical research institutions in New York City, are collaborating on a project to speed up cancer diagn
  
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• State fund for renewable power falls prey to budget woes

  12-08-2016 20:59 via ktoo.org
  
  Two wind turbines tower over the city of Sand Point. (Photo by Zoë Sobel/KUCB)
  Since 2008, the state has set aside a pot of money for renewable energy projects like small dams and wind turbines. Called the Renewable Energy Fund, the projects it’s backed have replaced tens of millions of gallons of expensive diesel in communities from Skagway to Nome.
  But with the current budget crisis, that money has disappeared.
  For example, utility TDX Power last year asked the Alaska Ener
  
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• Trident Seafoods resumes processing operations

  12-08-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  One of Petersburg’s four main fish processors is back in business after halting operations for part of the summer.
  Trident Seafood employees are returning to work after the location was closed to fishermen earlier in the season.
  It’s been over a month since Trident Seafood’s Petersburg location has processed any fish. But plant manager Dave Ohmer says it all worked out as planned as his workers returned to town from Wrangell.
  The move to consolidate Petersburg and Wrangell was
  
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• Why students and scientists spend summer on ice

  12-08-2016 04:36 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Every year, dozens of twenty-somethings forego a summer break to live on the Juneau ice field. They slog heavy packs and ski to camps — miles away from the closest cell phone signal or Wi-Fi hotspot. The Juneau Icefield Research Program has been around for 70 years. First, exploring the icy expanse. And later, tracking the rate Southeast glaciers are shrinking.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/08/11JIRP.mp3If you squint, you might think you’re in the desert. Flat, white te
  
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• Working ‘the chain,’ slaughterhouse workers face lifelong injuries

  12-08-2016 03:36 via ktoo.org
  
  Teresa, 31, worked at a pork processing plant in Nebraska for five years until injuries to her shoulder forced her to quit. She still has pain and can only work part-time. (Brian Seifferlein, Harvest Public Media)
  Teresa, an immigrant from Mexico has worked at a pork processing plant in Lincoln, Neb., since 2011. She didn’t want to use her last name because she feared that a family member, who still works at a plant, might get in trouble.
  Teresa worked on the line, or “the chain,&rdq
  
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• Southeast Conference brainstorms a fix for Alaska’s ferries

  12-08-2016 03:29 via ktoo.org
  
  Robert Venables is the former city manager of Haines. He says that the legislature understands that “there’s a true sense of crisis” in the system. (Robert Woolsey, KCAW)
  Gov. Bill Walker is serious about finding a fix for Alaska’s struggling ferry system.
  He signed earlier this year a Memorandum of Understanding with Sitka’s Garry White, who chairs the Southeast Conference, empowering the conference to look for solutions to the Alaska Marine Highway’s on
  
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• Senator says lawsuit is likely if corporation doesn’t fully fund dividends

  12-08-2016 03:28 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, talks after a floor session in July. He is seeking to have full Permanent Fund dividend checks this fall. (Photo by Rashah McChesney, KTOO)
  Anchorage Democratic Sen. Bill Wielechowski wants the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation to defy Gov. Bill Walker’s veto roughly halving this year’s dividends.
  If the veto stands, then Wielechowski said he’s likely to sue to force the state to fully pay Permanent Fund dividends this fall.
  Walker
  
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• New Wrangell principal sets goals and is ready for the new school year

  12-08-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  With the new school year about two weeks away, Wrangell Public School students aren’t the only ones anxious about classes beginning.
  New secondary school principal William Schwan said he’s ready to get over the hump of being the new guy.
  “That’s always an interesting start when you’re new, feeling out the new guy,” Schwan said. “What’s he going to change, what’s he not going to change? I’m anxious to get through all that and really
  
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• Anchorage logs warmest month on record

  12-08-2016 02:17 via ktoo.org
  
  Graphic courtesy of Brian Brettschneider
  Anchorage just recorded its warmest month on record. July was four degrees above normal, with an average temperature of nearly 63 degrees.Brian Brettschneider is a climatologist in Anchorage who closely tracks Alaska climate data and trends. Alaska’s Energy Desk is checking in with him regularly as part of a new segment- Ask a Climatologist.
  Brettschneider told Energy Desk editor Annie Feidt the record or near record warmth has extended across
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-12-16

  12-08-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Friday on A Juneau Afternoon, Andy Kline will be your host.
  Cheryl Snyder will be here with a preview of Matisyahu’s Juneau concert next month;
  We’ll get the details about Perseverance Theatre’s new production of Peter & the Starcatcher;
  We’ll learn about Saturday’s Fly Casting Workshop/Fundraiser for the Southeast Alaska Land Trust;
  We’ll highlight Big Brothers/Big Sisters
  We’ll get a preview of Friday’s Kindred Post Concert;
  That, Writers&rsq
  
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• Pickup crashes into car, house, causes natural gas leak

  12-08-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  ANCHORAGE — A pickup crashed into a car and an Anchorage house, setting off a natural gas leak that took a half hour to contain.
  Anchorage police say the pickup driven by Rosalynn Bayless, 29, shortly before midnight Wednesday ran a red light at Lake Otis Parkway and Northern Lights Boulevard.
  The truck collided with a small sedan, continued over an embankment, struck a house and a boulder and came to rest on its side.
  The boulder struck the home’s gas meter, which created the leak.
  
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• Chief administrative officer leaving PeaceHealth Ketchikan

  12-08-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Ken Tonjes speaking at the ribbon cutting cermony for a expansion at PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center. (PHKMC)
  Ken Tonjes, chief administrative officer for PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center, announced he’ll be leaving his position at the end of the year in order to be closer to his children and grandchildren.
  Tonjes has been with PeaceHealth almost 27 years. His career started at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bellingham as an entry-level accountant, and worked his way up to the top
  
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• What killed St. Paul’s woolly mammoths?

  12-08-2016 00:42 via ktoo.org
  
  A woolly mammoth on display in the Royal BC Museum. (Photo by FunkMonk/Wikimedia commons)
  What killed the woolly mammoths on St. Paul Island? Thirst. For the first time, scientists have pinpointed the date — 5,600 years ago — and a likely cause of extinction. They believe the environmental changes that killed the animals mirror today’s climate changes.
  Six thousand years ago, St. Paul Island looked about the same except for one big difference: There were mammoths
  
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• Wildlife biologist on Haines bear attack: ‘He was in the wrong place at the wrong time’

  12-08-2016 00:31 via ktoo.org
  
  Forest Wagner, Andy Sterns, and Forest’s father Joe Wagner pose for a photo while climbing Flat Top near Anchorage on June 25. (Photo courtesy Forest Wagner)
  Some of the circumstances that led to a brown bear attack near Haines this spring came to light when a wildlife biologist interviewed the victim recently.
  The attack happened during a university mountaineering trip, which was originally planned for the Juneau Icefield.
  Mauling victim Forest Wagner was by himself and without a bear det
  
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• Record California wildfire caused by wiring on hot tub, investigators find

  12-08-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  In January of this year, Daniel Laine surveys the site where his grandmother’s Anderson Springs house had burned down in a wildfire last September. Officials said today the Valley Fire, which killed four people and wiped out more than 1,300 homes, probably started with faulty hot tub wiring. (Jeff Chiu, Associated Press)
  Faulty wiring on a hot tub caused California’s third-most-destructive wildfire, which left four people dead and destroyed more than 1,300 homes last year, California
  
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• Driver in fatal Atka crash arrested

  12-08-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  ANCHORAGE — A van driver suspected of driving impaired in a crash that killed three on an Aleutian Island is out of a hospital and in state custody.
  Alaska State Troopers say Sonny Iloilo, 28, was arrested Wednesday night on a felony warrant.
  He is charged with three counts of manslaughter, 12 counts of assault and one count of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
  He is jailed in Anchorage.
  Iloilo on June 14 drove a van carrying nine passengers in Atka.
  Troopers say the van at
  
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• Anchorage police describe vehicle in fatal hit-and-run

  12-08-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  ANCHORAGE — A vehicle in an Anchorage fatal hit-and-run likely was a dark blue 2003 or 2004 Chevy Silverado or Avalanche with blue lighting inside the cab.
  Anchorage police are seeking the driver of the vehicle that struck and killed Joshua Goodlataw, 22, shortly after 3:30 a.m. Saturday as he walked on the Glenn Highway near Turpin Street.
  Police say the pickup likely has headlight and hood damage on the passenger side. Plastic trim near the hood and windshield also could be damaged.
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