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• Trump releases weight, cholesterol, blood sugar and other medical information

  15-09-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Canton, Ohio, on Wednesday. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
  A letter from Donald Trump’s personal physician says he is in “excellent physical health” and received normal results after a physical examination last week.
  The GOP nominee’s campaign released the one-page summary from Dr. Harold Bornstein, an internist and gastroenterologist at Lenox Hill Hospital, on the same day an interview with co
  
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• Mudslide hits Alaska Railroad train near Cantwell

  15-09-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A mudslide hit an Alaska Railroad train Wednesday near Cantwell.The slide came down about 4:30 a.m. near track mile 322, hitting a northbound freight train, Alaska Railroad spokesman Tim Sullivan said.
  “The train did not derail. There were no injuries,” Sullivan said. “And at this point the train is moved out of that spot and we are currently clearing it out with excavators.”
  Passenger trains were delayed Wednesday and some railroad passengers were moved by bus, Sullivan
  
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• Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, Newscast

  15-09-2016 22:50 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/09/newscast1.mp3In this newscast:
  A look at Juneau Assembly candidates’ fundraising thus far,
  human remains have been found in the Mendenhall Valley that may be of a man missing since 2010, and
  the Juneau Police Department takes some heat with some racial undertones in the contrast between how its handled two recent missing person cases.
  
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• To some Democrats, Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ comment is insensitive but ‘honest’

  15-09-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Ahmed Bedier, a Muslim community activist, stands outside the Fort Pierce mosque, damaged in arson attack this week. He says Clinton’s comments were probably “unwise” but “honest.” (Photo by Asma Khalid/NPR)
  Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” remark has echoed through the political interwebs and produced many rounds of cable TV analysis.
  Sure, conservatives pounced. And some liberals laughed in agreement. But does it matter in the real world
  
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• Ketchikan School Board rejects policy that limited memorials

  15-09-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The Clarke Cochrane Christmas Classic is an annual basketball tournament in Ketchikan, named in memory of a Kayhi teacher. (KRBD file photo)
  The Ketchikan School Board on Wednesday rejected a policy that would have limited memorials at school facilities.
  The policy was recommended by the Association of Alaska School Boards and called for allowing one temporary memorial per loss that would be removed at the end of the school year.
  Permanent memorials would have been limited to scholarsh
  
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• League of Women Voters – Municipal Candidate Forum – 9-14-16

  15-09-2016 19:26 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Wednesday night’s School Board & Assembly Candidate Forum
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• League of Women Voters – Municipal Candidate Forum – 9-14

  15-09-2016 19:26 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Wednesday night’s School Board & Assembly Candidate Forumhttp://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/09/Municipal-Election-Candidate-Forum-9-14-16.mp3
  
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• Outdated FEMA flood maps don’t account for climate change

  15-09-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Cattle had to be driven through the waters of a flooded road, and then trucked to higher ground on Aug. 16, in Sorrento, La. About a third of the flooding in the state last month occurred outside the local flood plain. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
  The floods that hit Louisiana last month were caused by rainfall that was unlike anything seen there in centuries. Most of the southern part of the state was drenched with up to two or three inches in an hour. A total of 31 inches fell just north
  
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• Helicopter rescues 3 boaters stranded in southwest Alaska

  15-09-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  MANOKOTAK — Three rural residents stranded after their boat ran aground were rescued Wednesday by chartered helicopter.
  Alaska State Troopers say Jeremiah Chukwuk, 27, Alice Moxie, 26, and Daniel Tugutuk Jr., 27, all of Manokotak, ran aground as they returned from a trip to Dillingham.
  Troopers received a call that the party was overdue and a Bristol Bay Air Taxi pilot reported seeing a skiff abandoned across the Snake River from the village of Ekuk.
  Ekuk is on Nushagak Bay about 17 miles
  
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• Search on for dead humpback whale in Sitka Sound

  15-09-2016 18:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is looking for a dead whale near Sitka.
  The Sitka Police Department received a report of the dead humpback floating in the Sound near Crow Island shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13, and passed on the information to NOAA officials in Juneau.
  NOAA would like to study the animal, which they believe is a male, spokeswoman Julie Speegle said.
  “If it’s possible to collect some samples while the whale is floating we wil
  
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• Lullaby Project connects mothers to children through prison walls

  15-09-2016 18:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Women at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center listen to the songs they wrote together for their children. (Photo by Anne Hillman/Alaska Public Media)
  A mother singing lullabies to a young child is an image that resonates with most people, but for some incarcerated women, even a simple song to lull her little one to sleep can prove problematic.
  The Lullaby Project helps mothers who are in prison connect with their children.
  Professional musicians work with inmates at the Hiland Moun
  
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• Sitka administrator to step down within nine months

  15-09-2016 17:00 via ktoo.org
  
  City Administrator Mark Gorman, speaking with the assembly at his evaluation, on April 22, 2015. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz/KCAW)
  City Administrator Mark Gorman will step down from the position in six to nine months, he announced during Tuesday night’s Assembly meeting.
  He’s resigning for both personal and professional reasons, he said.
  He commented that the average tenure for city administrators in Alaska is 2.5 years and that his three year anniversary is next month.
  The former
  
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• Head regulator says legal marijuana will be for sale by February

  15-09-2016 11:08 via ktoo.org
  
  Marijuana sales are expected by February, according to Cynthia Franklin, director of the Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office. (Creative Commons photo by Brett Levin)
  Alaska’s top marijuana regulator said Wednesday that pot will be on sale by February. But industry advocates expressed frustration it’s taken nearly two years since voters approved the sales.
  And legislators said they’d like to see the state allow marijuana consumption in private clubs. Some lawmakers wo
  
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• State seeks to stop people from wrongfully claiming PFDs

  15-09-2016 10:55 via ktoo.org
  
  To stop people from wrongfully claiming Permanent Fund dividends, the Alaska Department Revenue has launched a new program to audit applications this month.The state government is using information from LexisNexis to identify applicants who will be asked for more information. The department will deny unresponsive applicants. 
  The legislature funded the program this year. Dividends will be distributed beginning on Oct. 6.
  
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• Who’s raised the most in the Juneau Assembly race, so far?

  15-09-2016 03:23 via ktoo.org
  
  Graph showing the amount of income each Assembly candidate’s campaign has received during the City and Borough of Juneau municipal election. (Illustration by Lakeidra Chavis/ KTOO)
  Juneau Assembly candidates have raised a combined $57,000 so far this election season, according to campaign finance records.
  Much of that money — $28,000 — belongs to District 2 candidate Beth Weldon, who’s running unopposed.
  District 1 incumbent Mary Becker has raised $13,000. She’s out
  
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• Details emerge as Transportation Board investigates floatplane crash near Kodiak

  15-09-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Some details are emerging from an investigation into a float plane that crashed Friday near Kodiak.
  A de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver crashed about 11:30 a.m., soon after taking off from Kodiak, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board. It was headed for Amook Bay and then Zachar Bay.
  The crash happened during a scheduled stop at Uganik Lake, which is 35 miles from the city of Kodiak, said Clint Johnson, chief of the NTSB Alaska Regional Office.
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• JPD: Unidentified human remains, items of man missing since 2010 found in Mendenhall Valley

  15-09-2016 02:46 via ktoo.org
  
  Jeffrey Walkenford (Photo courtesy of Juneau Police Department)
  Human remains awaiting identification and items reportedly belonging to a man reported missing in 2010 have been found near Dredge Lake in the Mendenhall Valley, the Juneau Police Department announced Wednesday.
  The remains have not been positively identified. Identification is estimated to take about six months, according to a police news release.
  A hiker located the remains at 11 a.m. Aug. 2
  
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• State Natural Resources department hires new oil and gas overseer

  15-09-2016 02:21 via ktoo.org
  
  Mark Wiggin will be the new deputy commissioner at the Department of Natural Resources (Photo courtesy DNR).
  The Alaska Department of Natural Resources announced it has hired a new deputy commissioner in charge of oil and gas.
  Mark Wiggin left Brooks Range Petroleum to take the post, where he worked as an engineering and development manager.
  The deputy commissioner role has been vacant since March, when Marty Rutherford temporarily stepped in to the lead role at the Department of Natural Resourc
  
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• Telling Tales – 9-13-16

  15-09-2016 00:51 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Poetry for the People: Erika Bergen from Woosh Kinaadeiyí visited my show.
   
  POEMS
  Live by the Dance by Erika Bergen
  She Let Go by Rev. Safire Rose
  Aurora Borealis by Erika Bergen
  Misplaced by Erika Bergen
  Roots by Ellen S. Jaffe 
  * Check out Woosh K’s Open Mic, 6:30pm ~ Fri, 9/16/16 @ Gonzo in Auke Bay.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/09/TT091316.mp3
  
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• Employees are paying a bigger chunk of health insurance costs

  15-09-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A survey finds that more than half of people with insurance through work are in a high-deductible health plan. (illustration by John Labbe/Getty Images)
  High deductible health plans are the new normal.
  Just over half of employees this year have a health insurance policy with a deductible of at least $1,000, according to a survey of employers from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
  It’s the continuation of a multiyear trend of companies passing more of the costs of employee health care back onto
  
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