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• Mat-Su votes are in, ban on marijuana growth out

  05-10-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Voters in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough on Tuesday overwhelmingly turned down a citizens ballot initiative banning the commercial growth and sale of cannabis in the Borough.
  Unofficial election results show over 8,704 Borough voters voted against Proposition B-1, which would have banned retail marijuana businesses in areas outside of the Borough’s three cities.
  Votes in support of the ban totaled 7,271.
  “You know, it wasn’t even close,” said Sarah Williams, who  head
  
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• Workforce Wednesday: Boosting employability skills

  05-10-2016 22:50
  
  The coffee industry in Alaska is big business. One company in particular is helping to bring top quality, first time job seekers into the workforce.
  Kaladi Brothers Coffee has more than 10 locations and a lot of employees who are learning skills to boost their paycheck in the long run.
  Wednesday, Michele Parkhurst, chief operations officer for Kaladi Brothers Coffee, and Martha Peck from the Alaska Process Industry Career Consortium joined Daybreak to fill viewers in on some of those skills
  
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• Anchorage Firefighter turned writer releases debut book

  05-10-2016 22:03
  
  An Anchorage firefighter is sparking his creative fire through storytelling, when he isn’t out fighting them. Bryan Allen Fierro can now say he’s a published author. Described as “a powerful and evocative debut,” Fierro’s new book, Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul, is now available. The New York Post listed it as a must read upon release.
  Wednesday, Fierro joined Daybreak to talk about his newest success and what it’s all about.
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• Woman in fatal village ATV crash charged with manslaughter

  05-10-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE — A southwest Alaska woman faces a manslaughter charge after a fatal all-terrain vehicle crash last week.
  Katherine Noatak, 25, of Akiachak also is charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, Alaska State Troopers said.
  She’s being held without bail at the Bethel jail.
  Online court documents do not list an attorney for Noatak.
  Investigators say Noatak just before midnight Friday was driving an all-terrain vehicle in Akiachak that struck Ruth Lomack, 76.
  Lomack was
  
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• Is Bill Clinton Helping Or Hurting His Wife’s Campaign?

  05-10-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Former President Bill Clinton speaks at a campaign event for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at a college campus in Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
  Bill Clinton was at a rally in Michigan riffing about the American health care system, riffing being a favorite pastime of the former president.
  He was getting to a point about how his wife, Hillary Clinton, hopes to improve the Affordable Care Act.
  But before he could get there, he described “this crazy system” where unde
  
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• Petersburg assembly waits on waterfront dwelling permit appeal

  05-10-2016 21:30 via ktoo.org
  
  The Petersburg Borough Assembly will wait to decide a land-use appeal for a new building on Petersburg’s waterfront.
  The property owner wants a permit for a two-family residential building on industrial land neat Petersburg’s South Harbor.
  In April, Bill Menish applied for a condition use permit for the building he’s putting up at 710 South Nordic Drive.
  The structure is on land zoned for industrial use and Menish wants to have two residential dwellings in the building.
  Petersb
  
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• How long can people live? New study suggests age limit

  05-10-2016 21:06
  
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  How long can we live? New research suggests there may be a limit to our life span.
  The record for the world’s oldest person is 122 years. Researchers say the odds of breaking that record set in 1997 are slim. They think the human life span more likely maxes out at 115 years.
  Their analysis was published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
  Some aging researchers say the new work doesn’t take into account progress that has been made in the laboratory
  
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• Mind Over Matter – 10-3-16

  05-10-2016 21:03 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Why is it that we know what’s good for our health, but we  often fail to act on it?  Why don’t we follow doctor’s orders?  Tune in  to KTOO this coming Monday (or “tonight”) at 7 pm to Mind Over Matter to hear Drs. Elaine Schroeder and Emily Kane discuss the curious question of why people fail to make lifestyle changes that improve their health and longevity.  That’s Monday evening at 7 on KTOO.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/20
  
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• Southeast Watershed Coalition works to build local food market

  05-10-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Meredith Pochardt teaches about local foods in Angoon. (Photo courtesy of Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition)
  Southeast food producers and fisherman may be able to expand their markets in the near future.
  The Southeast Watershed Coalition is working to set up a system to sell and distribute local foods throughout the region over the next three years.
  The Southeast Watershed Coalition received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in late September.
  The goal is to set up a di
  
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• Lizbeth Meredith tells a story that gripped Alaska in the 90’s in new book

  05-10-2016 20:30
  
  The memoir Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughter documents the story of Lizbeth Meredith’s struggle to get them back.
  In 1994, the Anchorage mother dropped her two kids off for a visit with their dad, her ex-husband. He took them to his home country of Greece, with no plans to return. The story made headlines in Alaska. Pleas were made to the President to help. After two years of searching and many, seemingly impossible hurdles to clear, Meredith was reunited with her kids in Greece
  
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• Troopers release name of passenger killed in plane crash

  05-10-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE — Alaska State Troopers have released the name of the passenger killed Sunday afternoon in the crash of a commercial flight in southwest Alaska.
  Luis John, 49, of Manokotak died in the crash of a Cessna 208B operated by Hageland Aviation, Troopers said.
  John was one of three people killed. Troopers have not released the names of the pilot and co-pilot because they have not verified that their next of kin have been notified.
  The airplane was on 70-mile flight from Quinhagak to Tog
  
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• Has The Human Life Span Hit The Ceiling?

  05-10-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Human life spans have been increasing for decades thanks to advances in treating and preventing diseases and improved social conditions.
  In fact, longevity has increased so much in recent decades that some researchers began to wonder: What is the upper limit on human aging?
  “We never had so many centenarians as we have now,” says Jan Vijg, who studies molecular genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. “Maybe we can actually live much longer than 100. May
  
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• After vote, Anchorage could see first pot shop by late October

  05-10-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Anchorage is one step closer to having its first legal pot shop.
  On Tuesday night, the Anchorage Assembly gave unanimous approval to Arctic Herbery, the first time a retail cannabis business has met both state and local requirements in Alaska’s largest city.
  And to the surprise of many, the issue received no debate before passing 11-0. It was only at the meeting’s end that assembly member John Weddleton pointed out the significance.
  “With breathtaking speed we blew by the notab
  
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• VP Debate Throws Another Curve Into 2016’s Long And Winding Road

  05-10-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Little has gone as expected in this extraordinary presidential cycle, so we should have known Tuesday’s vice presidential debate would have a twist or two in it, too.
  Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence each represented three clients in their 90-minute debate from Farmville, Va. The two former attorneys pleaded the case for their respective principals (Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump), to be sure, but also for their respective parties and for themselves.
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• Hilcorp to create new gas wells near Ninilchik

  05-10-2016 18:33
  
  State officials have approved a plan for Hilcorp Alaska to develop a gravel pad southeast of Ninilchik on the Kenai Peninsula to support natural gas drilling operations.
  The Peninsula Clarion reports the Alaska subsidiary of Houston, Texas-based Hilcorp Energy Co. applied last year to build the pad to make way for new exploration wells. The company has been expanding its operations in the Ninilchik area since 2013.
  The Alaska Division of Oil and Gas approved an operational plan for Hilcorp that
  
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• Anchorage police investigate 2 early morning shootings

  05-10-2016 18:00 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police are investigating two early morning shootings, including one that may have involved a robbery.
  Police just before 4:30 a.m. Wednesday took calls of shots fired near the Old Seward Highway at 74th Avenue.
  Police found a woman suffering from minor injuries. She was checked out by medics and released.
  Witnesses say she was with another woman and that she had been assaulted and possibly robbed by a man.
  Police found spent shell casings at the scene. Officers used a
  
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• Ketchikan Borough to help fund city tourism projects

  05-10-2016 17:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly voted Monday to approve about $230,000 of the borough’s cruise passenger head tax funds to help pay for City of Ketchikan tourism-related projects.
  The Assembly also approved $25,000 to help fund publication of the “Our Town” magazine; and $40,000 from the borough’s economic development fund to pay for legal expenses.
  That last item is related to the borough’s challenge of the state’s assessment of Vigor Alaska shipyard&r
  
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• North Pole, Mat-Su vote on pot businesses

  05-10-2016 16:57
  
  Residents in two parts of Alaska were deciding Tuesday whether to allow marijuana businesses to operate, according to unofficial election day numbers.
  Voters in the city of North Pole voted to prohibit marijuana businesses but those in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough voted to allow them.
  North Pole Councilwoman Elizabeth Holm sponsored the initiative, hoping to ban pot sales in the Christmas-themed city, where light poles are shaped like candy canes.
  “It creates kind of a safe haven for peop
  
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• APD searching for robbery suspect in Taku/Campbell neighborhood

  05-10-2016 16:22
  
  Police are actively looking for a man believed to be involved in an early morning robbery in south Anchorage.
  Around 4:30 Wednesday morning, the Anchorage Police Department (APD) was dispatched to the area of E. 74th Avenue and Old Seward Highway after neighbors in the area reported hearing gunshots, police wrote in an online release.
  Police dispatch also received a report of three individuals, a man and two women, fighting in the same area.
  “One of the subjects was talking about robbing t
  
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• Anchorage police end active search for early morning robbery suspect

  05-10-2016 16:22
  
  Last updated at 8:35 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 5
  Police are investigating a reported early morning robbery in Anchorage’s Taku/Campbell neighborhood.
  Around 4:30 Wednesday morning, the Anchorage Police Department (APD) was dispatched to the area of E. 74th Avenue and Old Seward Highway after neighbors in the area reported hearing gunshots, police wrote in an online release.
  Police dispatch also received a report of three individuals, a man and two women, fighting in the same area.
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• Wrangell Medical Center sees uptick in flu vacinations

  05-10-2016 16:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Flu season is about to be upon Wrangell, and last week, Wrangell Medical Center had 183 patients walk through the doors at its annual adult flu clinic.
  WMC’s development coordinator Kristen Reed said more people came to this year’s clinic than the past four years WMC has conducted it.
  “Yea, actually it was quite a bit busier than the last few years had been, and that was from 1 to 5 (p.m.), so a four hour period. That’s a lot of shots to give,” Reed said. &ldqu
  
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• In neck to neck race, Gregory ousts incumbent Troll

  05-10-2016 10:14 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Nearly 6,500 ballots were casts in the Juneau municipal election on Tuesday. More than 60 people crowded into the assembly chambers to watch as the results trickled in.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/10/05ELECT.mp3According to unofficial results, Norton Gregory won the area-wide seat, beating incumbent Kate Troll by more than 300 votes.
  Cheering burst out as results from last outstanding polling place were tabulated.
  “Oh my gosh, I’m super excited and also super humbled
  
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• Whitney and DeBartolo win school board race

  05-10-2016 09:31 via ktoo.org
  
  Unofficial election results have Steve Whitney and Dan DeBartolo winning the two open seats on the Juneau School Board.
  Four candidates competed in the race. The two candidates with the most votes win.
  DeBartolo finished first with 2,886 votes and Whitney came in second place with 2,577 votes Tuesday night. Jason Hart had the next highest number of votes, followed by Kevin Allen.
  Both of the winning candidates were traveling on business as the votes were counted.
  DeBartolo said he saw
  
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• AVCP energy conference reveals big plans for the region

  05-10-2016 08:20
  
  Bob Aloysius speaks at the AVCP Regional Energy WorkshopCredit Dean Swope / KYUK
  This story originated from KYUK Public Media and was republished with permission.
  BETHEL — The Association of Village Council Presidents kicked off a busy week with an all-day Bethel workshop focused on improving how energy is used in Western Alaska.
  At yesterday’s workshop, one elder compared energy in the region to a family: a series of intricate connections, constantly maintained and enteri
  
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• Unofficial election results for Seward, Lowell Point

  05-10-2016 08:05
  
  Seward/Lowell Point
  October 4, 2016
  Unofficial Election Results
  Eighty-five Absentee In Person ballots will be counted by the Canvass Board on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 at 1 p.m. in the Fire Hall, according to Seward city clerk Johanna Kinney.
   
  Board of Education – East Peninsula District 6
  Lynn Hohl — 296
  Write-Ins — 10
  Seward Bear Creek Flood Service Area Board – Seat C
  Jessica Gal — 263
  Write-Ins — 3
  Seward Bear Creek Flood Service Area Board – Sea
  
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• Voters renew Juneau sales tax, add extra 3% for marijuana

  05-10-2016 07:43 via ktoo.org
  
  (Creative Commons photo by Laura Thorne)
  Shoppers in Juneau will continue to pay the same sales tax rates, for now. Local voters chose to renew the city’s 3 percent temporary sales tax through Proposition 2 in Tuesday night’s municipal election by a 3-1 margin, but shot down another question that asked to make it permanent.
  Voters have renewed the temporary sales tax every four or five years since 1983, according to the city’s voter information pamphlet. City Manager Rorie Watt
  
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• Unofficial Juneau municipal election results

  05-10-2016 07:00
  
  Juneau Municipal Election
  October 4, 2016
  Unofficial Results
  Updated at 10:30 p.m.
  Precincts reporting: 13 of 13
  Voter turnout – 25.9 percent
  Absentee ballots issued: N/A
  Question ballots issued: N/A 
  Original election results reported on the City and Borough of Juneau websiteThe post Unofficial Juneau municipal election results appeared first on KTVA 11 News | The Voice of Alaska.
  
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• Unofficial Matanuska-Susitna Borough election results

  05-10-2016 06:49
  
  Matanuska-Susitna Borough
  Oct. 4 Regular Borough Election Unofficial Results
  Updated at 10:30 p.m.
  Precincts reporting: 41 of 41
  Voter turnout – 21.89 percent
  Absentee ballots issued: 2,295
  Question ballots issued: 1191
  Special needs ballots received: 21
  Original results posted on the Matanuska-Susitna Borough website
  The post Unofficial Matanuska-Susitna Borough election results appeared first on KTVA 11 News | The Voice of Alaska.
  
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• Mat-Su passes pot tax, $22M parks & rec bond

  05-10-2016 06:49
  
  Unofficial results from Tuesday’s election in the Matanuska-Susitna borough are in, and voters shot down an initiative to ban the sale of marijuana products outside city limits.
  Voters passed a $22.16 million parks and recreation bond, known as Prop B-5, by 1,380 votes.  The bond will allow funding for outdated public pools in Palmer and Wasilla as well as trails and outdoor ice rinks in Talkeetna and Willow, among other projects.
  Prop B-4, a proposal to add a 5 percent tax
  
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• Anchorage Assembly approves contract between Girdwood and Whittier police

  05-10-2016 06:32
  
  The Anchorage Assembly unanimously approved a request from Girdwood for a contract with the City of Whittier for police coverage, now that Alaska State Troopers have left.
  In February, troopers announced their departure from a stretch of the Seward Highway that included Girdwood and other communities. The contract approved would provide Whittier police service in the Girdwood Valley Service Area (GVSA) from Oct. 15 to Dec. 31 while Girdwood and Whittier “are exploring a longer-term relatio
  
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• Anchorage Assembly considers ordinance to add more taxicabs

  05-10-2016 06:02
  
  An ordinance introduced at Tuesday night’s Anchorage Assembly meeting would increase the number of taxicabs in Anchorage and make it cheaper to get a permit to operate one.
  Assemblyman Bill Evan’s proposal would add 116 permits over the next five years. It would also do away with a system that awards new permits to the highest bidder at auction.
  Under the new system, permits would be awarded by lottery and winners would pay a flat fee of about $2,000.That’s a big change, accord
  
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• Gardentalk – How to plant garlic

  05-10-2016 05:41 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Layers of horse manure and soil are spread in this Douglas Island planter. Various garlic varieties have been broken into single cloves for planting. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  Ever wonder what you could do with all of that hardneck garlic you picked up at the latest harvest fair? Instead of eating it all right now, you could plant some of it and have more for yourself next summer.
  Master Gardener Ed Buyarski explained how to plant garlic during the latest edition of Gardentalk t
  
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• Catholic Church announces Alaska’s next Archbishop

  05-10-2016 04:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Archbishop-elect Paul Etienne addresses the public at the Archdiocese of Anchorage on Oct. 4, 2016. (Photo by Josh Edge/APRN)
  Pope Francis and the Catholic Church have named Alaska’s next archbishop.
  Archbishop-elect Paul Etienne was introduced to the community Tuesday by outgoing-Archbishop Roger Schweitz at the Archdiocese of Anchorage.
  “This is a very, very special day for me personally since it’s been 15 months since I sent in my resignation to our Holy Father, and he respo
  
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• Dave and Buster’s featured on Anchorage Assembly agenda

  05-10-2016 03:23
  
  Dave & Buster’s is facing some final hurdles ahead of its planned opening at the Dimond Center mall. The Anchorage Assembly has filed a protest against the restaurant’s liquor license until a few conditions are met.
  According to the Assembly’s protest, the new business’ special land use permit to serve alcohol has not yet been approved. The business’ space in the mall also hasn’t been cleared by the Anchorage Fire Department, Building Safety or the Municip
  
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• New iPads allow Port Graham students to explore and engage with culture

  05-10-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Students at Port Graham School test out their new iPads with teacher Devin Michel-Way. (Photo by Shahla Farzan/KBBI)
  For students and teachers in the tiny Alaska Native community of Port Graham, this school year promises to be very different.
  That’s because each of the school’s 36 students will now have an iPad to use during class as part of a program to improve the curriculum and help students become better connected with their own Native culture.
  Nancy Kleine, the princip
  
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• Pot proposition draws Mat-Su voters to the polls

  05-10-2016 02:56
  
  Those manning the polls on election day in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough said precincts were busier than expected and the reason was marijuana.
  [RELATED: Unofficial Matanuska-Susitna Borough election results]
  “I believe that if the proposition, the pot one, if it was not on the ballot, we would have very low turnout,” election worker Sandi Wollsey said.
  Proposition B-1 asked borough residents to cast a vote on whether to ban the commercial marijuana industry, except hemp, outsid
  
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• Employee who posted Trump-related tweets on agency feed gone

  05-10-2016 02:30 via ktoo.org
  
  Some politically charged tweets related to the presidential debate were sent on the Alaska Department of Health & Social Services Twitter account at 5:32 p.m. and 5:37 p.m. during the debate Monday. The tweets were deleted shortly after going out. (Graphic by Jeremy Hsieh, KTOO – Juneau)
  JUNEAU — An Alaska health department employee who posted political comments aimed at Donald Trump on the agency’s Twitter feed last week is no longer with the department.
  In a statement, th
  
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• To cut costs, UAF merges journalism and communications majors

  05-10-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  One of numerous cost saving realignments within the University of Alaska system, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Journalism and Communications departments have merged.
  Professor Charles Mason said the merger should save money, and shore up the journalism department, which has seen a declining number of majors in recent years.
  ”The point of this merger is to have, probably, a smaller core faculty over the long run, but increase the number of majors in the two programs together so that it
  
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• Online fundraiser nets nearly $50K for erosion-control project at Delta-area park

  05-10-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska State Parks is trying to raise money for a riverbank-stabilization project that would halt the Tanana River from washing away the bank that’s already been eroded to within 13 feet of this historic cabin at Big Delta State Historical Park. (Photo by Monica Gray/ Alaska State Parks )
  Donors gave nearly $50,000 to an online fundraiser last month to help pay for a project to prevent the Tanana River from washing away the bank that runs along Big Delta State Historical Park near Delta Ju
  
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• Juneau Afternoon 10-5-16

  05-10-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Wednesday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Jamie Waste will be your host.
   
  We’ll find out about this weekend’s presentation of Nellie Cashman – A Northern Light, with guests, Mark Whitman and Eve Dillingham;
  George Brown and Chris Niemi will be here to highlight events sponsored by the League of Women Voters;
  We’ll talk with John Hudson about his Wildlife Wednesday presentation on dragonflies in Alaska;
  We’ll find out about the air quality monitoring program this W
  
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• Inside The Refugee Camp At The Foot Of The Washington Monument

  05-10-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  What it’s like inside a two-family tent: A cloth divider to split the space in two, canvas mats, small mattresses. (Photo by Victoria Milko/NPR)
  Sabrina Chang, 30, didn’t know much about the global refugee crisis. “I think I could spit out headlines that I’ve seen, but that’s about it,” she says.
  But then she found herself — for a moment — in refugees’ shoes. Chang visited Forced From Home, a touring interactive exhibition hosted by Doctors W
  
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• How Donald Trump Lost $916 Million

  05-10-2016 01:30 via ktoo.org
  
  The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City before it closed on Sept. 16, 2014. (Photo by Mel Evans/Associated Press)
  How do you lose more than $900 million?
  “I think a good part of it was mistakes,” said Barbara Res, a former executive vice president at the Trump Organization who managed construction at Trump Tower.
  Res said the mistakes started in the 1980s, when Trump paid $365 million for the Eastern Air Lines Shuttle and $400 million for the Plaza Hotel.
  “He overpaid
  
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• Police seek suspect in robbery of Anchorage loan business

  05-10-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police are seeking an armed man who robbed a loan business late Monday afternoon.
  Police say a man brandishing a handgun walked into MoneyWorks on Northern Lights Boulevard and demanded money from a cash drawer.
  He received money and fled on foot.
  Police describe the suspect as a thin, light-skinned African-American man about 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-10.
  He was wearing a black fleece jacket, gray jeans and a black back pack.
  
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• Alaska to receive federal grant to process over 1,000 untested sexual assault kits

  05-10-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Gov. Bill Walker announced today that Alaska will be receiving $1.1 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justice to process over 1,000 sexual assault kits currently in possession of Alaska State Troopers.
  “While we cannot solve these problems overnight, this grant will help us to make great strides in reducing the number of unprocessed sexual assault kits in Alaska,” Walker said. “These kits represent real people who are the victims of horrific crimes. We owe it
  
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• Arctic Science Ministerial Brings International Representatives, including Nome’s mayor

  05-10-2016 00:35
  
  Nome’ Mayor Richard Beneville attended the first Arctic Science Ministerial in D.C. His attendance was in part due to former Mayor Denise Michels’ previous workPhoto: Mitch Borden, KNOM
  This September marked the one-year anniversary of President Barack Obama’s visit to Alaska in which he witnessed firsthand the effects of climate change in the Arctic.
  And on Sept. 28, the first ever Arctic Science Ministerial was hosted in Washington, D.C., last w
  
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• Petersburg man launches write-in campaign for Southeast state Senate seat

  05-10-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A Petersburg man is launching a write-in campaign for the state Senate seat for southern and central Southeast Alaska.
  Handyman Michael Sheldon wants to unseat incumbent Republican Bert Stedman of Sitka.
  Michael Sheldon, 60, has registered with the state Division of Elections as a write-in candidate for Senate district R, which includes Ketchikan, Wrangell, Sitka, Petersburg, Prince of Wales Island communities and many other small Southeast villages.
  Michael Sheldon
  Sheldon, a Republican, is cha
  
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• Hotel near Denali Park entrance to add 64 rooms for 2017

  05-10-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE — A hotel outside the entrance to Denali National Park is expanding with an adjacent facility.
  Denali Hotel Properties says it has broken ground on a 64-room addition to Denali Bluffs Hotel to be called RiverView at the Bluffs.
  RiverView at the Bluffs will feature four cedar-sided buildings fabricated by International Homes of Cedar, Inc. of Seattle. Rooms will have a veranda looking over the Nenana River.
  The property’s parent company is Old Harbor Native Corp.
  Company vic
  
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