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• Newscast – Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016

  08-11-2016 22:45 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/11/20161108-newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  The Juneau Police Department plans to outfit 40 of its officers with body cams over protest from the mayor and deputy mayor,
  a federal judge shoots down a lawsuit challenging campaign donation limits in Alaska, and
  the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights revisits whether it will hear discrimination cases based on sexuality and gender identity.
  
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• ‘I Voted’ stickers can mean more than a ballot on Election Day

  08-11-2016 21:26
  
  Emily Carlson/KTVA
  While it’s called a “civic duty,” having the freedom to vote is reason enough for some companies to celebrate on Election Day.
  Some national and local companies are offering deals and freebies for Alaskans who voted, and for most, all you need is that blue sticker:
  BurgerFi – The normally pricier “Conflict Burger” is available for $5 at Anchorage locations when you show off your “I Voted” sticker.
  Chuck E. Cheese – Us
  
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• KTVA Weather Lab: Trailside Elementary School

  08-11-2016 21:20
  
  In this week’s KTVA Weather Lab, I visited Trailside Elementary School, where the third graders in Mrs. Cragen and Mrs. Khaki’s classes wanted to know about the tools I use to forecast the weather.
  The students discovered what thermometers, anemometers and barometers do and learned all about weather satellites and radar.
  I also answered the KTVA Weather Lab Question of the Week: How do tsunamis start?
  Every Tuesday, Melissa Frey will take the KTVA Weather Lab to a classroom in o
  
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• Testing students with the Big Wild Life Trivia Contest

  08-11-2016 20:58
  
  The Big Wild Life Trivia contest will test the Alaska knowledge of students from eight middle schools just like Jeopardy.
  It’s an extension of the Anchorage School District’s social studies curriculum for seventh graders, according to Julie Saupe of Visit Anchorage.
  New this year — the event will be held after school, not during, so parents can cheer on their kids.
  The preliminary rounds were held online, which organizers hoped would encourage participation of parents.
  The even
  
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• JPD to outfit 40 officers with body cameras

  08-11-2016 20:48 via ktoo.org
  
  A policeman wears a body camera during St. Patrick’s Day celebrations this year in North Charleston, South Carolina. The Juneau Police Department plans to use grant money to outfit 40 of its officers with body cameras. (Creative Commons photo by North Charleston)
  The Juneau Police Department plans to outfit 40 of its officers with body cameras to improve evidence gathering, transparency and accountability.
  The department will have the money to buy those cameras after the Juneau Assembly on
  
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• Renowned Inupiaq leader Edward Itta dies at 71

  08-11-2016 20:35
  
  ANCHORAGE — Alaskans are mourning the loss of an Inupiaq leader who died Sunday. Edward S. Itta’s death came after an extended struggle with cancer, according to the Inter Circumpolar Council-Alaska (ICC Alaska). He was 71.
  “Our condolences go out to his wife Elsie, daughter Muriel, son Price and the rest of his family and friends,” ICC Alaska executive director Kelly Eningowuk said in a statement. “He will be sorely missed by all.”
  Itta was captain of the Sa
  
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• Lower 48 ivory bans hit Alaska Native carvers

  08-11-2016 20:30 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Dennis Pungowiyi shows off one of his favorite carving motifs, a mother walrus with her pup. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media)
  Recent measures to curb elephant poaching in Africa are having unintended consequences in Alaska.
  http://media.aprn.org/2016/ann-20161107-06.mp3This July, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s near-total ban on the commercial ivory trade went into effect. At about the same time, state-level bans passed in California, Hawaii, New Jersey and New York, af
  
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• How are Alaska voters feeling? Short answer — divided.

  08-11-2016 20:24
  
  Do Alaskans’ feelings about the presidential candidates line up with national trends? How do they feel about the candidates who want to represent Alaska in Washington, D.C.? Do their feelings on the issues match the candidates they support?
  These were all questions KTVA wanted the answers to, so we asked readers on KTVA.com to fill out a 10-question survey on the issues surrounding the 2016 November election. Then, we took to social media and asked our followers on Facebook and Twitter whi
  
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• Stolen skis could mean a quiet winter for Winterberry Charter School students

  08-11-2016 19:16
  
  Many folks in Alaska are looking forward to what winter brings — the excitement and fun of outdoor sports. The students and faculty at Winterberry Charter School were, too — but unless the situation changes quickly, winter will look to them the way it does for many in the Lower 48; long, cold and dark.
  Somebody stole their skis.
  In August, someone broke into the two sheds on campus and took about 70 pairs of skis. Over the weekend, they made contact with KTVA Sports to help get the w
  
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• Alaskan Book Review – “Fighting for the Forty-Ninth Star: C.W. Snedden and the Crusade for Alaska Statehood”

  08-11-2016 19:10 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Commentator Dee Longenbaugh reviews “Fighting for the Forty-Ninth Star: C.W. Snedden and the Crusade for Alaska Statehood” by Terrence Cole and published by the University of Alaska Foundation.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/11/book213.mp3
  
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• Alaskan Book Review – “From the Baltic to Russia America 1829 to 1836: The Journey of Elizabeth Von Wrangell”

  08-11-2016 19:08 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Commentator Dee Longenbaugh reviews “From the Baltic to Russia America 1829 to 1836: The Journey of Elizabeth Von Wrangell” by Alix O’Grady, edited By R.A. Pierce, and published by Limestone Press.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/10/BOOK54.mp3
  
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• Alaskan Book Review – “He Wore the Shoes of a Fishermen”

  08-11-2016 19:07 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Commentator Dee Longenbaugh reviews “He Wore the Shoes of a Fishermen” by Johanna McPhetres Smith and published by Alaska Litho.
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• Alaskan Book Review – “Good Company: A Mining Family in Fairbanks, Alaska”

  08-11-2016 19:04 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Commentator Dee Longenbaugh reviews “Good Company: A Mining Family in Fairbanks, Alaska” by Sarah Crawford Isto and published by University Of Alaska Press.
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• Alaskan Book Review – “Purely Alaska: Authentic Voices from the Far North”

  08-11-2016 19:02 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Commentator Dee Longenbaugh reviews “Purely Alaska: Authentic Voices from the Far North” edited by Susan Andrews and John Creed, and published by Epicenter Press.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/08/BOOK201.mp3
  
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• It’s all over but the voting, as Trump and Clinton cast their ballots

  08-11-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The rallies and debates, the tweets and the fundraisers, the wearying last-minute swings through the same half-dozen or so battleground states — all that is winding down at last.
  Today it was time for the two major presidential candidates to perform the Election Day ritual of casting their own votes, just like average Joes, except for the fact that average Joes aren’t usually trailed by dozens of reporters and TV cameras.
  “I know how much responsibility goes with this, and so m
  
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• Live Blog – Election Day in Alaska

  08-11-2016 17:40
  
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  The post Live Blog – Election Day in Alaska appeared first on KTVA 11.
  
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• Juneau to give another look at live-aboard boat limit

  08-11-2016 16:55
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Juneau officials are reconsidering a proposed regulation that would limit the number of live-aboard vessels allowed in each of the city’s four harbors.
  The Juneau Empire reports (http://bit.ly/2fbq3DB ) that the city’s Docks and Harbors division has been mulling a plan to cap the number of live-aboard vessels to 10 percent stall occupancy in each harbor. The change would allow for 92 such vessels in Aurora, Harris, Douglas and Statter harbors, about a 45 p
  
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• Texas developer claims Fairbanks woman first ever to vote via mobile app

  08-11-2016 08:46
  
  Don’t want to leave your home or workplace, and wait in line to cast your ballot? There’s an app for that. Mutual Mobile, a digital transformation company based in Austin, Texas, says a Fairbanks woman made history when she became the first American to vote in a presidential election using an iPhone app over the weekend.
  In Alaska, voters can request absentee ballots and return a filled ballot to the Division of Elections in a number of ways, including via fax machine. That&rsqu
  
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• 2016 election is ‘out of this world’ for some American astronauts

  08-11-2016 07:56
  
  Voting can be out of this world! Literally. See how @NASA_Astronauts cast their vote on @Space_Station https://t.co/3paZHLG9aX #Election2016 pic.twitter.com/VNInwsSAcv
  — NASA (@NASA) November 6, 2016Voting from space — it might sound like science fiction, but for some astronauts, it’s a unique way to enjoy the American experience.
  Thanks to a 1997 Texas law, U.S. astronauts living in Texas can cast an absentee ballot from the International Space Station. The same year the law
  
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• Cars, planes and mines: the path to modern-day Juneau

  08-11-2016 07:23 via ktoo.org
  
  
  An aerial photo of Juneau taken sometime between 1939 and 1959. (Photo by John S. Hellenthal/Courtesy Alaska State Library – Historical Collections)http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/11/07Museum.mp3Juneau’s Lands and Resources Manager Greg Chaney said before technology made life in Juneau more feasible, transportation-wise it wasn’t a very nice place to live.
  He was one of four city officials who shed some light on how Juneau became the city it is today during a p
  
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• Alaska Human Rights Commission takes up LGBTQ community protections

  08-11-2016 06:33 via ktoo.org
  Marti Buscaglia is the director of the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights. She took over the agency in May 2016. (Photo by Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)
  Alaska’s Human Rights Commission is taking steps to legally protect members of the LGBTQ community from discrimination.
  Last week it passed a resolution that would interpret sex discrimination to include gender identity and sexual orientation. That’s the interpretation used by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissio
  
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• 5 things to do while you wait in line on Election Day

  08-11-2016 06:08
  
  Since the start of early voting two weeks ago, a record-setting number of voters in Alaska have turned out to have their say in this contentious election. More than 33 million votes have already been cast in the U.S., and more than 34,000 in Alaska.
  Last week, Alaskans waited for 45 minutes to get into polling places and over the weekend in Anchorage, those times doubled to an hour and a half. Around the country, people reported standing in mile-long lines or waiting over five hours to
  
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• Anchorage volunteer chaplain honored with presidential award

  08-11-2016 05:54
  
  Volunteer chaplain Diane Peterson was recognized recently for her hard work with the highest honor a volunteer can earn — the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
  Peterson has volunteered more than 4,000 hours of her time to help first responders who come face-to-face with the unspeakable. That can include the loss of one of their own, like the recent death of Fairbanks police Sgt. Allen Brandt.
  “What the first responders see is things that others don’t see on a d
  
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• Edward Itta remembered for balancing two worlds

  08-11-2016 05:30 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Former North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta. (Photo courtesy of the Itta family)
  Former North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta died Sunday in Utqiaġvik, formerly known as Barrow. Family members said the cause was cancer. He was 71.
  Itta was a powerful voice for North Slope communities. He was perhaps best known for first opposing, and then negotiating with Shell when the oil company wanted to drill in the Arctic Ocean. Above all, he insisted Inupiaq communities have a say in developmen
  
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• Fallen officer’s friend addresses controversial crime law during eulogy

  08-11-2016 05:29
  
  North Pole Police Department officer Phil McBroom talked at length about Sgt. Allen Brandt’s personality during his eulogy Sunday. Brandt was shot six times in downtown Fairbanks and died 12 days later following complications from surgery. McBroom described his late best friend as a man dedicated to his family, Christian faith and job.
  “Allen was the real deal,” McBroom said. “What he had was genuine.”
  The officer also took time to address a controversial law during
  
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• Thinking of writing in a candidate? How to make sure it counts

  08-11-2016 05:12
  
  If you’re not happy with the names on your ballot, there are a few things you should know before writing one in — to make sure your vote counts. 
  Despite a national social media movement to write-in Bernie Sanders for president, votes for him won’t count here. In Alaska, all write-in candidates must be registered and Sanders, who swept the Democratic primary in Alaska, is not. 
  Elsewhere on the ballot, there are a few local write-ins who are registered .
  In
  
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• Alaska Cat Adoption Team awarded national grant

  08-11-2016 05:08
  
  Self-proclaimed “crazy cat lady” Linda von Bose said it normal to find 30 or more cats temporarily living in her Peters Creek home.
  She’s the president of the Alaska Cat Adoption Team, known as ACAT.
  “We’re those people when a cat runs across the road or you see it on the side in a ditch, we’re like, ‘oh my gosh it’s a cat. Stop the car,’” von Bose said.
  She said most of the cats the team rescues have never been touched by people.&
  
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• More Alaskans registered to vote than ever before

  08-11-2016 04:52 via ktoo.org
  
  Volunteers help someone register to vote at the 2015 Governor’s Picnic at the University of Alaksa Southeast. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  More Alaskans than ever are eligible to cast ballots this year, thanks to record-high voter registration.
  The state added 22,000 registered voters compared with four years ago for a total of 528,560, up 4 percent, according to data from the Alaska Division of Elections.
  And while most Alaskans are nonpartisan or undeclared, most of the new voters are Re
  
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• Ice on Anchorage lakes still too thin for municipality to maintain

  08-11-2016 04:45
  
  A warning to be very careful before you venture out on Anchorage lakes — some of them may look frozen, but still may not be safe.
  On Sunday, a man fell through the ice on Big Lake while ice skating. He is expected to survive, and one of the people who tried to rescue him said she saw the incident as a warning to stay off the ice for now.
  Anchorage Park Superintendent Josh Durand said the municipality has begun to measure the ice on local lakes. On Monday, Cheney Lake in East Anchorage
  
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• Bethel residents show solidarity with their brothers and sisters at Standing Rock

  08-11-2016 03:48
  
  Protesters met at Watson's Corner to stand in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline on Saturday, November 5, 2016 in BethelCredit Katie Basile / KYUK Protesters gather at Watson's Corner to stand in in opposition to construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline which would cross sacred burial sites of the Standing Rock Sioux and could jeopardize their water supplyCredit Katie Basile / KYUK Organizer Tim Andrew talks to KYUK reporter Charles Enoch about the motivation behind the Watson's Corner
  
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• Voters to decide fate of 33 Alaska judges on Election Day

  08-11-2016 02:51
  
  While candidates are vying for votes in the final hours before Election Day, some names appearing on the ballot have gone largely unnoticed. More than 30 judges — from the Alaska Supreme Court all the way down to local district courts — will have their future decided at the ballot box.
  When a judge is appointed, state law requires a retention vote to allow Alaskans to decide if they want to keep that judge on the bench. Thirty-three judges qualified for retention, and a number of the
  
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• Troopers: Delta Junction man admits to wanting to kill girlfriend during hours-long assault

  08-11-2016 02:44
  
  A Delta Junction woman was assaulted for hours in her own home over the weekend, according to a graphic affidavit written by the investigating Alaska State Trooper. The suspect in the case is 55-year-old David Bucci, who troopers say admitted to the crime.
  Trooper Melvin Colley said in his affidavit that the victim arrived at the Delta Junction trooper post Sunday afternoon, and he immediately noticed a number of injuries. She reported an hours-long assault by Bucci, during which she said she ge
  
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• Man wielding metal prybar assaults 21-year-old in Lemon Creek

  08-11-2016 01:34 via ktoo.org
  
  A 35-year-old was arrested Sunday night for using a metal prybar to assault a man walking in Lemon Creek, according to Juneau Police Sgt. Chris Gifford.
  According to Juneau police news release, William Robert Nakamura approached the 21-year-old victim and a 25-year-old woman about 10:20 p.m. Sunday while they were walking along Glacier Highway, near Tonsgard Court.
  Nakamura, who did not know the victim of the woman prior to the incident, began to fight the victim, according t
  
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• Ketchikan man faces charges of driving under the influence of marijuana

  08-11-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A 21-year-old Ketchikan man faces charges of driving under the influence of marijuana after he was contacted by Alaska State Troopers just after midnight Saturday morning.
  The man was parked in the lot of a closed business in Saxman when troopers contacted him, according to the online troopers dispatch.
  He was arrested and later released.
  A 16-year-old girl was in the vehicle, as well, and was passed out from drinking alcohol. According to troopers, she was taken to PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical
  
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• In closing ads, Trump goes dark while Clinton goes cozy

  08-11-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Donald Trump’s campaign released his final campaign video on Friday. It began with ominous piano music playing under one of Trump’s speeches. As he condemns the “corrupt political establishment,” grainy archive footage of his opponent Hillary Clinton and world leaders is mixed with stern, disappointed faces of every day Americans.“I’m doing this for the people and the movement,” Trump is heard saying to a cheering crowd. “We will take back this cou
  
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