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• Newscast – Friday, Nov. 18, 2016

  18-11-2016 23:43 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/11/20161118-newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  The young man accused of trying to run down Juneau police officers gets a trial date,
  Bartlett Regional Hospital adopts broader gender identification terms,
  the Obama administration opts the Arctic out of federal oil and gas lease sales for five years,
  ConocoPhillips says it’s selling its Kenai LNG plan,
  the Alaska Department of Fish & Game forecasts a huge increase in commercial pink salmon catches
  
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• Mic Check in the Morning: Week 2 of ‘The Stars We Are’

  18-11-2016 23:11
  
  Every week, until the KTVA New Year’s Eve Celebration, outgoing contestants from The Stars We Are will have one final chance to showcase their talents on Daybreak’s Mic Check in the Morning. This week had performances by Francesca Erni, Ryan Massey, and Jetaime Kathryn. The three performers were voted off during the second week of competition.
  In the 6 a.m. show, Francesca Erni and Ryan Massey performed the duet “Broken” by Seether, featuring Amy Lee. Erni
  
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• Food bank ‘Blessing’ supports families in need on Thanksgiving

  18-11-2016 22:25
  
  Every year, the Thanksgiving Blessing feeds thousands of Alaska families that struggle to make ends meet by giving out a turkey and all the fixings.
  There’s still time to contribute. The Food Bank of Alaska says they have nearly 10,000 families in need this holiday season. The food bank has put together a wish list of items needed:
  Most needed items
  Aluminum roasting pans
  Canned vegetables
  Cranberry sauce
  Dinner rolls
  Gravy mix
  Stuffing Mix
  Butter/margarine
  The blessing in the Matanuska-Su
  
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• Daybreak Adopt-a-Pet for Nov. 18, 2016

  18-11-2016 22:00
  
  From Anchorage Animal Care and Control:
  Momma Cat:Momma Cat came to the shelter on Oct. 12 with five kittens. She took good care of her little ones and now she’s ready for a new start in life. She can be a bit bashful so she’d like a home with adults only because young kids can make her nervous. With gentle and patient adults she relaxes and enjoys being loved – kneading her paws and purring quietly.
  Ranger:Ranger came to the shelter on Oct. 14 with a small wound on his head an
  
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• See ya, sun! Alaska’s North Slope gets last sunrise until January

  18-11-2016 21:46
  
  The sun will set in Alaska’s North Slope this afternoon, but it will not rise above the horizon until late January.Today begins 24 hours of darkness for many areas within the Arctic Circle, a time period known as the polar night.Utqiaġvik (Barrow) won’t see the sun for a period of more than 60 days.These higher latitudes are bathed in darkness during the winter months as the northern hemisphere rotates away from the sun due to the tilt of the Earth’s axis.
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• Alaska Mental Health Trust delays Deer Mountain logging vote

  18-11-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A springtime view of Deer Mountain. (File photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD )
  Alaska Mental Health Trust’s board of trustees voted Thursday in Anchorage to reconsider an August decision to potentially move forward with logging Deer Mountain and a section of land above homes in Petersburg, and then the board delayed a final decision until the end of January.http://krbd-org.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17MentalHealth.mp3Since late August, many residents in Ketchikan, Saxman and Peter
  
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• Video: The destructive power of the jökulhlaup

  18-11-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Glacier dammed lakes are common throughout Alaska and the Arctic. Dr. Michael Loso, physical scientist at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, explains what happens when one of these lakes experiences a rapid drainage event.
  
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• Trump names picks for national security adviser, attorney general, CIA director

  18-11-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Updated at 11:45 a.m. ET
  President-elect Donald Trump announced his selections today for three key posts: Michael Flynn for national security adviser, Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general and Rep. Mike Pompeo for CIA director.
  Trump’s selections signal that he is prioritizing loyalty as he chooses nominees for top posts — turning to people who were early and outspoken supporters of his campaign.
  Sessions is a former U.S. attorney and current senator with lengthy experience with th
  
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• Wylie’s birth story: The strength of premature babies and their moms

  18-11-2016 19:26
  
  Tabitha Voeller and her husband have a higher tolerance for mischief than most parents. They laugh as their 2-year-old son Wylie gets his hands into everything. They have seemingly endless patience for the toddler. That’s because Wylie wasn’t supposed to turn two. It’s thanks to his mom’s persistence that he was born at all.
  “He was 18 weeks and 6 days on the day we went in,” Voeller said.
  It was a regular ultrasound until the technician picked up the pho
  
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• Obama blocks new oil, gas drilling in Arctic Ocean

  18-11-2016 19:26
  
  The Obama administration is blocking new oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean, handing a victory to environmentalists who say industrial activity in the icy waters will harm marine mammals and exacerbate global warming.
  A five-year offshore drilling plan announced on Friday blocks planned sale of new oil and gas drilling rights in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas north of Alaska. The plan allows drilling to go forward in Alaska’s Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage.
  The blueprint for drilli
  
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• Emmonak races to repair sewage plant before pipes freeze

  18-11-2016 19:08
  
  Emmonak's vacuum pump number one, which overheated and then burned through its metal casing and through the roof of the water-sewer plant.Adrian Wagner / KYUK
  On Monday, a fire disabled Emmonak’s sewage treatment plant, leaving the city unable to provide sewer service to hundreds of homes in the village, according to KYUK Public Media.
  In the city you can see time passing as ice forms on the last open water of the Yukon River. It’s this battle with the quickly approaching winter tha
  
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• Sen. Sullivan sleeps on streets of DC to raise awareness for homeless youth

  18-11-2016 17:44
  
  Hundreds of people across the country spent a night sleeping on the streets to raise awareness for teen homelessness.
  Washington, D.C. was one of 27 sites for the Covenant House’s Sleep Out. More than 100 people lined the sidewalk bundled up in winter gear, tucked into their brightly colored sleeping bags.
  Alaska senator Dan Sullivan came armed with a sleeping bag, a sheet of cardboard and some light reading.
  “I brought the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal,” he said as
  
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• Alaska municipalities blame legislature — not Walker — for PFD cut

  18-11-2016 08:10
  
  Leaders from every corner of the state packed into one room Thursday for the Alaska Municipal League’s (AML) annual conference. They discussed everything from budgets to homelessness and heroin. But when it comes to this year’s Alaska Permanent Fund dividend cut, few members are outraged.
  In fact, many blame the state Legislature — not Gov. Bill Walker for his veto of half of the funds.
  “We are of the strong belief that the Legislature really needs to look at new revenues
  
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• Residents react to news homicides could be tied

  18-11-2016 06:07
  
  The investigation continues into a man who shot an Anchorage police officer. Police have linked James Ritchie to one homicide, but said he could be responsible for five, including two that happened in August at Valley of the Moon Park.
  The two victims in that case were Brie De Husson and Kevin Turner. Anchorage police Lt. John McKinnon said the men didn’t know each other and were probably killed minutes apart. McKinnon said De Husson was riding his bike when he was shot.
  “Mr. De Huss
  
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• Bartlett Regional Hospital now recognizes broader gender identities

  18-11-2016 04:30 via ktoo.org
  
  A copy of Bartlett Regional Hospital’s new outpatient registration form asks for sex assigned at birth and gender identification with expanded options. (Photo illustration by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  Bartlett Regional Hospital announced Thursday that at registration, its patients will now be asked for their gender identity. Patients will also be notified that they are protected against sex discrimination.
  The hospital said in a press release the changes are in response to federal regulation
  
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• Renewed support for Muslim registry called ‘abhorrent’

  18-11-2016 03:10 via ktoo.org
  
  A surrogate of President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday invoked Japanese internment camps as precedent for creating a registry for Muslim immigrants. This comes less than a week after the Kansas secretary of state told Reuters that Trump’s team might reprise a post-Sept. 11 national registry of immigrants from countries regarded as havens for “extremist activity.”
  Such conversations in the president-elect’s circles have raised new concerns about civil rights among advoca
  
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• Wasilla man indicted for threats against Anchorage Planned Parenthood

  18-11-2016 03:04
  
  In a series of voicemail messages, a 52-year-old Wasilla man threatened the Planned Parenthood clinic in Anchorage, according to federal court documents.
  In a criminal complaint filed last week, investigators wrote that Robert Joseph Klima left three voice messages with the nonprofit on Nov. 7.
  “During the first message, Klima stated that if Planned Parenthood performed an abortion for another individual, he (Klima) would ‘treat you just as a murderer who murdered my child,’&rd
  
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• Alaska Native corporation acquires oil and gas leases in Arctic waters

  18-11-2016 02:35 via ktoo.org
  
  A Native Corporation is now able to explore oil and gas opportunities in the Arctic Ocean. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey)
  The Alaska Native corporation representing the North Slope has bought two federal leases in the Beaufort sea formerly owned by Shell. That gives the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, or ASRC, the right to explore for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean, which has historically been controversial.
  Rex Rock Sr. is the president and CEO of ASRC.  He announced We
  
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• ConocoPhillips puts historic Kenai LNG plant up for sale

  18-11-2016 02:26 via ktoo.org
  
  An LNG tanker fills up at the ConocoPhillips liquid natural gas export facility in Nikiski, Alaska. When it opened in 1969, it was the only facility of its kind in the U.S. to get a license to export its gas to Japan. For more than forty years, the state has attempted to develop similar projects to bring natural gas from the North Slope to market, none of those projects have broken ground.
  (Photo courtesy of ConocoPhillips)
  ConocoPhillips is looking to leave the natural gas business in Cook Inle
  
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• Executive director of Alaska Democratic party retiring

  18-11-2016 02:22
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – The executive director of the Alaska Democratic party is retiring after 5 ½ years.
  Party spokesman Jake Hamburg says Kay Brown will step down in January. The party is seeking applications for Brown’s successor through Dec. 2.
  Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the Alaska Republican party announced that it had hired Joshua Walton to be its executive director, with Walton, a former legislative aide and campaign manager, taking over the party’s day-to-day operat
  
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• Police contact man sought in rifles theft, though firearms still missing

  18-11-2016 02:17 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau police have contacted the suspect in the investigation of two rifles recently stolen at the airport, but the firearms are still missing.
  According to a police news release, officers contacted the man sought in the theft of the guns on Nov. 16.
  “The suspect was interviewed and it was determined that further investigation was prudent,” police spokeswoman Erann Kalwara said via email.
  Authorities said an unidentified man caught on security cameras stole two Remington Model 7
  
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• Moose battle preserved in ice discovered in western Alaska

  18-11-2016 02:05
  
  There are some things Alaskans experience that people in the Lower 48 may never witness — such as a brilliant aurora display or a grizzly bear. You can now add moose battle preserved in ice to that list.  Even longtime Alaskans were more than surprised to see such a rare sight recently near Unalakleet, a western Alaska village on Norton Sound.
  “[It’s] really unique for the old timers here,” Jeff Erickson said in a phone interview Sunday. “The eld
  
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• Longtime Alaska newspaper publisher dies after cancer battle

  18-11-2016 02:00
  
  Nancy McGuire, the longtime publisher of Alaska’s oldest newspaper, said goodbye to her subscribers in an editorial published the day she died after battling cancer for years. She was 72.
  McGuire was publisher of the weekly Nome Nugget for 34 years in the western Alaska town of Nome. Her friend and former Nome mayor, John Handeland, said McGuire died early Thursday morning at a local long-term care facility.
  The Nugget was established in 1897, thriving in the rough-and-tumble Gold Rush tow
  
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• Reality Check w/ John Tracy: The problem with fake news and its role on social media

  18-11-2016 01:43
  
  Here’s a piece of news that ought to concern you: A Pew Research Center survey, reported earlier this year, found that 44 percent of U.S. adults now get their news from Facebook.
  Facebook works great as a way to keep up with friends and family, but it fails miserably as a news source.
  Why? Because Facebook monitors what we like. The more we click, like or share the posts we agree with, the more Facebook feeds us more of the same.
  Facebook’s algorithms put us inside our ideologic
  
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• Juneau Afternoon-11-18-2016

  18-11-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Friday on A Juneau Afternoon, Andy Kline hosts:
  Eric Boraas will give us the latest on Trail Mix and their upcoming auction;
  We’ll talk with Elaine Schroeder about the Climate Film Festival;
  Kathy Ruddy and Peter Metcalf will highlight “150 Reasons Why We Love Alaska”—part of the state’s sesquicentennial celebration;
  And we’ll get an update on healthcare opportunities from Bartlett Hospital;
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, Friday on A
  
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• Stephen Hawking: Humans won’t survive another 1,000 years on Earth

  18-11-2016 00:29
  
  The world’s most celebrated physicist and cosmologist issued a call for humans to “continue to go into space for the future of humanity.”
  “I don’t think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet,” Stephen Hawking said while delivering a lecture on the universe and the origins of humans at the Oxford Union debating society on Monday, according to the British newspaper The Independent.
  Despite the dire warning, Hawking also t
  
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• Hillary Clinton speaks of disappointment, persistence in first post-election address

  18-11-2016 00:19 via ktoo.org
  
  Hillary Clinton spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday night since her concession speech a week ago. At a Children’s Defense Fund event in Washington, she spoke about the importance of fighting for America’s kids, but she also wove in another message, telling her supporters to persist, even after the devastating loss of the presidential race.
  “I know many of you are deeply disappointed about the results of the election,” she said. “I am, too, more than I can ev
  
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