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• Push for ride-share companies in Alaska hits speed bumps

  19-02-2017 22:09
  
  The drive to allow ride-share companies like Uber and Lyft to operate in Alaska has hit speed bumps.
  The bill, from Anchorage Republican Sen. Mia Costello, faces opposition from taxi operators worried the entrance of ride-share groups will drive down wages for their drivers and from municipalities that don’t want to cede regulation to the state.
  Costello says she sees the bill as a way to create jobs amid the state’s recession and provide transportation options for Alaskans.
  She has
  
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• City of Bethel will provide free water deliveries to the Winter House through March

  19-02-2017 22:07
  
  The Bethel City Council agreed Tuesday to provide free water deliveries to Bethel Winter House, Bethel’s homeless shelter, for the remainder of their season, according to a story published by KYUK Public Media.
  The Bethel Winter House. Photo: Dean Swope / KYUK
  Bethel Winter House director Eva Malvich had made the request at the last council meeting, saying the shelter had run out of water several times and didn’t have the financial means to refill the tank.
  The in
  
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• Pothole mosaics: Street art that fills a need

  19-02-2017 22:05
  
  Potholes are the bane of many a driver’s existence this time of year, except for a Chicago man who’s turned them into a ROAD SHOW. Here’s Lee Cowan:
  The light at the end of our long winter tunnel is ahead. But so are the calling cards winter leaves behind: the black holes of the asphalt galaxy that by spring can swallow a car whole.
  Before the snow and ice made goosebumps out of our roads, Cowan found Jim Bachor doing a little traffic triage. His neighborhood in Chicago is full
  
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• Commission: ‘Systemic racism’ at root of Flint water crisis

  19-02-2017 21:11
  
  Michigan civil rights officials say “systemic racism” going back decades is at the core of problems that caused a lead-contaminated water crisis in the majority black city of Flint.
  The Michigan Civil Rights Commission issued a 130-page report Friday following three public hearings and other meetings to determine whether residents faced discrimination or racial bias.
  The report says nobody “intended to poison Flint,” but concludes that decisions would have been different
  
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• Fans hope Alaska Aces stay despite uncertain future

  19-02-2017 05:04
  
  Their colors look familiar, but this glacier blue is not the one fans often see at the Sullivan Arena. The Rams are one of the dozens of youth teams in the region. They are also ardent fans of the team whose colors they share, the Alaska Aces.
  “They’re the home team for Anchorage,” said young Milo Tremblay Jr. after his team won Saturday at Dempsey-Anderson Ice Arena.
  Milo likes to watch the Aces play, as does his father.
  The Rams take on another youth team while in the colors
  
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• Organizations race to haul junk from villages before EPA funding cuts

  19-02-2017 04:59 via ktoo.org
  
  The Green Star Program plans to begin removing junk like these old vehicles in the Dillingham landfill that’s accumulating in villages and other small communities around Alaska. Unlike Dillingham, the logistics of removing junk from remote villages are much more difficult, requiring transport first by barge and, often, transfer to trucks, which then take loads to recycling brokers in Fairbanks or Anchorage.
  (Photo courtesy KDLG Public Radio)
  Pretty much every community in Alaska struggles
  
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• ‘Beautiful in every way’: Friend describes murder victim allegedly killed by estranged husband

  19-02-2017 04:59
  
  Brandy Sullivan was a customer service agent with Alaska Airlines at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport for about eight years. Two years ago, Kim Crisafulli joined the company, and Sullivan trained her.
  “She was that lady that women envy,” Crisafulli said. “She’d come into work and she had so much class, no matter what was going on in the world.”
  Sullivan died Thursday afternoon. Anchorage police said her estranged husband, 40-year-old Adam Sullivan, shot h
  
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• Alaska Weather Forecast – Feb. 18, 2017

  19-02-2017 04:47
  
  Meteorologist Melissa Frey breaks down your weekend weather and explains what’s ahead the rest of the week.
  Follow the KTVA 11 Weather Team on Facebook and Twitter for the latest weather updates. Got a weather-related question or photo? Email [email protected].
  The post Alaska Weather Forecast – Feb. 18, 2017 appeared first on KTVA 11.
  
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• GOP leaders urge return to ‘high-risk insurance pools’ that critics call costly

  19-02-2017 03:49 via ktoo.org
  
  Craig Britton once paid $18,000 a year in premiums for health insurance he bought through Minnesota’s “high risk pool.” He calls the argument that these pools can bring down the cost of monthly premiums “a lot of baloney.” Mark Zdehchlik / MPR News
  Some Republicans looking to scrap the Affordable Care Act say monthly health insurance premiums need to be lower for the individuals who have to buy insurance on their own. One way to do that, GOP leaders say, would be to
  
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• Court strikes down Florida law barring doctors from discussing guns with patients

  19-02-2017 03:48 via ktoo.org
  
  (Creative Commons photo by Nathan Cowlishaw)
  A federal appeals court says doctors in Florida must be allowed to discuss guns with their patients, striking down portions of a Florida law that restricts what physicians can say to patients about firearm ownership.
  In a 10-1 decision, the full panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the law, known as the Privacy of Firearm Owners act, violates the First Amendment rights of doctors.
  A federal judge blocked the 2011 law from taking
  
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• Anchorage crews tackle apartment fire, 2 people transported for treatment

  19-02-2017 00:40
  
  Anchorage Deputy Fire Chief Jodie Hettrick says two people were transported to a hospital after they were rescued from a two-alarm fire in an apartment building Saturday afternoon.
  Fire officials were first notified of the fire at 1:01 p.m., according to Hettrick. She said more than 30 units responded to the fire, which started in an apartment building on the 5800 block of Northern Lights Boulevard.
  Hettrick said one of the victims was rescued from the apartment where the fire likely originated
  
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• 2 people transported for treatment, 15 displaced following apartment fire

  19-02-2017 00:40
  
  Last updated at 6:33 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18
  Anchorage Deputy Fire Chief Jodie Hettrick says two people were transported to a hospital after they were rescued from a two-alarm fire in an apartment building Saturday afternoon.
  Fire officials were first notified of the fire at 1:01 p.m., according to Hettrick. She said more than 30 units responded to the fire, which started in an apartment building on the 5800 block of Northern Lights Boulevard.
  Hettrick said one of the victims was rescued
  
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