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• High school student honored for Gold Creek rescue

  31-03-2017 23:40 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Left to Right: Yaakoosge Daakahidi High School student Iosefa Riley John, 14, was honored by Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, Juneau Police Chief Bryce Johnson and Capital City Fire Chief Richard Etheridge during a ceremony on March 31, 2017 at the school. (Photo by Jacob Resneck/KTOO)
  A 14-year-old Juneau high school student was honored by the governor’s office today for rescuing a 5-year-old boy he saw fall into a fast-running creek.
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• Get ready for money requests on Facebook

  31-03-2017 23:32
  
  When it comes raising money, many Americans turn to their friends and families to help gather donations. Now, the world’s biggest social network plans to get in on the action.
  Facebook said this week it will let its more than 1 billion members host personal fundraisers, which will allow them to ask for money for themselves, their friends or someone who isn’t on the digital network. (In Facebook’s example, the latter category could be a pet.) The company would review potential f
  
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• Mic Check in the Morning: John Budnik Band

  31-03-2017 23:16
  
  Mixing jazz, blues, rock’n’roll and a dash of country, the John Budnik Band recently released their debut album, “Transformations.”
  According to lead singer John Budnik, it took the group two full weekends to record it. He said his inspiration for the songs came from his life experiences. Budnik mentioned during the recording process he was going through his own transformation, which is where the title of the album came from.
  “Transformations” is availabl
  
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• Mic Check in the Morning: Kendell Marvel and Danny Myrick

  31-03-2017 23:03
  
  Kendell Marvel and Danny Myrick are two country singer-songwriters who have penned songs for other music artists. Both Marvel and Myrick will be touring the state with Keith Anderson as part of Alaska Airline’s Northern Lights Country Concert Series.
  According to the event page on BrownPaperTickets, Marvel wrote Jake Owen’s “Yee Haw” and George Strait’s “Twang.” Myrick was credited for Tim McGraw’s “Truck Yeah” and Jason Aldean&rsq
  
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• Newscast- March 31, 2017

  31-03-2017 22:51 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/03/KXLL-NEWS-033117.mp3In this newscast:
  There is a warning for high avalanche danger in the Juneau area today.
  A 14 year old boy was honored by Governor Bill Walker for rescuing a 5 year old boy.
  Salmon fisherman are worried about how military exercises will affect salmon stocks during the first two weeks of May.
   
  
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• Daybreak Adopt-A-Pet: March 31, 2017

  31-03-2017 22:00
  
  From Anchorage Animal Care and Control:
  Olly:
  Olly the cat is a bit of a show-off. When you walk by his kennel he begins purring, rolling around, and stretches his paws out. He’s working so hard to grab the right person’s attention.
  Abigale:
  Alaskans in a rush shouldn’t sit near Abigale. This cat will climb in your lap and settle down for the long haul.
  Otto:
  Otto the cat will use his blue eyes to get his way into someone’s home. If that doesn’t work, he’ll tr
  
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• Southeast tribal court builds on its experience

  31-03-2017 21:55 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Presiding Judge Debra O’Gara discusses tribal justice  in the Juneau courtroom of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
  Southeast Alaska’s largest tribal court operation just celebrated its 10th anniversary.
  It started with child support and paternity cases and branched out to include domestic violence protection orders, custody disputes and adoptions. Now, it’s planning to further expand the kind of cas
  
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• Japanese company halts plans for Port Mackenzie LNG export

  31-03-2017 21:49 via ktoo.org
  
  A Japanese energy company is dropping plans for a liquefied natural gas export facility at Port Mackenzie in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough north of Anchorage.Anchorage television station KTUU reports Tokyo-based Energy Resources Inc. since 2011 has considered developing natural gas from Cook Inlet.
  The company’s plans included a billion-dollar LNG export facility.
  The general manager of the company’s Anchorage office says the project can no longer be supported because of market condi
  
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• Who runs the lab? In Unalaska, it’s this woman

  31-03-2017 21:33 via ktoo.org
  
  Nicole Beier runs NSF International’s smallest branch in Unalaska. (Zoë Sobel/KUCB)
  The fishing industry in Unalaska is dominated by men. But behind the scenes, at the local branch of a public health and safety company, there’s a woman running the show.
  Nicole Beier works for NSF International, a company responsible for quality testing fish at America’s top fishing port. And now she’s tasked with expanding their capacity.
  Beier always knew she wanted to work in scien
  
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• Avalanche near downtown Juneau captured on camera

  31-03-2017 21:11
  
  An avalanche near downtown Juneau was captured on camera.
  Carole Triem said she was leaving the pool around 6:30 a.m. when she said she heard a noise that sounded like thunder.
  “I thought that was strange because that doesn’t happen here. I looked up and there was an avalanche just starting,” Triem explained.
  She posted the video to Facebook and within three hours it had been viewed more than 27,000 times.
  In the comment section underneath the post someone shared a picture
  
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• Expect warm weekend weather in Alaska

  31-03-2017 20:55
  
  After a snowy end to March, April will start out warm and wet in Southcentral.
  A series of low pressure systems will move into the Gulf of Alaska from the weekend into next week. These systems will bring precipitation and warmer than normal temperatures to the area.
  Coastal areas can expect on and off rain, mixing with some snow at higher elevations.
  Breezy southeast winds will also accompany the systems, keeping avalanche danger high.
  Inland areas, including Anchorage and the Mat-Su, can expect
  
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• Anchorage Christian Schools brings home the crown

  31-03-2017 19:20
  
  The Anchorage Christian School lions brought home a 3A state title, defeating Sitka 52 to 40 at the Alaska Airlines Center. They stopped by the KTVA studio to discuss their title run.
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• Report: Alaska pays $3B a year to cover alcohol, drug costs

  31-03-2017 19:15
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – A new report shows costs from alcohol and drug abuse in Alaska have totaled more than $3 billion a year.
  The Alaska Public Radio Network reports the Alaska Mental Health Trust study says the billion-dollar total is equal to roughly $4,000 per state resident, with alcoholism causing more economic damage than drug abuse. The report released Wednesday was completed by the McDowell Group.
  Researchers found that one-third of the economic costs from alcohol use are attribut
  
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• Trump executive order undoing Obama climate regulations draws mixed reactions from Alaskans

  31-03-2017 18:45
  
  One of President Donald Trump’s latest executive orders is generating strong feelings from both Alaska conservationists and representatives of the energy industry. The order, signed Tuesday, demands the withdrawal of former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP), an effort to decrease fossil fuel emissions. Alaska was one of a small number of states and U.S. territories that received a deferment from following the new guidelines. Still, Lorali Simon, the vice president
  
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• Republicans ‘turn the cannons on each other’ in week of public feuding

  31-03-2017 18:30 via ktoo.org
  
  President Donald Trump speaks Feb. 24 at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in National Harbor, Maryland. (Creative Commons photo by Gage Skidmore)
  President Trump escalated a Twitter war with lawmakers in his own party on Thursday evening, calling out three members of the Freedom Caucus by name.
  “If @RepMarkMeadows, @Jim_Jordan and @Raul_Labrador would get on board we would have both great healthcare and massive tax cuts & reform,” he tweeted.If @RepMark
  
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• LeDoux bill opens up primary election, sparks fight with GOP

  31-03-2017 18:25
  
  Voters in Alaska have to make a choice during a primary election – Republicans on one ballot, and Democrats and others on a separate ballot. Now, a state lawmaker wants to change the voting system from today’s semi-closed primary to an open one, with every candidate on a single ballot.
  The measure, introduced by Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux (R-Anchorage), mirrors a process adopted by California and Washington. While LeDoux says it creates a level playing field for candidates, Republicans ac
  
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• Alaska advocacy group reacts to US not counting LGBT people in 2020 Census

  31-03-2017 18:00
  
  Identity Alaska, located in downtown Anchorage, is considered a safe space for the state’s LGBT population. But executive director Billy Farrell says he can’t give a definitive answer on just how many people identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender in Alaska.
  “We don’t know even really how large our community is,” said Farrell. “We really don’t even know what the LGBTQ population looks like in Alaska.”
  He was hoping to get some help from t
  
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• Income tax proposal well received at Alaska Native forum

  31-03-2017 07:05 via ktoo.org
  
  House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, D-Dillingham, addresses a forum Thursday organized by the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska at Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall in Juneau. Rep. Sam Kito III, D-Juneau, is also pictured. (Photo by Jacob Resneck/KTOO)
  House Speaker Bryce Edgmon received a warm reception Alaska Native leaders Thursday as he addressed the state’s fiscal crisis at a public forum. His Democratic majority coalition is pushing for a state income tax that targets wea
  
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• Chugach Electric continues meter replacement program

  31-03-2017 05:40
  
  They are known as smart meters, and if you’re a Chugach Electric customer there’s a good chance you got one recently or are about to. Chugach information manager Julie Hasquet said the project to replace 80,000 aging utility meters on Anchorage homes should be completed by the end of the summer.
  So what makes a meter smart? Hasquet said it has to do with the way they transmit information.
  “They’re smarter because the technology is so much more advanced and the communicati
  
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• Chief housing officer to focus on easing crunch in Anchorage

  31-03-2017 05:04
  
  The Rasmuson Foundation says Anchorage has been struggling under a housing crunch for decades, but now the group is doing something to help. A 2-year grant will fund a new position in the mayor’s office: chief housing officer.
  Robin Ward has filled the role. She brings real estate expertise to the mayor’s office and says her goal is to get more projects off the ground faster.
  Her job will be to, “convene, coordinate and communicate with the private sector, the public sector and
  
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• Reality Check w/ John Tracy: Can America be run like a business?

  31-03-2017 04:13
  
  It’s about time we had a businessman in the White House.
  Remember that? It’s why a lot of blue-collar workers voted for Donald Trump.
  He was going to drain the swamp. Obamacare would be repealed starting the day he took office.
  “You’re going to have such great health care at a tiny fraction of the cost, and it’s going to be so easy,” Trump said at an Oct. 25 rally in Sanford, Florida.
  This was the man who wrote the book on the art of the deal, after all.
  
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• Iliamna fights several flu cases

  31-03-2017 03:28
  
  Fifteen people in the rural Alaska community of Iliamna have tested positive for influenza, according to state epidemiologist Dr. Joe McLaughlin. He said that’s a substantial number, considering the village is home to only about 100 people.
  McLaughlin said some of those affected were students at the Newhalen School.
  Two elderly people who tested positive, and had other underlying medical issues, were transported to the Alaska Native Medical Center and Providence Hospital in Anchorage for t
  
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• Bill would halve Gov. Walker’s pension bond authority

  31-03-2017 03:11 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Anna MacKinnon, R-Anchorage, co-chair of the Senate Finance Committee presides over a meeting on March 23. She introduced a bill that would cut the amount Gov. Bill Walker can issue in pension obligation bonds in half. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  Alaska is projected to owe public workers more than $6 billion more in pensions than it has in assets. So state officials are looking for ways to save money.
  They planned to sell $2.3 billion to $3.3 billion in bond
  
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• Ask the Energy Desk: What about wave and tidal energy in Alaska?

  31-03-2017 02:40 via ktoo.org
  
  Waves crash onto Yakutat’s Cannon Beach. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska.)
  When you think about renewable energy in Alaska, what comes to mind? Probably wind, which contributes to about 3 percent of the state’s power generation. And maybe solar panels, which are starting to gain momentum. But there’s also the potential for what lies along 6,500 miles of coastline.
  An Ask the Energy Desk reader wanted to know: why isn’t Alaska using more wave or tidal energy?
  In Y
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 3-31-17

  31-03-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Today at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Andy Kline hosts.He’ll talk with Nimbus creator, Robert Murray, about his presentation at the State Museum Friday evening;
  Rhonda Gardinier will be here to highlight the Not-So-Silent Film Festival at the Gold town Theatre;
  We’ll meet Russian performers, in town for weekend concerts;
  At 4, tune in to KTOO for All Things Considered, followed at 6 by Alaska News Nightly. At 6:30, it’s Marketplace. Left, Right & Center at 7, Planetary Radio at
  
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• Meet the candidates: District 4 – Seat G – Midtown Anchorage

  31-03-2017 01:25
  
  KTVA invited every registered candidate running in the upcoming Anchorage municipal election to an on-camera interview at our studios to discuss the following topics:
  Balancing the budget
  Public safety
  Introducing new taxes
  Addressing homelessness in Anchorage
  Plans for the future
  We also asked each candidate to submit a 300-word biography, each of which has been left unaltered. The candidates’ full interviews and responses are listed below, ordered alphabetically.
  Felix RiveraBiography
  Fe
  
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• Seward left his mark on Alaska, but what about Washington, D.C.?

  31-03-2017 01:22 via ktoo.org
  
  This mural on a vaulted ceiling in the U.S. Capitol was painted by Jeffrey Greene. It’s part of what’s known as the Westward Expansion Corridor. (Public domain photo courtesy Architect of the Capitol)
  It’s the 150th anniversary today of the United States signing a treaty to buy Alaska from Russia. Or, since many Alaskans dispute the land was “owned” by either country, bought Russia’s claim on Alaska.
  In Washington, D.C., the occasion is being marked
  
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• Music Without Borders: Commemorating the 150th anniversary of Alaska’s history with music

  31-03-2017 00:43
  
  Starting Friday, March 31 the Russian-American Colony Singers (RACS) will be hosting a concert series across Alaska called Music Without Borders, A Musical Journey into the Cultural History of Alaska. The series will go until April 23 and commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Alaska land purchase in 1867. RACS have also brought up Russian folk band Moscow Nights to tour the state.
  Zlata Lund, the RACS artistic director, said the nonprofit is a group of singers that have been performing in Al
  
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