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• Douglas Indian Association tours T’aaḵu Kwáan territory

  08-08-2017 23:59 via ktoo.org
  
  
  It’s important to know where you come from. But when others make assumptions that are wrong, it’s hard to maintain your identity.
  A Southeast Alaska Tlingit tribal government is letting its neighbors know its members come from a vast territory that still bears their names.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/07TakuKwaan-L.mp3The tour boat St. Peter sails around Douglas Island, which is part of Juneau, headed to nearby Taku Inlet.
  On board are local and state government off
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017

  08-08-2017 23:24 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/20170808newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  The National Endowment for the Humanities is funding Native language education programs around the country, and
  local authorities rescue two separate stranded hikers in roughly the same area off West Glacier Trail on the same day.
  
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• Trump says U.S. will meet North Korean threats with ‘fire and fury’

  08-08-2017 23:23 via ktoo.org
  President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to meet North Korean threats with “fire and fury” a day after Pyongyang said it was ready with “ultimate measures” in response to new U.N. sanctions pushed by Washington.
  “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” the president warned at a meeting on the opioid crisis held at Bedminster, N.J., where he is on an extended working vacation.
  “They will be met with fire and the fury like the
  
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• Anchorage Parks and Recreation builds new community garden plots to keep up with demand

  08-08-2017 23:18 via ktoo.org
  David Parrish weeds his plot at C Street Community Gardens. (Photo by Henry Leasia/Alaska Public Media)
  On a recent cloudy afternoon, David Parrish yanked weeds from a patch of dirt where he’s been growing strawberries.
  He gardened barefoot, admiring an impressive harvest at a nearby plot run by a couple.
  “They fertilize like crazy,” Parrish said. “They’ve got something brewed up — I don’t know what it is — and it just goes bananas. You l
  
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• In Angoon, a rural water system gets help from beavers

  08-08-2017 22:50 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Auk’Tah Lake became Angoon’s water source in the early 1990s. Before that, the village relied on a muskeg for its drinking water. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  The village of Angoon’s drinking water comes from a lake held up by a beaver dam. That might sound sketchy, but the beavers are one of reasons the city has public water. Not all Alaska towns do.
  For about the past seven years, the federal dollars for Alaska’s water and sewer projects has r
  
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• YK Delta tribes sign treaty, forming Nunavut provisional government

  08-08-2017 21:46 via ktoo.org
  A provisional government was formed last Thursday at the Bethel Cultural Center. Over the last three days, and many long discussions, a treaty was signed to form the Provisional Nunavut Alaska Government to unite the 56 village tribes in the region.
  (Photo by Christine Trudeau/KYUK)
  A provisional government was formed last Thursday at the Bethel Cultural Center. Over the last three days, and many long discussions, a treaty was signed to form the Provisional Nunavut Alaska Government to unite the
  
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• Petersburg Assembly discusses additional airport parking

  08-08-2017 21:27 via ktoo.org
  
  
  One idea for additional parking would add a new lot across from the Alaska Airlines terminal, Haugen Drive and the bike path. (Photo by Joe Viechnicki/KFSK)
  Petersburg Borough Assembly members continued a discussion Monday about adding some parking space at the state-owned Petersburg James A. Johnson Airport.
  Short almost half its members, the Assembly made no decision on that ongoing topic. They also decided to wait on another discussion.
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• Focus On Community – 8-8-17

  08-08-2017 20:39 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Join Dr. Elaine Schroeder and Kara Nelson, Director of Haven House, on Mind Over Matter this coming Monday at 7pm on KTOO.  Listen in on a wide ranging discussion about the issues and problems facing women after incarceration and how Haven House in Juneau hopes to meet those needs.  So tune in to Mind Over Matter this Monday at 7 pm on KTOO for Juneau’s own stimulating and in depth discussion show with Dr. Elaine Schroeder.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/MM-Haven1.
  
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• Bear cub killed after collision with car in Haines

  08-08-2017 17:00 via ktoo.org
  A bear cub in Haines in 2010. (Creative Commons photo by Ray Morris/Flickr)
  A brown bear cub was struck and killed by a driver in Haines recently.
  Wildlife trooper Trent Chwialkowski said the incident happened July 28 in the late evening around mile 9 of Lutak Road.
  Chwialkowski said the driver called the police and reported striking the bear, which then ran into the woods. Chwialkowski said the driver was not an Alaska resident.
  “They didn’t even have the opportunity to put on the b
  
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• ‘Freedom of information’ costs set to rise in Juneau

  08-08-2017 05:04 via ktoo.org
  The new rules are contained in an ordinance that passed on a 6-3 vote at the Juneau Assembly’s July 31, 2017, meeting. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/KTOO)
  A majority on the Juneau Assembly recently voted to change the way city staff should respond to freedom of information requests.
  Critics say it could make public records more difficult and expensive to obtain.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/170808FOIA.mp3Every government in Alaska, from the smallest city to the largest agency
  
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• The future of an oil state: What’s next for Alaska? | MIDNIGHT OIL: Episode 08

  08-08-2017 03:51 via ktoo.org
  Today, the trans-Alaska pipeline carries a quarter of what it did in its heyday. And so Alaska is facing the question its been ducking for forty years: Will we always be an oil state?
  
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• Drue Pearce appointed to U.S. pipeline safety agency

  08-08-2017 03:10 via ktoo.org
  Drue Pearce has been named deputy administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. (File photo by by Lawrence Ostrovsky/Alaska Public Media)
  Former Alaska legislator Drue Pearce has a new job in the Trump administration.
  She is now the deputy administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
  The agency, created in 2004, oversees the nation’s network of pipelines, some 2.3 million mile
  
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• Meet Michael Whitney, the Delta’s new — and only — wildlife officer

  08-08-2017 02:55 via ktoo.org
  Michael Whitney visits with local children in Kipnuk. (Photo courtesy Michael Whitney)
  Wildlife Officer Michael Whitney stood in front of a floor-to-ceiling map of Alaska on Friday and pointed out each of the Delta villages he works with.
  “We cover up there, to the coast,” he said. “Up through Scammon Bay, Hooper Bay, Kotlik … .”
  It took him several minutes to list all of them.
  Whitney is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s new, and only, law enfor
  
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• Gov. Bill Walker visits Ketchikan for Blueberry Arts Festival

  08-08-2017 02:46 via ktoo.org
  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker helps judge the Blueberry Arts Festival pie-eating contest in Ketchikan on Saturday. (Photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
  Gov. Bill Walker came to Alaska’s First City on Saturday to experience this year’s sun-filled Blueberry Arts Festival.
  He is attending fairs and festivals around Alaska in place of scheduling the governor’s picnics that have been traditional for the past few years.
  “What an honor to be back. I had never seen a slug race before I came he
  
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• More than $100,000 raised for injured Anchorage firefighter

  08-08-2017 02:25 via ktoo.org
  Anchorage Fire Department fire engine (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)
  An Anchorage firefighter badly hurt during training is making progress in a Colorado hospital amid an outpouring of support from Alaska.
  Ben Schultz, 29, fell from a ladder in June and was in critical condition for a time.
  Fire Captain Jason Dolph said Schultz had been in an unconscious or semi-unconscious state ever since.
  That is until a week ago.
  “He said a few words,” Dolph s
  
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• Trump administration signals it could open more of the Arctic to drilling

  08-08-2017 01:58 via ktoo.org
  BLM’s map of NPR-A acreage available for leasing. The Trump administration is gauging industry interest in portions of the region not currently available for drilling. (Image courtesy BLM)
  The Trump administration is taking a first step towards potentially opening up new parts of Alaska to oil drilling.
  The Bureau of Land Management announced Monday that it will consider allowing oil development in parts of the National Petroleum Reserve on Alaska’s North Slope that are currently pro
  
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