Anchorage news

• Watch live: Total solar eclipse crosses US on Monday

  20-08-2017 22:00 via ktoo.org
  On Nov. 13, 2012, a narrow corridor in the southern hemisphere experienced a total solar eclipse. The corridor lay mostly over the ocean but also cut across the northern tip of Australia where both professional and amateur astronomers gathered to watch. (Photos courtesy Romeo Durscher/NASA)
  Eleven states from Oregon to South Carolina are in the path of total darkness for Monday’s a total solar eclipse. Follow the astronomical phenomenon’s journey across America along with NPR j
  
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• Can police prevent the next Charlottesville?

  20-08-2017 16:00 via ktoo.org
  Police form a line near Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, amid Unite the Right protesters and counterprotesters on
  Aug. 12, 2017. (Creative Commons photo by Stephen Melkisethian)
  Even before the demonstration in Virginia began last weekend, the police there knew they weren’t going to be able to handle what was coming.
  Charlottesville police officers, including Sgt. Jake Via of the investigations bureau, had been contacting organizers and scanning social media to figure out ho
  
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• Alaska Airlines pilots plan picket over lack of compensation

  20-08-2017 00:00 via ktoo.org
  An Alaska Airlines plane at Juneau International Airport. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)
  Alaska Airlines pilots have reached a breaking point in negotiations with the company, and now have plans to picket outside Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.
  The pilots plan to picket starting at 1 p.m. Monday outside the airport in Anchorage.
  Their union, the largest in North America, said the pilots are not being compensated as well as their peers at other successful airline companies.
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