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• Newscast – Monday, Aug. 21, 2017

  21-08-2017 22:49 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/20170821newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  Gov. Bill Walker and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott make their re-election bid official,
  the University of Alaska Southeast and Juneau Docks and Harbors ink a deal to share a former NOAA lab in Auke Bay,
  a 17-year-old at Juneau’s youth detention center beats an employee over the head with a chair,
  federal labor officials sue the state ferry system over alleged Family and Medical Leave Act violations,
  protesters r
  
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• Potential initiatives would enshrine Medicaid expansion, ACA provisions in state law

  21-08-2017 02:01 via ktoo.org
  Supporters of Medicaid expansion express their views at the state Capitol in April 2015. Doctors are sponsoring two initiatives that may appear on the 2018 ballot, one of which would enshrine the expansion in state law. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  While Congress has debated repealing the Affordable Care Act, some doctors want to make sure that at least parts of the law remain in place in Alaska. They’re sponsoring two initiatives that could be on the ballot next year.&nbs
  
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• Confederate statues were built to further a ‘white supremacist future’

  21-08-2017 01:59 via ktoo.org
  Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, hosts memorials to a number of Confederate figures, including Gen. Robert E. Lee. (Creative Commons photo by OZinOH)
  As President Trump doubled down on his defense of Confederate statues and monuments this week, he overlooked an important fact noted by historians: The majority of the memorials seem to have been built with the intention not to honor fallen soldiers, but specifically to further ideals of white supremacy.
  More than 30 cities either have remove
  
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• Boston right-wing ‘free speech’ rally dwarfed by counterprotesters

  21-08-2017 01:45 via ktoo.org
  Counterprotesters speak out against a “free speech” rally in Boston on Aug. 19, 2017. (Creative Commons photo by Tim Carter)
  Updated at 4:53 p.m. ET
  A small number of right-wing “Free Speech Rally” demonstrators disbanded early from Boston Common after they were confronted by thousands of counterprotesters shouting anti-Nazi and anti-KKK slogans.JUST IN: The attendees of the self-described free speech rally have left the Parkman Bandstand, with a police escort. https://t.
  
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