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• State works to interpret its newest oil tax credit overhaul

  23-08-2017 23:56 via ktoo.org
  Ken Alper, Director of the Tax Division at the Department of Revenue, gives an overview of a bill to the House Resources Committee on Feb. 3, 2016, in Juneau. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  A group of oil industry representatives, tax experts, lawmakers and state employees met on August 22, to start the process of decoding a controversial new oil and gas tax credit law.
  It took just over five months for the Alaska legislature to settle on the key components of the latest oil and gas tax revision
  
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• Spaulding pleads not guilty to federal drug conspiracy charge

  23-08-2017 23:56 via ktoo.org
  Juneau police searched this house on Fourth Street earlier this month. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)
  One of two residents of a downtown Juneau house raided this month pleaded not guilty to a drug conspiracy charge.
  Tiffany Jo Spaulding, 34, appeared in federal court today and pleaded not guilty to the drug-related charge.
  Appearing via teleconference from Anchorage, U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge Deborah M. Smith set a deadline for discovery filings for Oct. 6
  Spaulding and another res
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, August 23, 2017

  23-08-2017 22:53 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/noon082317.mp3In this newscast:
  Defendant in an alleged homicide aboard a cruise ship, Kenneth Manzanares, pleads not guilty,
  Homeless residents camping in downtown property owned by the Alaska Mental Health Land Trust are told they must leave,
  Alaska to provide public voter data if $21 records fee is paid by Trump Administration, and
  Judge approves $1 million loan for Alaska Dispatch News to keep the newspaper operating.
  
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• Juneau homeless served with trespass notices

  23-08-2017 04:36 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Juneau Empire reporter Alex McCarthy interviews Juneau Police Officer Ken Colon on Tuesday at an encampment on Alaska Mental Health Trust property off Egan Drive. Juneau police served notices of trespass to the campers. The notice gave them two weeks to leave the property. (Photo by Tripp J Crouse/KTOO)
  Residents in a homeless camp on the edge of downtown Juneau have been served with a formal trespassing notice by the landowner, the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority.http://s3-us-west-2.amazon
  
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• New study suggests dental therapists improving oral health in YK Delta

  23-08-2017 02:26 via ktoo.org
  Rural health aides have a long, successful history of improving access to health care in Alaska.
  Now, dental a program based on that model is improving oral care in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
  The Dental Health Aide Therapist program was controversial when it started a decade ago, but a new study suggests that smiles have gotten healthier, cleaner, and toothier in villages where it’s appeared.
  Phylicia Wilde grew up in Mountain Village on the Yukon River.
  When she was 12, she got
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-23-17

  23-08-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Wednesday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon,
  Sheli DeLaney will host.
  We’ll find out about Cordova’s Fungus Festival; with guest, Cathy Long;
  PHONER: 907-424-4260
  Artist Chris Taylor will be there to highlight is UAS art classes;
  And we’ll talk with Rich Moniac about Sunday’s Community Gathering.
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, Wednesday on A Juneau Afternoon, live at 3 on KTOO-News, repeated at 4 on KRNN, and available on demand on-line at ktoo.org
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• Lots of rain causes flooding in Ketchikan, some damage

  23-08-2017 01:52 via ktoo.org
  Flooding at Ketchikan’s Ward Lake Recreation Area. (Photo courtesy of Paul Robbins/U.S. Forest Service)
  It’s rained enough in Ketchikan the past couple of days that fish are swimming across the road.
  “We stopped our truck and watched a salmon swim across the road in front of us at Signal Creek Campground,” said Paul Robbins Jr., a Tongass National Forest spokesman. “We were not fast enough to get a photo, unfortunately.”
  Robbins said he and Ketchikan-Misty Fio
  
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