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• Newscast – Wednesday, August 30, 2017

  30-08-2017 22:52 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/noon083017.mp3In this newscast:
  Alaska Air National Guard is sending personnel and equipment to help with Tropical Storm Harvey aftermath,
  A brown bear was shot by the Haines Highway last week,
  Ballot proposal would address allowance, travel by lawmakers, and
  Ketchikan may set a new rainfall record.
  
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• In the afterlife, Unalaska’s eagles find purpose at national repository

  30-08-2017 22:13 via ktoo.org
  
  
  When bald eagles die in Unalaska, it’s the beginning of a long journey. Literally.
  Many of them travel thousands of miles and find second lives in the Lower 48.
  https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kucb2/audio/2017/08/25SECONDLIVES.mp3Damian Lopez-Plancarte is “the eagle guy” in Unalaska. He responds to calls for eagle assistance, and collects and ships dead eagles on to the National Repository. (Photo by Berett Wilber/KUCB)
  When Damian Lopez-Plancarte walks into the Wildlife Trooper office
  
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• Alaska National Guard members helping with Harvey rescues

  30-08-2017 21:22 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Airmen fuel a C-17 Globemaster III, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Aug. 28, 2017, preparing to leave for Texas to provide humanitarian support after Hurricane Harvey. The Air National Guard 176th Wing sent personnel from the 212th Rescue Squadron to provide search-and-rescue, and support aeromedical evacuation and humanitarian relief. (U.S Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Christopher R. Morales)
  The Alaska National Guard is sending personnel and equipment to help with on-going re
  
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• Atlantic salmon escape fans opposition to company’s proposed new fish farm

  30-08-2017 21:05 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Example photo provided by Cooke Aquaculture division to Clallam County to show what salmon farming net pens near Port Angeles would look like. (Photo courtesy of American Gold Seafoods via Clallam County)
  https://cpa.ds.npr.org/northwestnews/audio/2017/08/083017TB_FishFarm_web.mp3Clallam County, Washington, has put a temporary hold on an aquaculture company’s application to relocate and expand a salmon farm near Port Angeles.
  This comes as the company is cleaning up after a mass escape of
  
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• Alaska officials looking into lawsuit against opioid drugmakers

  30-08-2017 20:11 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Michelle Pattengill, a technician at L&S Pharmacy in Charleston, Missouri, holds a bottle of oxycodone. (Bram Sable-Smith/Side Effects Public Media/KBIA)
  The state of Alaska is looking into whether it should sue the manufacturers of opioid painkillers for their contributions to the opioid epidemic and has hired a law firm that is representing two other states in related legal action.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170828-03.mp3Those lawsuits, brought by South Carolina and New Hampshire, tar
  
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• Rockslide draws attention to potential hazard looming over Skagway cruise dock

  30-08-2017 19:47 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Tourists walk on Skagway’s railroad dock in summer of 2016. The cliff, where a rockslide occurred Aug. 26, is adjacent to Skagway’s biggest cruise ship dock. (Photo by Emily Files/KHNS)
  A rockslide near Skagway’s largest cruise ship dock Saturday didn’t injure anyone. But it drew attention to the potential danger of an active slide area neighboring a bustling port.
  http://khns.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/29SlideFolowINTRO.mp3The dock adjacent to the slide area, called
  
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• Telling Tales – August 29

  30-08-2017 19:44 via ktoo.org
  
  
  “The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds” by Neil Gaiman 
   
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/082217.mp3
  
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• Telling Tales – August 15

  30-08-2017 19:41 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Telling Tales with MsG performed and had a live performance. 
   
  “Ashes” by Susan Beth Pfeffer
   
   
  POEM
  The Revolution will not be Televised recording performed by Gil Scott-Heron
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• Telling Tales – August 8

  30-08-2017 19:35 via ktoo.org
  Telling Tales with MsG celebrated the “Summer of Love”. 
   
  “Going Sentimental” by Rachel Vail
   
  POEMS
  Don’t Want this Love to Disappear by Ray Friedlander
  Iodine Rain by Bill Merk
  Untitled-to be continued by Mike Christenson
   
  
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• Proposal would address allowance, travel by Alaska lawmakers

  30-08-2017 04:32 via ktoo.org
  (Creative Commons photo by peasap)
  A proposed ballot initiative would cut off a daily allowance for Alaska legislators if they’re late in passing a state budget and would restrict foreign travel by lawmakers.Those provisions were outlined in a release from a group called Alaskans for Integrity, which is pushing the proposal. Other provisions relate to conflicts of interest and gifts from lobbyists.
  Reps. Jason Grenn and Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins are listed as co-chairs along with Bonnie Jack
  
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• Juneau police search Bergmann Hotel co-owner’s downtown home

  30-08-2017 03:46 via ktoo.org
  Juneau police executed a search warrant at the house of landlord James Barrett, the co-owner of the Bergmann Hotel.
  James Barrett talks to the Juneau fire chief about repairs needed in the newly condemned Bergmann Hotel on March 10, 2017. On Tuesday, Barrett said being handcuffed while his home was searched was more embarrassing than the hotel’s closure. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  Barrett, who spent most of the lunch hour Tuesday handcuffed and sitting on his st
  
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• Alaska Democrats seek chance for independents to run in party primaries

  30-08-2017 02:24 via ktoo.org
  Voting booth at the Bethel City Hall. (Photo by Adrian Wagner)
  The Alaska Democratic Party voted last year to change its rules to allow independents to run for its nomination for office. But state officials blocked the move.
  Now both sides are in court over the issue.
  The proposed change would allow the party to support a candidate without having the word “Democratic” appear on the ballot by the candidate’s name.
  Alaska Democratic Party Executive Director Jay Parmley said there
  
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• Ask a Climatologist: The mind boggling rain of tropical storm Harvey

  30-08-2017 01:52 via ktoo.org
  (Graphic courtesy of Brian Brettschneider)
   
  Lots of Alaskans have ties to the Houston area. Including climate expert Brian Brettschneider from our Ask a Climatologist segment.
  We asked him to help us understand the magnitude of the rainfall event from tropical storm Harvey and to clarify how much climate change may be contributing to the disaster.
  Brettschneider says he was living in Houston in 2001, when tropical storm Allison dumped 15 – 35 inches of rain on the city in five days.
  
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