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• Former village police officer banished from Akiak leaves town

  01-09-2017 22:33 via ktoo.org
  Akiak residents confront Jacques Cooper, a former VPO who multiple community members claim sold alcohol and marijuana illegally. The confrontation was live streamed on Facebook. (Photo courtesy Mike Williams)
  A former village police officer who was recently banished from Akiak, and was threatened with eviction proceedings from teacher housing, has now left town.
  Jacques Cooper, 43, has been accused by the local tribal government of bootlegging and selling marijuana to adults and minors, but says
  
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• Historic Alaska newspapers are being posted online

  01-09-2017 20:10 via ktoo.org
  
  
  This front page from Nov. 11, 1912, of the Alaska Daily Empire, the forerunner to Juneau’s current daily newspaper, shows a mix of national, world and local news. (Photo courtesy of the Alaska State Libraries, Archives and Museums)
  Some of Alaska’s oldest newspapers are being digitized and posted online as part of a national project to provide free public access to historic periodicals.https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/170901ARCHIVES-PKG.mp3Deep in the main building of
  
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• U.S. economy generated 156,000 jobs in August, short of estimates

  01-09-2017 19:34 via ktoo.org
  Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics via St. Louis Fed
  (Graphic by NPR)
  Updated at 11 a.m. ETThe U.S. economy created an estimated 156,000 jobs in August, falling slightly short of analysts’ estimates, according to the Labor Department.
  The unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 4.4 percent; it had been at 4.3 percent.
  Economists had predicted a gain of between 170,000 to 180,000 jobs last month. But August job growth often falls short of initial estimates, only to be revised higher
  
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• ‘Our ancestors returned home’: How a Chilkat robe made its way back to Southeast Alaska

  01-09-2017 05:23 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/31HOMECOMINGnpr1.mp3Southeast Alaska tribes celebrated the return of a long lost ancestor Saturday, when a Seattle couple donated back a hundred-plus-year-old sacred Chilkat robe.
  Drumming, dancing and telling stories over an afternoon, representatives from three Southeast Alaska tribes celebrated the return of their Chilkat blanket. Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian members held a homecoming ceremony in the Shuká Hit clan house in Juneau.
  For mor
  
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• Transportation Department names new regional director

  01-09-2017 05:09 via ktoo.org
  Lance Mearig is the state Department of Transportation’s new Southcoast Region director. He takes over from Mike Coffey, who just retired. (Photo courtesy Department of Transportation)
  A longtime Southeast resident is taking over one of the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities’ regional offices.
  Commissioner Marc Luiken on Aug. 31 named Lance Mearig as the department’s Southcoast Region director. The region includes all of Southeast, plus Kodiak Island, the Alaska
  
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• Walker says fourth special will be in October, focus on revenue

  01-09-2017 02:36 via ktoo.org
  Gov. Bill Walker speaks at a press availability in Anchorage on July 17. On Thursday, Walker said he would call a fourth special session, beginning Oct. 23. (Photo by Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)
  Gov. Bill Walker said Thursday that he will call the Legislature back for a fourth special session primarily focused on revenue. The session would convene on Oct. 23 in Juneau.
  Walker did not say what revenue options he’ll put on agenda for the session.
  There is a $2.36 billion gap
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-1-17

  01-09-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Friday at 3 on a Juneau Afternoon,
  We’ll talk with carver, Jackson Polys, about his First Friday presentation at the APK Building;
  George Kuhar, of Playboy Spaceman fame, will be here to highlight this weekend’s Labor Day Dance Party;
  Andrew Bogart, from the Red Cross, will be here with details of next month’s Preparedness Expo, READY OR NOT, DON”T GET CAUGHT.
  And JPD Chief, Ed Mercer, will be here to highlight police activities
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, mu
  
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• Coast Guard’s Alaska personnel dispatched to help with Harvey response

  01-09-2017 01:30 via ktoo.org
  Thirteen people from the U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska are now in Texas helping with rescue and response in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
  Two H-60 helicopter pilots, two flight mechanics and a rescue swimmer from Air Station Sitka are helping with the response in the Texas area.
  They will provide relief to other helicopter crews that have been flying since the start of the disaster.
  Petty Officer Jon-Paul Rios said those five Coast Guardsmen signed up earlier to help out.
  But the final decisio
  
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• Walker lends support to Trump in lawsuit over Arctic drilling

  01-09-2017 01:06 via ktoo.org
  The Beaufort Sea, one of the areas the Trump administration would like to re-open for oil drilling. Now Trump will have Alaska’s support in court. (Photo courtesy NOAA)
  The state of Alaska is going to stand by President Donald Trump’s side in court to defend an order aiming to reopen large parts of the Arctic Ocean to oil drilling.
  Today, Gov. Bill Walker’s administration filed a motion to intervene in support of President Trump in a lawsuit over whether he can reverse Presiden
  
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