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• Building a future after prison through vocational education

  02-09-2017 22:00 via ktoo.org
  Wesley Nicoll builds a planter as part of the vocational education program at Wildwood Correctional Center in July 2017. (Photo by Anne Hillman/Alaska Public Media)In Alaska, two-thirds of people who leave prison end up going back within three years.
  Former inmates who can find decent jobs within a year of release are half as likely to re-offend, according to an Alaska Department of Labor report.
  So how does the Department of Corrections want to cut recidivism? By teaching the trades.
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• Aboard NOAA ship, challenges and adventure while mapping sea floor

  02-09-2017 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The NOAA Ship Fairweather in 2015. (Photo courtesy NOAA)
  Summer is the busy season for marine research in the waters of Western Alaska, and that means plenty of ship traffic through the Port of Nome.
  One such ship is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration vessel Fairweather, which recently made a third stop in Nome during a mission to map the ocean floor.http://www.knom.org/wp-audio/2017/08/2017-08-30-FairweatherPKG.mp3
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• Tribal conference considers climate change impacts

  02-09-2017 02:57 via ktoo.org
  John Morris of the Douglas Indian Association speaks during a workshop at the 2016 Southeast Environmental Conference in Ketchikan. This year’s conference is Sept. 5-8 in Wrangell. (Photo courtesy Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska)
  A group of Southeast Native organizations is planning for the impacts of climate change.
  Representatives of the region’s tribal governments will discuss global warming and other topics at their annual environmental conference Sep
  
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• As the state’s gasline corporation hopes for investment interest, lawmakers look for answers

  02-09-2017 02:41 via ktoo.org
  Alaska Gasline Development Corporation President Keith Meyer, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Andy Mack discuss meetings with potential buyers of Alaska’s LNG during a press conference on Sept. 30, 2016, in Anchorage. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  For the last two months the state’s gasline corporation has asked potential customers and investors in the state-led project to formally show interest in the massive pipeline
  
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• Gardentalk – Woolly bear caterpillars and ripening fruit

  02-09-2017 02:30 via ktoo.org
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  Woolly bear caterpillar video courtesy of 360North television.
  In this week’s edition of Gardentalk, Master Gardener Ed Buyarski warns us about the emergence of the banded woolly bear caterpillar that can attack plant leaves before becoming the spotted tussuck moth.
  “I first noticed them on my raspberries,” said Buyarski, who also has found them on his apple and alder trees.
  “If you look at the alders, you can
  
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• Juneau unions to host Labor Day picnic

  02-09-2017 01:53 via ktoo.org
  Juneau’s labor unions are hosting a picnic open to the public at Sandy Beach on Labor Day.
  The Juneau Central Labor Council has invited all of the candidates for Assembly and school board to the picnic, which will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday.
  Council President Nadine Lefebvre said there will be food and live music.
  “We’ll have the education association … to give away free books for kids,” she said.
  The League of Women Voters also will be there to provide infor
  
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• Newscast – Friday, September 1, 2017

  02-09-2017 01:13 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/170901-midday-newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  Gov. Bill Walker to recall legislature for fourth special session
  Alaska Department of Transportation has a new regional chief
  More Alaska-based U.S. Army soldiers being deployed to Afghanistan
   
   
  
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• Hunters troll PETA in selfie campaign, but did it backfire?

  02-09-2017 00:30 via ktoo.org
  
  
  David Nicolai posing with a caribou he took on a successful hunt in 2016, in PETA’s social media frame. (Photo courtesy of David Nicolai)
  http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170831-11.mp3When People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals rolled out a new social media campaign, it caught on with an unexpected group – hunters.
  All across the country, the slogan “shoot selfies, not animals” was co-opted by people putting up social media posts featuring trophy photos of game taken
  
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