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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-5-17

  04-09-2017 20:27 via ktoo.org
  Scott Burton hosts.
  We’ll talk with Dr. Charles Biles, who will be speaking Wednesday on The Electoral College vs. the Popular vote
  We’ll get an update on Library Activities;
  At 4, tune in to KTOO for All Things Considered, followed at 6, it’s Alaska News Nightly.
  
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• A tale of two fungi: Southeast spruce blight mistaken for harmless twin

  04-09-2017 16:00 via ktoo.org
  In its outward appearance, Dichomera resembles Gemmamyces: Same blackening of the spruce bud. The difference? Alaskan trees are naturally resistant to Dichomera. (Photo by Liz Graham/U,S, Forest Service)
  Ask any mushroom hunter: It can be tricky to correctly identify a fungus.
  A fungus found by U.S. Forest Service researchers in Southeast Alaska this summer, which at first was thought to be a potentially harmful invasive called spruce bud blight — turns out to be an entirely different nati
  
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• With Exxon Valdez settlement money, Alaska preserves nearly 2,000 acres near Kodiak

  04-09-2017 04:00 via ktoo.org
  The state of Alaska purchased nearly 2,000 acres of Afognak Island around the Thorsheim drainage, pictured here, for land preservation through Exxon Valdez settlement funds. (Photo courtesy Great Land Trust)
  An initiative to conserve one coastal habitat in the Kodiak Archipelago is now complete. The Thorsheim drainage on Afognak Island includes almost 2,000 acres of natural habitat.
  It’s now safe from development and tree harvest.
  The executive director of the organization that mediated th
  
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• Alaska students are failing math, science, English

  04-09-2017 03:41 via ktoo.org
  A multiple choice exam. (Creative Commons photo byAlberto G. )
  The results of the Alaska’s new standardized tests show more than half of the state’s elementary and high school students are not proficient in math, science and English.The Juneau Empire reports figures released to the media Wednesday indicate 68.2 percent of students were rated “below proficient” or “far below proficient” in math, 61.6 percent of students were in those two categories in Engl
  
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• How Jeff Sessions misrepresented the Trump administration’s expansion of military supplies for police

  04-09-2017 02:46 via ktoo.org
  U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions attends the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund’s 29th annual Candlelight Vigil on the Mall in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2017. (Creative Commons photo by Shane T. McCoy/U.S. Marshals)
  The Trump administration made false assertions to justify an executive order expanding police forces’ access to military equipment such as tanks and grenade launchers.
  Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Monday that President Trump would make de
  
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• North Korea claims successful hydrogen bomb test

  04-09-2017 02:14 via ktoo.org
  Updated at 4:00 p.m. ET Sunday:
  North Korea claims it has again tested a hydrogen bomb underground and that it “successfully” loaded it onto the tip of an intercontinental ballistic missile, a claim that if true, crosses a “red line” drawn by South Korea’s president last month.
  In a state media announcement, North Korea confirmed the afternoon tremors in its northeast were indeed caused by the test of a nuclear device, and that leader Kim Jong Un personally signed o
  
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