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• Newscast – Monday, Sept. 11, 2017

  11-09-2017 22:53 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/20170911-newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  A political group registers to influence the Juneau municipal election on restoring a senior sales tax break,
  the trial date for a Juneau man accused of kicking another man to death at a downtown transit center gets pushed back, and
  Congressman Don Young stirs up trouble in the House and then apologizes.
  
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• Archaeologists shed light on Tlingit culture near Petersburg, before Europeans

  11-09-2017 22:33 via ktoo.org
  
  
  This pictograph of canoes and sun is located near Petersburg. The exact location is kept secret for fear of public vandalism. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Forest Service)
  The small island town of Petersburg in Southeast, Alaska, is known for its Norwegian heritage.
  It’s celebrated throughout the year with events like the Little Norway Festival in May and Julebukking in December.
   
  http://media.aprn.org/2017/ak-20170908.mp3Nannuack enjoys talking about his carvings and paintings. He’s
  
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• New EPA vetting adds uncertainty for Alaska grants worth millions

  11-09-2017 22:04 via ktoo.org
  
  
  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt (Photo courtesy EPA)
  The Washington Post reported last week that the Environmental Protection Agency has started funneling all grant money through a single political appointee in the nation’s capital.
  The Post also said EPA staff were told this summer to block all grants to Alaska, a state that has a lot riding on how EPA grants are awarded.
  http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170908-02.mp3The order came in July, on the same day U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted ag
  
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• Alaska teens ask state to stop delaying action on climate change

  11-09-2017 21:00 via ktoo.org
  Seb Kurland sits right of DEC Commissioner, Larry Hartig. (Photo courtesy of the Alaska Center)
  The last serious effort to create a statewide climate change policy for Alaska happened under former Governor Sarah Palin. Now a group of teenagers are trying to push the issue.
  https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/08TEENMP3.wavThey hand delivered a petition to the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation recently — asking for reduced carbon emissions and a strategy movi
  
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• Trial postponed in transit center homicide case

  11-09-2017 20:53 via ktoo.org
  David V. Evenson, 51, appears in Juneau District Court on July 10, 2017, on charges of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and second-degree murder. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  The homicide case of a Juneau man accused of kicking another man at the downtown transit center has been postponed at least a few weeks, possibly as much as five months.
  David Evenson is accused of kicking Aaron Monette in the head June 30 at the bus terminal. Monette, 56, died five days later in Seattle.
  Evenson
  
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• Skagway Assembly formally voices support for police chief following loss of state certification

  11-09-2017 20:46 via ktoo.org
  The old Skagway Police Department. (File photo by Emily Files/KHNS)
  The Skagway Borough Assembly formally voiced its support for Police Chief Ray Leggett at a meeting last week.
  Leggett lost his Alaska police officer certification earlier this year after a lengthy legal battle with the state.
  Now, Skagway officials are affirming their support for Leggett to stay on the job. But they’re also updating the police chief job description and personnel policy.
  Leggett came under scrutiny of the A
  
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• Teaching 9/11 to students who were born after the attacks

  11-09-2017 20:36 via ktoo.org
  “Never forget” became a national rallying cry after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
  Yet America’s schools — where collective memory is shaped — are now full of students who never knew because they we
  ren’t alive then. Many teachers now struggle with whether and how to teach the attacks and their aftermath.
  According to one survey, only about 20 states include anything in depth about the events of that fateful day in their high school social studies curriculum.
  
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• Twenty-three Bethel residents, mostly cab drivers, charged with bootlegging

  11-09-2017 20:35 via ktoo.org
  Twenty-three Bethel residents, most of them cab drivers, were charged Friday for allegedly selling alcohol without a license after a two-year-long undercover investigation.
  The State of Alaska is charging 18 cab drivers, who come from every Bethel cab company: Quyana Cab, Kusko Cab, Taxi Cab, and Alaska Taxi.
  Quyana Cab Company and its co-owner Min Sook Cha also are charged.
  Other individuals being charged allegedly helped cab drivers bootleg.
  The list also includes a former
  
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• Building community fish harvest monitors to create ‘change on the Kusko’

  11-09-2017 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Community harvest monitors working with the Bering Sea Fishermen’s Association in Kuskokwim villages: (left to right) Mike Williams Jr., Ben Agimuk, Jackie Larson, and Bernard Williams. (Photo by Anna Rose MacArthur/KYUK)
  Increased control over natural resources, like fish, is a top priority for Kuskokwim tribes.
  One way to move in that direction is through collecting harvest data during fishing season, which helps with the difficult job of in-season management.http://media.aprn.org/2
  
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