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• Newscast – Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017

  20-09-2017 23:53 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/noon092017.mp3In this newscast:
  Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority awards a $100,000 grant for a housing and homeless coordinator for Juneau,
  Juneau’s Housing First building will be taking in its first residents, and
  Alaska’s high insurance rates on the individual market will decrease slightly more than earlier expected.
  
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• Alaska Mental Health Trust funds city homeless coordinator for Juneau

  20-09-2017 21:46 via ktoo.org
  The Trust Authority Building in Anchorage houses their main offices. (File photo by Anne Hillman/Alaska Public Media)
  Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, the City and Borough of Juneau will hire a coordinator for housing and homeless services.
  Earlier this month, the Trust Land Office cleared a downtown waterfront lot that homeless campers had occupied. Most campers had left the property by the time police arrived to enforce a trespassing order.
  The trust au
  
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• Juneau fashion designer channels advocacy into bad boy persona

  20-09-2017 21:19 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Tahir McInnis performs as Tyquan to Bobby Brown’s “Every Little Step” at the drag show Glitz at Centennial Hall on Jun. 17, 2017. (Photo by Miranda McHenry/Courtesy of the artist)https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/20DRAG-Short.mp3In front of a red velvet curtain on the Rendezvous stage, Juneau drag king Tyquan lays down some fancy footwork to Bobby Brown’s “Every Little Step.”
  With a fake wireless mic, Tyquan lip syncs as the R&B singer, flank
  
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• After 87 years in a Smithsonian collection, bones of Igiugig ancestors return home

  20-09-2017 21:12 via ktoo.org
  The Igyararmiut, the residents of Igiugig, perform a traditional blessing dance. (Photo by Avery Lill/KDLG)
  About half Igiugig’s 69 citizens crowded into Saint Nicholas Orthodox church last week.
  The nave was hazy with incense as a priest conducted the funeral service in a mix of English and Yup’ik.
  Three handmade, wooden coffins sat in the center of the room.
  Inside were the bones of 24 men, women and children from the now abandoned settlement of Kaskanak inside.
  Eighty-se
  
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• Murkowski could swing Senate for latest ACA repeal

  20-09-2017 19:50 via ktoo.org
  Disability rights advocates demonstrated against the health care reform at the U.S. Senate in July. (File photo by Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)
  Defenders of the Obama health care law are applying as much pressure as they can to get U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski to vote no on the latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and Tuesday, all eyes were on Murkowski at the Capitol.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170919-01.mp3Murkowski hasn’t announced how she’ll vote on the latest bi
  
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• Juneau’s Housing First prepares to open its doors

  20-09-2017 05:12 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Juneau’s Housing First project is opening its doors this week to the first eight residents. The $8.3 million Lemon Creek complex will soon  house 32 of the community’s most vulnerable residents.https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/170920HOUSING.mp3The 32 apartments in the Housing First building are basic, almost institutional with low, single beds. But then there are the little touches that show how much community support has gone into the project.
  The Gold Street Qu
  
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• Walker admin appoints climate adviser, promises new policy “soon”

  20-09-2017 03:42 via ktoo.org
  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott file for re-election on Monday, August 21, 2017, at the Division of Elections in Juneau, Alaska. The two are filing as unaffiliated candidates — though Mallott maintains his personal affiliation with the Democratic party. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  The Walker administration has said for more than a year that it’s working on a new set of policies to address climate change.
  Those policies have yet to materia
  
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• Ferry Taku sold, will become floating hotel

  20-09-2017 02:35 via ktoo.org
  The Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Taku is in storage at Ketchikan’s Ward Cove. It’s been sold to a Portland company that wants to turn it into a hotel. (Photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
  The Alaska ferry Taku’s next life will be as a floating hotel.
  Portland-based KeyMar LLC made the winning bid of $300,000 for the 54-year-old ship.
  Marine Highway System General Manager Capt. John Falvey said KeyMar beat out two other bidders, who wanted to scrap the ship.
  “Their plan is t
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-20-17

  20-09-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Wednesday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon,
  Sheli DeLaney will host.
   
  We’ll get an update on activities at the Zach Gordon Youth Center;
   
  We’ll get a preview of the Wednesday speaker for the Juneau World Affairs Council, Dr. Carlos Yaspen Llanos;
   
  Kim Keifer will be here with details about Rotary Bulbs;
   
  And we’ll talk with the Guinness Record Holder for the World’s Fastest Tongue.
   
   
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, We
  
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