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• Juneau Arts and Humanities Council director resigns after organization cuts DEI language from its website

  07-05-2025 23:02 via ktoo.org
  
  Phil Huebschen at their office on May 6, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  The executive director of the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council will resign following the board’s decision to cut diversity, equity and inclusion language from its website.  
  The organization announced Monday that Phil Huebschen is leaving the nonprofit after two years.
  “I found myself unable to authentically engage in implementing the decision of the board,” Huebschen told KTOO.
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• Ferry board recommends retiring the M/V Matanuska

  07-05-2025 21:13 via ktoo.org
  
  The Matanuska waits at Ketchikan’s state ferry terminal on June 20, 2022, the day of the Alaska Marine Highway System’s first voyage to Prince Rupert, B.C. since 2019. (Photo by Eric Stone/KRBD)
  Alaska’s oldest ferry is too expensive to repair, according to officials with the Alaska Marine Highway System, who say it would cost millions to fix the 62-year-old Matanuska.
  Craig Tornga, the marine director, said seeking that funding would compete with other future projects.
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• Alaska Legislature rejects call for Canada as 51st state, opposes ‘restrictive trade measures’

  07-05-2025 19:52 via ktoo.org
  
  Marker for the U.S.-Canadian border between Skagway, Alaska, and Stikine Region, British Columbia.
  Both chambers of the Alaska Legislature have approved a resolution stating its support for Canadian independence and opposing “restrictive trade measures or tolls” that would affect commerce between Alaska and Canada.
  House Joint Resolution 11, which would be sent to President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and other top officials in both countries, implicit
  
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• To fund education programs, Alaska lawmakers look to tax Netflix and Amazon

  07-05-2025 19:29 via ktoo.org
  
  The facade of the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on May 22, 2024.
  The Alaska House is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a change to corporate income taxes that could raise millions of dollars as the state faces deficits and an uncertain financial future.
  It’s also tied to funding for two key elements of an education bill pending on the governor’s desk.
  Senate Bill 113 would change the way many companies calculate their state corporate income taxes. Backers are pitching it as a tax on la
  
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• Juneau organizations react to sweeping federal grant cuts to arts and culture programs

  07-05-2025 19:17 via ktoo.org
  
  Actors Ben Brown, Travis Clark Morris, Kristen Rankin and Lauren Parkinson perform a scene from “The Thanksgiving Play” at Perseverance Theatre. (Photo Courtesy/Frank Delaney)
  The Trump Administration has started canceling federal grants that fund arts and culture programs across the country, including here in Juneau. 
  The cuts involve millions of dollars in grant funding doled out through the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The pre
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, May 6, 2025

  07-05-2025 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:Lieutenant governor and former U.S. House candidate Nancy Dahlstrom is running for governor,
  The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska announced today that it is rejoining the Alaska Federation of Natives,
  The Juneau Assembly chose a preliminary redevelopment plan for the downtown Telephone Hill neighborhood that, if approved, would evict residents by October,
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• Tlingit and Haida rejoins Alaska Federation of Natives

  07-05-2025 01:48 via ktoo.org
  
  Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson, president of Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, speaks at the 90th annual Tribal Assembly in Juneau on Wednesday, April 18, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska announced on Tuesday that it is rejoining the Alaska Federation of Natives.
  The move comes almost exactly two years after the tribe withdrew its membership from the statewide Alaska Native organization
  
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• Beyond the Music: Decoding the 2025 Superbowl halftime show

  07-05-2025 01:12 via ktoo.org
  
  Culture Rich Conversations Podcast AudioOn this episode of Culture Rich Conversations from Juneau’s Black Awareness Association:On the heels of the 2025 Super Bowl, host Christina Michelle sits down with NAACP Anchorage Chapter President Cheryl Cox-Williams, MC Hohagani Magnetek, and Influencer Darryl Akins.  Together, they go beyond the music to decode the Kendrick Lamar halftime show and its political messages woven throughout. Guests:MC MoHagani Magnetik (Fairbanks) – Po
  
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• On Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Day, loved ones remember Tracy Day

  07-05-2025 00:21 via ktoo.org
  
  Tracy Day’s daughter Kaelyn Schneider hugs MMIP advocate Jamiann S’eiltin Hasselquist at the Kaasei Healing Kootéeyaa on May 5, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  Monday was Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Day. In Juneau, at events like this one — held in recognition of the epidemic of violence against Indigenous people — one name comes up consistently.
  “I’m here because of Tracy Day,” said Kanaagoot’ Mike Kinville. He help
  
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