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• Raising oil, corporate taxes is least-painful option for reducing Alaska deficits, ISER concludes

  30-01-2026 22:58 via ktoo.org
  Rep. Kevin McCabe, R-Big Lake, reads a document entitled “Alaska’s Fiscal Options” while listening to a presentation by the Institute for Social and Economic Research of the University of Alaska Anchorage on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, at Centennial Hall in Juneau. (James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  A new nonpartisan report by the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage has concluded that raising oil and corporate taxes to balance Alaska’s b
  
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• Homer Rep. Vance faces ethics probe over official letter pressuring newspaper

  30-01-2026 20:42 via ktoo.org
  Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, sits in the House chamber at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on Feb. 14, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media)
  The Alaska state House’s ethics committee has launched an investigation into whether Homer Republican Rep. Sarah Vance illegally used state resources when she successfully pushed the local newspaper to remove and revise a story.
  Vance objected to a Homer News article about a vigil she helped organize after the assassination of conservative activist C
  
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• Juneau Assembly asks View Drive residents to help pay for their own buyout after years of outburst flooding

  30-01-2026 03:44 via ktoo.org
  The Mendenhall River surrounds homes on View Drive in the Mendenhall Valley on Tuesday, July 22, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The City & Borough of Juneau tip-toed toward a federal buyout program for homeowners on View Drive this week, a street that’s been hit the hardest by annual glacial outburst flooding. The city’s asking those residents if they’ll help pay for it.
  Eighteen homes line the forested cul-de-sac on View Drive, which extends into the Mendenhall River
  
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• Juneau residents call to defund ICE at rally downtown following killings in Minnesota

  30-01-2026 03:22 via ktoo.org
  Ariel Hasse-Zamudio urges protestors to call their representatives. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
  More than 200 people gathered in the capital city Thursday to speak out against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, following recent killings of two citizens in Minneapolis. 
  Juneau resident Denali Marin organized the noon rally outside the courthouse, where protestors brought salt and chanted, “Melt ICE.” 
  Marin listed some of the people who have lost their lives
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026

  30-01-2026 03:08 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:Juneau’s recycling center is closed again in order to repair damaged critical equipment. And it could be quite a while before the center opens back up again.
  New public art is coming to downtown Juneau this spring. Murals will soon adorn the Marine View building parking garage near the cruise ship docks. It’s part of a project years in the making that teaches artists about the legal and creati
  
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• Budding Juneau muralists learn the ins and outs of public art through new workshop

  30-01-2026 00:43 via ktoo.org
  Maddox Rasmussen paints a mural of an orca at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center on Jan. 25, 2026. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO)
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  Murals will soon adorn the Marine View building parking garage near Juneau’s cruise ship docks. 
  It’s part of a project years in the making that teaches local artists about the legal and creative sides of murals.
  Maddox Rasmussen washed paintbrushes in between sections of a mural
  
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• A $50M literacy grant is helping Alaska schools, but some districts say it’s tough to access funds

  30-01-2026 00:05 via ktoo.org
  A road sign marks the road towards the Lower Kuskokwim School District offices and the Bethel High School. October 9, 2023. (Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon)
  While Alaska school districts are seeing improvements in kindergarten to third grade students’ reading proficiency, which officials credit to the Alaska Reads Act, some districts are struggling to access state managed funds for a federal grant program aimed at supporting literacy programs, teacher development, and student learning.
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