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• Juneau residents rally around tunnel solution to glacial outburst flooding

  27-06-2026 03:15 via ktoo.org
  
  Debbie Penrose Fischer was rescued by Capital City Fire/Rescue after flood water surrounded her home on Gee Street in 2024. (Photo courtesy of Debbie Penrose Fischer)
  Juneau residents in the glacial lake outburst flood zone are rallying around a single, long-term solution: a tunnel. At a community-led meeting, a local mining expert presented an alternative tunneling method that could cut the cost of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ proposed project in half.
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• Dunleavy vetoes $490,000 earmarked to support teacher retention and recruitment

  27-06-2026 03:04 via ktoo.org
  
  Jennifer Schmitz interviews a teacher candidate while on a recruiting trip to the Philippines in 2025. (Brian Venua/KMXT)
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed $490,000 from the state budget Wednesday that would have gone toward efforts to retain and recruit teachers in Alaska.
  The Alaska Educator Retention and Recruitment Center began almost two years ago as a resource to support recruiting and retaining teachers in Alaska. Jennifer Schmitz, its executive director, said its services include marketing teach
  
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• Newscast – Friday, June 26, 2026

  27-06-2026 02:59 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260626-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:The Juneau Assembly made a number of appointments and reappointments to city boards during a special meeting Wednesday,
  Former Alaska state senator Natasha Von Imhof has thrown her hat in the ring in the race for Anchorage’s next mayor,
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy told lawmakers he’d vetoed six bills, and dozens more have passed into law,
  KTOO’s Mike Lane speaks with Walk Southeast organizers
  
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• Broken Bottle Circus | Douglas 4th of July Committee | ‘Blue Ticket’ screening | Mystical Masquerade at Zach Gordon

  27-06-2026 02:58 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Juneau Afternoon – Recorded live on Friday, June 26, 2026
  Rachel Levy’s Broken Bottle Circus one-night only event at Alaska Robotics and Amalga Distillery on July 3Douglas 4th of July Committee features Grand Marshals from JDHS Class of ’66 and Soapbox DerbySpecial screening of Mo Longworth’s “Blue Ticket” on Monday, June 29, at Goldtown NickMystical Masquerade at Zach Gordon Youth Center on Saturday, June 27
  Audio PodcastVideo LivestreamBostin Christopher ho
  
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• Dunleavy vetoes bill naming ISER and marine park after Vic Fischer

  27-06-2026 01:10 via ktoo.org
  
  Vic Fischer smiles at his wife, Jane Angvik, in 2021. (Bob Waldrop)
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bill Wednesday naming a storied University of Alaska, Anchorage, public policy research center after its first director, Vic Fischer.
  Fischer was a delegate to Alaska’s constitutional convention who had a seven-decade career in politics in the state. In 1966, he became the first official director of what’s now known as the Institute for Social and Economic Research at UAA.
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