Candidates Compete for Six Assembly Seats
Candidates are competing for six seats on the Anchorage Assembly. The Assembly has been deeply divided this past year and faced many challenges – a controversial labor law, a rewrite of Title 21, and a troubled port project, to name a few. And the challenges will continue in 2014.
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Anchorage Office of Emergency Management Readies For Earthquake Drill
Anchorage was hit hard during the 1964 Alaska earthquake, which caused terrible destruction downtown and along Turnagain Arm. For the 50th anniversary of that event, the city is planning to take part in emergency drills that involve all schools and city agencies. This week is declared Earthquake Preparedness Week by city officials, and residents are urged to be prepared for the real thing.
Candidates Vie for Two School Board Seats
Two School Board Seats are up for grabs during the April 1 Municipal election. Three candidates are running for Seat C and two are running for Seat D.
7 Bond Proposition Before Voters April 1st
There are seven bond propositions on the April 1 Municipal ballot in Anchorage.
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School Renovations Depend on Prop 1
Proposition 1 is an education bond that would give the Anchorage School District more than 57 million dollars for building maintenance and improvements.
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Chilaquiles: A Hearty Mexican Breakfast
There is no limit to my love of the food and flavors of Mexico.
All the spicy, fragrant chiles, simmering sauces, creamy refried beans, fresh lime and cilantro...Mexican is my ultimate comfort food.
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Knitting A Simple Striped Baby Blanket
Knitting a blanket isn’t difficult. It’s pretty mindless. Monotonous. Endless. I much prefer knitting hats where there’s a definite start and end and it can be completed in an afternoon.
That being said, there is something special about giving someone a hand-knitted blanket.
See the pattern. House Passes Bill To End High School Exit Exam
The Alaska House has passed legislation that would repeal the high school graduation exam.
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Gasline Bill Could Include Rural Provisions
With less than 30 days remaining in the legislative session, the Alaska House is considering gasline legislation that would advance a line from the North Slope to an LNG export facility in Nikiski. For rural Alaska, the bill includes funding that could send gas to communities hundreds of miles from the pipeline.
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Legislature Weighs ‘Erin’s Law’
This week, Erin Merryn will be visiting Alaska to promote a law that provides age-appropriate sexual abuse education to children in public schools. Erin’s Law, named after the 29-year-old from Illinois, has passed in 11 states and is pending in 26 others, including Alaska. And we should warn listeners: this story talks frankly about sexual abuse and rape.
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Murkowski: Clean Water Act Rule a Threat to Development
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a proposal today that critics say would expand the reach of the Clean Water Act to cover most creeks and wetlands across the country. The EPA says the rule would not broaden its jurisdiction. It says the rule just clarifies that most seasonal and rain-dependent streams are protected, as are wetlands near streams.
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Though Earthquake Detection Has Improved, Gaps Remain
Just five years after statehood, Alaska endured the largest earthquake recorded in North America. The quake devastated communities around the Southcentral portion of the state, but in the years that followed it also made Alaska the epicenter of extreme seismic studies.
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Valdez Earthquake Survivors Recall 1964 Experiences
The community of Valdez was devastated by the Good Friday earthquake. The giant tsunami that formed right after the shaking began killed 30 people gathered at the harbor and on the dock. The earthquake and tsunami destroyed the town. It took three years for locals to relocate from Old Town Valdez to where the new town site is today.
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Galena Residents Prep For Season Of Rebuilding
Galena residents are preparing for another season of rebuilding from devastation wrought by last year’s major break up flood. There was a major emergency response last summer, but much work remains to be done in the Yukon River community.
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Archivists Rally To Keep National Archives In Anchorage
Funding for the National Archives And Records Administration, or NARA, building in Anchorage has been chopped from the National Archives budget as a result of a $10 million budget cut. All federal records will be moved to a Seattle based facility beginning in September. Local archivists, historians, senators and residents though, are rallying behind efforts to keep the archives in Anchorage.
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Alaska News Nightly: March 25, 2014
House Passes Bill To End High School Exit Exam; Gasline Bill Could Include Rural Provisions; Legislature Weighs ‘Erin’s Law’; Murkowski: Clean Water Act Rule a Threat to Development; Though Earthquake Detection Has Improved, Gaps Remain; Valdez Earthquake Survivors Recall 1964 Experiences; Galena Residents Prep For Season Of Rebuilding; Archivists Rally To Keep National Archives In Anchorage
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The Great Alaska Earthquake: 50 Years Later
This week, Alaska commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Great Alaska Earthquake. The calamity destroyed whole towns, took lives and still stands as the largest earthquake to ever rock North America. KSKA will take a look at how one Alaska Community, Seward, rose to the challenge of rebuilding after the quake and seven tidal waves flattened most of the town. That's on A Closer Look, on KSKA .
KSKA: Tuesday, March 25, at 2:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.
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Library Upgrades Depend on Prop 3
There are seven bond Propositions on the April 1 Municipal Ballot. Proposition 3, allots $2.75 million for renovation of Loussac Library, the main library in Anchorage, which was built in the 1980s.
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Geese in an organic Alaskan garden
The weather has been warm and beautiful, the days are getting noticeably longer, and the snow is slowly melting. These are all wonderful things, but this year the sure sign of spring at Woodside Gardens is goose eggs!
Gerdie has laid 3 eggs so far this season, and it has me excited for the year to come.
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Fairbanks Lawmaker’s Birth Control Comments Spark Criticism
In the process of declaring “war on fetal alcohol syndrome,” a Fairbanks state senator was labeled as an enemy in the “war on women” by national media outlets for comments he made about birth control.