Alaska News Nightly: August 23, 2012
Bin Laden Raid Book Reportedly Authored By Alaskan; Begich Explores Possibility Of Natural Gas Export Industry; Cook Inlet Gas Storage Facilities Not Being Used; Teenagers Sentenced To Prison For Murder Of Kevin Thornton; Young Faces Two Primary Election Challengers; Senator McGuire Campaigns To Keep Seat; Soldier Accused in Hazing Demoted, Loses Pay; NIOSH Takes Alaska Lessons To East Coast Fishermen
Alaska News Nightly: August 22, 2012
Nome Gold Miners To Undergo Mercury Testing; Proposal Would Have Fairbanks Borough Build Natural Gas Distribution Network; NTSB Releases Preliminary Report On Deadly Delta-Area Helicopter Crash; Harry Crawford Challenges Senator Bettye Davis; State Finalizes Petersburg Borough Plan; Menard, Dunleavy Compete For Senate Seat D; Hovercraft Comes To Akutan; Popular Fairbanks Trail Reopens; Ocean Health Index Unveiled
Announcing the Alaska Crib Swap
Child care facilities across Alaska have a Dec. 28, 2012 deadline to replace existing unsafe cribs.
To help in this effort, the Alaska Community Foundation (ACF) has partnered with thread to launch the Alaska Crib Swap as part of thread’s “Safe Sleep for Alaska’s Babies” campaign.
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Alaska News Nightly: August 21, 2012
Anchorage Faces $30 Million Budget Gap; Congress Considering Reversing Earmark Ban; More Rain In Forecast For Northwest Alaska; State Challenges Federal Voting Rights Act; Senator Davis Campaigns To Keep Her Seat; Air Force Receives Directives To Remove Cold War-Era Towers; Jack Shay Sentenced To 35 Years, 17 Served; Fairbanks Entrepreneur Continues With Wind Farm Plans
The Lost Ledgers of the Alaska Commercial Company
Not long after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, the Alaska Commercial Company, then a newly formed trading firm, launched extensive sea otter hunting operations in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands.
Until recently, most of the records for the Aleutian Islands were considered lost forever.
Read more. Alaska News Nightly: August 20, 2012
Project Would Electrify Alaska; Kenai King Concerns Prompt Disaster Declaration Request; Shell Drill Rig Departs For Arctic; Sea Ice Withdrawal Expected To Reach Record Levels; Prop 1 Would Allow Local Option Of Increasing Residential Property Tax Exemptions; Wildfire Near Fairbanks Grows Over Weekend; Wrangell Assembly Wants To Take Away Many Hospital Board Powers; Sightseeing Cruise Strikes Rock, Takes On Water
Impressions of a Place Far Away from Everywhere
I’m resting on a mattress of tundra plants that are growing more than 200 miles from the nearest Alaska village.
While I have snuck away here to my own private ridge top, eight other people, all scientists, are somewhere on this 30-mile-long wedge of tundra, rocky beaches, lakes and bird cliffs in the central Bering Sea.
Read more. Algo Nuevo: August 19, 2012
Here’s the Sunday, August 19, 2012 edition of Algo Nuevo con Dave Luera — Something New with Dave Luera. If you have questions, comments or...
Traveling Music: August 19, 2012
Here’s the music playlist from Traveling Music with Shonti Elder. All tracks played are listed below in the following format:
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Horizonto
Charlie Hunt...
Night Music: August 18, 2012
Here’s the music playlist for Night Music with Kirk Waldhaus. All tracks played are listed below in the following format:
Song Title
Artist Name
Album Title
Label
Duration
Tokyo Nights
Bob...
Soul to Soul: August 18, 2012
Here’s the music playlist from the August 18, 2012 edition of Soul to Soul with Marvel and Sherry Johnson. All tracks played are listed...
AK: Underground
North America’s only Permafrost Research tunnel is pretty nondescript from the outside. But a small brown building built into a hillside by the Army Corps of Engineers in the late 1960’s is actually the gateway to nearly 40-thousand years-worth of geology, ice and history. Few Alaskans know it exists, but that might change this weekend when, the Corps hosts the first ever Permafrost Tunnel Open House.
Alaska News Nightly: August 17, 2012
Alaska To Receive $20 Million From DoT; Gov. Parnell Requests Federal Disaster Declaration For Kenai Kings; Alaska Sea Party, Vote No on 2 Trade Charges of Campaign Disclosure Violations; Sunken Seine Boat Will Remain On The Bottom; Nome Travelers Stuck Due To Runway Closure; Man Pleads Guilty To Disposing Hazardous Waste; Storms Cause Flooding In Northwest Alaska; Longtime Alaska Wolf Biologist Passes Away; AK: Underground; 300 Villages: Kenny Lake
Phillip Blanchett
It started out as a music lesson in his brother's basement. The traditional Inuit drumsongs with impressive interlocking harmonies immediately gave Pamyua founding member Phillip Blanchett a feeling that he will never forget, and it has set this uniquely Alaskan musical group apart from the rest of the crowd.
TV: Sunday, 8/19 6:30pm & Wednesday, 8/22 at 11:00pm
KSKA: Thursday, 8/23 at 1:00pm
Ballot Measure 2
Alaska voters are being asked to enact a law restoring the Coastal Zone Management program with Ballot Measure Two. Critics say the law is poorly drafted and would halt development. Advocates say it simply restores a local voice. Decision time is approaching for Ballot Measure Two, and that’s why it’s the topic on the next Talk of Alaska.
KSKA: Tuesday, 8/21 at 10:00am
More Info Release On APD Shooting; Former State Senator Al Adams Passes Away
More information released on the APD shooting of Harry Smith. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar visits Alaska. Senator Murkowski spars with the Obama administration on NPR-A. Former state Senator Al Adams passes away.
KSKA: Friday, 8/17 at 2:00pm & Saturday, 8/18 at 6:00pm
TV: Friday, 8/17 at 7:30pm & Saturday, 8/18 at 5:00pm
Restoring America’s Salmon Forest
What comes to mind when you hear the term conservation? Petitions, polar bears, politicians, researchers? David Attenborough? Did heavy equipment tearing up a rainforest floor come to mind? Unlikely.
Nestled deep within our earth’s largest temperate rainforest- conservation takes unique form.
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Alaska News Nightly: August 16, 2012
Environmental Groups Ask For Further Study Of Chukchi Sea Coral; New State Forest Proposed In Susitna Valley; Alaska Schools Waiting To Be Excused From ‘No Child Left Behind’; Robots Offer New Medical Care Options In Remote Communities; Voice of ‘Pocahontas’ Launching Film Production Company In Anchorage; Berries, Trash Blamed For Bear Problems On Popular Fairbanks Trail; Forest Service Seeks Information About Stolen Cedar Planks For Trail Project; Artist In Residence Sets Gates of the Arctic to Music
Alaska News Nightly: August 15, 2012
Murkowski Moderates Forum on the Affordable Care Act; Conference Tackles Arctic Issues; Submersible Finds Seine Boat Tangled In Own Net; Analysis Reveals Alaska’s Workforce More Racially Diverse Than National Average; Juneau Plays Good Neighbor, Loans Ambulance To Skagway; Bear Checks Out Ketchikan Lodge; Seal Pup Begins Training Regimen At Sealife Center
Berlin, Paris, and London-Part Three
It’s been forty-five years since I rode in a London taxi. Summer ’68 I worked in Hoxton, the East End, while boyfriend Dave counted checks for Barclays Bank.
London seemed more crowded than we remembered as we taxi’d to a Club Quarters Hotel near Trafalgar Square. With McDonald's and Starbucks everywhere, London felt more like another Manhattan borough.
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