Alaska News Nightly: April 30, 2012
State House Delays Decision To Adjourn; Finance Committee Meets To Address High Energy Costs; Manly Hot Springs Conditions Improving After Flooding; Advocates Speak At ‘Indigenous Women’s Environmental And Reproductive Health Symposium’; Subsistence Rights Top Concerns At UN Hearings; Endowment Fund Created In Comeau’s Name; APD Calls On Public To Help Find Missing Airman, Clinton Reeves; Fairbanks Man Fine After Bear Attack On Kodiak Island; USGS Mapping Going Digital; Chena Hot Springs Resort Hoping To Expand
APD Calls on Public to Help Find Missing Airman, Clinton Reeves
Authorities are asking for help to find a missing airman. They're calling on the public to aid their investigation. KSKA's Daysha Eaton has more.
Endowment Fund Created in Comeau’s Name
The Alaska Community Foundation has established an endowment fund in honor of Anchorage School District Superintendent, Carol Comeau. Comeau is retiring after nearly 40 years with the ASD. As KSKA's Daysha Eaton reports, the fund will help provide grants for projects that will directly impact students.
Anchorage Woodlot to Open with New Location
The Anchorage Soil and Water Conservation District is hoping to open the Anchorage Woodlot Thursday, May 3, 2012, depending on site conditions.
Due to tremendous snow accumulation at the previous location, the woodlot is being moved to the South Anchorage Sports Park this year. The basic cost for remains at $10 per load, all material such as mulch or firewood taken from the woodlot is FREE.
Learn more.
Energy Quest USA
Hear inspiring stories from citizens who have made smart energy choices. In Kansas, communities compete for major cash prizes in an energy conservation contest. In Baltimore, Maryland, the Neighborhood Energy Challenge is enabling low-income homeowners to save as much as $1,300 a year through simple measures like weather-stripping and reduced water use. In Alaska, ocean power, low-emissions heating fuel from wood waste and innovative low-temperature geothermal turbines are becoming an important part of the power portfolio.
KAKM: Monday, 4/30 at 8:00pm
Yippee for You, KSKA Listeners
Thank you KSKA community for another outstanding membership drive. Every spring and fall you pull together to make our pledge drives successful and so much fun. We love hearing from you and meeting you at the station. Thanks for taking the time to support your public radio station in every possible way. We couldn't do what we do without you.
AK: Secrets Of The Forest
Birch is one of the most common trees in Alaska. And they can easily blend into Alaska’s forest landscape. But underneath the smooth, tough layer of a birch tree’s bark, something is flowing. It’s a natural treasure with many curative properties. KUAC’s Emily met up with one very enthusiastic scientist to harvest the distinctive liquid.
Alaska News Nightly: April 27, 2012
House Pondering Next Step After Senate Adjourns; Redistricting Map Heads Back To The Supreme Court; Eklutna River Bridge To Close; Forest Service Approved Timber Harvest Plan For Kupreanof Island; Unsolved Murder Anniversary Brings Fairbanks Residents Together; Rescued Sea Otter Pup Finds Home In Pittsburgh Zoo; Disaster Drill Held Near Sitka; AK: Secrets Of The Forest; 300 Villages: Wales
Movement & Character: Elizabeth Andres
As part of my internship with APRN, I've been exploring new methods of storytelling. This audio slideshow is a profile on UAA student Elizabeth Andres, whose area of study is Natural Sciences. Andres also teaches dance classes at Anchorage Music and Dance Center.
Click for more.
APRN Speakers Series: Corey Flintoff
Corey Flintoff
NPR Foreign Correspondent
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - Anchorage Museum Auditorium
6:00 - 8:00 pm Meet & Greet + Lecture
Tickets $50
7:00 pm Lecture...
Membership Matters
Some of us inherited our love for public radio from our parents. Others caught the bug later in life. Whether you've been listening since before you could understand the words or your radio just recently got stuck on the FM 91.1 dial, we need your support during this Spring Membership Drive. Call us or pledge online before Friday at 6:00 pm to help us reach our goal.
Thanks for listening and supporting KSKA - Anchorage!
Twenty feet of snow on Valdez Glacier
After a winter of outstanding snow conditions, three scientists drove snowmachines up Valdez Glacier this spring, curious to see how far they could get.
At about 5,500 feet above the salt water of Port Valdez, their machines rested on about 20 feet of snow that had fallen there during the winter.
Read more. The Special Session; and a New Film Incentive Credit Bill
The stories up for discussion this week are: Gov. Parnell throws in the towel on oil taxes; status of the gas line legislation; new film incentive credit bill; municipal election squabbles continue; and the redistricting saga continues.
KSKA: Friday, 4/27 at 2:00pm & Saturday, 4/28 at 6:00pm
KAKM: Friday, 4/27 at 7:30pm & Saturday, 4/28 at 5:00pm
Roman Dial
Though he spends much of his work week in a math classroom teaching at Alaska Pacific University, Roman Dial is anything but the stereotypical math nerd. His accomplishments outside of class, outside of civilization, and, frankly, outside the vast majority of people's comfort levels, in some of the wildest country left on the planet are astonishing. Read More...
KAKM: Sun. 4/29 at 6:30 pm & Weds. 5/2 at 10:00 pm
KSKA: Thurs. 5/3 at 1:00 pm
Alaska News Nightly: April 26, 2012
Senate Adjourns Special Session; In-State Gas Line Remains On Legislators’ Radar; Former Non-Profit Head Sentences To Probation For Embezzlement; Man Acquitted Of Manslaughter, Homicide Charges; Municipal Leaders React to Election Commission Report; Alaska Moose Federation Gets $1.5 Million From State; New Research Sheds Light On Mercury Pollution; Native Youth Olympics Start Friday
Immigration in Anchorage Dialogue
Most of us understand that Anchorage has broad mix of people from around the world, but do we understand the challenges they face and how they enrich our community and schools?
Learn more. Municipal Leaders React to Election Commission Report
Municipal Leaders are reacting to a report by the Election Commission on the April 3rd Election. The Commission presented the report at a public meeting late Wednesday. It was critical of the clerk's role in the election, but said it should be certified. KSKA's Daysha Eaton has more.
This American Life – LIVE in Theatres
On Thursday, May 10th, 2012, Host Ira Glass and friends will perform an episode of This American Life on stage in NYC, and send it live via satellite to more than 500 movie theaters across the country.
Click here to find out how to see it at Century 16 and Tikhatnu theaters in Anchorage.
Powering The Planet
Take an eye-opening look at some of the world’s most important case studies in energy policy. In Spain and Morocco, large-scale solar farms and individual photovoltaic panels atop tents in the Sahara are beginning to bring the vast potential of the sun down to Earth. In Brazil, abundant natural resources — sun, rain and sugar cane — are transformed into efficient, sustainable biofuel, making Brazil the only nation whose cars could run normally if gasoline were to vanish. In Samsø, Denmark, and in West Texas, citizens have taken sustainability — and economic realities — into their own hands by becoming stakeholders in wind turbines.
KAKM: Thursday, 4/26 at 8:00pm
Ring in the Spring
Phones were singing and bells ringing as volunteers from the Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship helped us pass the half way hump toward our goal of $305,000 on Wednesday afternoon. We're over half way there with just two more days to go in the KSKA Spring Membership Drive. If you haven't done so yet, give us a call and make those bells ring.