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Must Read Alaska (blog)
April 29, 2018
How many of respondents knew that the AR-15 is simply a semi-automatic rifle — i.e., a subsistence rifle in Alaska — not an “assault weapon?” Do 48 percent of Alaskans want to take away the hunting rifles of Alaska's indigenous people? WHAT ELSE IS IN THAT POLL? Alaskans are not seeing the wholeÃâà...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
April 29, 2018
We know that our public schools play a large role in supporting virtually every young person in Alaska. But for the past few years, that support has been eroding, and we will reap what we sow – or don't sow — in years and decades and generations to come. Across the state, over the past five years, everyÃâà...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
April 29, 2018
FAIRBANKS — Millions of Alaska birds nest on rocky emerald islands seen by few people other than ship captains. ... New Zealand parrot the kakapo not only emits the scent of lavender, but researchers found it has more than 600 olfactory receptor genes, compared to about 400 similar genes in humans.
Juneau Empire
April 29, 2018
When referring to more than one person, would you say “you,” “you all,” “y'all,” “yinz,” or “you guys?” I lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, but “yinz” did not rub off on me. My Florida upbringing leads me to say “y'all,” or even for emphasis, “all y'all.” Really. But after 20-some years in Alaska, I do feel the pressure toÃâà...
Galesburg Register-Mail
April 29, 2018
11, 2017, and ending in late April, Browning saw the world from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina, as he served as the mechanic to four military veterans who rode motorcycles from the ... “They hired some people who lived nearby and they dragged the motorcycles over the land portion of the trip.
KTUU.com
April 29, 2018
Former Pro Snowboarder Kevin Pearce knows that better than most — after nearly permanently paralyzing himself while snowboarding on a Salt Lake City area mountain in 2009. He shared his inspirational story with the young people at the Alaska Airlines Center who were competing in the 2018 NativeÃâà...
Juneau Empire
April 29, 2018
About the size of a coffee table, the main exhibit, “Native Voices on the Land,” allows users to move around a touch-screen map of Southeast Alaska, exploring Tlingit, ... He's part of the four-person team at SHI's culture and history department, headed by Smythe, which manages SHI's archives and exhibits.
KTOO
April 29, 2018
Luke Griswold Tergis of Haines is making a documentary about Pleistocene Park, and handling a lot of the Alaska side logistics. He connected Zimov with the Stevens Village bison farm near Delta Junction. “As a favor, I was like, 'Oh, you know, Nikita — let me — I'll just call some people in Alaska and seeÃâà...
Food Poison Journal
April 28, 2018
The FDA has identified Harrison Farms as the source of the whole-head romaine lettuce that made several people ill at a correctional facility in Alaska. However, the agency has not determined where in the supply chain the contamination occurred. The FDA is examining all possibilities, including thatÃâà...
Juneau Empire
April 28, 2018
The feel of the Tribal Court is very welcoming, and O'Gara prides herself on being able to find the balance between making people comfortable while also taking the proceedings very seriously. O'Gara comes from a family of lawyers and activists. Tlingit civil rights leader and Alaska's first Native lawyerÃâà...
KTOO
April 4, 2018
A Facebook page for Blockbuster in Alaska announced the store at the corner of Old Seward Highway and Huffman Road — one of two locations in Anchorage — would end its rental business on April 1 and start its inventory sale this week. People commented on that post with crying emojis. One personÃâà...
The Manual
April 4, 2018
The Alaska Triangle borders connect Anchorage and Juneau in the south to Barrow along the state's north coast. Like much of the state ... Once an aircraft crash-lands or a hiker becomes stranded, the fast-moving, year-round snow squalls can easily bury any trace of a person or even a plane. At least, that'sÃâà...
Alaska Public Radio Network
April 4, 2018
Alaska Senate President Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, talks after a presentation by Alaska Department of Corrections Commissioner Dean Williams, left, about Norway's ... In the last two decades, Norway has made a series of changes to lower their recidivism rate — the rate people convicted of crimes reoffend.
New Jersey Herald
April 4, 2018
Alaska regulators, once on the cusp of allowing onsite use of marijuana at authorized retail stores, will take another run at the issue. ... Regulators have been mulling on-site use for several years, adopting rules in late 2015 to allow for people to use marijuana at authorized stores, but never finalized howÃâà...
The News Tribune
April 4, 2018
Perhaps the Legislature might expand on that. It has for the past two years taken about half of each eligible Alaskan's dividend. It is likely to take a portion of this year's, too. But, what if instead of the state taking, Alaskans had the choice to give their dividend to the state out of concern for eliminating Alaska'sÃâà...
ThinkProgress
April 4, 2018
According to preliminary tallies from the city's first mail-in election, voters in Anchorage, Alaska appear to have defeated Proposition 1, a controversial measure which would have licensed and mandated discrimination against transgender people. Tuesday was the last day for voters to postmark their ballots,Ãâà...
Juneau Empire
April 4, 2018
Unfortunately, a new Index by the Institute for Free Speech has just named Alaska one of the three worst states in the nation at protecting political giving freedom. In these ... Meanwhile, incumbents have their entire term to rub elbows with powerful people and increase their name recognition with voters.
Alaskastar
April 4, 2018
Dick Griffith has traversed more than 6,000 miles across Alaska and the Canadian Arctic. (Dick Griffith ... The highlight of the documentary is an attempt by Griffith to become the oldest person to go through the Colorado River's Lava Falls. “That's not ... Dial thinks more people need to know Griffith's tale.
In Touch Weekly
March 28, 2018
When the Brown family first made their debut on Alaskan Bush People back in 2014, fans thought they were an authentic off-the-grid family who shunned ... was back on social media posting images of themselves in snowy surroundings, prompting fans to wonder if the Browns had relocated back to Alaska.
Anchorage Press
March 22, 2018
JUNEAU – Today, the Alaska House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution calling on the federal government to respect states' rights and the will of the Alaskan people regarding marijuana policy. House Joint Resolution 21, sponsored by Rep. David Guttenberg (D-Fairbanks), also urges theÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 22, 2018
The SilverSea cruise will be a 12-day Alaska trip costing $9,900 per person. Aga said village leadership is working with SilverSea to plan activities for the tourists. ___. Information from: Kodiak (Alaska) Daily Mirror, http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com. Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
KTVA
March 22, 2018
“By and large, Alaskans understand our relative geography,” Maj. Gen. Laurie J. Hummel/Adjutant General, Alaska National Guard. “They understand what's going on with North Korea and other potential adversaries. Academically, they understand the ground-based midcourse defense system exists at FortÃâà...
Alaska Dispatch News
March 22, 2018
A second woman, Deborah Brollini, registered a similar political action committee Monday called Repeal SB 91. Brollini she was feeling "helpless" about rising crime in her Anchorage neighborhood and wants to "tell Alaskans' stories, to send a message to people running for office that we're serious aboutÃâà...
Mental Floss
March 22, 2018
The route, which runs along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline north-south between Fairbanks and the remote Arctic town of Deadhorse, saw an average of 196 .... Roughly 22 percent of the country's 54,000 hotels [PDF] are willing and able to bring breakfast, lunch, or dinner to people who prefer to eat whileÃâà...
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 22, 2018
The Solutions Desk looks beyond Alaska's problems and reports on its solutions – the people and programs working to make Alaska communities stronger. Listen to ... And for more than 41,000 Alaskans, that problem was solved through Medicaid expansion. Andi Riley ... That's my human side.” She saysÃâà...
KTUU.com
March 22, 2018
ANCHORAGE (KTUU)- The American Mother organization named Anna Joy Luckett the Alaska Mother of the Year. Luckett said she has spent ... Alaska's mother of the year's mission is to bring awareness to people with FASD and education other on ways to help people with FASD. "A lot of them don't haveÃâà...
NPR
March 22, 2018
One is in Oregon, and the other five are in Alaska. MARTIN: And when the Blockbuster closes at North Pole, people like Taylor Neininger will have to adapt. Every week for the past seven years, she's taken her family there to pick out some movies. TAYLOR NEININGER: So the kids - as soon as we walk in,Ãâà...
In Touch Weekly
March 22, 2018
If you've ever wondered what in the world it would be like to live next door to the Alaskan Bush People stars, there might finally be some answers. The Brown family recently moved from LA to a $500,000 lakefront house in Omak, WA to begin filming the next season of their Discovery channel show, andÃâà...
Newsweek
March 13, 2018
For the past five years, Alaska has lost more people than it has gained residents, representing the longest streak of population loss since World War II, ... While there are more native-born Alaskans than ever, with 41 percent born in Alaska these days versus only 32 percent in 1980, most residents arriveÃâà...
Juneau Empire
March 9, 2018
Assembly member Norton Gregory asked what would happen to the airport if nothing is done and someone from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was there and saw people getting away with parking in active loading or unloading zones. Wahto said there could be FAA sanctions, including movingÃâà...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
March 9, 2018
From the best information I can get, one person out of five, one loader and one truck went to Fairbanks from Birch Lake. The rest of the people and equipment sort of evaporated. I have been watching this garbage for over 40 years. Every time the state spends itself into a hole and wants to jigger thingsÃâà...
Kenai Peninsula Online
March 9, 2018
“I need to understand why people want Alaska so badly, what inspires them about the Last Frontier,” said Kate Devine, a self proclaimed “un-Alaskan” and my proclaimed best friend, who'll be making the trek from New Jersey to Kenai next week to visit. “It's never been a part of my library before.”.
KTOO
March 9, 2018
Alaskan Tara Sweeney is President Donald Trump's pick to be the next assistant Interior secretary of Indian Affairs. ... Murkowski said as far as she knows, the only other Alaska Native person appointed to a position requiring Senate confirmation was Morris Thompson of Fairbanks, who became head of theÃâà...
Juneau Empire
March 9, 2018
He sent them back by steamship to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where he later processed them all. Dall wrote his own summaries of Native people and their dialects, made weather and climate observations, and catalogued all the fish, birds, mammals and plants he saw. His “Alaska andÃâà...
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 9, 2018
Alaskan Tara Sweeney is President Trump's pick to be the next assistant Interior secretary for Indian Affairs. But her nomination has been held up for months at the Office of Government Ethics, an independent agency in the executive branch. Alaska's U.S. senators say the problem holding up Sweeney'sÃâà...
Kenai Peninsula Online
March 9, 2018
At the same time, the recession has caused dramatic job loses forcing many Alaskans to turn to Medicaid for health coverage. It's as ... This year, Medicaid will bring about $1.4 billion of federal funds into Alaska, money that rolls through our economy creating an even greater impact as dollars get spent andÃâà...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
March 8, 2018
“Hundreds of visitors from all over Alaska and the world come to UAF to experience the diversity of Alaska Native cultures in one place,” said Kathleen Meckel, faculty advisor. “We are proud that Mayors Kassel, Matherly and Ward recognize that the Festival of Native Arts helps Alaskans and our visitorsÃâà...
KTOO
March 8, 2018
First Alaskans Institute President Liz Medicine Crow was among those who testified Tuesday morning. Medicine Crow, who is Haida and Tlingit, said that HCR 19 unites the governor's office, the Legislature, the Alaska Native community and all Alaskans in an effort to prevent a “human rights catastrophe.”.
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