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May 22, 2020 No. 20-17 JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska’s job count was down 13.1 percent in April from the same month last year, a loss of 42,200 jobs. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate jumped to 12.9 percent, up from 5.2 percent in March. The comparable U.S rate rose from...

Workers at an Anchorage transitional care center describe trying to contain Alaska's largest coronavirus outbreak. And, some Alaska businesses received more than five million dollars from a paycheck protection loan. Plus, some communities in Alaska maintained 4th of July traditions over the weekend.

Fourteen bidders intend to participate in the auction, Ravn said in a prepared statement Monday, though it did not reveal their names.

Today's selection -- from The Anarchy by William Dalrymple. In a devastating irony, India's bankers provided much of the funding for the takeover of India by Britain's East India Company: "As [India] grew increasingly anarchic [with the decline of Mughal power], [Bengali Governor] Murshid Quli Khan found innovative ways to get the annual tribute to Delhi. […]

Today's selection -- from The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris. In 1872, the always-sickly thirteen-year-old Theodore Roosevelt got his first pair of glasses and took his first boxing lesson: "In the summer of 1872, Teedie [13-year-old Theodore Roosevelt] acquired his first gun. It was, in his later description, 'a breech-loading, pin-fire double-hyphen barrel of […]