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One Alaska Update: Keeping up with Gov. Bill Walker

One Alaska Update: Keeping up with Gov. Bill Walker

907 Updates August 21, 2017

Sex offenders can live next door to victims in 45 states because of loophole
 
 
 
 
PHOTOS: Alaskans experience of the Great American Eclipse
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By Leroy Polk: Troopers: young boy, 10, dies in Wasilla following carbon monoxide leak
 
 
 
 
By Nikki Carvajal: A brief history of the Alaska Highway
 
 
 
 

By AP: Alaska Legislature looks into social media blocking
 
 
 
 

By Juan Montes: Man tattoos the northern lights on his head

Must Read Alaska  August 21, 2017

GOOD MORNING FROM SOMEWHERE IN ALASKA … It’s Aug. 21, 2017 … Last week we spent the week unwrapping the Alice Rogoff / Alaska Dispatch News bankruptcy proceedings and those stories are on the web site … We’ll be in court following it this week as Northrim Bank tries to control the crash landing, the Binkley Company steps up to keep it alive, and a trail of legal detritus stretches from here to the East Coast … Separately, the GCI eviction hearing for the Dispatch is this morning at Nesbitt Courthouse … The Alaska State Fair opens Wednesday … The low temperature yesterday in Nome was 32° and tied the record low for the day, previously set in 1980 … But first…

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907 Updates August 20, 2017

By Tracy Sinclare & Sidney Sullivan Alaska’s chances to see the solar eclipse
 
 
 
 
Author Devin Kelly: Dozens of Anchorage city executives got big pay boosts earlier this year
Across sixteen departments, 36 executives received raises in excess of the city’s standard 1.5 percent cost-of-living increase. It was by far the biggest raise in years for many of the executives, records indicate.
 
 
 
 
By Sean Maguire: Mayor Berkowitz signs nationwide initiative ‘to combat hate, extremism and bigotry’
 
 
 
 
By Lauren Maxwell: City says selling seafood on the roadside requires permit
 
 
 
 
by Bonney Bowman: Inside the Gates: 90th Fighter Squadron celebrates century of service
 
 
 
 
Author: John Schandelmeier: Before whining, Alaska hunters should recall this tough hombre
 
 
 
 
Author Ned Rozell: A trek across 850 miles of Alaska ends — fittingly — with a final bear encounter
 
 
 
 
Author Zaz Hollander: Colony barn restoration rescues vestiges of vanishing Matanuska farm history
 
 
 
 
By Nikki Bates: Purple is the new black — for food, that is

907 Updates August 19, 2017

By Austin Baird: Q&A: U.S. Health Secretary Tom Price discusses his trip to Alaska

 
 
 
 
By Rebecca Palsha: In her own words: a woman with constant pain is denied her meds
 
 
 
 
By Sean Maguire: Walrus calf at the Alaska SeaLife Center gets an Inupiaq name
 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: Critics of proposed Alaska mine decline meeting invite
 
 
 
 
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Author: Allison Sayer The problem that Valdez just can’t shake: An infestation of bunnies
 
 
 
 
Author: Presented by First National Bank Alaska MAKING IT: Cultivating a second career

Thank you Alice – Craig Medred

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Commentary

With Alaska’s largest newspaper today bankrupt and frightfully close to the verge of disappearing forever from the scene, there are a lot of people lining up to bash owner and publisher Alice Rogoff.

For some of them, those emotions are understandable. Mark Miller of M&M Wiring has every reason to want to burn the Alaska Dispatch News to the ground. Miller has been screwed out of almost $500,000 by the news company and to any small businessman that is a fortune.

It hurts not just Miller. It devastates the small crew that works not only for him, but with him. Miller is not one of those bosses who sits in an office or arrives at the work site to order people around. He’s a guy who buckles on a workbelt and puts in a day with the crew.

I admit to a lot more respect for the Miller’s of the world than for the Rogoffs of the world, but one cannot dismiss Rogoff as simply some rich lady from the East Coast trying to rip off Alaska because she most definitely was not that.

Rich lady’s from the East Coast don’t roll out their sleeping bag on the floor of someone’s unfinished, unheated, under-construction home in rural Alaska and say, “thank you very much for letting me have a place to sleep.”

The Rogoff picture is a complicated one, and the job of journalists is to stand back, put aside their emotions, and look at the realities of complicated pictures.

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907 Updates August 18, 2017

By Sean Maguire: Authorities looking for Tuluksak teacher on child pornography charges
 
 
 
 
By Ashleigh Ebert and Clinton Bennett: Riot charges possible after Fairbanks inmates create disturbance
 
 
 
 
By Travis Khachatoorian: Man sentenced to decades behind bars after execution-style murder
Joshua Beebe, 36, received a 60 year prison sentence, 25 years suspended, with no eligibility for discretionary parole for the killing of Christopher Seaman. With good behavior, Beebe could leave state custody 35 years later, facing another 10 years of probation.

The sentence was the result of a plea deal reached between the State and Beebe. The victim’s mother said the lighter punishment was an acceptable exchange for avoiding a potentially lengthy and painful trial.

“I don’t want to relive that in a trial setting, so I accepted him to take a plea deal, so I can move on in that part of my life,” said the victim’s mother Terria Walters.
 
 
 
 
By Mike Ross: 10-cent per gallon gas tax in Anchorage proposed
 
 
 
 
By Kortnie Horazdovsky: State finalizes Education plan for new federal law
 
 
 
 

By Sidney Sullivan MAP: Aircraft Crashes in Alaska
 
 
 
 

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Togiak child, 6, fatally shot during gunplay
 
 
 
 

By KTVA Web Staff: Driver charged with hitting stopped Glenn Highway motorist

 
 
 
 
by Daniella Rivera: NTSB concludes investigative hearing on deadly Togiak plane crash
The investigative hearing held at the Captain Cook Hotel Thursday is the first of its kind in Alaska since 1989, following the Exxon-Valdez oil spill and the first field hearing the National Transportation Safety Board has held outside of Washington D.C. in 18 years.

The hearing centered around Hageland Aviation Flight 3153. The Cessna 208 was headed to Togiak from Quinhagak on Oct. 2 when it crashed into steep mountainous terrain about 12 miles northwest of Togiak. Both pilots, 43-year-old Homer resident Timothy Cline and 29-year-old Drew Welty of Anchorage died, as well as 49-year-old passenger Louie John from Manokotak.
 
 
 
 
Mic Check in the Morning: Ken Peltier for Rondy Summer Roundup

907 Updates August 17, 2017

Snow on the mountains this morning~

 
 

By Rebecca Palsha: Facing more violence, some fire stations are responding with security
 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: Judges hear appeal of Fairbanks militia leader’s conviction
 
 
 
 
By KTUU Staff: Unlike the rest of Anchorage’s economy, air cargo sector is taking off
 
 
 
 
By Steffi Lee Photojournalist: John Thain U.S. Trustee files objection to proposed loan by The Binkley Company to Alaska Dispatch News
 
 
 
 
By Liz Raines Photojournalist: Ken Kulovany Anchorage store owners report increase in shoplifting
John Staser, co-owner of Mountain View Sports says he believes it stems, in part, from Senate Bill 91 — a criminal justice reform bill passed by lawmakers last year that eliminates jail time for some offenses.

District Attorney Clint Campion agrees that’s part of the problem.

“The deterrent value is not really there, and people believe that they can commit crimes, including up to felony thefts, including vehicle thefts, without really any consequence,” Campion said, who was a victim of theft himself earlier this month.
 
 
 
 

By Associated Press: Governors of 2 pot states push back on Trump administration
 
 
 
 
ByDaybreak Staff: Workforce Wednesday: Dental laboratory technician
 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: Moisture disclosures now required in firewood purchases in Fairbanks
 
 
 
 
By Daniella Rivera Photojournalist: Jared Mazurek Business owner unveils plans for unoccupied building downtown
 
 
 
 

By Dave Bendinger / KDLG Peter Pan Seafoods Port Moller plant devastated in overnight fire
 
 
 
 

By KTVA Web Staff: Penn. man fined $9K over false residency claim in Alaska bear hunts

907 Updates August 16, 2017

By Suzanna Caldwell, Laurel Andrews: Man killed while trying to break into house, Anchorage police say
 
 
 
 

Author: James Bennett Video: Bystander saves kayaker’s life in daring whitewater rescue near Hope
 
 
 
 
By Sarah Dubowski: Fairbanks man found guilty of murdering 31-year-old woman
Both the Assistant District Attorney and the victim’s family would like to thank the jury, the witnesses and the Alaska State Troopers for their work on this case.
 
 
 
 
By KTUU Staff: Department of Homeland Security launches anti-trafficking initiative in Alaska
 
 
 
 
By Ann Pierret: Training doctors, nurses to identify human trafficking victims
 
 
 
 
By Leroy Polk: Fred Meyer employee arrested for sexually abusing minor in makeup aisle
 
 
 
 
By Samantha Angaiak: Indoor downtown market seeking vendors
 
 
 
 
By Mike Ross: Sullivan Arena managers dismissed after financial loss
 
 
 
 
By Daybreak Staff: Travel Tuesday: Southcentral culture in Chugach Living

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By Maria Downey: Iditarod Musher Joee Redington Dies