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January 23, 2004
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Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson
SE Alaska: Coast
Guard continuing search in SE waters for fisherman, dog -
Coast Guard air and sea rescue crews are scouring Southeast Alaska
waters for a second day, searching for a 48-year-old Portland,
Ore. fisherman and his dog after the man radioed a maritime distress
call Thursday afternoon from his 32-foot boat. - Read
more... Ketchikan & Statewide: Unemployment Rate Climbs In December - Alaska's unemployment rate rose seven-tenths of a percentage point in December to 8.0 percent. Although unemployment typically rises in December, the 2003 increase was slightly larger than in recent years. The comparable national rate (not seasonally adjusted) fell two-tenths of a percentage point to 5.4 percent. Dan Robinson, an economist with the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development reported the numbers. Ketchikan's unemployment rate
rose from 8.4 percent in November to 9.2 percent in December.
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more... Ketchikan & Statewide: Labor
Department Estimates Alaska's 2003 Population; Ketchikan Gateway
Borough experienced an out-migration - Alaska's statewide
population increased by 3.5% or 21,887 persons for the period
April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2003, according to new population estimates
released Thursday by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce
Development. - Read
more... Alaska: Group
seeks to build Alaska gas pipeline - A group of gas pipeline
operating companies and Alaska Native corporations has applied
to the state to build a natural gas pipeline that would bring
Alaska's known 35 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves
from Prudhoe Bay to the Lower 48, Gov. Frank Murkowski announced
Thursday afternoon. - Read
this story... Alaska: 9
million acres to open to drilling - Interior Secretary Gale
Norton signed off on a plan Thursday to open 8.8 million acres
of Alaska's North Slope to oil and gas development, some in areas
important for migratory birds, whales and wildlife. - Read
this story... Alaska: Senator
Murkowski Praises NPR-A Planning Process; Pleased That Area Will
Be Opened To Drilling, Plus Protected For Wildlife - U.S.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Thursday praised the Bureau of Land Management
for finalizing its record of decision that will permit a sizable
oil and gas lease sale to proceed in the National Petroleum Reserve
Alaska, while protecting key wildlife habitat in portions of
the 23.3-million-acre petroleum reserve. - Read
more... Alaska: Proposed
budget offers less than UA wants - The University of Alaska
would receive far less than it's seeking under the governor's
proposed budget. - Read
this story.. Ketchikan: Platinum
prospect near Ketchikan encouraging - Results of platinum
prospecting last summer near Ketchikan are encouraging, according
to Vancouver, British Columbia-based Pacific North West Capital.
- Read
this story... Alaska & National: Senators
send huge budget bill to Bush - 820 BILLION: Measure includes
nearly $500 million for Alaska. The Senate passed a major
national spending bill Thursday, and with it created a new quota
system for the Bering Sea crab industry and funded nearly $500
million in projects specifically for Alaska. - Read
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A fire department in any community, large or small,
commands citizen respect. When fire sirens blare, traffic obediently
tries to pull over and people hold their breaths - hoping it's
not their house, their business, their school or anyone they
know. Fire has been a frightening scourge in history from Nero
in Rome to Chicago's Mrs. O'Leary to Ketchikan's Bill Mitchell.
As new American communities sprang up in the "Go west, young
man" spirit of the nineteenth century, one of the first
things responsible pioneers did was establish fire departments.
When the westward-ho movement reached the Pacific coast and the
settlement-surge angled north, fire departments were among the
very first organizations founded in Alaska. -
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