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February 04, 2004
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Alaska: Boycott stings tour outfits; Some
businesses feel the pinch from wolf control program; others believe
this boycott won't hit as hard as last one - Some people in Alaska's tourism industry are
beginning to feel the hurt from a tourism boycott launched by
an animal rights group upset over the state's lethal wolf control
program. -
Read this story... Alaska: Alaska
educators urge state to drop No Child Left Behind - Alaska
teachers want the state to ignore the demands of the federal
No Child Left Behind law and consequently give up millions of
dollars in funding. - Read
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Alaska: Murkowski
wants speedy resolution on 2005 taxes - Gov. Frank Murkowski
is pressing GOP legislative leaders to either pass $100 million
in taxes this year or come up with their own plan to close a
gaping budget hole. - Read
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Ketchikan:
Ketchikan: Oral History Forums To Be Sponsored By UAS Ketchikan - From February 5th to March 25th, the Southeast Alaska Native Oral History Forums, sponsored by UAS Ketchikan, will be held from 6:00 to 7:30pm each Thursday evening at the UAS Ketchikan Technical Center, Robertson Building Room 116 located at 600 Stedman. There will not be a forum on March 4th. The forums will showcase and
preserve the knowledge of cultural teachers and elders from three
local native tribes: Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian. - Read
more... Alaska: State Joins Brief to Support Constitutionality of Telephone Privacy Laws - Attorney General Gregg Renkes signed an "amicus" or "friend of the court" brief last week supporting the constitutionality of North Dakota's telephone privacy laws. Alaska joined seven other states on the brief in a case before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. "We joined the brief to
support the states' authority to regulate telephone solicitations
to protect consumers from fraud and invasion of their privacy,"
Renkes said. "Consumers do not want the peace of their homes
disturbed by unwanted telemarketing calls." - Read
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Dick Morris: Hillary's Veepstakes - The demise of Howard Dean's candidacy opens the door to a Kerry/Clinton ticket in 2004. As long as Dean was favored to get the nomination, Hillary likely wasn't interested in the second slot on the ticket. With the Vermont governor almost certain to go down to a massive defeat, Hillary probably wanted no part in the ensuing carnage. But now that the Democrats have a real chance to win, it makes all kinds of sense to offer her the nomination and for her to accept it. Very few vice-presidential candidates can actually win votes for the top of the ticket: Hillary can. She is the most popular Democrat in the nation. And a woman vice presidential candidate - particularly Hillary - would electrify the Democratic base and guarantee a huge turnout. It would transform a campaign into a crusade. The voters she'd alienate?
Already voting for Bush. And much as they might like to, they
can't vote against Hillary more than once (one hopes). - Read
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And the heroine who survived it There is a desolate island
in the Chukchi Sea on the frigid top of the planet. It is 83
miles north of the coast of Siberia and it is named Wrangel Island
- Wrangel with one L. It is roughly kidney-shaped and said to
be about 80 miles long and 18 to 30 miles across, with a cluster
of low mountains at its center. During the warmth of its very
brief summer, rivers flow north and south over rolling tundra
to the sea. Along the frosty riverbanks are buried the bones
of a race of woolly mammoths, evidence of dwarfed survivors of
a larger race of Russian Steppe mammoths of perhaps 20,000 or
30,000 years ago. The island today is inhabited by a tiny Russian-Eskimo
settlement and is largely visited by polar bears, seals, foxes,
ducks and geese and the occasional scientist from around the
world. - Read
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