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Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson Friday the 13th wasn't a lucky day for this old building. Located at Thomas Basin, the building is being torn down according to one of the workers taking it down. The building was built in 1930. - Published Saturday, February 14, 2004
Alaska: AK
Education Department Announces Intent To Award Assessment Contract
- The Department of Education & Early Development announced
this week an "Intent to Award" a contract to a Minnesota
firm to develop and administer Alaska's statewide student assessment
program. The assessments covered under the contract will include
tests in grades 3 through 9 plus the High School Graduation Qualifying
Exam. - Read
more... Alaska: State
launches new online system for unemployment insurance tax accounting
- Technicians in the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce
Development have completed a three-year project to install a
new computer system that is processing unemployment insurance
quarterly tax reports more quickly and with fewer errors. - Read
more... Ketchikan: Ketchikan
water bottler starts shipments - A Ketchikan entrepreneur
has expanded his water business and shipped the first large order
under the Alaska Polar Water label. - Read
this story... Dick Morris - Bush's
State Of The Union Message Was Historic Failure - During
Bill Clinton's eight years in the White House, State of the Union
speeches were the pillars that held up his presidency. His popularity
would soar in the weeks after the speech and sag as the year
unfolded, only to be revivified by another speech in January.
- Read
more... Mike Reagan - Loyalty
is a Two Way Street - Everybody is talking about the president's
appearance on "Meet the Press" Sunday, and most agree
that it was not one of the great moments of his presidency. And
it doesn't matter who you ask, whether it's George Will or Peggy
Noonan or some other Bush supporter, you'll be told President
Bush's performance was less than stellar. - 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
the rest of this story...
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