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Alaska: Governor
Proposes Tobacco, Transient Taxes - Governor Frank Murkowski
has introduced legislation calling for a one-dollar-per-pack
increase in the tax on cigarettes, and a transient accommodations
tax on shore-based and cruise ship overnight stays. Increasing
the tax on tobacco would raise an estimated $35.5 million annually,
while the transient accommodations tax would bring in about $49
million. -
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Friday - March 19, 2004 - 1:10 am
Alaska: Federal
Appeals Court Upholds State's Sex-Offender Registration Law
- Attorney General Gregg Renkes announced Thursday that the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld Alaska's
sex-offender registration law against its final challenge in
federal court. - Read
more...
Friday - March 19, 2004 - 1:10 am
Alaska: Nautilus
Foods Settles EPA Clean Water Act Complaint for $15,000 -
Nautilus Foods, a Valdez-based salmon processor, has settled
an EPA-issued complaint for violations of the federal Clean Water
Act. These violations included... - Read
more....
Friday - March 19, 2004 - 1:10 am
 Ketchikan - Metlakatla: Listen to this story.... The new state ferry
Lituya is on its way to Southeast Alaska. As Deanna Garrison
reports, the nine point six million dollar vessel will provide
daily roundtrip service between Metlakatla and Ketchikan.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Friday - March 19, 2004 - 1:10 am
Southeast AK:
Listen to this story.... The U.S. Forest
Service has decided not to construct a trail across Baker Island.
As Jay Marble reports, the Forest Service received little support
for the project.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- Friday - March 19, 2004 - 1:10 am
Columnist
Dick Morris: Bush
Ads Hit the Mark - At last George W. Bush is doing what he
needs to do to win this election - run ads that explain John
Kerry's liberalism to moderate swing voters.
And the Bush ads are very good.
He focuses on three lines of attack: Kerry's advocacy of a "$900
billion tax increase," his support for weakening the Patriot
Act and his commitment to awaiting United Nations approval before
"defending America." - Read
more...
Friday - March 19, 2004 - 1:10 am
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The Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce
would like your help in nominating this year's Theme and Grand
Marshall. - 
In general,
not many people are interested in herring. It's not exactly a
glamour fish. You won't see a snapshot of a grinning fishermen
posing for the camera while holding up a trophy eight-inch goggle-eyed
herring by the tail. And when was the last time you had
baked, fried, roasted, grilled or pickled herring? The only time
most people come in contact with herring is when they skewer
a chunk of it onto a hook for bait when salmon fishing. -