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Ketchikan: DOT
Announces AMHS Positions to be Relocated to Ketchikan; Approximately
42 positions scheduled for relocation - In a staff
meeting this morning, Department of Transportation and Public
Facilities (DOT&PF) Commissioner Mike Barton provided employees
with the best estimate of which Alaska Marine Highway System
(AMHS) positions will be relocated to State facilities in Ketchikan.
Approximately 42 positions under vessel operations management,
marine engineering and marine vessel operations are scheduled
for relocation. - Read
more...
Tuesday - March 23, 2004 - 1:20 pm
Ketchikan: Ketchikan
Charter Commission Conducts Survey - In an effort to reduce
the cost and size of government in a fair and equitable manner,
the Ketchikan Charter Commission is asking you to fill out a
questionnaire. For your convenience you may fill out the questionnaire
online. This is a chance to help mold the future of Ketchikan.
- Fill out the
survey...
Tuesday - March 23, 2004 - 1:15 am
Ketchikan: Juneau
Assembly calls for postponing AMHS move - The Juneau Assembly
wants the state to delay a plan to move the Alaska Marine Highway
System headquarters to Ketchikan until economic and other studies
are done. - Read
this story...
Juneau Empire- Tuesday
- March 23, 2004
National/World: Growth
Rate Slowing; Global Population in 2002 Tops 6.2 Billion
- The world's population increased by 1.2 percent in 2002 to
total more than 6.2 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau said Monday
in a report on global population trends. The rate of increase
translated into a net addition of about 200,000 people per day
and 74 million per year, roughly equivalent to the population
of Egypt in 2002. - Read
more...
Tuesday - March 23, 2004 - 1:15 am
National:
FDA Issues Public Health Advisory on Cautions for Use of Antidepressants
in Adults and Children - The Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) issued a Public Health Advisory Monday that provides further
cautions to physicians, their patients, and families and caregivers
of patients about the need to closely monitor both adults and
children with depression, especially at the beginning of treatment,
or when the doses are changed with either an increaseor decrease
in the dose. - Read
more...
Tuesday - March 23, 2004 - 1:15 am
Alaska: DHSS
Public Health Director to change - The Department of Health
and Social Services public health leadership will soon undergo
change. In early March, Public Health Director Doug Bruce announced
plans to leave the Department in April for family and personal
reasons. Dr. Richard Mandsager will take over as Director of
Public Health effective June 1, according to Joel Gilbertson,
Commissioner of Health and Social Services. - Read
more...
Tuesday - March 23, 2004 - 1:15 am
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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. -
The Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce
would like your help in nominating this year's Theme and Grand
Marshall. - 