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 Ketchikan:
Earthquakes
Rattle Southeast - With the computer monitor shaking, floor
lamps swaying, chimes clanging and with the log home snapping
and moving, it was obvious from the experience that an earthquake
was underway and was being felt significantly in Ketchikan early
Monday morning. - Read
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Monday - June 28, 2004
Ketchikan: May
Unemployment Declines - Ketchikan's unemployment rate fell
1.4 percentage points to 7.1 in May as seasonal employment began
building towards the peak employment months of July and August.
Statewide, Alaska's unemployment
rate fell two-tenths of a percentage point to 7.1. The comparable
national rate fell one-tenth of a percentage point to 5.3 percent.
Dan Robinson, an economist with the Alaska Department of Labor
and Workforce Development reported the numbers.- Read
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Monday - June 28, 2004
National: 'State
of the First Amendment 2004' Survey Shows Americans' Support
of Fundamental Freedoms Back to Pre-9/11 Levels - Americans'
support for their First Amendment freedoms - deeply shaken by
the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 -- continues to rebound
and is back at pre-9/11 levels, according to the annual State
of the First Amendment survey, conducted by the First Amendment
Center in collaboration with American Journalism Review magazine.
"The 2004 survey found
that just 30 percent of those surveyed agreed with the statement,
'The First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees,'
with 65 percent disagreeing. The nation was split evenly, 49
percent to 49 percent, on that same question two years ago, in
the survey following the '9/11' attacks," said Gene Policinski,
acting director of the First Amendment Center. - Read
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Monday - June 28, 2004
Ketchikan Columnist
 Dear Crabby: SAD
OFFENDED GIRLFRIEND - Tonight I went to a party with my boyfriend
and he all but ignored me all night. It was an awkward situation,
because I didn't hardly know anybody, and he was talking to this
other girl most the time. I just sat alone. Luckily, my cousin
showed up so I had someone to talk to the last couple of hours.
Even when they were serving food, my boyfriend went off to talk
to that other girl in the living room, in plain sight of me and
everyone else. It made me feel like I'm not interesting enough
to be with. - Read
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Monday - June 28, 2004
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