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Fairbanks:
Golden Heart City
A story of its founding
By June Allen
The Alaska Citizen
building - Fairbanks, Alaska [between ca. 1900 and 1916] - Photo
Courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division...
 In the
summer of 1901, bustling, one-year-old Ketchikan was building
its first schoolhouse and had set a hefty tax rate of 7.5 mills
to pay for it. Juneau was busily producing gold and had just
been named the new capital city of Seward's Ice Box, snatching
that honor away from beautiful little Sitka, once the Russian
capital of Alaska. - Read
the rest of this story by June Allen...
Tuesday - July 13, 2004
 Listen
to this KRBD story... A Ketchikan teenager is filming an
episode of the ABC-Family Network show "Switched".
Deanna Garrison has the story.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Tuesday PM - July 13, 2004
Listen to this KRBD story... The Ketchikan
School Board Wednesday night is slated to ponder dispersing White
Cliff Elementary School students between a local church, the
Pioneers Home, Point Higgins Elementary and Ketchikan High School
next school year. As Deanna Garrison reports, the Board will
also consider a three-year contract for school district cooks,
custodians and paraprofessionals.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Tuesday PM - July 13, 2004
Listen to this KRBD story... The Greenpeace
Vessel Arctic Sunrise sailed into Ketchikan's Tongass Narrows
Monday. As Deanna Garrison reports, the arrival of Greenpeace
in Ketchikan for the second time in two summers is drawing mixed
reactions from residents.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Tuesday PM - July 13, 2004
Alaska: Governor
Praises Alaska Miners Tour of Canadian Diamond Mines - More
than two dozen Alaskans visited the diamond mines of Canada's
Northwest Territories in the first such tour organized by the
Alaska Miners Association, prompting Governor Frank Murkowski
to congratulate the organization for its work in furthering cross-border
cooperation. - Read
more...
Tuesday - July 13, 2004
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Ketchikan:
Greenpeace
Vessle Arctic Sunrise Arrives In Ketchikan - The Greenpeace
ship the Arctic Sunrise arrived for a two-day stop in Ketchikan
on Monday beginning a one month tour of Southeast Alaska. During
the Arctic Sunrise's Southeast Alaska tour, the Greenpeace Forest
Campaign will be calling for a moratorium on commercial logging
and road construction in the Tongass National Forest.- Read
more & view the photograph by Carl Thompson....
Tuesday - July 13, 2004
Alaska: Oil
Tax Loopholes Gave More to Oil Corporations In Profits Than Alaska
Received in ANS Oil Revenue - With the close of the State
of Alaska's 2004 fiscal year this month, the state announced
oil averaged $31.71/barrel for the past 12 months. According
to a recent Department of Revenue Estimate, oil companies received
over $1 billion more in pure profits from ANS clued oil than
the state received in total ANS oil revenue. That imbalance has
caused Former Governors Jay Hammond and Wally Hickel, former
Deputy Commissioner of Revenue Deborah Vogt, and 7 Democrats
who proposed oil revenue reform legislation this year, to call
for a revisitation of the tax loopholes in Alaska's outdated
oil tax structure. -
Read more...
Tuesday - July 13, 2004
Alaska: Spider-Man,
The Hulk, And Captain America Headline Innovative, Multi-Tiered
Campaign To Promote Internet Safety And Stop Online Piracy
- United States Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Marvel Enterprises
Inc.'s world-famous Super Heroes including Spider-Man, The Hulk,
Spider-Girl and Captain America have teamed up with Wired Safety
a recognized global leader in Internet law, privacy and policy,
to fight a new breed of villains - Internet predators, cyber-stalkers
and online identity thieves. - Read
more...
Tuesday - July 13, 2004
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July 30, 2004
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