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Southeast Alaska: Economy of Southeast Alaska in Expansion Phase - It is a good time to live and work in Southeast Alaska, and not just because of 2013's epic summer weather. The economy of Southeast Alaska is in an expansion phase, and has been since 2008 according to a new economic publication just released.

Southeast Conference’s annual regional economic publication - Southeast Alaska by the Numbers 2013 - was released on September 17th at Southeast Conference’s Sitka conference. The publication was developed by consultant Sheinberg Associates on behalf of Southeast Conference.

This year the report provides a two-year snapshot of regional economic and socioeconomic trends. It shows that the economy of Southeast Alaska is in an expansion phase, and has been since 2008. Between 2010 and 2012 that economic growth intensified—nearly every economic indicator for the region is up, and continuing to rise. The 10-page overview provides analysis on demographics, employment, and earnings; the visitor, seafood, mining, timber, and health care industries; along with public sector developments. - More...
Thursday - September 19, 2013

Southeast Alaska: “OPERATION SOUTHEAST” RESULTS IN ARREST OF 5 NON-COMPLIANT SEX OFFENDERS IN KETCHIKAN - During the week of September 8, 2013, federal, state and local law enforcement officers joined together to account for 193 sex-offenders in Ketchikan, Juneau/Douglas and Sitka in “Operation Southeast”.

Participating agencies included Alaska U.S. Marshals, Homeland Security Investigations, Alaska State Troopers, Police Departments from Juneau, Ketchikan, and Sitka along with Department of Corrections-Probation/Parole.

Law enforcement agencies participated in a comprehensive verification of currently registered sex-offenders. The goal was to ensure that the state’s sex-offenders are living and working where they are reporting and to gain compliance or arrest any that are not in compliance. The teams also focused their attention on arresting any violent fugitives living in the communities.

Due to the experience and local knowledge of the state and local officers, the successful 5-day operation netted the following results: - More...
Thursday - September 19, 2013

Southeast Alaska: The Maritime Economy of Southeast Alaska - Southeast Alaska is a maritime region. Nearly every element of the economy of the area is intermingled with the maritime economy. Southeast Alaska depends on barges to import most commodities, including food and fuel. The seafood industry of Southeast Alaska depends on the wealth of the sea and the flotilla of 3,000 commercial fishing vessels home-ported in the region. A million visitors come to Southeast Alaska on 500 cruise ship voyages in the summer. Freight ships move logs and ore laden with precious metals to market. Alaska Marine Highway ferries provide transportation between communities.

Southeast Conference believes its new publication - The Maritime Economy of Southeast Alaska - will change the way people think about the Southeast Alaska economy.

Shelly Wright, Executive Director of Southeast Conference, says the publication quantifies Southeast Alaska’s maritime economy. It was released on September 17th at Southeast Conference’s Sitka conference. - More...
Thursday - September 19, 2013


Alaska: Economic Value of Alaska Seafood; One in seven Alaskans employed by the Alaska Seafood Industry - The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute recently released a report titled “Economic Value of the Alaska Seafood Industry” which measures the impact of Alaska’s seafood industry on the U.S. economy.

The Alaska seafood industry accounts for over half of all U.S. fisheries production and is a key economic driver in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. It is estimated that the Alaska seafood industry provides a total of 165,800 American jobs, including 34,000 jobs for Washington residents in 2011.

Produced by Alaska-based research firm The McDowell Group, the report is the first of its kind, and finds that in 2011: - More...
Thursday - September 19, 2013

Alaska: State Education Board to Meet in Nome; Meeting will be Live Streamed in Audio - The Alaska State Board of Education & Early Development will meet starting at 8 a.m. on September 24 & 25 in the University of Alaska Fairbanks Northwest Campus Conference Room, 400 East Front Street, Nome. The public is invited to attend.

The State Board will consider sending out for public comment proposed regulations to remove the limit on the number of residential schools that may be approved by the state, and allow for district-wide residential schools and residential schools that offer programs of variable length throughout the school year.

The State Board also will consider sending out for public comment proposed regulations to provide two tracks by which an early-literacy screening tool may be approved by the state. - More...
Thursday - September 19, 2013

Alaska Science: Winds and ice stop Northwest Passage journey By NED ROZELL - Beavers and jet skis surprised four adventurers on their recent attempt to row through the Northwest Passage. Vancouver, British Columbia residents Kevin Vallely, Paul Gleeson, Frank Wolf and Denis Barnett are now back home after the team stopped short of its goal of gliding through the northern waterway on muscle power.

After ever-changing winds stalled their 25-foot rowing pod enough to put them weeks behind schedule, the four men stopped rowing when they reached Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Their original goal was to transit the Northwest Passage from west to east, beginning at Inuvik, Northwest Territories, and finishing at Pond Inlet, Nunavut, on the east coast of Baffin Island. Cambridge Bay is about as far from Pond Inlet as Denver is from Washington, D.C.

Winds and ice stop Northwest Passage journey

Northwest Passage rowers Denis Barnett and Paul Gleeson row their ocean-going craft into their stopping point of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.
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“We were way behind schedule after the first month,” Wolf said on the phone from Vancouver just before biking downtown to be interviewed by a CBS News reporter. “Heavy winds didn’t allow us to move very far.”

The team’s trip began July 5 as the men rowed the MacKenzie River toward the sea from Inuvik. They stopped when they reached Cambridge Bay on August 28. Their completed trip length was like rowing from Fairbanks to Anchorage three times.

Before the trip, the travelers heard about prevailing northwesterly winds that at times helped them move their bulbous 25-foot craft powered by two oarsmen at 8 kilometers per hour. But they experienced frequent wind changes that stopped their progress and often made them pull for shore, where they would wrestle their one-ton boat into the shallows.

“There was so much erratic wind from all directions,” Wolf said. “The prevailing northwesterly did not exist. The Native hunters we met said it used to be consistent, but now there are two to three wind changes per day.”

Wolf, a videographer who has recorded many expeditions, including a winter bike trip from Dawson City in the Yukon to Nome, interviewed locals all along the path of this trip. He said climate change was a frequent theme of their discussions. - More...
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letter Protect & Serve? By Kathy Evans - About a month ago I wrote an opinon and it was posted on Sitnews.  Thank you. I heard many positive reponses from it.  It was titled "Soliers of the Cross Ammor Up!" Thank you.  I also want to thank all those who came to Jesse's Celebration of Life.  The sun shone brightly that day and I am confident he was with us.  Those people continue to support our family through the hardest time in our lives.  We miss Jesse so much words cannot begin to say.  I am only comforted to know that he is with his Lord, finally safe and at peace.  He will always be with us in our hearts.  He was a kind and gentle soul.  He was 38 when he died. - More...
Wednesday - September 18, 2013

letter Subject of defunding ObamaCare By A. M. Johnson - Never doubt the power of the press!! After not hearing within a reasonable amount of time to a requested response from Representative Don Young on the subject of defunding ObamaCare, a letter dated 9/16/03 was sent to Representative Young in the format of an email with a copy of same submitted to your fine publication for public consumption reflecting the frustration of being ignored. The following letter was received via email within hours on 9/16/13. I submit that having the subject presented to your publication was the emphasis to Representative Young's response. Please draw your own indidvual conclusion to the content. - More...
Wednesday - September 18, 2013

letter Can we really afford to spend this much money on a hospital? By Ed Plute - Don't want Obama care? What about Ketchicare? This, is how we can avoid that forced healthcare. We the taxpayers have been supporting a non-profit hospital for years. Each and everyone of us have been taxed to support that hospital. - More...
Wednesday - September 18, 2013

letter Middle East Equilibrium By Donald A. Moskowitz - To foster world stability, it is in the best interest of the U.S. to promote equilibrium in the Middle East. - More...
Wednesday - September 18, 2013

letter In The Tongass, Every Job Counts By Governor Sean Parnell - The story of America includes starting a business and passing that entrepreneurial spirit on to your children. Whether it was a farm, a hardware store, or something else, America was built by these kinds of family enterprises, and family businesses still power Alaskan opportunity. - More...
Thursday PM - September 12, 2013

letter Vote yes! on KMC By Sheri Boehlert - As a school administrator, my days are spent planning and facilitating all that needs to happen to make sure our kids get the best education possible and how to best support our teachers in that goal. As a member of the Ketchikan Medical Center's Board of Governors, I've witnessed firsthand administrators and staff thoughtfully striving to meet another complex goal ensuring each person in our community has access to the widest array of high-quality health care possible, right here in Ketchikan. - More...
Thursday PM - September 12, 2013

letter Library Funding By Agnes Moran - At the September 5, 2013 Ketchikan City Council meeting, Matt Olsen made many assertions regarding Borough participation in the capital costs for the new library, that to use Mr. Olsen's own words "quite frankly were not true". - More...
Thursday PM - September 12, 2013

letter Re: The Myth Of Intact Watersheds By Duane Hill - When I first lived in the Stockton, CA area, there were no salmon in the rivers. The rivers were dry in late summer. This was normal as the rivers were not year round waterways, 100 years ago they only had water when there was run off from the Sierras. - More...
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letter The Myth Of Intact Watersheds By Eric Muench - Heather Hardcastle's August 29 letter of advice to Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell was completely misleading on one important point. While the salmon resource is indeed a very important part of the Southeast economy, it definitely does not depend on "intact watersheds". - More...
Wednesday AM - September 11, 2013

letter Baffled by Parnell’s Recent Actions By Bill Walker - Recent decisions by the Parnell Administration have left many Alaskans, including myself, scratching our heads wondering if anyone is at the helm. - More...
Wednesday AM - September 11, 2013

letter Observation from the road & home By A.M. Johnson - Having returned to K-town from a vacation drive through British Columbia, observations are in order. We first departed Prince Rupert driving to Prince George. The first several miles, 20 or so, were through fields of "Tansy" road side coming and going. No concern by our contact with various Canadians asked about the drought of dead cows, moose, or other wild life as a result of this plant being allowed to run wild. Just the normal common shrug of the shoulders followed by the required heed to the bountiful industrial active that warrants the clapping of hands for "Job well Done". - More...
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letter Ketchikan Performing Arts Center By Lallette Kistler - I addressed the Borough Assembly Tuesday night about the fact that the Legislative Lobbying committee ignored the Ketchikan Performing Arts Center project last week, and I thought the greater community might be interested in what I had to say.   It didn't make sense that we were their #1 and the community's #4 last year, but this year we weren't even going to be numbered at all. - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013

letter Agree With Kiffer, No Nightmare By Keith Stump - Having been a passenger on the Millennium when it had to return to Ketchikan due to mechanical difficulties to one of its electric propulsion motors, it was interesting to hear and read about the trip cancellation and other passenger responses. My take is that much ado was made about not much by the news media. - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013

letter Syria - Count The Cost By Glenn Mollette -  The President and Congress will make the decisions when it comes to Syria. They and military leadership have far more information than I. However, we will not go into Syria, throw our rocks and run back home unscathed. The scathing may occur immediately or weeks or months later. - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013

letter Obama's war in Syria By Marvin Seibert - War on Syria, here we are going to use Guided Missiles, B52 and B1 bombers and up to 75,000 troops on the ground. Our Delusional Narcissistic President is trying to save face by putting our troops in harm's way. What arrogance, he now says he did not draw a red line -- video does not lie. What else do you need to know that our President is incapable of decisions and taking responsibility for anything! - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013

letter RE: Let's prioritize wild Alaska salmon By Lois Morgan - Hooray, Heather. Your phrase 'the countries preeminent salmon forest' totally rang my bell. I've never heard or seen it, and it is just so apt I hooted out loud. I've been needing this phrase. - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013

letter WHAT IS YOUR POINT? By David G. Hanger - Exactly what is your point, Laura Plenert? You refer to the murder of an Australian student athlete in Oklahoma, a case of which I am quite aware, as somehow racially motivated. All in fact you are doing when you do that is parrot the nonsensical and racist views of Rush Limbaugh and Matt Drudge, who are the only individuals stupid enough and corrupt enough to attempt to use this case as a racial counterpoint to the Trayvon Martin case. While you are doing a fine job of parroting the views of your lords and masters, the facts of the case are quite a bit more problematical in that regard. How exactly do you get racial motivations out of this crime when one of the suspects is black, one is half-black and half-white, and the third is all white? - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013

letter Parrot whiner By Karl Shlaudeman - Well Mr. Hanger you might want to make sure that you are bleeding and hurt before you ever take appropriate action or defend yourself against a criminal. I truly wish all of you would wake up and realize there is no perfect world; white, black or whatever. - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013

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