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Thursday
October 16, 2003
Ketchikan: KIC
Tax Case Settled With Borough - According to information
provided by the Ketchikan Indian Community (KIC), the Ketchikan
Indian Community and the Ketchikan Gateway Borough have settled
all property tax issues surrounding KIC's property at 2960 Tongass
Avenue, the location of KIC's Health Clinic and several BIA programs.
"KIC is pleased with the outcome," said President Stephanie
Rainwater-Sande speaking from Dorsey & Whitney's Anchorage
Office Wednesday morning. She said, "It is a good thing
that the Borough and KIC were able to reach an amicable settlement
on a government-to-government basis." - Read
more... Alaska: U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Consider Challenge to Nonresident Commercial Fishing Fees - The United States Supreme Court denied on Tuesday a request from nonresident commercial fishers to review decision by the Alaska Supreme Court in a nineteen-year-old challenge to Alaska's nonresident commercial fishing fees. "This is a positive step
that will allow the Alaska courts to continue on their way toward
resolving this long-standing dispute," said Attorney General
Gregg Renkes. - Read
more...
Ketchikan: The Ketchikan City Council will be hold a regular meeting at 7:00 pm Thursday evening in the City Council Chambers. City Council Agenda (pdf 101K) Each separate item on the agenda will link to its own information packet. Place your cursor over the agenda item and click to download that information packet. Calendar |
Ketchikan:
"We're figuring out the
details of the crabs' life history so that we can understand
what might be going on out in the field," Persselin explained.
She and Stevens are at the forefront of crab research in the
cold North Pacific, where a fishery that brings crab fishermen
$100 to $150 million dollars annually is vulnerable to the swings
of crab populations. - Read
more... Ketchikan: Marine
Highway considering a move to Ketchikan - State transportation
officials are mulling a plan to move the Alaska Marine Highway
System here to be closer to its repair facilities. - Read
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Joann Flora's Travel Log
#2: The
Art of Chinese Massage - When we go for massage in the west,
we have certain expectations: flannel sheets, aromatic oils,
hot stones, aroma therapy, soft music, cushions and bolsters,
low lighting. We have come to consider these things an integral
part of the massage experience. Not so in China. I have had a
massage of some type, reflexology or full body, nearly every
day I have been in this country, and it is not at all akin to
its western counterpart. - Read
more... Dick Morris Columnist: The
Raging Fury Against The Political Establishment - There is
always a temptation to put a partisan spin on voter anger and
pretend it is directed at one or the other of our political parties.
Republicans celebrate the upheaval of the Democrats in California.
Democrats chuckle at Bush's dive in the polls. Republicans have
their share of fun in watching first Howard Dean and then Wesley
Clark eclipse the best and the brightest among the Democratic
candidates. - Read
more... Mike Reagan Columnist: Warning
Signals - It's good that California showed leadership
- what we did sends a message to other governors that when you
go back on you word, when you lie to the public as Gray Davis
and his cohorts lied to us you'd better beware. The message:
watch your step, you could be next. - Read
more...
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