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Thursday
November 20, 2003
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Ketchikan: The Ketchikan City Council will hold a regular meeting in the City Council Chambers Thursday. The meeting is scheduled to being at 7:00 pm - City Council Agenda (104K pdf) 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. For more events, check the calendar.
Ketchikan: Man
found guilty in Ketchikan rape case - A Ketchikan
jury this week found a 37-year-old man guilty of two counts of
first-degree sexual assault and two counts of fourth-degree assault.
- Read
more... Ketchikan: Ketchikan
Chamber of Commerce Seeks Nominations For Annual Awards -
The Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce is preparing for their
Annual Awards Banquet. Every year the Chamber recognizes those
individuals who have made a difference in our community. - More... Ketchikan: Ketchikan
Bill Weiss Great Alaska Challenge - Results from the
Bill Weiss Great Alaska Challenge high school wrestling tournament,
held Friday and Saturday at Ketchikan High School's Clarke Cochrane
Gym. -
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Ketchikan: 
Ketchikan:
Anchorage Daily News - - link posted Thursday - November 20, 2003 Alaska: Governor's
Emergency Medical Service Awards announced - The Governor's
Annual Awards for Emergency Medical Services (EMS), sponsored
by the Alaska Council on Emergency Medical Services, were announced
at the opening session of the annual State EMS Symposium on Friday,
November 14, and will be presented the evening of November 15
at the 26th Annual Alaska EMS Awards Banquet at the Egan Convention
Center in Anchorage. - Read
more... Alaska: DH&SS
approves project to replace Mat-Su Valley hospital - Joel
Gilbertson, Alaska Commissioner of Health & Social Services,
on Wednesday approved a "Certificate of Need" request
by the Valley Hospital Association to build a 160,723 sq. ft,
74-bed acute care hospital in Palmer. Construction on the new
Mat-Su Valley Medical Center will begin in the spring of 2004;
the $83.7 million project should be completed by the end of 2008.
- Read
more... Alaska: Alaskan
Wild Cattle Herd Face Expulsion - They are touted as some
of the hardiest cattle in the world, robust members of a wild
herd that's roamed this remote Alaska island for more than 100
years. - Read
more... Alaska: State
fish board continues Chignik salmon co-op - The state
Board of Fisheries on Wednesday gave another year of life to
Chignik's salmon fishing cooperative, an experiment in managed
competition for the annual catch. - Read
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National: Physicians
Pessimistic About Future of Medicare - More doctors will
bail out of Medicare, while those who remain will continue to
refuse new patients and restrict services, leading to severe
rationing in the next ten years. Those are the dire predictions
of physicians revealed in a new survey titled "Demoralized
Doctors, Disheartened Doctors, Patient Problems: AAPS Biannual
Survey of Physicians on Medicare and Patients' Access to Care"
to be published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
(JP&S), winter issue due out in December. - Read
more... US Education: School
Leaders Speak Out, Again - School superintendents and principals
nationwide voice their objections to stifling bureaucracy and
a torrent of local, state and federal government mandates, in
the second of two surveys conducted by the nonpartisan opinion
research group Public Agenda. - Read
more... Dick Morris: Dean's
Iraq Quagmire - It is very easy for Howard Dean to predicate
his primary campaign on criticizing U.S. involvement in Iraq.
But it may be very hard in the general election. - Read
more...
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