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December 31, 2003

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audioKetchikan: Listen to this story... Wednesday marks the 21st year that Ketchikan CHARR will provide free cab rides to residents on New Year's Eve. Deanna Garrison has this report.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio - linked Wednesday - December 31, 2003 - 12:10 am

audioKetchikan: Listen to this story... The U.S. Forest Service today (Tuesday) announced that it intends to move forward with a timber sale on Revillagigedo Island. As Deanna Garrison reports, the Forest Service Monday rejected appeals by conservation groups opposing the 17 million board feet Licking Creek Timber sale.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio - linked Wednesday - December 31, 2003 - 12:10 am

Ketchikan: Forest Service moving ahead with Ketchikan sale - The U.S. Forest Service is moving ahead with a timber sale near Ketchikan that could lead to the first 10-year timber contract in the Tongass National Forest, the agency said Tuesday. - Read this story...
Fairbanks Daily News Miner - linked Wednesday - December 31, 2003 - 12:10 am

audioKetchikan: Listen to this story... The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is looking to hire fishermen to conduct a test herring fishery for West Behm Canal. Deanna Garrison reports.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio - linked Wednesday - December 31, 2003 - 12:10 am

audioKetchikan: Listen to this story... Deanna Garrison has a look back at the top stories of 2003 in Ketchikan.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio - linked Wednesday - December 31, 2003 - 12:10 am

Alaska: Court Says Alaska Can't Add Fish to Protected Lake - A U.S. federal appeals court said that national wildlife rules bar the stocking of salmon in a protected Alaskan lake, even if little harm comes from multiplying the fish. - Read this story...
ENN - - linked Wednesday - December 31, 2003 - 12:10 am

Alaska: State Wrapping Up Loose Ends of ACS Contract - In accordance with a settlement agreement with Alaska Communications System, the State of Alaska has made strong progress on all tasks relating to disentanglement of the Telecommunications Partnering Agreement, scheduled for cutover on December 31, 2003. At the cutover, the various parts, or bundles of telecommunications services, formerly covered by the now-terminated TPA, will be contracted with other providers. Some will continue with ACS as individual bundles. - Read more...
Wednesday - December 31, 2003 - 12:10 am

Lifestyles: Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions - How can you keep those resolutions for a healthier new year? Behavior change experts have developed guidelines that you can use to help transform your New Year's resolutions into long-term lifestyle changes. - Read more...
Wednesday - December 31, 2003 - 12:10 am

Movie Feature

Holiday Boat Parade Movie - RealPlayer

Holiday Boat Parade
RealPlayer Movie
Scenes from the boat parade...
Parade was Dec. 22, 2003
Movie published Dec. 29, 2003

Dick Morris Columnist: The Ricochet Effect - Why does the opposition party tend to become dominated by its own extremists when it is out of power? Why did the Democrats follow liberal leaders like Walter Mondale and Mike Dukakis while Ronald Reagan was president? Why did the right under Newt Gingrich take over the Republican Party during the Clinton years? Why is Howard Dean dominating the Democrats these days?

Call it the ricochet effect. In the Clinton White House, we consciously used this theory to help the right dominate the Republican Party so that the centrists throughout America would vote to re-elect the Democratic president.

Here's how it works. An incumbent president tends to catalyze opposite reactions among the moderates and the extremists in the opposition party. Because he is adopting policies which help the nation and echo the demands of the broad center, he attracts moderates in the other party. But as he pursues the core policies of his own party, he generally triggers greater hostility from the true believers on the other side. - Read more...
Wednesday - December 31, 2003 - 12:10 am

Person of the Year for 2003: The American Soldier
Time has named the American Soldier as Person of the Year for 2003...

Top Row Left to Right: Sgt. Jason Landstrom United States Army; Brian Pyles United States Air Force; Lance Cpl. Margret Collins United States Marine Corps; LT James Thompson United States Navy - Middle Row Left to Right: Keith E. Thomas, Jr. United States Navy; SPC Michael Moniak United States Army; PFC Latseen Benson United States Army; Sgt. Jeremy Mutart United States Army - Bottom Row Left to Right: Sgt. Zack Pilcher United States Marine Corps; SSgt. Trevor Sayer United States Marine Corps; P.F.C. Ryan Pickrell United States Marine Corps; Sgt. Nick Charrier United States
Marine Corps... Read more about Our Troops...
photo graphic created by MC Kauffman - Friday - December 26, 2003 - 12:50 am

 

 

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