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January 08, 2003
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Photos by Carl Thompson - Graphic by MC Kauffman Twenty-one candidates have filed for 7 seats on the Charter Commission. These photographs were taken Wednesday evening before the start of the candidates' forum sponsored by the Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce. More photographs of candidates along with the audio of their forum statements will be published on Sitnews & currently under construction. Candidates pictured are: Robert B. Skinner; Deborah S. Otte; Dennis L. McCarty; Loren K. Stanton; Michael Jensen and John Harrington... A special election is scheduled for January 13th. (List of Candidates)
Ketchikan: Southeast
Photographers Capture Top AP Honors - Former Ketchikan resident
and part-time photographer at the Ketchikan Daily News Eric Amundson
has won first place for the Alaska Associated Press (AP) Feature
Photo of the Year for 2003. The photo named "NO DOGS ALLOWED"
featured a cat looking at the gate on the promanode at Thomas
Basin which has a sign reading "No Dogs Allowed; $100 fine".
Amundson's photo took runner-up in the AP contest for the month
of Oct. and was also featured on MSNBC.com's The week in Pictures
Oct. 2-9, 2003. - Read
more...
Ketchikan: Six
people in Ketchikan indicted in drug case on conspiracy charges
- Six of 26 people indicted on charges of operating a drug distribution
network that stretched from California to Alaska appeared at
a hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Ketchikan. - Read
this story...
Alaska: Silver Bay pulls out of bankruptcy;
Judge approves logging company's plans for repaying 100-plus
creditors - Silver
Bay Logging will begin repaying its more than 100 creditors this
year, but the 30-year-old company will operate on a much smaller
scale as it regains viability, a company official said. - Read
this story... Alaska: Alaskan
Native Firm Awarded Multi-Million Dollar Contract - The Department
of Energy (DOE) recently selected a portion of the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Project's billion-dollar Management &
Operating (M&O) contract to assist small and disadvantaged
businesses. The SPR is based in New Orleans, La. The award --
made as an 8(a) set-aside -- is the first M&O agreement targeted
by DOE to unbundle contracts in order to increase small business
prime contracts. The $26 million-dollar contract has a two-year
term with three one-year options that could increase its total
value to more than $60 million. - Read
more... Dick Morris - Dr.
Dean's Advance: Unstoppable - If Howard Dean wraps up victories
in the early primaries, as now seems quite likely, he may find
that he has won them too well, so that his victories contain
the seeds of his own destruction. But he'll likely survive -
thanks, ironically, to the work of the party establishment. Read
more... Mike Reagan - What
Makes Democrats Unhappy? - A new poll reveals that 62 percent
of all Republicans say they're happy while only 50 percent of
Democrats make the same claim, meaning that the other 50 percent
are less than happy. - Read
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