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January 24, 2004
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Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson
Alaska: Governor
Accepts Producers' Gas Pipeline Application - Friday Governor
Frank Murkowski delivered letters to Conoco-Phillips, BP and
Exxon saying the State of Alaska has accepted the joint application
from the three major North Slope producers to enter into negotiations
on terms to construct a natural gas pipeline to the Lower 48.
The application is the second Stranded Gas application the Governor
has announced this week, following yesterday's announcement of
an application from a consortium that includes MidAmerican Energy
Holding Company, Pacific Star Energy, and CIRI. - Read
more... Alaska: Alaskan Physicians To Receive Pay Boost
Under New Medicare Law - U.S.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she welcomed news by the Department
of Health and Human Services on Friday confirming that physicians
in Alaska will see their Medicare payment rates increase by more
than 50 percent in 2004. Total Medicare payments to doctors for
services under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule will increase
by about $25 million to about $75 million in 2004, compared to
roughly $50 million in 2003. -
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Ketchikan: Ray
Troll's Top 5 (and then some) CD's for 2003 - 2003
was a transitional year in the world of music for me, as it was
for lots of other folks just like me. I found myself adrift in
a town without local record shops, and finding my way through
the brave new world of free downloads and 'honest' 99 cent guilt-free
songs from Itunes. Despite the downhill slide for profit making
by the major music labels,the music scene is alive as ever. Several
exceptionally strong records hit the younger music scene (The
White Stripes, Coldplay, the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, Death Cab for
Cutie, Jack Johnson, and Outkast all come to mind) so I'm heartened
that there is a future for good music. My two teenaged kids have
played them all to death around the house. While I found myself
bopping along to them, the following 5 records are the ones I
spent the most time with this last year. You'll see that it's
been an 'old school' kinda' year for me. - Read
more... Ketchikan: New
report on visitors details who rides ferry - Visitors who
traveled aboard state ferries last summer were less well-heeled
than their cruise and air visitor counterparts, according to
a tourism survey. - Read
this story... |
Ketchikan: Local Doctors Stand For Smokefree Workplaces - The Ketchikan General Hospital (KGH) Medical Staff has voted to support a resolution that endorses measures to protect workers and the public from secondhand tobacco smoke. This Medical Staff resolution
joins resolutions by the Alaska Association of Nurses, Revilla
Island Prevention Coalition, Alaskans for Tobacco-Free Kids,
KGH Prevention Services, Gateway Center for Human Services, PatchWorks,
the Alaska Association of Student Governments, American Cancer
Society, the American Lung Association, and Ketchikan Public
Health Center calling for protections from secondhand smoke.
In addition, 96 local businesses and hundreds of individuals
have signed their support for smokefree public places, worksites,
and restaurants in Ketchikan. - Read
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Alaska Science: Researchers Eye Link Between Diet, Depression - During the last 50 years, Alaska Natives have eaten fewer seals from the Bering Sea and more steaks from Nebraska. The drastic change in diet that comes with the influence of another culture may be an overlooked factor in mental health problems of northern Natives, according to a team of researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Alaska Natives and other circumpolar
people have experienced "a complete change in diet from
marine mammals, salmon, eggs from marine birds," said Abel
Bult-Ito, an associate professor of biology with UAF's Institute
of Arctic Biology. "Those have been replaced by steaks and
Crisco, you name it. Plus soda--the consumption of those sort
of sweetened beverages has skyrocketed." -
Read more... Science: Earthquakes
kill thousands in 2003; Deadliest year since 1990 - According
to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 2003 closed as the deadliest
year for earthquakes since 1990, 25 times more fatal than 2002;
43,819 deaths have been reported for the past year, as confirmed
by the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA). In 2002, 1711 people died in quakes around the
world; in 1990, 51,916 people were killed in various seismic
events. - Read more... |
Madison Lumber & Hardware, Inc. ~ Downtown Drugstore ~ Alaska Glass & Supply ~ Sourdough Bar Liquor Store ~ Davies-Barry Insurance ~ Sitnews... |
A fire department in any community, large or small,
commands citizen respect. When fire sirens blare, traffic obediently
tries to pull over and people hold their breaths - hoping it's
not their house, their business, their school or anyone they
know. Fire has been a frightening scourge in history from Nero
in Rome to Chicago's Mrs. O'Leary to Ketchikan's Bill Mitchell.
As new American communities sprang up in the "Go west, young
man" spirit of the nineteenth century, one of the first
things responsible pioneers did was establish fire departments.
When the westward-ho movement reached the Pacific coast and the
settlement-surge angled north, fire departments were among the
very first organizations founded in Alaska. -
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