Friday
March 18, 2005
New
Play Area Opens At Ketchikan Pioneers' Home
Bruce King of First City Rotary
cuts the ribbon officially opening the new play area. King is
joined by White Cliff Elementary Indian Education Preschool students.
Front Page Photo by Wendy Olson
 National: Congress,
baseball rumble over steroids By David Nielsen - Thursday's
congressional hearing on baseball and steroids didn't elicit
any earth-shattering confession or dramatic bombshell. But it
did showcase several hours of emotional testimony and spirited
exchanges between witnesses and members of the House Government
Reform committee before overflow crowds spilling down the hallway
of the Rayburn Building. - More...
Friday - March 18, 2005
International:
A sobering projection on sea-level rise By Jim Erickson -
Oceans will rise at least 10 inches per century for several hundred
years - imperiling coastal regions worldwide - even if emissions
of heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases were capped at
today's levels, according to one of the world's foremost climate-change
researchers. - More...
Friday - March 18, 2005
Washington Calling: A
plum post ... IRS site a hit ... More By Lance Gay - Paul
Wolfowitz is stepping into one of Washington's most coveted jobs,
as president of the World Bank. - More...
Friday - March 18, 2005
Alaska: Governor
Encouraged By Kerr McGee-Anderson Test Well Results - The
state is encouraged by news of successful test wells drilled
by Kerr McGee Corp. and Armstrong on Alaska's North Slope. The
two independent producers have found oil prospects on previous
leased land, Governor Frank H. Murkowski said. - More...
Friday - March 18, 2005
Alaska: Governor
Discusses Progress on Gas Pipeline Talks - Governor Murkowski
met in Anchorage Thursday with senior managers of Exxon Mobil,
Conoco Phillips, and British Petroleum to discuss the status
of the Producers' Stranded Gas Develop Act (SGDA) negotiations.
- More...
Friday - March 18, 2005
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Sgt. Zack Pilcher &
his mother, Gigi Pilcher
Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson
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Ketchikan: Marine
Home From Iraq; Visits Ketchikan Parents - Sgt. Zack Pilcher
who recently returned from his second tour of duty in Iraq in
February, arrived in Ketchikan for a short visit with his parents
Dan and Gigi Pilcher and other family members. Sgt. Pilcher and
his wife Nicki currently live in California where he is stationed
at Camp Pendelton. Pilcher serves in United States Marine Corps.
- More...
Friday - March 18, 2005
Ketchikan: 'Youth
Recognition Program' To Honor Deserving Youth - The Greater
Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce Workforce Development & Education
Committee announced the continuation of their sponsorship of
the Youth Recognition Program. This program is designed
to honor the youth of Ketchikan who are deserving of public acknowledgement.
The award is given to up to three students in grades 4 - 12 who
have made a significant or unique contribution to their school,
shown leadership qualities, and have maintained scholastic excellence.
- More...
Friday - March 18, 2005
Alaska: North
Pacific Processors, Inc. Penalized for Waste Discharge Permit
Violations in Sitka Harbor Channel - The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency has signed a Consent Agreement and Final Order
(CAFO) with North Pacific Processors, Inc. (NPPI) for violations
of the federal Clean Water Act. Specifically, the Order includes
a penalty of $25,000 for discharge violations at the company's
(Sitka Sound Seafoods) processing facility in Sitka, Alaska.
NPPI has a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit
that allows them to grind & discharge solid seafood processing
wastes up to to one-half inch in any dimension or smaller. -
More...
Friday - March 18, 2005
Health: It's
all in the waist By Lee Bowman - New studies on the relationship
between waist size and the risk for developing heart disease,
diabetes and other illnesses suggest that some belt-tightening
may be in order.- More...
Friday - March 18, 2005
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Alaska: Researcher
Focuses on Atka Mackerel - A NOAA Fisheries researcher has
turned his attention to one of the more interesting and perhaps
important fish species in the North Pacific-Atka mackerel. The
brightly colored mackerel is caught in trawl fisheries along
the Aleutian Islands and by sport fishers around Homer, Seward,
and in Prince William Sound. Not only do some humans enjoy the
taste of Atka mackerel, Steller sea lions favor them as a primary
food source. - More...
Friday - March 18, 2005
Alaska: Alaska
PTA Thank Legislature for Work on Education - The President
of the Alaska Parent Teacher Association (PTA) met with members
of the Alaska Legislature to thank them for their work in the
area of education funding. - More...
Friday - March 18, 2005
Columns - Commentary
David Lassen: Biggest
benefit of hearing is warning top youth - The greatest justification
for Thursday's congressional hearing on steroids in Major League
Baseball wasn't concern about questionable records, or the integrity
of a sport with a far-from-saintly history encompassing everything
from the Black Sox to the color line to today's inherently anti-competitive
financial structure. - More...
Friday - March 18, 2005
Ray McNulty: Check
swing on McGwire - Now that the Capitol Hill gang has finally
concluded its hearing, allow me to conduct an informal poll.
Anybody out there still think
Mark McGwire didn't use steroids to help break Roger Maris' single-season
home run record? Sammy, put your hand down. If you had nothing
to say when it mattered, we don't want to hear from you now.
- More...
Friday - March 18, 2005
 Daryl Cagle: A
Cartoonist Spins in his Grave - There is no institution that
cartoonists despise more than The New York Times. The editorial
cartooning profession is slowly dying as more and more newspapers
decide that they can do without the expense and controversy of
a local political cartoonist. The New York Times is the biggest
newspaper to go without a staff editorial cartoonist. They don't
even run comic strips. - More...
Friday - March 18, 2005
 William N. Ryerson: Is
There Still A Population Growth Problem? You Bet There Is!
- We sure wouldn't know it by reading some major media, but world
population growth is still a catastrophe in the making.
It seems every time we turn
around, there's another story on the so-called "birth dearth."
On November 23, 1997, The New York Times Magazine proclaimed:
"The Population Explosion Is Over." The Wall Street
Journal echoed this sentiment in a January 24, 2003 editorial,
"Global Baby Bust." On August 29, 2004, the New York
Times ran an editorial entitled, "Subtract Billions: Demographic
'Bomb' May Only Go 'Pop!'" Newsweek followed September 27,
2004 with "Birth Dearth; Remember the Population Bomb?"
Amazingly, one paper declared, "Population No Longer a Worry
in Poor Countries."- More...
Friday - March 18, 2005
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June Allen Column
Ketchikan: A
Personal Tribute to Tom Coyne on St. Patrick's Day - St.
Patrick's Day makes me think of Ketchikan's city councilman Tom
Coyne and of famous author Frank McCourt. They even look a lot
alike -- faces like maps of Ireland! Of course I've never met
Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes, but his book lays bare
the bittersweet memories of his childhood. And I've interviewed
Tom Coyne on several occasions and I see some of the similarities
in their impoverished early years. And they both, like
everyone in the Irish land of their bloodlines, are poets at
heart. - Read
the rest of this story by June Allen....
Thursday - March 17, 2005
 It's
Iditarod Race Year 33! a ghost story of the southern route
Ketchikan's
'Rotary Wheel' Still Turning; Hardworking club celebrates a century
Sitka's
Pioneer Home Statue; Whose face is cast in bronze?
L.
Ron Hubbard's Alaska Adventure; His long winter in Ketchikan
ACS
Bids for KPU Telecom: ACS a longtime presence
Betty
King the Dog Lady; Ketchikan's one-woman humane society
Ketchikan,
Alaska - Let There Be Light! -- Citizens Light & Power and
then KPU
The
State Capitol and Its Marble and keeping the capital in Juneau
A
Legendary Mountain of Jade; Just one of Alaska's Arctic Wonders
John
Koel, Baker to Banker; An eccentric philanthropist
Harold
Gillam: A Tragic Final Flight; Ketchikan remembers the search
Ketchikan's
'Fish House Tessie'; She was proud of the nickname
Fairbanks:
Golden Heart City; A story of its founding
Remembering
'Swede' Risland (1915-1991);The town's most memorable logger
Read more feature stories by June Allen...
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