Friday
April 01, 2005
Tongass
Historical Museum Wants Kids
To Stay and Play the FUNDAY Way
Judy Christensen from Creative
Memories helps with scrapbooking activity...
Front Page Photo Courtesy Tongass Historical Museum
Ketchikan: Tongass
Historical Museum Wants Kids To Stay and Play the FUNDAY Way
by Sharon Lint - More than 80 children and adults participated
in the FUNDAY program at the Tongass Historical Museum on March
26th. FUNDAY began with a scavenger hunt through the museum's
current display, "Recent Acquisitions." The kids were
also given the opportunity to paint with watercolors, create
a native headband and put together a scrapbook page. - More...
Friday - April 01, 2005
National: Rising
oil prices hit consumers, companies By Bill Straub - Anyone
who has visited a gas pump recently knows that oil prices are
rising, but escalating costs are also fueling concerns that energy
outlays might soon have a detrimental impact on other parts of
the nation's economy as well.- More...
Friday - April 1, 2005
National: Exclusions
at Bush events ripped By Ann Imse - Members of Congress from
both parties have raised sharp questions about the exclusion
of political opponents from two taxpayer-funded appearances by
President Bush.- More...
Friday - April 01, 2005
National: Panel
recommends new domestic spy agency By Lance Gay - he commission
on weapons of mass destruction said Thursday it doubts the FBI's
ability to transform itself to deal with terrorist threats and
urged lawmakers to consider creating a new domestic spy agency
along the lines of Britain's MI5. - More...
Friday - April 01, 2005
National: How
fight between feds and states affect you By Lance Gay - Moves
by Congress to set national standards for drivers' licenses and
birth records have state legislators protesting federal interference
in state and local government operations. - More...
Friday - April 01, 2005
International: Pope
selection process changed under John Paul II By Thomas Hargrove
- Pope John Paul II dramatically changed - some say revolutionized
- the College of Cardinals both in the men he appointed to it
and the rules under which it must operate to select his successor.
- More...
Friday - April 01, 2005
National: Congress
to consider bills inspired by Schiavo case By Amie Parnes
- After learning of Terri Schiavo's death Thursday, members of
Congress, who recently seized on the case as a chance to promote
right-to-life agendas, said that they felt saddened by the passing
of the 41-year-old who suffered brain damage 15 years ago, and
vowed to take a closer look at the broader issue of disabled
individuals. - More...
Friday - April 01, 2005
Washington Calling: IRS
online ... Iraqi cartoons ... More By Lance Gay - More women
than men are relying on do-it-yourself IRS tax software to fill
out their forms. But the number of people who give up and seek
professional help to complete the forms is also increasing. -
More...
Friday - April 1, 2005
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 Ketchikan: No
Fool'n... CrossSound To Perform in Ketchikan - CrossSound
will be performing at the Saxman Tribal House this evening, April
1st, at 7:30 pm. The evening will premier three multidisciplinary
collaborations created in Sitka (a Chinese poem set in SE Alaska
by writer John Straley, actor Roblin G. Davis and composer Cecilia
Kim), Juneau (a Tlingit tale with a Korean twist by writer Brett
Dillingham, storysinger Chan Park, and composer Stefan Hakenberg)
and Ketchikan. - More...
Friday - April 1, 2005
Alaska: Governor
Signs Education Account, Airport Bills - Governor Frank H.
Murkowski signed into law a bill that ensures K-12 funds that
are appropriated by the Legislature are spent on public schools
and another bill to make improvements at the Ted Stevens Anchorage
International Airport without public funds.
House Bill 158 establishes
the Public Education Fund and makes clear that the fund is not
subject to annual budgetary "sweep" provisions that
force millions in unspent education money to revert back to the
general fund at the end of a fiscal year for other possible uses.
- More...
Friday - April 1, 2005
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Columns - Commentary
Mark N. Katz: Which
First: Arab Democratization or Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Resolution?
- The Arab world consists entirely of dictatorships. A few have
elected parliaments, but these have little power vis-à-vis
their country's unelected king, prince, or president. Sadly,
the most prominent Arab opposition movements seeking to oust
the existing Arab dictators don't want democracy either, but
some alternative form of authoritarianism such as Islamic fundamentalism.
- More...
Friday - April 01, 2005
 Linda Seebach: Addressing
political imbalance in college faculties - The latest study
about political imbalance in college faculties should end the
debate about whether it exists, and move along to the question
of whether it matters, and, if so, what if anything should be
done about it.
The article is called "Politics
and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty," by
Stanley Rothman, professor emeritus at Smith College, S. Robert
Lichter of George Mason University and Neil Nevitte of the University
of Toronto. It appeared in an online journal called The Forum,
published by the Berkeley Electronic Press (www.bepress.com/forum).
- More...
Friday - April 01, 2005
 Dale McFeatters: It's
spring-forward time again - This is the weekend we express
solidarity with Benjamin Franklin - whose idea it was - and World
War I defense workers on whose behalf it was first instituted.
We speak, of course, of daylight-saving time, in which daylight
isn't really saved but just moved around a bit on the clock.
On Sunday, in accord with the
old mnemonic "spring forward, fall back," we - at least,
most of us - put our clocks ahead one hour, thus costing us a
real hour of sleep, but also giving us longer, lighter evenings.
If you're a fanatic about this stuff, 2 a.m. local time, is the
official hour to change the clocks. - More...
Friday - April 01, 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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