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Friday
November 21, 2003
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Front page photo by Carl Thompson
Ketchikan: Murkowski:
State can't afford $20 million intertie project - Gov. Frank
Murkowski told a group working to establish a Southeast Alaska
electrical intertie not to count on state funding.- Read more... National: Agreement
on Historic Anti-SPAM Bill Announced - Following months of
intensive negotiations, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman
Billy Tauzin (R-LA) today announced an agreement on historic
legislation that will allow millions of Americans the ability
to block unwanted and unsolicited commercial e-mail. - Read
more...
Anchorage Daily News - Friday - November 21, 2003 Ketchikan: Bert
Stedman Sworn In As Alaska's Newest Senator - Thursday afternoon,
Lieutenant Governor Loren Leman administered the oath of office
to Bert Stedman in a ceremony at Centennial Hall in Sitka, Alaska.
Stedman is now the Senator for District A, which encompasses
the communities of Sitka, Wrangell, Petersburg, Ketchikan, as
well as a handful of coastal villages in the Southeast archipelago.
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more...
Alaska: Panel
recommends privatizing parts of ferry system - Big
changes in Alaska's ferry system, including turning over some
duties to the private sector, may be in store if the state Department
of Transportation follows an advisory board's recommendation
to run it more like a business. - Read
more... Ketchikan: Senior
Citizen & Disabled Veteran Property Tax Exemption Forms Mailed
Today - Senior Citizen and Disabled Veteran property tax
exemption application forms will be mailed today - November 21.
Qualified applicants include senior citizens who turn 65 on or
before January 1, 2004; widows or widowers age 60 - 64 of previously
qualified applicants; and veterans with a documented, 50% or
more, service related disability. - Read
more... Alaska: World
War II Servicemen's Remains Buried At Arlington; Seven MIA Navy
Aircrew Based On Attu Island, Alaska - The remains of seven
American servicemen missing in action from World War II have
been found in Russia, identified and returned to their families
for burial with full military honors. A group burial of
the remains was held at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday,
November 20th. - Read
more... Alaska: Interior
Dept. to Open Alaska North Slope; Interior Department to Open
Almost 9 Million Acres in Alaska's North Slope to Drilling
- The Bush administration intends to open 8.8 million
acres of Alaska's North Slope to oil and gas development, including
areas considered environmentally sensitive. - Read
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Ketchikan: 
Ketchikan:
The Compton tortoiseshell is
a palm-sized butterfly that people had long reported seeing in
Haines and southcentral Alaska but never north of the Alaska
Range. In July 2002, Fairbanks entomologist Jim Kruse saw and
collected a Compton tortoiseshell at the Bonanza Creek Experimental
Forest southwest of Fairbanks. Intrigued, Philip "hotfooted
down there" and captured a few with his wooden-handled net.
He returned to Bonanza Creek again in 2003 and saw dozens of
Compton tortoiseshells. - Read
more... Alaska: Bank mailings target seniors ; AARP
holds statewide forums to educate senior citizens on reverse
mortgages - When Mary
Lou Knickerbocker, 83, of Juneau, lost her monthly $250 Longevity
Bonus payments in August, she, like many older Alaskans, began
looking for a way to supplement her income. -
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Alaska: Young
unveils $375 billion transportation measure - Rep.
Don Young released his proposal to spend $375 billion over the
next six years on highways and mass transit projects, but the
bill doesn't propose ways to pay for it. - Read
more... Alaska: Governor
Speaks in Houston to Natural Gas Summit - Alaska Governor
Frank Murkowski on Wednesday afternoon spoke to a summit of natural
gas producers and transportation system operators in Houston
about Alaska natural gas and efforts to get it to market. Alaska
has known reserves of at least 32 trillion cubic feet of natural
gas on the North Slope, with another 100 million tcf estimated.
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Read more... Alaska: DEC
Preliminary findings point to boats as the primary cause of Kenai
River pollution - Results from a Department of Environmental
Conservation water quality study of the Kenai River show a direct
correlation between boat traffic and elevated levels of petroleum
hydrocarbons. - Read
more... Health: Fighting
cigarette addiction with help from a surprising ally - It
makes sense if you think about it for a minute: addiction to
cigarettes is actually addiction to the drug nicotine, so your
local pharmacist, who already knows about a lot of medications,
might logically be able to give you some good advice on how to
quit smoking. Smoking is a disease state that pharmacists can
help manage, says Cindi Brennan, assistant director of Harborview
Medical Center Ambulatory Pharmacy Services in Seattle. - Read
more... Northwest: 1700
Japan tsunami linked to massive North American quake - Guided
by Japanese writings from an era of shoguns, an international
team of scientists today reported new evidence that an earthquake
of magnitude 9 struck the northwestern United States and southwestern
Canada three centuries ago. The findings are likely to affect
the region's precautions against future earthquakes and tsunamis.
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