Alaska Quarterly Review cares about where it lives, but it’s a literary magazine that’s not just for us or about us.
Source: Mary Odden on AQR @35
Sitka Nature Show #142 – Brooke Schafer and Kari Sagel
Download Radio Show The October 15th show featured a conversation with Brooke Schafer and Kari Sagel, two of the hosts of the Library show on KCAW. I was the guest on their show this morning, and w…
Source: Sitka Nature Show #142 – Brooke Schafer and Kari Sagel
Alaska News October 26, 2017
By Sidney Sullivan: Anchorage mother and her boyfriend charged in death of 2 year-old girl
By Leroy Polk: Adopted children testify against woman they say abused them for years
By Sidney Sullivan: Anchorage man charged for child pornography
By Photojournalist Shawn Wilson: VIDEO: Anchorage Halloween display vandalized
By Austin Baird: Lawmakers focus on revamping SB 91 as tax talks stall
By Cameron Mackintosh: Iditarod sponsors react to dog doping controversy
By Victoria Taylor: Collaborative effort granted $2M to expand services and housing for homeless
Great Gear: MyCharge AdventureUltra a great choice – AK on the GO
MyCharge, known for quality products that enhance our outdoor experiences, has a new product called the AdventureUltra that will charge up your next trip.
Source: Great Gear: MyCharge AdventureUltra a great choice – AK on the GO
Alaska News October 25, 2017
High Wind Watch until 04:00PM Thursday
By Liz Raines: SB91 loophole: No jail time for sex abuse of a minor– if it’s first offense
By Lauren Maxwell: Anchorage Police discuss right way to report a crime
By Daniella Rivera: Homicide victim’s family hopes $5,000 reward will help police solve the case
By Sidney Sullivan: Woman charged for conspiracy to commit murder in 2015 death
By Associated Press: Juneau officials hope to open warming center for homeless
By Dan Carpenter: Anchorage Assembly gives the Port of Anchorage a new name
By Mike Ross: Radio show helps addicts find new beginning
New Beginnings airs on KOAN 95.1 FM/1080 AM and KZND 94.7 FM.
The program is a subsidiary of Bridges2Recovery, an Alaska based non-profit.
For information, visit the organization’s website.
By Kalinda Kindle: Ravn Alaska hosts Women in Aviation Day
Women in Aviation
UAA Expands Inupiaq lessons with new website
Rasmuson Foundation – By Alex Teplitzky: Creative Capital: Chilkat Artist Lily Hope on Working in Juneau
Lily Hope’s work is on view in the permanent collection at the Portland Art Museum. Check out her website to learn more about her work.
Alaskanomics’s Blog September Unemployment Rates
The Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development released the latest employment numbers last Friday. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remains unchanged in September and is 7.2 percent. Alaska’s not-seasonally adjusted rate grew three-tenths of a percent from August, which is typical as the season work around the state winds down for the year. The seasonal loss of fishing and tourism jobs accounted for much of the increase in unemployment.
Rasmuson Foundation- By Alex Teplitzky: Creative Capital: Chilkat Artist Lily Hope on Working in Juneau
By Alex Teplitzky: Creative Capital: Chilkat Artist Lily Hope on Working in Juneau
Lily Hope’s work is on view in the permanent collection at the Portland Art Museum. Check out her website to learn more about her work.
Women pioneers talk early Alaska days
Graduation held in an airport hangar, harrowing commutes to work across the tumultuous Cook Inlet, and mail dropped by airplanes overhead. While these may sound like situations of the far-off past, some Homer residents alive and well today are here to dispel that notion.
Steller Watch: To stay or go?
By Michelle Lander, Biologist Steller Watch: To stay or go?
If you recall our blog back on May 9th, we directed you to some preliminary findings for a subset of 13 adult female Steller sea lions that were captured and tagged between 2011 and 2015 (marked =24 through =36) in the Aleutian Islands. To follow-up, here’s an update on some of the final findings for those animals.
Alaska News October 24, 2017
By KTVA Web Staff: 3 men posing as APD break-in to apartment
By Liz Raines: Special session: House fast-tracks crime bill, governor’s tax lacks support
By Blake Essig (KTUU): North Pole man returns home after surviving Las Vegas shooting
Ariane Personal PPD Submission
By Associated Press: Alaska-owned aerospace company lines up commercial launches
By Samantha Angaiak: City plans to tear down DHHS building, add senior housing and replace DHHS building at new location
Excellent news!
By Joe Vigil: Injured Anchorage firefighter makes progress in recovery
By Heather Hintze: Moose: 1 Prius: 0
By KTVA Web Staff: For Alaska pilots, the sky is the limit
Internet Celebration Day?
By Leroy Polk: Last segment of cable installed for internet in remote Alaska communities
By Leroy Polk: Anchorage robber pulls knife on store employee, drops keys to getaway car
Free Flu Shot Clinics This Wednesday and Thursday
The Municipal Department of Health and Human Services and Anchorage School District are hosting free flu shot clinics on Wednesday and Thursday. Flu shots are available to the general public, for anyone 6 months of age and older. The vaccine, Quadrivalent, is designed to protect against two influenza A and two influenza B viruses. A limited number of the “high dose” flu vaccine will be available for people 65 years of age and older.
Alaska Highway News Local Highlights
By William D. Cohan: Journalism’s Broken Business Model Won’t Be Solved by Billionaires
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But the story of Alice Rogoff and the Alaska Dispatch News is a cautionary tale that shows the limits of what a wealthy owner is willing, or able, to do for a struggling newspaper in the digital era.
Halloween at the Library
49 Writers Blog – Nancy Lord | The Need for Science Writing
On Wednesday, Oct. 25, I’ll be presenting a free 49 Writers craft talk and reading at the Indigo Tea lounge at 7 p.m. We’ll consider the art of writing science into fiction. Science fiction has been with us for a very long time, but embracing scientists as characters and scientific concepts and practices within all kinds of fiction—speculative or not—gives us new opportunities as readers and writers. I’ll talk about that, read a bit from my novel, and invite conversation.
I’ll also be giving two 49 Writers writing workshops about science writing for general audiences. In Fairbanks on Sat. Oct. 28 from 1-4 at the Bear Gallery and in Anchorage on Sunday Oct. 29 from 2-5 at the Alaska Humanities Forum office. Details at http://49writers.org/class-catalog.
Cinthia Ritchie: Poetry acceptance, and lots of Tucson love
Craig Medred: Reality Check
Craig Medred: Iditarod down
In the wake of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race’s first, publicly revealed doping case, the International Federation of Sleddog Sports has moved to distance itself from the globe’s premier sled-dog competition.
In “an open letter” to the organizers of the 1,000-mile race from Willow to Nome, the global governing body for sled-dog sports disavowed any connection to the embattled Alaska event.