By Editor, on January 7th, 2012 By Becky Bohrer | AP
JUNEAU — An explicit ban on texting while driving and a proposed constitutional amendment that would cap state spending and force saving were among the 30 measures filed Friday in advance of this month’s legislative session.
The ban on texting or typing while driving is from Reps. Les Gara and Bill Thomas. It comes as the state’s intended ban, passed in 2008, faces a legal challenge, with a magistrate in Kenai recently saying the Legislature should have been explicit if it truly meant to prohibit the activity.
Read the full article in the Anchorage Daily News.
By Editor, on December 29th, 2011 By Kimberly Nicoletti | SUMMIT DAILY NEWS
While some participants on reality shows accuse producers of cutting and slicing minute pieces in such a cutthroat way as to make the final cut overly dramatic, the Andersons say TLC didn’t have to do that: Their life is that dramatic.
Thursday, TLC premieres the Breckenridge family’s real-life commercial fishing business in Alaska, and the family admits TLC didn’t have to manipulate its “characters” to deliver a compelling seven-week series that depicts the extreme highs and lows of commercial fishing in Alaska — and some of the tense family dynamics accompanying the Anderson’s family business.
Read full article in the Summit Daily News.
By Gary Lidholm, on December 15th, 2011  It was a typical Saturday morning stop at a residential coffee shop in Denver except that the place was festively decorated for the season. The “thirty-something” man ahead of me bought a Christmas hot chocolate and cookie for his young daughter who was with him. While he talked to another man, she began to color and draw on the paper provided by the shop. After a while her dad asked her, “What are you drawing, honey?” She looked up and said, “Can’t you tell daddy? It’s Tim Tebow.” Read more->
By Roger Maynard, on September 28th, 2011 After years of indecisiveness, the Haines Assembly was unanimous in its decision to raze the old school gym still standing at the corner of 3rd and Main Streets. The decision is based on recent information showing that restoration of the old building is too expensive, and the building is not ideal for either offices or a recreation center. There is currently no heat or electricity in the building, and it has been standing that way for at least 5 years.
A small group led by Joe Poor and Jack Wenner argued to keep the building, and said they were working on a business plan to keep the building open as a recreation center for the community, but their efforts were too little, too late. Read more->
By Editor, on July 23rd, 2011 By Richard Mauer | ADN
ANCHORAGE–Alaska Newspapers Inc. will publish its last weeklies in August then shut the doors on Bethel’s Tundra Drums, the 97-year-old Cordova Times and four other rural publications, its corporate owners announced Friday.
In addition to the Drums and the Cordova Times, the newspapers that will be shuttered are the Arctic Sounder in northern Alaska, the Bristol Bay Times, the Seward Phoenix LOG and the Dutch Harbor Fisherman. The bimonthly magazine First Alaskans will also cease publication. The company’s printing business, Camai Printing, which produced the newspapers and other publications, is also targeted for sale or closure.
The shutdown will leave most of the communities served by the chain without newspapers.
Read more in the Anchorage Daily News.
By Roger Maynard, on May 5th, 2011
HAINES–This week’s paper edition of the Haines Alaska News will be the last for the season, as we change our operation for summer. Our news stories and opinions will still appear on-line at http://www.hainesnews.net, as always. Read more->
By Gary Lidholm, on April 8th, 2011  Big Mountain snowboarders survey the descent ahead of them. “You try to scare yourself at least once a day!” said Jason Bach, 35 from Eagle River, Wisconsin, as he re-flected on his 40th run in just over two weeks in the Haines heli-skiing, snow-boarding back country.
Tuesday was a blue bird day for Bach who had worked for over two years at his Wisconsin landscaping business just to make the Haines trip a reality. Read more->
By Editor, on March 12th, 2011 by Noel Sheppard | NEWSBUSTERS
After the public shaming of NPR this week, Nina Totenberg was given the option of taking a day off from PBS’s “Inside Washington” so that she wouldn’t have to face the music concerning the so-called “news organization” she works for.
Demonstrating admirable spunk, Totenberg showed up to “defend the product” her radio station produces only to have Charles Krauthammer say in the midst of a lengthy discussion about the issue, “If the product is so superior, why does it have to live on the tit of the state?” (video of entire segment follows with transcript and commentary)
Read more at Newsbusters.org.
By Editor, on February 18th, 2011 By Kyle Hopkins | ADN
In one of the first episodes of “Gold Rush: Alaska,” the new Discovery Channel series about six men transplanted from Oregon to Southeast Alaska in hopes of striking gold, a brown bear wanders into camp.
Sure enough, a bear is killed by the end of the episode. “The team has made the camp secure,” the narrator concludes.
What viewers aren’t told is that no one had to shoot the bear to save a life or protect property at the mining claim on Porcupine Creek, according to a review by the state Department of Natural Resources.
Read the state Department of Natural Resources letter to the reality show miners here.
Read more at ADN.com.
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