Archives for April 2014

A slate of shareholders with business backgrounds is trying to unseat four incumbents on the Sealaska board of directors

Thursday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Shona Strauser hosts. We’ll talk with Matt Robus, this month’s featured artist at the Juneau Artists’ Gallery; Sharon Day, co-chair of the Republican National Committee, will be here prior to her speech tonight for the Republican State Central Committee; We’ll get an update of library activities with Beth…

China is poised to surpass the United States this year as the world’s biggest economy, says an estimate released Wednesday by the World Bank’s International Comparison Program.

$2.2 billion capital improvement project budget goes to Gov. Parnell for review

Current and former NBA players praised the league’s decision to punish LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling with a lifetime ban over racist remarks he made in an audio recording. Commissioner Adam Silver announced the punishment Tuesday, days after the audio emerged.

All 24 chambers that float the dock were flooded

Tuesday’s show:   “See the Other Side” by Tatyana Tolstaya (Translated, from the Russian, by Jamey Gambrell) –What is Heaven like, when your favorite person has died?   And   Poetry Month: “Karma” by Nicolas Bagby “Sea-Dog” by Blue-eyed Bolla “The Most Beautiful Women in the World” by Christy NaMee Eriksen

The botched execution of death row inmate Clayton Lockett Tuesday evening in Oklahoma is sparking a reassessment of lethal injection.

The weather system that spawned tornadoes that killed at least 35 people this week throughout the South and Midwest is dumping heavy rain, triggering fears of major flooding.

During the course of an experiment, students at McGill University in Montreal noticed something odd: Rodents didn’t seem to be showing signs of pain if they were handled by male students.