Newscast – Monday, July 22, 2019

In this newscast:

  • ProPublica and the Anchorage Daily News report at least 14 villages have employed police officers whose criminal records should have prevented them from being hired under state law,
  • the Alaska House of Representatives comes up one vote short of funding the state’s capital budget,
  • a House committee introduces a new proposal to fund permanent fund dividends at about $1,600 and reverse some of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget vetoes,
  • the University of Alaska Board of Regents declares a financial exigency,
  • the federal government drops its appeal in the King Cove road case,
  • one of youngest members of the family that’s run the Sitka Sentinel newspaper for 75 years gets into the family business, and
  • an Alabama woman checks off the 50th state on her list in Juneau to sing the national anthem in.

Jeremy Hsieh

Local News Reporter, KTOO

I dig into questions about the forces and institutions that shape Juneau, big and small, delightful and outrageous. What stirs you up about how Juneau is built and how the city works?

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