The pendulum appears to be swinging back on severe sentences handed down for juveniles convicted of the most-serious crimes. Will that trend spread to Alaska?
KTOO News Department
Juneau Afternoon – Wed
Les Miserables – Maria Offer – Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah – Pluto
Bar owners: sales down with smoking ban
Bar owners say business is down sharply in the wake of Juneau’s month-old smoking ban. They report drops of 20 to 50 percent last month in gross sales compared to January a year ago. John Ryan has more.
Juneau Afternoon – Tue
Hospice – High School Choices – Great Backyard Bird Count
Monday Newscast
Stories include firefighters working all-day Saturday to combat a blaze at Fishermen’s Bend and owners of Kennecott Greens Creek mine preparing the facility for possible sale. The latest local, state, and regional news is compiled from reports from the KTOO newsroom, CoastAlaska stations, wire services, the Alaska Public Radio Network, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation…
Juneau Afternoon – Mon
Michael Smith – Invasive Weeds
Palin health care act would repeal CON law
Governor Palin’s proposal to eliminate a law that balances community needs with health care services has local hospital administrators worried. One provision of the governor’s Health Care Transparency Act would repeal the state’s Certificate of Need law. Palin says Alaska needs more competition and the C-O-N process has led to too many lawsuits. According to…
JDHS Journalism Project: Students’ wearable art
This week’s Juneau-Douglas Broadcast Journalism story focuses on entries created by Juneau students for this year’s Wearable Art Extravaganza
Friday Newscast
The latest local, state, and regional news is compiled from reports from the KTOO newsroom, CoastAlaska stations, wire services, the Alaska Public Radio Network, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and can be heard as often as six times each morning during Morning Edition and Day to Day.
Juneau Afternoon – Fri
Rory Stitt – Wearable Art