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Coverage of the Twenty-sixth Alaska Legislature, the Administration, and the Alaska Supreme Court

February 9, 2010 - the Twenty-second Legislative Day of the Second Regular Session
Today's Schedule Watch On-line Live / Archived Audio Podcast Audio

Scheduled Audio Streams:
Other Legislative Meeting - 2/9/10 7:30 am
House State Affairs Committee - 2/9/10 8:00 am
Senate Finance: Health and Social Services - 2/9/10 8:00 am
House Community and Regional Affairs Committee - 2/9/10 8:00 am
Senate State Affairs Committee - 2/9/10 9:00 am
House Finance: University of Alaska - 2/9/10 9:00 am
Today's Audio Streams

Recent Audio Streams:
House Finance: Fish and Game - 2/8/10 5:00 pm
Senate Resources Committee - 2/8/10 3:30 pm
House Labor and Commerce Committee - 2/8/10 3:15 pm

Elizabeth Peratrovich Day is Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Honoring Elizabeth Peratrovich, past Grand President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, for her courageous, unceasing efforts to eliminate discrimination and bring about equal rights in Alaska.

Elizabeth Peratrovich
Photo: Alaska State Library - (Portrait File: Elizabeth Peratrovich - 1) PCA 01-3294

The day in Alaska history for February 9:
1883	The McFarland Home for Girls, a Presbyterian institution, burned to the ground.
1901	A press dispatch dated November 6, 1900, wired from New York to Fort Egbert, and then mailed on November 8th, finally reached Nome , informing residents that William McKinley had been elected President.
1917	Special ferries ran from Juneau and Douglas with people going to Thane to attend the Black Sheep Ball.
1959	The U.S. Army dropped its plans to use the Talkeetna Mountains as a long-range missile range.
1959	A recovering Gov. Bill Egan received his first visitors in a Seattle hospital following gall bladder surgery.
1959	Members of the Legislature proposed a $20,000 annual salary for the Governor.
1966	The Archdiocese of Anchorage was established.
1973	Using a 53-year old mining law regarding right-of-way, environmental groups won a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judgement, stalling construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline .
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