Archives for October 2013

Friday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Pat Moore hosts. We’ll talk about tonight’s UAS Evening at Egan presentation about Berner’s Bay with guest Sanjay Pyare, Associate Professor Geography at UAS; Chuck Smythe and Zachery Jones will be here with an overview of this month’s Native American Heritage Month Lecture series; Kim Naylor will bring…

Resolving Juneau’s solid waste problems tops the list of the Assembly’s goals for the next year.

UPDATED: Principal of Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School Molly Yerkes was honored with the national Milken Family Foundation Educator Award this morning during an all school assembly.

“The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world,” The Washington Post reported at midday Wednesday.

The Federal Communications Commission has approved GCI’s purchase of an Anchorage and two Southeast television stations. But the company says viewers will not notice much change once Denali Media is on the air.

The U.S. government ran a deficit of $680 billion in the financial year that ended last month — the first time since 2008 that the annual shortfall has been under $1 trillion.

A key deadline in the quest to rid Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime of its chemical weapons has been met, according to international observers.

Nonpartisan fact checkers are giving failing grades to President Obama’s oft-repeated pledge to Americans that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”

With the headline out of the way, here’s a cheat sheet for those of us who need to be ready with something to say about this year’s Fall Classic.

Brigadier General Mike Bridges, the Commander of the Alaska National Guard says there have been nearly more than two dozen alleged cases of sexual assault since 2009.