Newscast – Thursday, May 11, 2017

In this newscast:

  • The Alaska Senate is poised to vote and reject a state income tax proposal,
  • Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is in Fairbanks for Arctic Council meetings,
  • Wasilla Rep. David Eastman becomes the first member of the Alaska House to be censured,
  • unable to sell its ferry Taku, the state lowers its minimum asking price, and
  • Washington state is taking legal action against the U.S. government after a tunnel collapsed at its Hanford nuclear waste site.

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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