Thursday at 3 on a Juneau Afternoon, Scott Burton will host.
We’ll talk with Dr. Lora Vess about food supply risks;
Heather LaVerne and Richard Carter will highlight Juneau-Douglas Little Theatre’s “Insomni-ACTS”;
We’ll get the details about the Hasty Half Marathon;
And Nancy DeCherney will be here with Arts Up.
That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, live at 3 on KTOO, repeated at 4 on KRNN; and available on demand via ktoo.org
Recent headlines
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Vigilantes or heroes? Anchorage group takes to streets, reuniting owners with stolen vehicles
With a surge in vehicle thefts in Anchorage, some residents are taking matters into their own hands. One group mobilizing through Facebook is reuniting stolen vehicles with their owners. Members of the A Team, as they call themselves, say they are filling a void left by overworked police. 
New Haines museum exhibit explores how a Tlingit stronghold gave way to non-Native settlement
The Haines area used to be a Tlingit stronghold, ruled by an alliance between the prosperous Chilkat and Chilkoot people. A new Haines Sheldon Museum exhibit explores how the Native territory gradually gave way to white settlement in the late 1800s. The exhibit will anchor the museum’s upstairs space for at least two years.
Tech investors pitch dedicated lanes on I-5 for self-driving cars
"If this technology goes the way that leading experts are predicting, we could see the entire corridor as a freeway could be autonomous by 2040,” said transportation consultant Scott Kuznicki.
Do you care if your fish dinner was raised humanely? Animal advocates say you should
Concerns over animal welfare have led to changes in recent years in how livestock are raised. But seafood has been missing from the conversation. One group aims to change that.
