Marketing will begin this winter leading up to an auction and, if things go to plan, a new owner will be named this summer. The waterfront lot’s value is estimated at $3 million.
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?
Newscast – Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019
In this newscast: The state’s new education commissioner says it’s time to review how public schools are funded, the Alaska Mental Health Trust decides it’s ready to sell it’s downtown subport lot, the newly Democratically controlled U.S. House holds hearings on climate change for the first time in about a decade, state ferry boosters discuss the system’s value ahead of anticipated cost-cutting measures from the governor, and the Alaska House of Representatives sets a record for longest session without a speaker and committees.
Newscast – Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019
In this newscast: city officials move forward with preliminary work to build a new transit center in the Mendenhall Valley, public meetings begin in Fairbanks on oil and gas work in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the governor’s pick to head the Alaska Department of Fish and Game pits hunters and wildlife preservationists at odds, the marijuana industry states concern about Gov. Dunleavy’s regulatory appointments, and local support in Homer pours in for the family of a Coast Guard officer killed in a crane accident.
Juneau moves forward with plan for new Valley Transit Center
There are a lot of steps before construction can happen. There’s a private land sale to be finalized, the new owner will need to subdivide the property and a federal transportation grant application is also pending.
Newscast – Monday Feb. 4, 2019
In this newscast: Gov. Dunleavy’s administration defends its screening process for high-level hires, credit rating agencies await the new state’s new budget, state recruiters target high schoolers to come back after college to address a behavioral health worker shortage, the trial of former fisheries industry leader Roland Maw gets delayed, President Trump names a new secretary of Interior, and the National Weather Service issues a winter weather watch for Tuesday evening.
After scathing audit, Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority says fixes are underway
Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority CEO Mike Abbott sounded like he was talking about an invasive medical screening when he described being audited. He updated lawmakers on how the trust is fixing problems identified in a scathing audit report.
Newscast – Friday, Jan. 18, 2019
In this newscast: Alaska’s Congressional delegation doesn’t join in a bipartisan measure to maintain sanctions against Putin allied companies, Yellowknife air traffic controllers send Juneau’s air traffic controllers pizza during the federal shutdown, and Haines health and law enforcement officials wrestle with involuntary commitments with inadequate facilities.
Juneau tower control, we have lunch: Canadian air traffic controllers deliver solidarity, pizza
Air traffic controllers in Yellowknife, Canada, joined in a widespread, pizza-based act of goodwill recently as the U.S. federal employees’ unpaid payday came and went.
Juneau students pick Huskies as combined high school team mascot
The Huskies were also the Douglas High School mascot back before the Douglas and Juneau high schools merged.
How a mischievous Home Depot surveyor turned this hill into guerrilla art
Theodolites, semaphore, trigonometry and some “Big Lebowski” references — everything you wanted to know about the peace sign and a few things you didn’t.