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Aug 14 2018

Nikki Love of the Southeast Alaska chapter of the Association for the Education of Young Children was among scores of Juneau residents who turned out to a Juneau Assembly meeting on Aug. 13, 2018, to support "Best Starts," a subsidized child care initiative.

Best Starts initiative fails to make October ballot

By Jacob Resneck and Adelyn Baxter, KTOO | Education, Family, Juneau, Local Government

The advisory ballot question would have asked voters if they’d support up to $2.8 million to expand child care availability in Juneau with higher property taxes.

By Jacob Resneck and Adelyn Baxter, KTOO | August 14, 2018 12:58 am

Aug 11 2018

Regina Ibrahim and her daughter, Nadja, take a selfie together during a recent visit at Western State Hospital (Photo courtesy Regina Ibrahim)

Washington sent brain injury patients to Oklahoma — then all but forgot about them

By Austin Jenkins, Northwest News Network | Family, Health, Mental Health, Nation & World

Between 2014 and 2017, Washington’s Medicaid program sent 16 brain-injured patients to Oklahoma. In each case, the patient flew by air ambulance at a cost of $230,000 per flight.

By Austin Jenkins, Northwest News Network | August 11, 2018 1:09 pm

Jul 30 2018

Zack Christensen helps his uncle Lars Christensen weed the strawberry patch at their house on South Nordic Drive, Petersburg. (Photo by Angela Denning/KFSK)

Petersburg graduate with cerebral palsy ready for new challenges

By Angela Denning, KFSK-Petersburg | Education, Family, Health, Southeast

Zack Christensen is no stranger to manual labor: staying active is actually the doctor’s orders for his cerebral palsy. “Through my life, I’ve learned that I just got to keep proving people wrong, that I can do all these things that I want to do and go places,” he said.

By Angela Denning, KFSK-Petersburg | July 30, 2018 7:49 am

Jul 25 2018

Klukwan Community Library carries out initiative to preserve stories of tribal members

By Henry Leasia, KHNS-Haines | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Family, History, Southeast

A Klukwan Community Library initiative hopes to preserve the stories of tribal members. Chilkat Stories: Our Village, Our Lives aims to capture the experiences of Klukwan residents of all ages by creating audio recordings of their stories.

By Henry Leasia, KHNS-Haines | July 25, 2018 9:45 am

Jul 03 2018

On immigration, Sullivan calls for more facilities, better processing

By Dan Bross, KUAC-Fairbanks | 2 Alaska, Family, Federal Government, Nation & World

Sen. Dan Sullivan emphasized that the federal government is not currently set up to properly manage a flood of immigrants seeking asylum.

By Dan Bross, KUAC-Fairbanks | July 3, 2018 7:12 am

Jul 01 2018

Juneau residents rally against family separation during the Families Belong together Rally on June 30, 2018. (Photo by Adelyn Baxter/KTOO)

Juneau rallies for migrant children separated from parents at the border

By Adelyn Baxter, KTOO | Family, Federal Government, Juneau, Nation & World, Politics

Juneau residents joined others around the nation Saturday to voice their opposition to immigration policies separating migrant children from their parents at the United States’ southern border.

By Adelyn Baxter, KTOO | July 1, 2018 3:48 pm

Jun 26 2018

Yazmin Méndez Márquez was born in Georgia in 1993. She now lives in Michoacan, Mexico and had to claim to be Mexican to enroll in school. Now, she’s having a hard time claiming her birthright citizenship in the United States. (Photo by Emily Green/PRI)

About 600,000 children in Mexico were born in U.S. but struggle to claim citizenship

By Emily Green, PRI | Family, Federal Government, Nation & World

In Mexico alone, there are about 600,000 children who were born in the U.S. About half of them are stuck in a complicated bureaucratic loop. If they tried to enter the U.S., they would be turned back.

By Emily Green, PRI | June 26, 2018 9:33 am

Jun 26 2018

Juneau child care ballot question makes progress

By Jacob Resneck, KTOO | Community, Family, Juneau, Local Government

An advisory vote over whether to raise property taxes to expand child care in Juneau is gathering momentum. The initiative would would poll voters over raising $2.8 annually toward alleviating the child care shortage in Juneau.

By Jacob Resneck, KTOO | June 26, 2018 6:13 am

Jun 25 2018

The Pentagon plans to build temporary camps for detained immigrants. Here, children of detained migrants are seen at a tent encampment near the U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry in Tornillo, Texas

Pentagon will build 2 more temporary camps to house migrants

By Bill Chappell | Family, Federal Government, Nation & World, NPR News

The news comes one week after President Trump said, “The United States will not be a migrant camp, and it will not be a refugee holding facility.”

By Bill Chappell | June 25, 2018 6:41 am

Jun 17 2018

A photo collage of Kami Miller with her father, Steve, and reporter Emily Russell with her father, Mark. (Photos courtesy of Kami Miller and by Emily Russell/Alaska Public Media)

AK: Keeping memories alive on Father’s Day

By Emily Russell, Alaska Public Media | Family

Father’s Day celebrates the dads in our lives, but for some, it’s a reminder of pain and loss.

By Emily Russell, Alaska Public Media | June 17, 2018 8:00 am

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Best Starts initiative fails to make October ballot

Washington sent brain injury patients to Oklahoma — then all but forgot about them

Petersburg graduate with cerebral palsy ready for new challenges

Klukwan Community Library carries out initiative to preserve stories of tribal members

On immigration, Sullivan calls for more facilities, better processing

Juneau rallies for migrant children separated from parents at the border

About 600,000 children in Mexico were born in U.S. but struggle to claim citizenship

Juneau child care ballot question makes progress

Pentagon will build 2 more temporary camps to house migrants

AK: Keeping memories alive on Father’s Day

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