Brian Venua
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KMXT
The Kodiak Island Borough School District is offering a new incentive to retain its temporary international teachers. This is after the Trump administration priced the district out of international recruiting last year through a massive visa fee hike. Now the district wants to sponsor these teachers to get green cards – permanent legal residency – for about $10,000 each.
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Weekly Wrap
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KMXTOn this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, details about a delay in construction at the Seward dock rerouting cruise ships to Whittier, summer salmon fishing restrictions in Kodiak Island rivers, a reversal of the Alaska Board of Fisheries rules by the state attorney general, KIBSD is paying for up to 20 of its international teachers to receive their green cards, and a special remembrance of Alaskan veterans ahead of Memorial Day on Monday from the Alaska Desk at Alaska Public Media.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's show with host Davis Hovey, we go over the schedule, some of the vendors and the new features at this year's Crabfest with staff from the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce. Opening day is Thursday, May 21, at noon. More information and the full schedule of events can be found online at kodiakcrabfest.com.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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(Alaska Department of Fish and Game)This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Katherine Irving reports on a new hatchery and ongoing restrictions for fishermen meant to help the rehabilitation of Kodiak king salmon, and KTOO's Alix Soliman on a mine in British Columbia that has Southeast Alaskans worried about their salmon.
Alaska News
- Oil industry has an idea to speed permitting on western Arctic leases. BLM likes it.
- Anchorage air travelers caught in long TSA lines
- Alaska lawmakers adjourn one session and begin another to mull tax breaks for LNG project
- In Alaska House and U.S. Senate, impassioned pleas to help two storm-ravaged villages in limbo
- Alaska Legislature passes sweeping crime bill raising age of consent to 18 on last day of session
- Alaska’s oldest original lighthouse will soon open to the public for the first time
- Snag with Seward cruise dock reroutes ships to Whittier
- Trump wants a more loyal Senate. Murkowski says he’s sabotaging that.
- Anchorage Assembly considers public safety advisory commission reboot
- Alaska House weighs negotiated compromise cutting taxes for Alaska LNG project
NPR National News
- After Stephen Colbert's viral talk show parody, CBS backs down from copyright action
- Trump to get 'routine annual' medical exam 7 months after last visit to Walter Reed
- Trump says more countries should normalize ties with Israel in any Iran deal
- In Beirut, refugee girls and women learn more than self-defense in martial arts class
- Pope Leo takes aim at big tech in sweeping encyclical on AI
- COMIC: To raise a confident little talker, learn to speak 'parentese'
- 'My body carried me,' Elizabeth Smart says. Now she's celebrating it
- This big university system is embracing AI. Students and faculty aren't all on board
- In the 'biggest book giveaway in history' WWII soldiers received pocket-sized reads
- Spin to win: How this life insurance company turns healthy habits into a game