The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly is considering a new sales tax on cannabis to raise funds for a community well-being fund. But a local cannabis business owner is pushing back, asking the assembly to consider taxing alcohol or tobacco instead.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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KMXTOn this weeks' episode with host Katherine Irving, Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska will see more government launches, Alaska Public Media reports on Alaskans who had their voter status deactivated, Saltery Creek sees restrictions on its sockeye run, Kodiak College receives funding for the third year of its CAMP program, KFSK reports that the summer Southeast commercial Dungeness crab season ended three weeks early, and Kodiak's stock car racing scene picks up speed.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin discusses the upcoming performing arts season with Molly Miller, executive director of the Kodiak Arts Council, and Pam Foreman and Kristina Van Hoogmoed with Fairwind Players.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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Mikayla Finnerty/Alaska Public MediaOn this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with host Katherine Irving (filling in for Terry Haines), KMXT's Davis Hovey reports that state lawmakers have ordered an audit of the Board of Fisheries, KDLG's Jessie Sheldon reports on the decline of women set netters in Bristol Bay, and Alaska Public Media's Mikayla Finnerty reports on fishing conditions at Anchorage's Ship Creek.
Alaska News
- Democratic hopeful Tom Begich says Alaska should get a 'fair share' of resource wealth
- State says the Seward Highway project will make it safer. Critics call it a boondoggle.
- Alaskans face August vote on ending unlimited campaign donations
- Deadly 2025 Bering Air crash caused by ‘a series of preventable breakdowns,’ NTSB chief says
- 23 Alaska legislators ask state to restore voters wrongfully removed from the rolls
- The science of straying: How climate change is driving the northward expansion of salmon range
- Evidence of measles virus found in Anchorage wastewater
- Anchorage police pair with recovery peers to get people off the street and into treatment
- Lawmakers say third Alaska LNG session is Dunleavy’s last chance to make a deal
- Enstar appeals RCA decision, saying natural gas storage can’t wait
NPR National News
- How Midwest doldrums became a gift for Kevin Morby
- Pakistan's ruling party leads in Kashmir vote despite boycott call by banned group
- Under China's new 'unity' law, Tibetans fight to preserve language and culture
- Progressive Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan's Democratic primary for Senate
- A Russian barrage in Ukraine's capital kills 17 as air defenses fall short
- Progressives see biggest win yet in Michigan, while Trump flexes power over GOP
- Nicotine pouches can be marketed as 'lower risk' than cigarettes. Is that dangerous?
- How Deadheads became rock and roll's greatest renewable resource
- Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick
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