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Weyhrauch
among subsistence constitutional amendment sponsors
Proposed subsistence constitutional amendments have been introduced in
both the State Senate and House.
The proposals were in the first release of pre-filed bills today in
advance of the legislative session that begins January 21st.
Juneau Valley Representative Bruce Weyhrauch is the sponsor of the House
measure. He says the measure is similar to the subsistence bill that
passed the House in the last Legislature and requires that the question of
a rural priority be sent to Alaskan voters.
Weyhrauch says a solution is necessary in order to return management of
fish and game to the state.
Anchorage Senator Fred Dyson has also pre-filed a subsistence
constitutional amendment in the upper chamber.
Bill pre-filed to help women
stricken by cancer
Twenty Democrats in the State House and Senate have jointly pre-filed a
bill to extend a law designed to help women receive breast and cervical
cancer screening and treatment.
Anchorage Senator Bettye Davis and Juneau Representative Beth Kerttula are
the prime sponsors.
The current program is due to expire June 26th.
Local cable rates going up...some
channel changes planned
Juneau's lone cable company, General Communication Incorporated, is
raising it's monthly rates and making some channel changes.
GCI's Southeast Regional Manager, Terry Dunlap, outlines the rate hikes.
He says digital service is going up one dollar. The preferred service,
which consists of 60 channels including the basic package, increases by
two dollars. The HBO premium service and Showtime are both going up one
dollar. There will be no rate increase for the basic service.
The rates will change in February.
Dunlap says the rates are going up because programming costs and fees the
cable company pays to the channel providers have gone up about 13 percent
over the past year.
KIRO, the CBS Seattle based affiliate that airs on channel 14 will be
dropped to make way for a local station which is the CBS affiliate.
GCI will add FX, a cable channel that features NASCAR racing, movies and
syndicated shows.
FX will air on channel 40. American Movie Classics currently on channel
40, will move to channel 46 replacing BRAVO, which will be dropped.
GCI is dropping BRAVO because NBC recently bought BRAVO and has not
indicated what the future of the channel will be.
Dunlap says Trio, an arts and entertainment channel will replace BRAVO on
digital channel 206.
Two hurt in one traffic accident
Good Samaritans came to aid of a woman pinned by her overturned vehicle
over the noon hour yesterday.
Fire and police responded to a call of a vehicle over the embankment on
Glacier Avenue near the Pioneer's Home just before 12:30 yesterday
afternoon.
Police Captain Tom Porter says they were told that there was two people in
the car and one was pinned. They were also told that citizens who stopped
to help were holding the vehicle upright.
The vehicle was moved and the pinned person was released.
Two women were transported to Bartlett Regional Hospital. Their injures
were not thought to life threatening.
Murkowski to chair subcommittee
Senator Lisa Murkowski has been named to chair a subcommittee of the
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Late yesterday Murkowski was selected as chair of the panel's Water and
Power Subcommittee.
It is unusual for a freshman senator to be named to chair a subcommittee.
The Water and Power Subcommittee reviews all the electric power,
hydroelectric and water proposals that will go before the full committee.
The subcommittee is important to Alaska because it reviews small-scale
hydroelectric projects on federal lands as well as other water and
power-related issues.
Young will continue to run
Transportation panel
Alaska Congressman Don Young has been selected unanimously by the House
Republican Steering Committee to retain his chairmanship of the
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Young also was picked as vice
chairman of the Resources Committee.
Haines Borough moves to find a new
manager
The Haines Borough is beginning to bounce back from the death of its
manager Marco Pignalberi.
He died of a heart attack late last year.
Economic Development Director Robert Venables was among the guests on
KINY's Capital Chat this morning. He says they are moving forward. Former
Manager Vince Hanson still lives in Haines. Venables says he's agreed to
manage the borough on an interim basis until a permanent replacement is
found.
Alaska to eye another type of
aircraft
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines says it will look at Airbus models when it
shops for new planes. Alaska now operates a fleet of Boeing 737's and
M-D-80's.
Company official Jack Walsh says the airline is reviewing its fleet
expansion plan with an eye toward reducing costs and improving
productivity.
Bears drop first game of year
The Juneau Douglas Crimson Bears men were defeated for the first time this
season by Wasilla in the Dimond Prep Shoot Out in Anchorage yesterday. The
final score was 57 to 50.
Juneau is now 4 and one on the season Wasilla is 3 and 2.
The Bears are scheduled to play this afternoon at 4-45 The game will be
broadcast by KINY.
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