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Spring courses offered at UAS Sitka Campus

https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/interview_011312.mp3 Click here for iFriendly audio. Bob Love and Michelle Wheeler discuss spring course offerings at the University of Alaska...

Sitka Bar Ass’n offers MLK Day legal advice

https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/interview_011212.mp3 Click here for iFriendly audio. Christine Pate and Teka Lemade discuss their plans to offer a free legal clinic in honor of Martin Luther King...

Fri Jan 13, 2012

https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/news_011312.mp3 Click here for iFriendly audio. Sen. Bert Stedman anticipates busy legislative session due to redistricting. Kootznoowoo Inc. petitions federal government to take...

Thu Jan 12, 2012

https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/news_011312.mp3 Click here for iFriendly audio. Sitka Chamber hears pitch for oil tax reform. Sitka Sen. Bert Stedman responds that Alaskan oil will remain valuable, and the TAPS...

In the catbird seat

A pair of Northwestern Crows enjoys a break in the winter weather Friday afternoon (1-13-12) in Sitka. Rain, wind, and now snow, have been the norm since New Year's.

Stedman: Oil taxes, election year politics could show up in session

As the Alaska Legislature prepares to gavel into session on Jan. 17, KCAW and other CoastAlaska public radio stations are conducting interviews with local lawmakers about their priorities and goals. KCAW spoke with state Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka.

Fortitudinous!

Sitka 7th grader Joanna Davis celebrates her second straight championship in the Blatchley Middle School Spelling Bee. Davis, and thirteen other intrepid spellers, braved words like "intrique" and "competently" over nine rounds of competition at Kettleson Library Wednesday night (1-11-12). 6th grader Zofia Danielson was the runner-up. The championship word: "manifestation."

Butcher: Oil tax reform aims for “sweet spot”

State Commissioner of Revenue Bryan Butcher made a pitch on behalf of oil tax reform in Sitka on Wednesday. He told the Sitka Chamber of Commerce that House Bill 110 was not perfect, but it was an attempt to find a "sweet spot" that would provide tax revenues, but not discourage oil developement. He argued that lawmakers in 2007 could not have anticipated that prices would double in so short a time. The state has been salting away surpluses of roughly $2-billion a year since ACES became law, but Butcher said that the high taxes were stifling development on the North Slope, and that oil companies were investing more elsewhere.

Wed Jan 11, 2012

https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/news_011112.mp3 Tensions high as assembly rejects preliminary roof design for Pacific High School. Assembly work session explores options for increasing tax revenues, cutting costs....

Assembly rejects Pacific High roof design

The Sitka Assembly approved an alternate design for Pacific High that puts a sloped roof on the building, removing the school district’s wish to use the roof as a meeting and gardening space. The debate grew heated to the point that Mayor Cheryl Westover ordered the microphones turned off when another Assembly member was called out of order.