Articles from the August 2, 2023 edition


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  • Mayor wants Anchorage to buy plane tickets for homeless people to leave town

    Zachariah Hughes and Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News|Aug 2, 2023

    With colder months approaching, Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson said July 24 that the city likely will not use a municipally owned sports arena as a large-scale homeless shelter again this winter, and to prevent people from freezing to death on the street, his administration wants to purchase plane tickets for people who want to travel to communities within Alaska or warmer climates out of state. “I am not going to be responsible for people freezing to death on the street. … I’m doing everything I can to keep that from happening,” Bronson said du...

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    Aug 2, 2023

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  • Federal grant will help determine if a squid fishery can work in Southeast

    Kyle Clayton, Chilkat Valley News Haines|Aug 2, 2023

    Which came first, the magister squid fishery or the magister squid market? A Juneau charter fishing operator was recently awarded a $230,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to find out, and fishermen might soon have a chance to diversify in the face of declining fish stocks and high barriers to entry in other markets. "It's the chicken and the egg. Do you start researching how to catch them or if there's a market?" said Richard Yamada, who has dedicated the past...