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Stage Talk: Doubt and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Brothers Wayne and Shane Mitchell play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Jamie Newsom joins Mark Muro to discuss Doubt with veteran director Dick Reichman and actress Bernie Blaine. Set against the backdrop of a...

Anchorage Police using multi-agency teamwork against city gangs

The police department's counterattack against Anchorage's youth gang problem is beginning to show results.  That assessment came in a report given yesterday to the Anchorage Assembly's Public Safety Committee. Len Anderson, KSKA - Anchorage

Community Forum: Methamphetamines

Host Nellie Moore is joined by Harvey Goehring from the Drug Enforcement Agency, "Terry" and "Sarah," who are both recovering meth addicts, and Adriene Active, prevention specialist with United Way and organizer of the...

APD's crimes against children unit receives big funding boost

The Anchorage Police Department has just received a nearly 300-thousand dollar federal grant to use for investigations into internet crimes against children. Len Anderson, KSKA - Anchorage

Encounters is back!

Producer of Encounters, Richard Nelson  Its a program exploring the natural world and human relationships to the environment in Alaska. Recorded in the wild by award winning nature writer and cultural anthropologist Richard Nelson, Encounters...

Hawaiian political and social action group meets in Anchorage

Making leis at the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs 48th Annual Convention, Photo by Len Anderson, KSKA - Anchorage Anchorage may not be the site of this years's Alaska Federation of Natives conference, but the...

Eagle River Town Center gets new life

Last Friday, Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich announced that the city and the Alaska Club chain want to purchase the Valley River Center building. If the deal works out, the municipality's half would become...

Howard Weaver on KSKA

On a Friday evening in late September the UAA Honors College welcomed Howard Weaver, former editor of the Anchorage Daily News, to campus to discuss the ever-changing media scene. Weaver's speech, "Information Saturation: Sustaining a...

Stage Talk: The Wizard of Oz & Audition for Murder

This week host Mark Muro is joined by director, Ron Holmstrom and Emily Decker, who plays Dorothy in the Anchorage Community Theatre's production of The Wizard of Oz. Based on the book by L....

Discrimination Dilemma

When refining an anti-discrimination policy, is there a danger that one can ban both good and bad discrimination?  For that matter, is there such a thing as good discrimination? These questions and more surround...

Heavy public turnout delays assembly I/M decision

Last night's Anchorage Assembly's public hearing on the city's vehicle Inspection/Maintenance Program was a resounding success - so much so that there was no time left for the assembly to decide whether the program...

Community Forum: John Duffy and Patty Sullivan

Matsu Borough Manager, John Duffy and Public Affairs Director for the Matsu Borough, Patty Sullivan join host Nellie Moore for a conversation about the Borough and its widely reported and sometimes controversial agenda....

Anchorage Assembly officially admonishes colleague

Shortly before it adjourned last night at 11 o'clock, the Anchorage Assembly officially admonished member Paul Bauer for a violation of the municipal ethics code. It's the first such action since the ethics...

Anchorage School Board studies teacher recruitment woes and joys

Last night Anchorage school board members heard a detailed report saying being in Alaska has almost as many disadvantages as advantages when it comes to teacher recruitment. Recruitment Plan, Accountability Report for the 2007-2008 School...

Anchorage student numbers fall below district expectations

Anchorage School District, Memorandum #74 (2007 - 2008) At the end of September this year, the total student enrollment in the Anchorage School District was 611 students less than in September last year. But...

Line One: Preventing, Predicting, and Treating Heart Failure

This week on Line One, Dr. Woodward and his guest, local cardiologist, Dr. Ankie Amos Dyke of the Alaska Heart Institute discuss preventing, predicting and treating heart failure. Dr. Dyke attended Duke University School...

Anchorage Assembly to consider dropping I/M testing

Will the city's 25 year-old vehicle Inspection/Maintenance program become history? On Tuesday, the Anchorage Assembly will consider a proposal doing away with the biannual inspection. Anchorage Assembly Agenda I/M Task Force Len Anderson, KSKA -...

Stage Talk: The Diviners

This week host Mark Muro visits with David Edgecomb, director of The Diviners at the UAA Mainstage Theatre along with actor and assistant lighting designer Peter Wallack. Set in Southern Indiana in the 1930s,...

Banned Books Week: Carol Comeau reads Harry Potter

In honor of Banned Books Week, Carol Comeau read from one of her personal favorites, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling at the Banned Books Read Out held at Title Wave...

Banned Books Week: Rebecca Sheir reads "And Tango Makes Three"

AK's Rebecca Sheir was one of the few who read a children's book, making sure to share the illustrations with the audience while reading And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson...