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Michael Tavoliero: Why Alaska must reverse Medicaid expansion
Must Read Alaska
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July 5, 2025
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO The State of Alaska now faces a pivotal decision that will define its financial trajectory and societal integrity for decades. Since the administrative expansion of Medicaid in 2015, the state has been weighed down by...
U.S. Supremes agree to hear case that could impact girls’ sports in Alaska
Alaska Watchman
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July 5, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases that deal with state laws that prohibit biological males from competing in girls’ sports. The states of West Virginia and Idaho have asked the nation’s high court to intervene. In State of West...
Le Coq Sportif: Dan Mamane wins the match and chooses Alexandre Fauvet as CEO
FashionNetwork India
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July 4, 2025
The new owner of Le Coq Sportif is known. The brand, owned since 2005 by Marc-Henri Beausire's Swiss group Airesis, is now the property of the consortium led by the Franco-Swiss Dan Mamane. Le Coq Sportif The Paris Business Court ruled in favor of...
U.S. senators sought to insulate Alaska from the harshest impacts of the budget reconciliation bill. Will it be enough?
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Shelves are well-stocked at the Chugiak-Eagle River Food Pantry inside a Presbyterian church in Eagle River, Alaska, on Friday, April 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) As congressional Republicans passed a bill that will add new red tape to...
Alaska's iconic Mount Marathon race features talent-packed field
Alaska Public Media
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July 4, 2025
More than a thousand runners are set to scramble up and back down Seward's Mount Marathon on Friday for the 97th running of the oldest mountain running race in North America. Also known as "the toughest 5k on the planet," it starts and ends...
Alaska Gov. Dunleavy asks some lawmakers to stay away from special session he called
Alaska Beacon
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July 4, 2025
In a meeting with Republican members of the Alaska House of Representatives on Wednesday, Gov. Mike Dunleavy had what he called an “unorthodox” request. He asked that the 19 members of the House’s Republican minority caucus stay away from the...
Rosenthal landscape art exhibit opens July 8 at Cordova Museum
The Cordova Times - Alaska
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July 4, 2025
A new exhibit of Cordova artist David Rosenthal’s oil landscape canvases is coming to the Copper River Gallery of The Cordova Museum July 8 -Aug. 2, featuring the renowned painter’s work on “Painting Light at the Ends of the Earth.” An artist’s...
A Grip on Sports: Baseball’s season is long and full of losses, some that you can blame on the players, others the manager must own and some where the responsibility is split
The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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A GRIP ON SPORTS • The plan was simple. Not work today. Go on a hike. Revel in the revelations the outdoors provides. On Independence Day. The plan changed. Give an assist to Alaska Airlines. And a managerial decision. ••••••• • Actually a couple...
There were 899 American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled in Ganado Unified School District schools in 2024-25 school year
East Arizona News
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July 4, 2025
Art Harding Chief Operations Officer at Arizona Department of Education | linkedin.comArt Harding Chief Operations Officer at Arizona Department of Education | linkedin.com There were 899 American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled in...
Body of hiking cruise passenger found in Alaska
United Press International (UPI)
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July 4 (UPI) -- Rescuers in Alaska recovered the body of a 62-year-old woman who went on a hike in the mountains near Juneau after leaving the Norwegian Bliss cruise ship. Marites Buenafe, a medical doctor from Kentucky, was a passenger on the...
Alaska wrestlers take on Olympic and world champion at Juneau camp
Juneau Empire - Alaska
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July 3, 2025
“My goal?” Amelia Fawcett, 18, asked after a session in the Juneau Girls Wrestling Clinic on Wednesday. “I want to be an Olympic champion, like Amit.” The present and future of Alaska’s women’s wrestling program mingled on the mat this week with...
Yukoners invited to friendship rally on Canada-Alaska border
Yukon News - Alaska
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July 4, 2025
July 5 event plans to promote good Canada-U.S. relations with highway-side rally in the White Pass Residents of Skagway, Alaska and the Yukon are planning to join together at the international border in the mountains of the White Pass to celebrate...
Missing doctor who left cruise ship in Alaska to take a hike found dead
Yahoo News
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Alaskan authorities say they've found the body of a 62-year-old woman who disembarked from a cruise ship to take a hike and didn't return. Marites Buenafe — who's listed on the University of Kentucky Healthcare system's website as a doctor — was...
TV news flops covering the Big Beautiful Bill | Opinion
AZ Central - Arizona
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The U.S. House passed a bill making the 2017 tax cuts permanent and enacting spending cuts. The bill, criticized for favoring high-income earners and adding to the deficit, passed the Senate with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance....
‘There is probably no sport in the world which is so misunderstood’: 75 years of Formula 1 according to the Country Life archive
Country Life
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July 4, 2025
‘Though motor-racing undoubtedly appeals to a much larger public to-day than ever before, and the activities of certain professional drivers are well-publicised, in one form or another it has been going on since before the turn of the century.’...
Alaska public media managers warn of potential impact from federal cuts (copy)
Fairbanks Daily News Miner - Alaska
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A dozen officials and general managers for Alaska’s public media organizations across the state spelled out the potential negative impact should the U.S. Senate pass a rescission bill spearheaded by the White House on July 18. The recision bill...
Fourth of July fireworks: Where to watch on TV, streaming
Oak Ridger - Tennessee
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Happy Fourth of July and Independence Day! It is going to be a busy holiday weekend as a record 72.2 million Americans are expected to travel between Saturday, June 28, and Sunday, July 6, according to AAA (American Automobile Association), a 2.4%...
Guam one of the first to hear Maoli's new music live at Saturday concert
Pacific Daily News
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Maoli, the headliner for part four of Hafaloha’s Concert Series, returns to Guam after headlining part one in July 2024, and the artist is debuting songs from their new album, “Last Sip of Summer." “We just released a new album, so we’ll be...
Sports jobs: Jared Boshnack is a true YES man!
Newsday - New York
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Jared Boshnack paid his dues to get where he is today, not only as a longtime YES Network employee, but as a Yankees fan. In his early teens, he was a Newsday paper boy, delivering back pages that often featured the mid-1980s Mets to his neighbors...
Letter: Murkowski could have put herself, Alaska and the nation on the right side of history
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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During a trip to Anchorage earlier this year, Sen. Lisa Murkowski said “We are all afraid ...” First of all, they are words I never want to hear from a leader, and secondly, Sen. Murkowski, my guess is that you are not nearly as afraid as the...