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Anchorage, Alaska - FM 91.1
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A Closer Look: Providence’s Senior Medicare Clinic | Quietly and so far without the fanfare of the dedication ceremony, the long awaited Senior Care Center opened at the Providence Health and Services Alaska Campus in Anchorage. It’s already begun accepting clients and making appointments. It’s goal is help to a particular under served group of health care seekers in the city, mainly seniors [...] | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Closer Look: Ballot Measure 2 | On August 24th, Alaska voters will decide the fate of Ballot Measure Two, which requires parental or guardian notification or a special court waiving before a minor receives an abortion. On A Closer Look, KSKA’s Len Anderson presents both sides of the Measure Two issue. Alaskans for Parental Rights Alaskans Against Government Mandates State of [...] | 8/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Closer Look: Ballot Measure #1 | On this week’s A Closer Look, KSKA focused on Ballot Measure One which will appear on the August 24th state primary ballot. KSKA’s Len Anderson hosted the program. Clean Team Alaska Stop the Gag Law Addressing Alaskans: Both Sides of Ballot Measure 1 (13 May 2010) Download Audio (MP3) | 8/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Closer Look: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center at the Anchorage Museum | Photo by Chuck Choi. This afternoon on A Closer Look, we’ll take an audio tour of the Anchorage Museum’s new Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center that opened in May. Center Director Aron Crowell will guide us through some of the exhibits as well as explain how they came to Anchorage from the Smithsonian’s Museum of the [...] | 7/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Closer Look: Dr. Ted Mala | Tuesday afternoon on KSKA, A Closer Look features an Alaska Native physician who specializes in bridge building. First Dr. Ted Mala surmounted national borders with an organization devoted to studies in circumpolar health. Now, as a director of South Central Foundation, he’s bridging the western medicine with traditional Native healing. You can hear more about [...] | 7/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Closer Look: Alaskan Authors | Alaskan writers have been busy this year and two local favorites have new books out. On Tuesday, June 15′s A Closer Look, Haines Author Heather Lende writes about her horrific bike accident and long recovery in, “Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs.” And Anchorage writer Craig Medred examines the heartbreak that comes with scratching from [...] | 6/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Closer Look: Anchorage Spring Ballot Propositions | On this edition of KSKA’s A Closer Look, we examine the major propositions on the April 6th, Anchorage municipal ballot. Four involve capital projects and purchases totaling around 40 million dollars, plus operation and maintenance costs. The fifth proposes a west Anchorage land exchange. MOA: Elections MOA: Elections – Frequently Asked Questions Len Anderson, KSKA [...] | 3/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Closer Look: Rod Perry | As this year’s Iditarod draws to a close, top dog drivers are moving as fast as they can to Nome. But Rod Perry remembers the first Iditarod race in 1973. On A Closer Look, KSKA’s Ellen Lockyer talks with author and old time musher, Rod Perry about dogs, sleds and the changing race to Nome. [...] | 3/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Closer Look: Social Security Commissioner, Michael Astrue | The Social Security administrative appeals process represents one of the largest judicial systems in the world. Most of the millions of disability benefits claims filed annually are decided at the state level, but about three quarters of a million claims are heard by an administrative law judge. That process has dragged for Alaskans who had [...] | 3/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Closer Look: Anchorage Economic Forecast for 2010 | A Closer Look is a half hour program on KSKA that gives us the opportunity to explore beyond our news stories and offer you additional insights into the events and people helping shape our community. This week’s A Closer Look focuses on Anchorage’s economic forecast. Will the full force of the national recession finally hit [...] | 1/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Closer Look: Hanukkah celebration | A Closer Look is a half hour program on KSKA that gives us the opportunity to explore beyond our news stories and offer you additional insights into the events and people helping shape our community. This week’s A Closer Look focuses on the first ever Hanukkah celebration at Providence Alaska Medical Center, an extended version [...] | 12/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Closer Look: Dr. Jane Lubchenco, NOAA | Dr. Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, spent a week in Alaska recently to gather information and input on the health of the nation’s oceans. In a news story aired on Alaska News Nightly a couple weeks ago, she talked with APRN’s Lori Townsend about the Obama Administration’s plans to explore [...] | 9/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Closer Look: Macon Roberts | Photo by Zen Naylor, The Northern Light On this week’s A Closer Look, we present the story of an Anchorage School Board member Macon Roberts whose 1940s boyhood in the Mississippi Delta cotton fields instilled a life long belief in the power of education to change lives. A Closer Look is a half hour program [...] | 5/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Closer Look: Debtor’s Rights | Today KSKA introduces A Closer Look, a half hour program that allows us to present in more depth either that background of our news stories or to profile often unrecognized people performing special work in our community. On the first Closer Look, we presented the complete interview that formed the basis for a story on [...] | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 14 Episodes |
