Kayla Desroches

Trump Wins Kodiak District on Super Tuesday

Kayla Desroches/KMXT While Ted Cruz won the State of Alaska’s vote on Super Tuesday, the majority of Kodiak Republicans who turned up to vote at the Presidential Preference Poll decided Donald Trump is the leading candidate. Ten percent of Kodiak’s registered Republicans went downtown to voice their opinions and, out of that, 101 people registered as Republicans at the same …

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Fighting for Library Program in Face of Cuts

Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO Alaskans giving public testimony this week on the House’s budget proposal oppose cuts to many areas. The Republican-led majority released a budget this week that included $145 million more in cuts than Governor Bill Walker’s budget. It would reduce spending on everything from public libraries to senior benefits. Roughly 100 people testified Monday and Tuesday on the budget. …

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KIB Assembly Reefers Back to Marijuana on Thursday’s Meeting Agenda

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly is still building the groundwork for making a decision on marijuana businesses within borough boundaries. At its last regular meeting, the assembly considered several difference ordinances which would postpone the decision on marijuana and decided its goal was to give Kodiak more time to consult with a committee of representatives on how to …

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Republicans to Pick Favorite of the Candidates

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Today is Super Tuesday and that means Republican Alaskans will voice which candidates they like the best at the Alaska Presidential Preference Poll. The Alaska PPP is run through donations rather than state funds and it’s not a primary, but according to the GOP’s website, it is better attended than the party’s caucuses had been prior to a …

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Kodiak Ancestral Remains to Return Home

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Chirikof Island. Image courtesy of the Alutiiq Museum Kayla Desroches/KMXT After a struggle that’s lasted more than a decade, ancestral remains long removed from the Kodiak Archipelago will soon return home. Following excavation in the 1960s, they traveled to the University of Wisconsin and ended up at Indiana University Bloomington. They’ve been the subject of study and research papers, but …

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City Council Discusses Investments

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak City Council held a regular meeting last night, and discussed city investments – both in the financial sense of the term and with regard to equipment that will benefit city operations in the long run. City Manager Aimée Kniaziowski said the city has invested up to $14 million and has had poor returns. “One of the …

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The Alaska Fisheries Report – Feb. 25 2016

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Coming up this week, earning a license will soon become an even greater challenge for fishing guides in Western Alaska, legislators look into raising fisheries taxes to help fill the state’s budget gap, and you’ll hear a story about a message in a bottle – canned salmon style. We had help from the Alaska Historical Society’s Anuli Grantham in Kodiak, …

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KIB Assembly and Kodiak City Council Talk Fisheries Analyst

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak City Council and Kodiak Island Borough Assembly held a work session last night and shared their thoughts on their joint fisheries analyst, Heather McCarty, whose contract the council and assembly had previously disagreed on extending. The council had spoken for a minimum one year extension while the assembly agreed on a six month extension. One assemblyman, …

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Coast Guard Cutter Visits Port Lions

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Native Village of Port Lions received a visit from the Coast Guard Cutter SPAR on Thursday. According to crew member James Bushman, it was the first cutter to drop by the community since a visit after the destructive Good Friday earthquake of ’64. He says they received a warm welcome last week. “The community invited us to …

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