KFSK Midday Magazine

Gov. Mike Dunleavy introduced a bill last week taking aim at protestors and others who block highways and other public avenues; Petesrburg High School debuts its spring play tonight - Peter and the Starcatcher is a prequel to Peter Pan; a conversation with Petersburg's L'xeis Diane Benson about her role in HBO's "True Detective."

Gov. Mike Dunleavy is demanding additional concession from lawmakers before he'll sign a bipartisan education bill; employees of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, or SEARHC, in Sitka have threatened to organize, following a recent rollback of their benefits; Petersburg's high school basketball players had a packed schedule at home last weekend, playing against two different teams in four days.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy cast doubt on the future of an education funding bill shortly after the Senate sent the bill to his desk; an ordinance before the Petersburg Borough Assembly would increase the land the Borough is allowed to sell without a public vote; more that 100 people rallied in Juneau to urge city and state officials in Alaska to support a ceasefire in Gaza.

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski says the effort to put Alaska king salmon on the endangered species list is misguided; researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks are looking at how ocean acidification is affecting Pacific razor clams; KFSK's Shelby Herbert talks to District 2 Rep. Rebecca Himschoot about education funding.

The Alaska House passed a wide-ranging, bi-partisan education bill late yesterday; sport fishermen won't be able to fish for king salmon at Petersburg's Blind River Rapids this summer because of low projected returns; the Juneau Assembly unanimously approved more than $3 million dollars in loans toward two housing projects earlier this month.

Petersburg's Hospital Board will go over the status of the new hospital facility at their regular meeting tonight at 5:30 p.m; last week, Wrangell's traditional dancers and elders recorded dances for a statewide audience in celebration of Elizabeth Peratrovich Day; a new study of kelp could help scientists predict how underwater ecosystems are likely to change over the next one hundred years.

The Alaska House took up a wide-ranging education bill on Monday; attorneys presented oral arguments in a long-running dispute over fishing rights in Metlakatla last week; the Petersburg Vikings were in Metlakatla last weekend and struggled hard against the Division 2A team.

The Petesrburg School Board meets tonight and will cover budgetary business; the U.S. Forest Service will build seven news cabins in Southeast Alaska in the next two years. One will be on Petersburg's Woodpecker Cove Road; three major seafood processors in Alaska have announced plans to sell of their plants or temporarily close for the upcoming fishing seasons.

The Alaska Senate is working on rejecting several of the dozen executive orders Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued earlier this year; the Sitka Assembly voted down a proposed ordinance that would have limited bus traffic during cruise season; the U.s. Army Corps of Engineers has wrapped up a multi-year, multi-million dollar dredge project in Petersburg's South Harbor.

Petersburg's teachers are negotiating a new contract with the school district;

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski is urging Alaskans to put the state first in the coming general election;

and a store in Ketchikan is looking at creative ways to cut down on plastic.