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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Terry is joined by Art  Schultz in a special Match Day Membership Drive edition of the Midday  Report.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A group of state  senators not only sliced up the turkey over Thanksgiving, but also carved-out Senate leadership roles. Residents  of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough will be getting a lot more power from  the sun next summer. And residents near Eielson Air Force Base are  skeptical of the chosen method to clean up PFAs there.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: More Alaskans have been voting against letting state judges keep their jobs.  A euthanized Alaska black bear cub is the first in the country to test  positive for a highly contagious strain of bird flu. And the Bureau of  Indian Affairs will give more than $45 million to US tribes  to address  climate change.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines:  A contentious  battle over books is playing out in Homer. More than a fifth of the high  school population reports having used e-cigarettes in the last month.  The Food Bank of Alaska has handed out about 10,000 free frozen turkeys  and holiday meal kits over the last few days in Anchorage and the  Mat-Su.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Lack of funding may  cause Bethel to close its emergency shelter. Unalaskans welcome Aleutian  Airways’ first commercial flight. And Skagway’s borough assembly has  scrapped a plan to expand dock capacity, as questions remain about the  viability of the town’s largest dock.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A surveyor got stuck in  the mudflats near Girdwood yesterday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers  says they are moving forward with dredging Unalaska Bay. And the  U.S. Department of Agriculture is granting $3.6 million to Interior  Alaska villages to help improve water systems and landfills.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: State health officials are urging Alaskans to get flu vaccines and take other protective measures.  The city of Fairbanks is getting closer to demolishing the abandoned 11  story Polaris Hotel. And A totem pole that spent more than 100 years  far from home has returned to Haida village of Kasaan . Photo: The Polaris Hotel tower and an...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Wrangell residents are  using their lunchtimes to learn the critically endangered Lingít   language. Why are Alaska’s gas prices so much higher than other states?  And Alaska lawmakers are urging the FTC to block a proposed merger  between grocery giants Kroger and Albertson’s. (Photo: Matthew Faubion / Alaska Public Media)

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska lawmakers are  starting to think about picking teams. Candidates Palin and Tshibaka  cast aspersions on Alaska’s electoral system in the wake of  disappointing results. And a Palmer pilot died on Thursday, when his  small plane struck a cable and crashed into the Matanuska River.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Incumbent Governor Mike Dunleavy is very likely to win a second term. Craig needs a bigger cemetery. And the Sitka Assembly is moving forward with a long-planned seaplane project.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Local and statewide  preliminary election results are available. The Bureau of Land  Management is deciding what it should consider in a new environmental  review of the proposed Ambler Road. And does La Nina foretell a cool  Alaska winter?

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The  village corporation in Yakutat has been ordered by the state to change  the way it runs shareholder elections. St. Paul in the Pribilofs is  issuing a unique disaster/emergency declaration in light of snow crab  and red king closures. And Mike Motti, a veteran of Sitka’s Mountain  Rescue team, has died during a solo hik...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A landslide near  Petersburg on Halloween night was a close call for some nearby  residents. The director of the recently released movie “Till” studied  film at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. And trappers from Prince of Wales Island want more harvest opportunity in the upcoming wolf season.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines:  A game changing broadband project in Bethel and other communities in  the Y-K Delta has a new name. Anchorage Unangax̂ Dancers debuted a song  at AFN that welcomes ancestors. And this election features a concerted  effort to encourage Alaska Natives to participate.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska farmers and  ranchers make tough choices as costs rise and yields fall. An Alaska  wanderer has been declared missing. And Gubernatorial candidates Gara  and Walker have released a joint ad urging voters to rank one another  second.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A look at the Marine Mammal Protection Act on it’s 50th anniversary, with a view from St Paul Island. Middle school students in  Ketchikan have spent more than a month learning songs in languages from  all around the world. And kindergarten and first-grade students in  Anchor Point are learning how to play the violin at school. Studen...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska’s US Senate candidates have clarified their positions on abortion rights. House candidates took on salmon bycatch in Wednesday’s debate. And Angoon  residents have built their first traditional dugout canoe since the  nineteenth century.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Southeast Alaska’s summer season for Dungeness crab was worth about $10 million less than last year. Gov. Dunleavy continues to support Republican Charlie Pierce in the  governor’s race following a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against  Pierce, but Pierce’s running mate has dropped out. And the Alaska  National Guard rescued six str...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The U.S. Arctic Research Commission is meeting in Fairbanks today. A former Kenai Peninsula Borough employee is suing gubernatorial  candidate Charlie Pierce, saying she faced constant sexual harassment  from the former borough mayor. And:  Is Ketchikan a rural community?

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Candidates for US House  and Senate faced of at the Alaska Federation of Native Conference.  Metlakatla and Ketchikan have taken a step toward joining power grids.   And the NTSB reports leaking floats may have been a factor in both fatal  plane crashes that occurred in the past month. Photo: AFN attendees wave their Mary Pe...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Climate change policy  is a controversial subject at the Alaska Federation of Native  Convention. The Mat-Su School Board has adopted a bathroom policy for  transgender students. And some supporters of a Constitutional Convention  want to change how Alaska chooses judges.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: All four candidates for  Alaska Governor squared off in a recent debate. A Kenai man is turning  waste plastic into lumber. And the ACLU has joined supporters of  changing parole rules for offenders sentenced to long jail terms as  juveniles.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Juneau’s homeless  campground is closing for the winter, and campers wonder where to go  next. Tribes are beginning the first steps toward developing K-12  curriculums separate from school districts. And Ketchikan celebrates  Phillipino-American History Month with a festival.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The “Tustumena  Replacement Vessel” will be engineered to be a diesel/electric hybrid.  Former State Senate President Ben Stevens has died while hiking near  Seward. And there has been a break in one of four two-year-old missing  persons cases in Fairbanks.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Kodiak City Council  race has been decided. Boats blaze and sink in a Ketchikan harbor. And  energy providers on the Kenai Peninsula strategize as future gas  supplies become more unsure.