
Avery Ellfeldt
Reporter, The Alaska Desk at Alaska Public Media
Reporter for @AKpublicnews' Alaska Desk. Past: @politico, @EENewsUpdates, @npr, @BGOV. CO born, AK based 🏔️
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1 week ago |
ktoo.org | Avery Ellfeldt
Hundreds of people came to Haines last weekend for the Great Alaska Craft Beer and Home Brew Festival — including Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Friday evening, as people streamed into town, she gave a wide-ranging interview that touched on issues from school funding to canceled FEMA grants and Haines’ troubled Lutak Dock project. Murkowski said she is particularly concerned about looming cuts to Medicaid.
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1 week ago |
alaskapublic.org | Avery Ellfeldt
Hundreds of people came to Haines last weekend for the Great Alaska Craft Beer and Home Brew Festival — including Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Friday evening, as people streamed into town, she gave a wide-ranging interview that touched on issues from school funding to canceled FEMA grants and Haines’ troubled Lutak Dock project. Murkowski said she is particularly concerned about looming cuts to Medicaid.
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1 week ago |
ktoo.org | Avery Ellfeldt
The cruise industry is suing Skagway over a new policy that makes a controversial change to how the borough taxes excursions sold by cruise companies. Skagway charges local sales tax on tours that start and finish in the borough. Historically, that excluded commission fees that cruise lines slap on top of tour prices in exchange for arranging the excursion.
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1 week ago |
alaskapublic.org | Avery Ellfeldt
The cruise industry is suing Skagway over a new policy that makes a controversial change to how the borough taxes excursions sold by cruise companies. Skagway charges local sales tax on tours that start and finish in the borough. Historically, that excluded commission fees that cruise lines slap on top of tour prices in exchange for arranging the excursion.
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2 weeks ago |
ktoo.org | Avery Ellfeldt
On a recent Friday night, people streamed into a wood-paneled building on a dock overlooking the Lynn Canal. A local performance group, the Chilkat Dancers, performed a Tlingit song and dance while the crowd looked on. The space sat empty for years. But now the building is at the center of the Chilkoot Indian Association’s new effort to launch a tourism brand to bring in extra dollars – and to reduce their reliance on the federal government. “It has taken us 10 years.
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