Mark Sabbatini
Reporter at Juneau Empire
Reporter at Capital City Weekly
Editor of the world's northernmost alternative newspaper
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3 days ago |
juneauempire.com | Mark Sabbatini
Kamaile Levale, 9, said she’s been a bit nervous having a film crew follow her around at school and music performances the past two weeks. But there’s also a thrill of knowing a wider audience may soon experience more than just the music she and her classmates are playing.
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4 days ago |
juneauempire.com | Mark Sabbatini
Sarah Dunlap says her adult daughter was born with a developmental disability that requires extensive home-based care and “her life not possible without her Medicaid support.” And despite Congressional Republicans talking about protecting the most vulnerable from proposed cuts to the program, she’s not reassured.
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5 days ago |
juneauempire.com | Mark Sabbatini
This is a developing story. A freeze on state employee hiring and travel, as well as development of new regulations, was ordered by Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Friday in what he called cost-control measures due to the state’s increasingly perilous fiscal situation. Exemptions are being allowed for certain professions such as law enforcement employees and situations such as “essential public safety or mission-critical duties,” according to a press release issued by the governor’s office.
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5 days ago |
juneauempire.com | Mark Sabbatini
Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995, and 2005. The stories include names, AP style, and other content of their eras. This week in 1985, a special session is becoming less likely, the governor and legislative leaders agree, but that question won’t be answered until the final gavels come down in the House and Senate sometime in the next three days.
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6 days ago |
juneauempire.com | Mark Sabbatini
The Juneau Assembly is again looking to provide local funds to make up for recent federal cuts by the Trump administration, this time by providing $130,200 to prevent local public libraries from closing one day a week and reducing purchases of new materials. However, the funds will not restore the Library Extension program that provides materials statewide, primarily to remote communities without libraries, which is scheduled to end July 1.
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BREAKING NEWS: Entire North Pole expedition season cancelled at Russian-operated Barneo ice camp due to political turmoil, depriving scores who paid 20,000 Euro and sometimes much more of their "once-in-a-lifetime" expeditions. https://t.co/AqVzMP617O
Major storm alert for Svalbard/Longyearbyen on Thursday: Hurricane winds of 160 km/h in some areas, extreme avalanche danger, residents told order to evacuate homes in at-risk areas may be issued Wednesday: https://t.co/qB0rCcw3hF https://t.co/z1jm1NVeQh
Polar bear attacks person during cruise ship shore expedition in Svalbard. Story from local English-language newspaper: https://t.co/XgIQi40mQB