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    Articles by Peter Segall
    Governor stands firm on mask mandate, announces travel rule changes
    Governor stands firm on mask mandate, announces travel...
    By Peter Segall • July 28, 2020 6:30 pm

    ‘If we can’t have distance we have a mask.’

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    An image from the Department of Health and Social Services’ free materials made available to business owners. DHSS partnered with other departments and agencies to create Alaska-themed signs and materials to encourage social distancing and other health guidelines during the Covid-19 pandemic. (Courtesy Image | Alaska Department of Health and Social Services)
    State releases Alaska-themed materials encouraging COVID-19 precautions
    By Peter Segall • July 1, 2020 11:24 am

    Sign, sign, everywhere a sign.

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    Courtesy photo | Colleen Torrence                                Marcella Livemond (left) and her niece, Colleen Torrence, pose in an undated photo.
    ‘A death that wasn’t theirs’: Local woman says...
    By Peter Segall • July 1, 2020 2:30 am

    Deceased was listed as Juneau resident, her niece says she never lived here.

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    University of Alaska regents cut 39 programs across the system
    University of Alaska regents cut 39 programs across...
    By Peter Segall • June 10, 2020 5:38 pm

    Cuts, mergers and reductions.

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    University of Alaska president says difficult changes are coming
    University of Alaska president says difficult changes are...
    By Peter Segall • June 3, 2020 2:30 am

    Regents to meet next week.

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    After nearly a month, CARES Act funding is heading out
    After nearly a month, CARES Act funding is...
    By Peter Segall • May 20, 2020 4:15 pm

    Uncertainty remains.

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    Plaintiff in Legislature case won’t seek further action for now
    Plaintiff in Legislature case won’t seek further action...
    By Peter Segall • May 20, 2020 2:30 am

    He still thinks its unconstitutional.

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    Courtesy photo | Alaska’s Digital Archives                                 Then-Gov. Bill Walker and then-Lt. Governor Byron Mallott speak across Tlingit canoes amid canoe events for Celebration 2016.
    Former Lt. Gov, Juneau mayor Byron Mallott dies...
    By Peter Segall • May 13, 2020 5:17 pm

    ‘He was larger than life.’

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    The City and Borough of Juneau is expecting $53 million in federal relief, but what it can be used on is still not entirely clear. The Assembly Finance Committee is meeting to discuss the funds Wednesday evening. (Peter Segall | Juneau Empire File)
    CARES Act money is coming, but use is...
    By Peter Segall • May 13, 2020 2:30 am

    Congress could change the rules.

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    AP Photo | Gregory Bull, File                                 A woman walks before dawn in Toksook Bay, Alaska, a mostly Yup’ik village on the edge of the Bering Sea. A judge has ruled in favor of tribal nations in their bid to keep Alaska Native corporations from getting a share of $8 billion in coronavirus relief funding — at least for now. In a decision issued late Monday, April 27, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C., said the U.S. Treasury Department could begin disbursing funding to 574 federally recognized tribes to respond to the coronavirus but not to the corporations.
    Judge sides against Native corporations in CARES Act...
    By Peter Segall • April 29, 2020 5:46 pm

    Tribes says corporations aren’t governments.

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    Oil tank train cars sit idle Tuesday, April 21, 2020, in East Chicago, Ind. The world is awash in oil, there’s little demand for it and we’re running out of places to put it. That in a nutshell explains this week’s strange and unprecedented action in the market for crude oil futures contracts, where traders essentially offered to pay someone else to deal with the oil they were due to have delivered next month. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
    Oil production continues in Alaska even with low...
    By Peter Segall • April 22, 2020 5:00 pm

    Still not free at the gas station.

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    Peter Segall | Juneau Empire                                Patrons wait outside a cannabis business in Juneau on Monday.
    Cannabis industry rolls along despite pandemic
    By Peter Segall • April 22, 2020 2:30 am

    It’s not all flower.

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    Cruise companies extend delay, cut trips to Alaska
    Cruise companies extend delay, cut trips to Alaska
    By Peter Segall • April 15, 2020 8:00 am

    No tourist ships, no tourist dollars.

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