ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Many shops and restaurants in Anchorage are trying to start businesses while still pursuing local mandates. Several in downtown Anchorage have moved to city streets, and in turn, speculated calls about the involvement of Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz in their expansions, which the mayor vehemently denies. …
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President Donald Trump, TikTok and a dangerous precursor to democracy
This story draws several threads together. Microsoft is willing to pay about $ 50 billion for an app that is primarily used to watch short, funny videos made by other users. The app currently has 100 million US users and analysts believe it could grow so fast that it will …
Read More »Colleges take different approaches to following COVID-19 as students return to campus
Students returning to their bedroom at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have a new tool to help them navigate campus this semester: a COVID-19 dashboard. Updated weekly, the CV-19 dashboard tracks various metrics, including the number of tests performed, the number of positive cases, isolation at school …
Read More »County Health Officer discusses risk-benefit analysis for allowing children to return to personal instruction | Lost Coast Outpost
### Dr. Humboldt County Health Officer Teresa Frankovich goes maskless in today’s video of media availability. She explains up-front that people complain that they cannot understand them. “[W]they want to make the information accessible to everyone, ”she explains, adding that her interviewers are distant and masked. Here is the Q-and-A: …
Read More »Jupiter’s enormous moon Ganymede has perhaps the largest impact button in the solar system
Scientists have discovered what they believe to be the largest impact crater in the entire solar system, with scars covering a large part of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. The scientists behind the new study wanted to reconsider observations of a host of previous NASA missions studying the massive moon, which …
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