Focus On Community

Recently, a survey was completed highlighting the future needs of Juneau’s growing senior population, housing and services for Juneau’s seniors, including a recently completed Market Demand Study supporting the need for senior assisted living in our community.

Join a panel of concerned citizens, including Sioux Douglas, Chair of the Assisted Living for Seniors Task Force and Chair of Senior Citizens Support Services, Inc., this Monday night at 7 on KTOO-NEWS as we explore the findings and recommendations of the committee, live on the air.

That’s a special program about seniors’ needs, this Monday night at 7 on KTOO-NEWS-Juneau, 104.3 FM and on-line at ktoo.sandbox.5mts.com.

Though legalization of marijuana is top in the news, Alaska continues to deal with the suffering that can be caused by alcohol, especially fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.  Be sure to tune in to Mind Over Matter this coming Monday at 7pm on KTOO when Dr. Elaine Schroeder will interview KJ Metcalf and Ric  Iannolino, Juneau activists working to stop the FASD crisis and help those affected by it.  To learn more, tune in Monday at 7pm on KTOO.

 

Join Rich Moniak for this month’s program about ISIS and the Middle-East.

Tonight’s show features two interviews about the 51 day war in Gaza –  one by phone with Naomi Dann of Jewish Voice for Peace and one with Haytham, our exchange student from Gaza. The program is hosted by Rich Moniak.

Be sure to tune in to Mind Over Matter this coming Monday at 7pm on KTOO when Dr. Elaine Schroeder will interview prominent Asian scholar and human rights activist, Sulak Sivaraksa who is in town to  speak at UAS and to the Juneau World Affairs Council.  The focus of Monday’s show will be to examine the principals that guide Sivaraksa’s activism, those of compassion and the interconnectedness of all that lives.   So join Elaine Schroeder and Sulak Sivaraksa this Monday, 7 pm on KTOO for a very meaningful dialogue.

Fifty years ago this month Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which gave President Lyndon Johnson the green light to enlarge the war in Vietnam. What really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin? Did we repeat that history four decades later when the country invaded Iraq? Norman Solomon, longtime journalist and founder of The Institute of Public Accuracy, Rootsaction.org and the new whistleblowing site ExposeFacts.org, will discusses questions and more with Rich Moniak on the next Peace Talk.