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2/27/13 A state Senator says the price tag for funding religious or private schools is $60 million; A Senate panel considering a bill to change when insurers can consider credit scores; A remembrance of Attu boy evacuated from Aleutians to Japan

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Anchorage, AK – Democratic Rep. Harriet Drummond multiplied the estimated number of kids attending private and religious schools times the funding formula for public schools, to come up with the $60 million price tag for allowing public funding of private and religious schools.
An Alaska Senate panel discusses whether to allow insurers to consider credit scores in deiviswions about renewing private insurance policies.
Nick Golodoff, author of the book "Attu Boy," has passed away at the age of 77. In this rememberance, from a 2012 interview, he describes the Japanese evacuation of Attu that sent him to Japan for three years at the age of six during World War II.