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GOOD MORNING Labor secretary talks H2-B visas, China trade policies in Fairbanks

By Sam Friedman Training Center and the Univer- [email protected] sity of Alaska Fairbanks Com- munity and Technology Center. For the second time in a week, Acosta’s tour follows a vis- a U.S. Cabinet secretary toured it from Defense Secretary Jim the Interior with U.S. Sen. Dan Mattis, who came to Eielson Air The weather. Sullivan. Force Base and Ft. Greely last Mostly cloudy skies Labor Secretary Alexander week on his way to China. will be begin to clear Acosta came to Fairbanks on Elsewhere, Acosta’s Labor later in the afternoon. Sunday with Sullivan as part Department has touted of an Alaska visit that includes High today ...... 71 the 18-year-low unemployment stops in King Salmon, Fair- rates in the U.S.. At a brief news Low tonight ...... 51 banks and southcentral Alaska. conference Sunday afternoon U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, left, U.S. Secretary of Labor In Fairbanks, Acosta had lunch at the pipeline training center, Alexander Acosta, and state Sen. Click Bishop hold a news Sunrise: 3:13 a.m. with local union leaders and conference Sunday at the Fairbanks Pipeline Training Center. Sunset: 12:35 a.m. toured the Fairbanks Pipeline ACOSTA » A5 SAM FRIEDMAN / NEWS-MINER

WEATHER » A7 SPOTLIGHT • JAMES MENAKER • • • Slow start for Iditarod race registration

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Only 28 mushers signed up for the Trail Race on the first day, about half of the normal number. The race, in its 47th year, has been beset by turmoil over its leadership, a LEAVING positive drug test on a top team, and the loss of top sponsors. On Saturday, Dr. HOME Morrie Craig, who has been in charge LeBron James jumps of canine drug testing for more than 25 ship lands with a years, resigned after being accused of splash with Lakers threatening a musher. SPORTS Those signing up include: defend- Page B1 ing champ and former champions Jeff King and Mar- tin Buser. Interior mushers include Jessie Royer, Aliy Zirkle, Matt Hall, • • • Jeff Deeter and Shaynie Traska of Fairbanks and Two Rivers; and Jessie Holmes of Nenana. The ceremonial start of the 2019 Idi- tarod takes place Saturday, March 2, at 10 a.m. in downtown Anchorage at the corner of Fourth Avenue and D Street. Call the newsroom at 459-7572.

ROE V. WADE AT CENTER OF PICK Canada begins Republican Sen. Collins would oppose court pick hostel to placing tariffs landmark case. Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival executive director James Menaker poses in his NATION office Friday morning. Menaker is preparing for the upcoming festival. Page A7 ERIC ENGMAN/NEWS-MINER on US goods

By Paul Wiseman and • • • Tracey Lindeman SAVING A Increasing availability, ASSOCIATED PRESS OTTAWA, ONTARIO — Canada began LIFE imposing tariffs Sunday on $12.6 bil- Father, daughter lion in U.S. goods as retaliation for the share rescue Trump administration’s new taxes on experience helping people steel and aluminum imported to the KRIS CAPPS United States. Page A3 Some U.S. products, mostly steel and iron, face 25 percent tariffs, the same pen- New festival director takes the reins alty the United States slapped on import- ed steel at the end of May. Other U.S. • • • By Robin Wood falls on Menaker’s experi- At Joel’s Place, Menaker imports, from ketchup to pizza to dish- [email protected] enced shoulders. got experience working washer detergent, will face a 10 percent SOURDOUGH JACK: Born and raised in Fair- with high-risk populations. tariff at the Canadian border, the same as “Wish someone The lime green walls of banks, the 43-year-old At Morning Star Ranch, America’s tax on imported aluminum. James Menaker’s office in Menaker moved after grad- he learned more about Trump had enraged Canada and would have paid west Fairbanks are covered uating from Lathrop High working with the disabili- other U.S. allies by declaring import- me that much to with whiteboards featuring School but returned in 2000 ties and delays communi- ed steel and aluminum a threat to leave home.” extensive calendars, times, to start his own family. ty. Menaker has taken an America’s national security and there- spreadsheets, names, loca- “There’s something dis- interest in working with fore a legitimate target for U.S. tar- tions and diagrams. tinctly Alaskan about how disadvantaged subgroups iffs. Canada is the United States’ sec- This year is Menaker’s first I’m built,” he said. His wife, since his son was diagnosed ond-biggest trading partner in goods, go as Fairbanks Summer he added, is “adventurous.” with autism at age 3. just behind China. Arts Festival executive direc- Upon returning in 2000, Helping the disadvantaged Speaking Sunday in Leamington, tor, and the whiteboards are the couple worked as youth is now a central tenant in his Ontario, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to help him get a handle on pastors for a campus minis- life and has led him to blog thanked Canadians for standing united the whirlwind of events. try at the University of Alas- about taking care of a child against President Donald Trump’s sanc- For nearly 40 years, the kan Fairbanks, after which with an intellectual devel- tions. He urged Canadians to “make festival has held classes in Menaker took the executive opment disorder at gospel their choices accordingly” in consider- 20-plus artistic disciplines, director positions at Joel’s [email protected]. ing whether to buy American products. and now, continuing and Place and most recently building upon that legacy Morning Star Ranch. MENAKER » A4 CANADA » A5

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