This week’s toe toon.

The Alaska Native Policy Center at First Alaskans Institute is sponsoring a free throw shooting contest Friday at the 64th Annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament to help increase Alaska Native participation in the 2010 Census.

The 2010 Paralympic games in Vancouver did not turn out the way Juneau’s Joe Tompkins had intended.

Last week’s comprehensive and uncompromising report by bankruptcy examiner Anton Valukas on the demise of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has put into sharp relief what many of us have long expected: that fraud and potential criminal conduct were at the heart of the financial crisis.

Ultimately, I suppose, what we’re talking about is a clash between the sweet by and by and the fierce urgency of now.

Last year the House of Representatives and the Senate passed different versions of health care “reform.” But both houses need to pass identical bills before a measure can become law. The easiest way to accomplish that would be for the House to simply pass the Senate bill as is.

An A1 story in Friday’s Empire gave the incorrect location for the Exxon Valdez grounding. It occurred in Prince William Sound, not Prudhoe Bay.

Juneau police and fire officials reported:

Passengers pick up luggage Friday at a makeshift baggage claim area inside the Juneau airport terminal. Construction of the new baggage pick-up is scheduled to continue for approximately two more weeks.