You may be hearing about how Sarah Palin has decided to cooperate with the Troopergate investigation. Most people who haven’t been following the ins and outs of this whole sordid affair, may think that this is a good thing. They may think she’s had a change of heart. They may have heard something about another [...]

Sarah Palin finally got to meet with a foreign head of state! Her crash course in international diplomacy has moved from the memorization of talking points, to actual face-to-face meetings with several world leaders at the U.N. Palin and McCain plan to meet with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko. Palin was [...]

Night, Mudflatters! Thought I’d leave you with this very amusing photo from the host of The Alaska Report, Dennis Zaki. He is also a photographer extraordinaire. Why is this photo amusing you ask? Just looks like something hanging on a doorknob… Well, the doorknob belongs to one Senator Ted Stevens of Girdwood, Alaska. The paperwork? [...]

Today’s the day. After three unsuccessful attempts to get the case thrown out, jury selection in the Ted Stevens trial will begin today. Ted Stevens is kind of like Queen Victoria, or Ramses the Great. Many of his ‘subjects’ simply can’t remember a time he wasn’t in power. To imagine someone else in the Senate, [...]

Alaska politics is making strange bedfellows these days. Last week Wasilla conservative Republican, and Alaska State Senate President Lyda Green spoke with KUDO, the progressive talk radio station. Green was one of Palin’s mentors at the beginning of her career. But years went by, and the two began to disagree. There were power-plays, and barbs [...]

Mudflatters from the ‘upper left’ corner of the U.S. and the ‘lower right’ corner of the U.S. had similar missions this weekend. They turned out, each in their own way, to support the Obama campaign. The small gathering of about 24 Valley residents that gathered last week decided to meet again. This time their numbers [...]

I have a confession to make. I was driving to work on Friday, approaching a familiar overpass on the Seward Highway, when I noticed a hand-painted sign that someone had put up so it would hang over traffic.  I’ve seen signs on this overpasses before.  Sometimes it’s a birthday greeting, sometimes a welcome home message.  [...]

So, how badly will Sarah Palin lose the Vice Presidential debate?  Because, lose she will…but to what degree?  Not one to relish in the misfortune of others, I’ve been having a mental battle with myself when thinking about the upcoming VP debate. Good Me:  There’s no doubt she’s going to lose.  And she’ll probably embarrass [...]

Is Sarah Palin becoming an albatross around the neck of John McCain? Two weeks ago, the thought that we would be asking this question seemed unlikely at best. Alaska’s own ‘hockey mom/beauty queen’ governor had become the overnight darling of the political world. She had everything – spunk, principles, smarts, beauty, ethics, and an attitude [...]

The huge Anti-Palin rally in Anchorage last weekend got a tremendous amount of media coverage, and support from around the nation. People needed to know that not all Alaskans support Palin as the VP nominee, or share her values. Some may even like Palin as a governor, but find her completely inappropriate on the national [...]

The Ethics Investigation into what has become known as Troopergate lives to fight another day. After waiting 35 minutes for Todd Palin and two state administrative employees to appear under subpoena before the state Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Hollis French condemned their refusal to testify and the attorney general’s broken promise that seven other witnesses [...]

Yes, you read that right. It really has gotten that absurd. I just had coffee with fellow blogger and Anchorage talk radio phenom Shannyn Moore. While we were fuming over the McCain hijacking of the Troopergate investigation, she got a call from MSNBC. They asked if she’d come on Keith Olbermann’s show tonight to talk [...]

Ready for an adventure? The Mudflats Forum is up and running! The wonderful, amazing, talented, and sleepless Snoskred, whom you may remember as a fellow Mudflatter, has been working diligently over the last week to create a wonderful new home for conversation and interaction. It’s like a whole new beautiful Alaskan lodge, just waiting for [...]

Ed O’Callaghan, erstwhile top terrorism prosecutor from Washington D.C., now holed up in Anchorage Alaska giving legal advice in the Troopergate investigation, announced that the “First Dude” will not be cooperating. He will ignore his subpoena, O’Callaghan says, because he no longer believes the investigation is “legitimate.” Why? Didn’t say. It must have something to [...]