We’ve all been listening to Sarah Palin for the last couple days saying things like “Both the lieutenant governor and I have offered to fly out there and see what we can do personally.”  And then we hear Nick Turner, the local resident whose letter and cry for help, resulted in the current media firestorm about [...]

Thanks to outstanding fundraising efforts, our intrepid videographer, Dennis Zaki is packed up and ready to go to Emmonak to put the eyes of the wider community on Alaska’s rural energy crisis. He’s actually been packed up and ready to go for a couple days now. He’ll be flying in to Bethel, and traveling on [...]

Tune in to KUDO 1080am now to hear Senator Hollis French on the Demo Memo! Click HERE for the live feed.

The Stevens trial.  That story that we thought was going to be the biggest news out of Alaska in a generation, is back in the news. The trial, with all its twists, turns and back-flips has proven to be far more complex, and difficult to follow than anyone could have imagined possible.  In a previous [...]

Here’s an update regarding the rural crisis in Emmonak, Alaska that has recently been revealed.  You can read the original posts  HERE, and HERE. The Alaska Report Goes to Emmonak Thanks to YOU! Thanks to generous contributions to the effort, many coming from Mudflatters, Dennis Zaki of The Alaska Report has raised enough money to pay [...]

While Palin’s lawsuit against the Federal Government to keep the polar bear from protection as a threatened species is still pending, another pesky white northern critter has reared its rubbery head to plague our “Damn the animals” governor. The federal government has now placed the population of beluga whales that inhabit Cook Inlet under the [...]

Tune in RIGHT NOW to hear CC on KUDO and her special guest Gryphen from The Immoral Minority blog.  They’ll be talking about the situation in Emmonak and how bloggers have helped, Sarah Palin and her opinion of bloggers, and more! Click HERE for the live feed. Call in at 907-569-1080

As I was lulled by the sweet sound of little chirping crickets coming from the Governor’s office today, and while the progressive media and Alaskan bloggers worked this story hard, I wondered. I wondered to myself, “What might a different kind of governor have to say about the rural energy crisis that Governor Palin’s administration [...]

If you didn’t get the opportunity to hear Nick Tucker talk to CC on KUDO, he had a message for all those who have stepped up to help rural Alaskans who are having to make the choice of whether to keep their children and elders warm, or fed. “It’s a blessed day.  It’s like angels [...]

Four days ago, a cry for help went out via the Bristol Bay Times.   Many of us have known that residents of Alaska’s rural villages are having a hard winter.  The weather has been unusually cold, and prices of heating oil and gasoline have been astronomical.  Add to that a disastrous collapsing salmon fishery in Bristol Bay [...]

We knew it had to happen.  Brace yourself for the Sarah Palin Action Figure Collection. (Are you braced?) You can order your very own at HeroBuilders.com.  And you’re not stuck with just one option, either.  There’s black suited “Business Sarah”, there’s “I-don’t-want-to-know-what-people-are-doing-with-this” Schoolgirl Sarah, and there’s some kind of strange “Superhero Sarah” in a flowing [...]

It takes a lot for me to blog about the weather.  Today, after almost two weeks of punishing sub-zero temperatures, it’s finally warmed up.  The bad news?  It poured rain, then snowed, then froze, then rained, then froze again.  Pair this with winds up to 85mph with gusts expected up to 105mph on the Hillside, [...]

Beth Kertulla from Juneau!  And a wild uproarious round of applause is heard across the mudflats! Rep. David Guttenberg (Fairbanks) is minority whip and the three Finance Committee seats went to Rep. Woodie Salmon (Chalkyitsik), Rep. Harry Crawford and Les Gara (both Anchorage). “This was a very productive caucus meeting, and the entire team is energized and looking [...]

Just heard that Matt Claman, Assembly Chair turned Acting Mayor, has announced that on Monday he will reveal the names of the appointments to his economic advisory panel.  Anchorage’s new acting mayor plans to meet regularly with a yet-to-be-named panel of economic and business experts to keep up to speed on how global financial and credit [...]

Even though the election has only just finished, and we haven’t even started the new administration yet, some Alaskans (including myself) are already champing at the bit for 2010. Think of the possibilities!  Don Young will be up at bat again for his TWENTIETH term.  Each successive election has whittled away at Young’s inevitability, and [...]