Today, on the Shannyn Moore Show, I got to break the news on KUDO 1080am that right wing talk radio host Eddie Burke’s show on KBYR has gone dark. >poof!<  Lights out.  The man who put the “S” in Racist (see above) is on the air no more.   Burke says he resigned, others say it was the “you can’t [...]

RE-ENTRY By LoveMyDogs Dedicated to all of my friends in the race but especially Colleen… You are nearing Nome, running on the beach, straightening your racing bib that you picked up in Safety so you don’t look quite such a mess for the cameras as you feel.  You find yourself crying and thanking your dogs [...]

That’s right!  Tonight the Shannyn Moore Show is taping and it’s going to feature a citizen panel!  That means you could be one of Shannyn’s guests on the show that airs on KYES on Saturdays at 4pm. All you have to do is send an email to mooreupnorth(at)gmail(dot)com and tell Shannyn and her producers why [...]

And the sleds keep gliding across the finish line in Nome… Our teams are doing great, and we’ve got two across the line: Aliy Zirkle came in at 16th place.  The top 10 still eludes her, but next year is just around the corner! Michelle Phillips came in at 27th with those handsome lead dogs. [...]

OK, as much as I want to just copy and paste the entire thing here, I don’t want to make the Anchorage Daily News mad at me.  They live off clicks, and I don’t so I’ll send you over there, and then you can come back here.  And while you’re over there, do leave a [...]

OK, Juneau… Are you ready to rally? Remember how much fun you had last fall standing in the rain with your fellow rational humans protesting the nomination of Sarah Palin to become our Vice President?  The surest cure for frustration is to get out and do something, so here’s your chance to howl a bit [...]

Here’s the third installment in our series of Iditarod and dog mushing posts from Mudflatter LoveMyDogs. I’ve added to it some pictures I took at the Iditarod start in Anchorage nine days ago. Many thanks to LoveMyDogs for these wonderful insights that add so much firsthand knowledge and really enhance our knowledge and enjoyment of [...]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  Here’s hoping your day is festive, and a celebration of all things Irish.  Remember, wear green or you might get “affectionaetly pinched” according to Wikipedia.  Then again, maybe you might NOT want to wear green.  I suppose it all boils down to personal preference. And if you do indulge in the [...]

Today at 2:59pm Alaska time, three time Iditarod champ Lance Mackey glided across the finish line in Nome, Alaska to do what no musher has done before.  He became the race’s only four-time consecutive winner, and he even did it sober this time. The Iditarod champ, a throat cancer survivor whose body has been wracked [...]

The sun is shining, the days are longer, the snow is melting.  It’s that time of year.  Step outside and breathe deep. Ahhhhhh…. Nothing like the smell of property tax assessments in the morning.  Nobody really likes it, but we realize that our communities need things like roads, and firefighters, and we at least realize [...]

And the Caper of the Day is brought to you by: polluterwatch.com Three Greenpeace activists deployed a floating banner in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building in plain view of a favorite destination for polluter lobbyists — Senator Lisa Murkowski’s Washington DC office. The banner exposed Murkowski’s close relationship with dirty energy interests [...]

Hey, guess what? I agree with Sarah Palin on something! OK, I also agree with her on ACES, “Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share” which created a new system of taxation on oil companies which resulted in much profit for Alaska, and  much hand-wringing with the oil companies. Cry me a river. I’m still waiting for [...]

This past weekend, almost 400 Coffee Parties took place across the U.S.  Each one was different, had its own agenda, and asked its own questions.  The people who attended were those who recognize that something is wrong in this country, but they don’t think drawing a Hitler moustache on something is the way to fix [...]

Here’s the second installment of our Voices from the Flats  Iditarod Report from LoveMyDogs who is tending the kennel of Iditarod musher Colleen Robertia while she’s busy with other things! In her piece, she’s referring to Lance Mackey, the current frontrunner and reigning champ; Jeff King, former champ and until recently the frontrunner in this [...]

Every once in a while, I like to share an actual “mudflats story.”  Some might call this a slow news day story, but I think it’s pretty exciting. A rare seahorse is recovering after being found stranded on mudflats on the UK coast, aquarium chiefs have said. The spiny seahorse was discovered near Weymouth, Dorset, [...]