Today, I had the opportunity to call in to a press conference held in Washington D.C., given by Dr. Paul Anastas, the EPA Assistant Administrator for Research and Development. The first round of toxicity testing data has been released today. Testing is ongoing, and the EPA plans to continue press briefings as more information becomes [...]

This clever spoof of That Darn Cat comes from Mudflatter Blooper!  Eureka California…. Illinois…. whatever.  There’s actually a Eureka in Alaska too!  But Ronald Reagan didn’t go to college there either.

Governor Girl’s Revenge By Donald Craig Mitchell For those of us who had a ringside seat in Alaska from which to watch it happen, Sarah Palin’s take-no-prisoners rise from small town mayor to tabloid celebrity who moves through the hard-right circles in which she now travels like the rock star she has become has been [...]

Remember that email that was blasted out to everyone who ever donated to Sarah Palin’s (il)legal defense fund?  The one that decried the “vicious campaign” perpetrated by left-wing activists to destroy her, and was sent at exactly 2:18pm Alaska time?  It talked about all the “hysterical commentaries” from the lamestream media about the ruling that her legal defense fund [...]

Here’s another report from the Stanislaus campus of CSU, where Mudflatter ‘HonestyInGovernment’ attended the protest of Sarah Palin’s speech.  You can also see his excellent online photo album HERE.   By HonestyInGovernment (HIG) My perception of the events leading up to the protest were kind of crazy. I knew I was going down there to capture [...]

(UPDATE:  Another opportunity to “brave the rain” today is by attending the “Town Hall Meeting on Crime.” Put on by the East Anchorage Legislators and Assemblymembers, I’ll be attending to here answers directly from Anchorage Police Chief Mew.  Please be at East High Commons by 7:00 pm!) Those Alaskans prone to a more cynical outlook might say that [...]

So, here’s another installment of State of Alaska.  What do you think? How would you like to get this delightful compendium of news in your in box every weekday morning?  If you like what you see, send an email to StateOfAK@gmail.com and put SUBSCRIBE in the subject line! June 28, 2010 907 News 1) Genetically [...]

Thanks to thatcrowwoman for her amazing photo gallery of Hands Across the Sand from the Gulf Coast. Here in Alaska we were thousands of miles away, on a grey day, and a dark sand beach, but this is where our thoughts were. ******************************** By thatcrowwoman Boots, er, flip flops, on the ground reporting from Hands [...]

Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia is dead at 92. Robert C. Byrd, , a conservative West Virginia Democrat who became the longest-serving member of Congress in history and used his masterful knowledge of the institution to shape the federal budget, protect the procedural rules of the Senate and, above all else, tend to the [...]

Richard Mauer has an outstanding piece in the Anchorage Daily News today about the falsification by BP of blowout preventer tests in its North Slope facility, and the fact that BP itslef was part of the “joint investigation” which investigated the allegations. Despite the possibility of criminal charges and the fact that BP was already [...]

Welcome to our newest Voices from the Flats contributor, Mississippi Fisherman. Deep thanks to him for sharing his story, which is the story of so many others who are out there not knowing what to do, as they watch this tragedy unfold in front of their eyes.  Yesterday at the Oil Palace in Texas, on [...]

~Benlomond with an awesome shout out to Mudflats and our ‘moosecot!’ Mudflatters Benlomond and Honesty in Government were “boots on the ground” at Sarah Palin’s controversial appearance at the CSU Stanislaus campus. Here’s a diary on the protest demonstration from Benlomond. Up at 5am, and online to confirm location on the assembly area, and to [...]

Two-thirds of the Mudflats crew at today’s Hands Across the Sand event on the shore of Cook Inlet. Anchorage-ites, don’t forget the Solidarity Picnic Sunday on the Park Strip from noon to 4pm. You don’t have to be a union member to thank them for a 5 day work week, and so much more. Democratic [...]

Just returned from the Hands Across the Sand event in Anchorage. Thanks to those who have sent photos from your location! I’ll be posting them soon. Over 100 people gathered in Anchorage at Pt. Woronzof to say NO to offshore oil drilling and YES to a future with clean renewable sources of energy. The sooner [...]