Until last week, we believed that both Democratic candidates for governor were good choices. We believed that both put the interests of Alaskans first, supported Democratic achievements, and could be effective leaders working across the aisle to pass legislation and to support policy and existing legislation that benefited the people of Alaska. Many of our [...]

Netroots Nation 2010 is drawing closer! I’ve been a bit quiet lately, mostly because I”m preparing for the trip and getting my other life in order, which is always more complicated than you think it will be. I did have a strange encounter the other night which I’ll share. We haven’t had a good “Brian [...]

It feels strange weighing in on a house of worship thousands of miles away, well, at least for me. A proposed mosque two blocks from Ground Zero has Palin tweeting on a Sunday afternoon. According to Politico: Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s City Hall hit back at Palin, first tweeting “@SarahPalinUSA mind your business.” The aide, policy [...]

Things are now getting very dicey between BP and the government. They have found a methane leak, and BP is saying they don’t want to comply with federal demands.  Push has come to shove.  NEW ORLEANS — A federal official says scientists are concerned about a seep and possible methane near BP’s busted oil well [...]

Post and Photos By Carl Johnson I have lived in two rather large metropolitan areas: the Twin Cities, with its two million people, and Los Angeles, with, well, way too many people.  I chose to move to Anchorage eleven years ago not because I was looking for urban, but because I was looking for wild [...]

By Bill Sherwonit Over the past 15 years or so, while writing about the wild side of Alaska’s urban center, I’ve had many conversations and email exchanges with local wildlife manager Rick Sinnott. Now and then, I’ve had a chance to share his company and enjoy his dry wit, sometimes in meetings and occasionally while [...]

Sorry for the belated open thread! Here’s another in the Alaska Women Not for Sarah Palin series, whcih I’ll have to figure out how to end eventually. I probably have enough pictures to last a year, even if I didn’t quit half way through! This one I thought was interesting, because nobody has ever done [...]

~Thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more! Time?  Late. Time Magazine is a tad late to the party on this one. At Techpresident, Nancy Scola dives into the numbers from Palin’s political action committee, Sarah PAC. Among the expenses? $22,000 to the firm Aries Petra Consulting, including $10,000 in [...]

Alaskans for Truth Rally, September 2006, downtown Anchorage

Just coming in is news that the gusher in the Gulf of Mexico has been capped, and that no more oil is flowing. This from the New York Times: “I am very excited that there’s no oil in the Gulf of Mexico,” Kent Wells, a senior vice president for BP said in a teleconference on [...]

Alaska Women Reject Sarah Palin Rally, September 2008

Coffee spit warning! Put down your drinks. This was a great Twitter exchange between Sarah Palin and Linda Kellen Biegel. Sarah and family are going to do a little mountain climbing on the highest pieak in North America, it seems. Not sure where Palin actually meant because “Sweettooth” does not come up on any searches [...]

Oy. Bristol “abstinence” Palin and Levi “Playgirl” Johnston have apparently buried the hatchet, and plan to start a new life together. The young sweethearts announced their reconciliation, and engagement to be wed on the pages of US Weekly Magazine. And no, they didn’t tell the ex-half-governor before hand.  She learned it from the newsstand, unless [...]

~Speed hump at 13th and F St…. You’re our ‘Speed Hump of the Week!’ Wednesday.  It’s not just “Hump Day” any more.  Now it’s Speed Hump Day. We here in Anchorage have been a bit preoccupied with speed humps lately.  Why? You might think it’s because they help keep people safe in residential areas when [...]