After nearly 300,000 signatures on a letter to MSNBC  from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee asking for the return of Keith Olbermann to Countdown, and countless emails, phone calls, and faxes, the response has come. He’ll be back on Tuesday night after a brief suspension. Olbermann was suspended for violating company policy and donating a [...]

~Thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more!   Neighbors and Cupcakes and Bears – Oh, my! For the faint of heart, and the thin of stomach lining, the ADN’s Julia O’Malley got a peek at the first episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, and she watched it so you don’t have [...]

Mudflats contributor Rick Steiner will give a presentation, with some astonishing images, on the Gulf Oil disaster on Sunday. He will also talk about other spills, including the Dalian, China spill, and Nigeria. Marybeth Holleman will briefly talk about how the Gulf spill felt to Alaskans who withstood the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and will read a very short excerpt from her book [...]

The Urgency of Campaign Finance Reform: A Meditation on Election Day, 2010 by Elstun Lauesen Let me begin with a little Ginsberg: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient [...]

I just received the sad news that we have lost a dear member of our community. Elizabeth van Brooks passed away on October 31, 2010 much too young, at the age of 46. You know her by her frequent comments and contributions using her screen name Letters from Europe. She was a Forum Moderator until [...]

Update on Peepgate.  It seems that Joe McGinniss is none too pleased at his former neighbor Peeper Palin. Through his attorney, McGinniss is demanding that his image be removed from the first episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, entitled “Mama Grizzly.”  The proper terminology for the female brown bear defending her cubs is really “angry sow” but I’m [...]

Alas, we have been ignoring her but she has not fulfilled her end of the bargain and gone away. Far from it. Last week I received a lovely email invitation from TLC asking me if I’d like to attend an open house event in New York City for bloggers and online media to learn more [...]

Every once in a while, I’ll be treated to a little present in my in-box that just makes me smile.  An alert popped up for “Mudflats blog” on Google.  And I clicked. It was a story written about the email that fell into my hands from Todd Palin to Joe Miller.  Remember? When Todd had [...]

Once again Matt Felling of KTVA sits down for a conversation with a member of Alaska’s congressional delegation. This time it’s Senator Mark Begich (D). He remarks about the surprisingly low turnout in Alaska’s election and the large number of Alaskans who remained undecided until the last moment. He’s calling the race for Murkowski. “I [...]

Tune in today for the post-election “Thursdays in the Mud.”  I’ll be on with Shannyn Moore from 1pm-2pm Alaska time on KUDO 1080am.  You can stream it at kudo1080.com  Shannyn is on every weekday from 11am-2pm. Also, if you’re looking for something to do tonight, come to the Taproot Cafe at 3300 Spenard Road in [...]

In honor of our new Speaker of the House, a sign from the Rally to Restore Sanity in Washington D.C. h/t Mudflatter RB for the picture

Incumbent Republican Congressman Don Young is re-elected for his 20th term. Rep. Harry Crawford, Young’s Democratic challenger Conservative radio host Dan Fagan who urged listeners to sign up as a write-in candidate to protest of the Division of Elections Democratic Rep. Chris Tuck held his seat Democratic Rep. Pete Petersen held on despite a strong challenge [...]

I’ll be online today, Wednesday November 3, at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, 11 a.m. Pacific, 10 a.m. Alaska time to take questions on the election results in Alaska, and how they will impact the state and the rest of the country. You can submit questions for the queue HERE. I look forward to discusssing what [...]

Well kids, I’m beat. Tomorrow I’ll have an election analysis for The Huffington Post and will be hosting a chat at The Washington Post, talking about the Alaska election. I’ll post more details when I have them. For now, goodnight. Tomorrow we rise to fight again.

8:40pm The polls have been closed for 40 minutes. Sitting here at Election Central in Anchorage.  No results yet. The place is packed with local and national media. None of the candidates are here yet.  This is as busy as I’ve ever seen it.  Check back for updates. I’ll be posting information as I get [...]