This beautiful icy windswept scene was captured from a pull-out right on the Seward Highway, heading south from Anchorage. This particular spot is called Beluga Point, named for the formerly plentiful beluga whales that could often be spotted from the shore. Now, the animals are rare and the subject of a lawsuit by the State [...]

“We don’t need no stinkin’ feds telling us what to do!” Ah, the mantra of the 49th state. It’s true that there are many great points to support local governance. Communities themselves are often the best at determining what the needs of their residents are – especially in areas that don’t fit the “norm” of [...]

Behold the Quitter Queen! A Ketchikan Resident models her outfit of the “Quitter Queen” Sarah Palin at the 25th Annual Wearable Art Show in Ketchikan, Alaska. The crowd goes wild. Where’s the love?

It was a little before Mudflats’ time as a blog, but Anchorage residents may remember the best piece of political theater since… OK, it was the best ever.  It all had to do with a conversation between Assembly members Dan Coffey, and Bill Starr when we all got to eavesdrop on – how shall I [...]

Thought I’d share our beautiful sunset tonight with you.  The peak on the horizon to the left is Mt. Redoubt, the volcano that made a hubbub not so long ago.  I still occasionally see a puff of steam come off the right flank, but all was quiet tonight.  The site of the proposed Chuitna coal [...]

By Shannyn Moore While preparing to jump out of a cake for Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday, Sarah Palin found time to serve up a fresh batch of Word Salad. My condolences to the transcriber who probably has a giant case of Post Traumatic Punctuation Disorder. The topic? Egypt, Reagan and 1 Timothy. Palin was asked [...]

I asked Mudflatters, when the matchup became clear, who they’d be rooting for to win the Super Bowl. It looks like The Mudflats is a Green Bay crowd. The results were: 1) Green Bay Packers (55%) 2) Whatever (23%) 3) Pittsburgh Steelers (22%) It’s a tough day to be a Steelers fan.  Being beaten by “whatever” is pretty [...]

You walk down the hall and turn into the kitchen. There you see me by the counter. My eyes fly open wide. I lean up slightly from a Pyrex pan. You see me with my mouth stuffed, barely able to close my lips together. “whut…” I manage to get out as crumbs of an unspecified [...]

If you’re in Anchorage today, you’re in luck! The Carrs on Abbott will be the spot to be as the Unitarian Universalist Youth hold a giant fundraiser to send the whole class to a youth leadership conference in Portland, Oregon this spring. Yes, the ever popular Krispy Kreme donuts will be available for sale just [...]

~Linda Kellen Biegel testifies at the School Board meeting Thanks to all who showed up last night at the special meeting of the Anchorage School Board. The room was packed, and the public testimony was moving, and heartfelt, and practical. We put our money where our priorities are, and nobody wants to live in a [...]

Only three more months of winter…

My now-13-year-old daughter expressed a great deal of angst this past summer over attending middle school in a different school zone. She can be somewhat shy so my husband and I were a little concerned. As it turns out, my daughter is excelling in seventh grade! She has been on the honor roll both quarters, [...]

This image is from an old friend and brilliant photographer, Dave Nitsche.  He did a great job of capturing the moment we’re all in, in one way or another. You can have fun checking out the rest of his work HERE.

It’s been a little while since we’ve heard from America’s least favorite Mayor. If you’d been speculating, perhaps, that the Mayor was visited over the holidays by the Ghost of the Municipality Yet to Come, and had had a transformational experience which left him filled with human compassion and a love of mankind that would [...]

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ~E.B. White (Author of Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan)