~Thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more!   Brilliant Public Relations from the Coal Industry So, a study comes out that was done in coal mining areas in West Virginia, where mountaintop removal threatens the health of residents, devastates ecosystems and leaves the “Mountain State” far less mountainous than [...]

  Alaska is about to have a very special guest! And it’s a first - a visit by the National Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Anthony Romero! Thursday, July 14 at 7:00 p.m. University of Alaska – Anchorage Wendy Williamson Auditorium Romero will address the ongoing struggle for equal rights, and the continuing [...]

By Rep. Les Gara Do you want to be bound, by contract, to pay natural gas prices that are double what is paid in the Lower 48 – for the next 20 or 30 years? How’s that for attracting business to Alaska? How’s that for your pocketbook? The folks who held the press conference on [...]

From HERE.

OK, just to be clear, we here at The Mudflats totally heart the first amendment. It’s actually one of our favorite ones. We would never want to sound like we wanted to limit speech, or squelch the marketplace of ideas, no matter how mind-numbing, head-banging, or downright painfully idiotic those “ideas” may be. That said [...]

~Hail to the Chief Pinup Girl The Newsweek cover story on Sarah Palin and her agonizingly drawn out declaration of candidacy for the Presidency is here. The article spares no mercy, launching right out of the chute with Palin’s quote, “I believe that I can win a national election.” So, what then, is stopping her [...]

Just some sunshine for a Monday in case you need it.

It appears as though Newsweek has yet another traumatic Sarah Palin cover ready to hit the stands. One, as you may recall had her in a calendar girl pose, in running shorts demonstrating her mastery of flag etiquette by leaning on the flag as it lay draped over a bar stool. Then there was the [...]

Here’s one not to miss if you are in town. The Mat Valley Coalition is having a free screening of “Coal Country,” a film about the effects of coal mining on communities and property values. This is an issue vital to Alaskans and those in other coal-bearing states. A recent victory in Chickaloon should not [...]

Imagine yourself as a kid in the schoolyard. Over by the monkey bars, you see a scuffle break out. It’s an all out battle between the class bully and the class jerk. They’re fighting over which one of them gets to pick on the good-hearted skinny kid. The Municipality of Anchorage has filed a lawsuit [...]

~photo by Heather Aronno So, what’s the savvy Anchorage dweller into these days? Urban chickens, my friend. Pampered personal poulets. The Municipality of Anchorage has just legalized chickens – up to five of them per household. They’re good for fresh eggs, or … umm… chicken. And since Alaska is pretty cut off from the rest [...]

I thought this video was poignant and well done, and the audio commentary is jarring to say the least. The website My Fellow American is worth checking out and includes a feature that allows you to share your own stories. Certainly many Muslim-Americans are native born, but thinking about the immigrant population and our recent [...]

By: Zach Roberts/Russell Burlingame I’m finally getting to look over the footage I shot while at Netroots Nation, and I came across this gem from the always quotable former Florida Congressman Alan Grayson. He uses the the release of The Green Lantern movie as a way to talk about what the Democratic Party does for [...]

Beautiful glow on the mountains tonight. This picture was taken at about 11:30pm as the sun was setting. The colors looked just as surreal as they do here.

By Shannyn Moore It’s summer in Alaska. Days are long and the fish are running. For most of us, it’s the season for rain-gear and fleece, fishing tackle and clam shovels, not torches and pitchforks and recall petitions. That’s lucky for Gov. Sean Parnell. A few weeks ago, Attorney General John Burns addressed a federal [...]