By Erin Pohland On October 15, 2010, my world changed forever:  it’s a boy!!  I listened with wonder to the news of my little one:  10 months old and healthy.  Due to lack of medical care and extreme, crushing poverty, his mother had died as a result of childbirth, just 8 days after giving birth [...]

I think this is far and away the best labor song ever written. Natalie Merchant sings with an intro clip sung by Florence Reece, the songwriter. I look at these images and wonder why anyone believes that if the unions are broken, we will not end up here again. Human nature endures – the good [...]

A little Labor Day weekend music from the mighty REM. Stay safe, have fun, and remember to thank a union and remember those who had the bravery to organize. The time to rise has been engaged You’re better best to rearrange I’m talking here to me alone I listen to the finest worksong Your finest [...]

Driving down Northern Lights Boulevard yesterday, through the heart of our municipality on a lovely Friday afternoon, I saw something that made me do a double-take. I saw… the enemy. Not MY enemy, mind you, but the declared enemy of our city’s mayor, Dan Sullivan. Second only to homeless people, the mayor has it in [...]

I’ve been saving this one for a good weekend chuckle, so nobody gets in trouble for laughing too loud at an inappropriate time at work. Enjoy! [h/t Mudflatter DinkleJim]

~Free market under-regulated air in Beijing, China It’s become increasingly clear in the past months that the Environmental Protection Agency is squarely in the crosshairs of the Republican Party. But it’s not just insignificant or annoying rules and regs that irritate the right. The battles being fought are elemental and huge – The Clean Air [...]

  One of Alaska’s most under-rated members of the animal kingdom – the humble porcupine. Hard to hug, but easy to love.

Since the manuscript of Frank Bailey’s memoir Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin was leaked in its entirety to the media by author Joe McGinniss, whose own Palin book will be out this month, the authors of Blind Allegiance (Frank Bailey, Ken Morris and myself) have been asked questions.  What’s the back story?  How did this [...]