Wrinkles & Spines
If you thought wrinkles and spines couldn’t be cute, think again! Happy Tuesday, Mudpups! If you’re in Anchorage, don’t forget to vote today! If you’re not, enjoy the cuteness, and the enormous output of work you are about to achieve!
VOTE!…Election Odds & Ends
Today is the big day!!! Today is the first Municipal Election after the debacle that was last year. However, with Barbara Jones as Municipal Clerk and Amanda Moser in charge of Elections, things should run pretty smoothly overall this year. (If we could just get rid of those @#$% voting machines.) Here’s just a quick post answering questions I’ve been getting the last couple of days on Facebook, email and via phone: — Location, location, location — Don’t know where to vote? You can type in your address here at “My Neighborhood” and it will give you your precinct. As…
Monday Hangover
It is not our habit to give you an animated gif on a Monday, but this one just screamed “sugar hangover.” If this is you on a Monday morning after a reckless night of marshmallow peeps, jelly beans, foil wrapped Cadbury eggs, and biting the extremities off chocolate animals, then you know just how this guy feels. We guarantee if you watch it long enough, you’ll start to smile, and soon be ready to demolish your inbox. We hope you’ve enjoyed our “Bunny period.” Tomorrow we will resume our regular mix of cuteness.
Corrupt Bastard Comes to School Board **VIDEO UPDATE**
UPDATE: Mr. Corkran withdrew his name for consideration on Sunday afternoon. On Monday, Thomas P. Corkran will be sworn in as a School Board member. He was selected by the Anchorage School Board after four rounds of voting to fill the seat vacated by Gretchen Guess. The board had boiled the candidates down to two, and selected Corkran over the CEO of Avant-Garde Learning Alliance, Kameron Perez-Verdia. There were 41 applications: why did they pick this guy? Do our School Board members know how to Google? I’m hoping the answer is no. Why? Because the alternative is spooky. Mr….
Board of Game Sued Over Wolves
This just in from the Alaska Wildlife Alliance. The organization has filed a complaint in Anchorage Superior Court alleging that the Alaska Board of Game failed to comply with Alaska’s Open Meetings law when the Board rejected two separate petitions requesting that it re-establish a no-trapping wolf buffer zone adjacent to Denali National Park. The suit asks that the court void the Board’s decisions on the petitions. The complaint alleges that for each petition the Board “failed to hold an open, announced public meeting on the subject” which includes lack of public notice and the lack of any public meeting…
Ready or Not!
We know how excited we humans get when we wake up to treats. The upcoming Easter holiday springs to mind (pardon the pun). But I did not know that the holiday’s icon could get quite so excited about a treat of his own. We really mulled over this one hard, because let’s face it – gifs of bunnies are all pretty cute. But to capture the excitement of the season, and give you that extra burst of productivity on your Friday, we had to go with this one.
Don Young “We used to hire wetbacks.”
Congressman for all Alaska Don Young is known for his verbal gaffes. The Ear just had a nice summation for the Congressman’s 40th Anniversary in office: 40 years of the mind-bending wit and wisdom we so love. Who can forget “Pribilof’s dog,” “bladderdash” and the “money we get is a piddlance of the total bill.” Well we remember his claim that he convinced his wife to get a “monogram” (you know, to prevent breast cancer). And he once reported replacing copper piping in his home with inexpensive “PCP pipe” (Ear is pretty sure he meant PVC pipe; if not,…
‘Choose Respect’ Fails To Protect Native Women – Diane E Benson
(Diane Benson is a writer and professor of Native studies at the University of Alaska, and is a recent recipient of the national Bonnie Heavy-Runner Advocacy Award in recognition of outstanding service to victims of crime in Indian country.) It’s a method, marches. Historically marches are held to protest (civil rights), to get from one point to another (relocation) and to parade power (military). Generally, the word indicates walking lock-step whether literally or metaphorically. Choose Respect marches for change. But what are we trying to change, a social behavior? The march says Alaska is a violent place and we need…
Assembly Passes Anti-Labor Ordinance
I should have known things would go awry when Dan Coffey held the door for me as I entered the Assembly Chambers. Tuesday night was the vote on Ordinance 37, which will gut the collective bargaining rights of municipal workers, and introduce “managed competition.” There was a bunch of business before they got to the bill, but this was my favorite. Adam Trombley, the head of the Ethics and Elections Committee stated that the reason the committee had met only once since last year’s debacle of a Municipal election was that he “didn’t want to crowd the schedule at the…
Sno-Bunny!
Morning, baby! Sunday is fast approaching, and that means Bunny Time! This little guy will get you in the mood for Easter baskets, and egg hunts in the grass. Unless, of course, you live in Alaska. And in that case, your egg hunts will be of a more wintry variety. It’s actually kind of fun to hide eggs in the snow. We’ve done it quite a bit. The only down side is that the recovery rate tends to be low. The Science of Cute