In a vote of 6-5 the Anchorage Assembly voted last night to ask for an independent investigation of the fishiness surrounding the George M. Sullivan Trust which resulted in Mayor Dan Sullivan signing a $193,000 check from the city coffers to his family as payment of a so-called “life insurance policy” which may or may [...]

Hi all, Snoskred here. Whenever you move into a new home, you find things that do not work out quite as you planned when you looked at the place originally – even if you did inspect the place several times! Your bookshelf might not fit in the place you thought, or perhaps the appliances do [...]

  Well, this is it!  After much watering and fertilizing and mulching, our new project has bloomed!  The first thing you’ll notice is the post up top with the picture.  This is the “featured” post, and where you’ll find the newest and freshest offering.   When something new is posted, this post will drop down a [...]

OK, Mudflatters. These boots were made for walkin’! Friday, late night Alaska time, The Mudflats will be “offline” for several hours while our technical Mudmistress Snoskred puts the finishing touches on our new home. Basically, what you can expect is a different look, which will allow more than four posts on the front page, a [...]

We in Anchorage are rather consumed by today’s Municipal election, but as a nod to those of you who are “outside” our little bubble, here are all the blips on the radar that would have whole pieces written on them if only that whole cloning thing had worked out for me. Feel free to chat [...]

The inimitable Christy Harvey from the Center for American Progress who usually co-hosts Studio 1080 with Kathy Phillips, is still out of town working her magic on Washington D.C.  (Hey, Christy – will you hurry up and fix that thing, please?) So, I’ll be sitting in today to co-host the show in her absence.  Do [...]

Look out!  It’s trouble! I’ve been thinking again…. I mentioned before that The Mudflats is going to be undergoing a change.  A hopey changey change.  A metamorphosis of sorts.  And its new incarnation will be welcoming some new voices to our muddy village.  And in order to indicate that we’ve broadened our horizons, I thought maybe [...]

I’ve been thinking. “Ah! I thought I smelled smoke,” you say. And what I’ve been thinking about is the blog. Maybe it’s the fact that spring is in the air, or maybe it’s just the fact that good things tend to grow and evolve. We’re fast approaching Mudflats’ two year anniversary. A lot has happened [...]

Thanks to Dennis Zaki, Brian the Mudflats moose had one heck of an adventure.  He got a ride with the Coast Guard all the way up to Alaska’s north shore, and the remote and starkly beautiful community of Barrow. With a population of about 4000 (ten times the number that lived there in 1940), Barrow lies [...]

That’s right!  Tonight the Shannyn Moore Show is taping and it’s going to feature a citizen panel!  That means you could be one of Shannyn’s guests on the show that airs on KYES on Saturdays at 4pm. All you have to do is send an email to mooreupnorth(at)gmail(dot)com and tell Shannyn and her producers why [...]

Part of the annual Fur Rendezvous festival every year is an event called Can-struction.  Different companies in town build interesting things out of cans, and people come and vote for the one they like best.  A vote consists of bringing your own can(s) of food and putting them in a large bucket beside the entry you think [...]

I promised a better blog post than my bleary-eyed one yesterday night.  So, here’s my day up north. 4:15am – Alarm goes off.  Eye opens. Denial.  Hand slaps snooze button. 4:30am – Alarm goes off.  Eye opens.  Horror at the realization it really is time to get up. 4:35am – Shower, teeth, hair, clothes, bag, [...]

Well, we haven’t had a moose sighting here at Mudflats Central in quite some time. So, here’s a picture from this past summer. Ah….green. I remember that color. Don’t forget to tune in to The Shannyn Moore Show on KUDO 1080am between 11am and 2pm weekdays. Today in the third hour I’ll be Shannyn’s guest [...]

Every once in a while I enjoy sharing a little glimpse of what we get to see in the “back room” of The Mudflats.  There’s one little area that I particularly like.  It shows what search terms people have used to arrive at the blog. The top of the list has things like “mudflats blog” [...]

THE SHANNYN MOORE SHOW IS RETURNING TO RADIO ! MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY 11AM – 2PM, BEGINNING JANUARY 18TH! On KUDO 1080am and live streaming on the series of tubes! That’s right, starting next Monday Shannyn Moore is back with 15 hours a week of live, local, progressive radio. She’s ready to slay the dragons! Join [...]