By Patrick DePula As if the Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice “recount” isn’t a big enough mess, It appears that the Wisconsin GOP  has been engaged in widespread fraud surrounding their attempts to recall democratic senators.  Inexplicably, the Republican Party of Wisconsin had relied heavily on people they hired from out of state to collect signatures [...]

“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 [...]

Back on October 13th, I posted about the APOC Complaint I had filed against the re-election campaign of Representative Bill Thomas, Jr. (above, on the left, with Sen. Al Kookesh, who appears in several of the ads.) The complaint is in response to a newspaper advertising campaign consisting of 12 ads which ran in the [...]

Below is the (draft) press release I will be sending out in final form later today.  As you can see, I’ve been working hard in the basement office! ———————————————————————————————————— The Alaska Public Offices Commission accepted a complaint filed by Linda Kellen Biegel. It is against five members of the Campaign to Re-elect Alaska Representative Bill Thomas, Jr. [...]

Here is part 3 of 3 in my interview with Scott McAdams where he talks about ANWR, his opponent Lisa Murkowski, what he’s reading (hint – it’s not “all of it”), the role of the federal government, and why he’s a Democrat.  He also talks about the untapped pool of talent in the form of some [...]

~Thick and fast they came at last and more, and more, and more! Here’s a round up of all the things that blipped on the radar this week that we would have written about if our request for a 72 hour day instead of the 24 hour one had been granted. Palin v. Common Sense [...]

Sarah Palin took the stand Friday in the trial of Former University of Tennessee student David Kernell. Kernell is charged with hacking Palin’s Yahoo! e-mail account while Palin campaigned in the 2008 presidential campaign. Kernell is facing 50 years in prison over this incident. He would be 72 years old when he gets out of [...]

Whew!  Tuesday Night at the Fights (aka the Anchorage Assembly Meeting) was quite the event. It may not have seemed so to the casual observer, but as we all know, you dear Mudflatters are certainly not casual observers. You know that tonight there were two resolutions on the floor dealing with Mayor Dan Sullivan’s failure [...]

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 [...]

www.visionsofthewild.com 1.5 Million Astro-Turf Seeds for Alaska by Shannyn Moore On May 15, 2008, the federal government put polar bears on the endangered species list. I figured if George W. Bush said they’re endangered, there were probably 11 of them left and we should put them in zoos. It took exactly one week for half-governor [...]

Hooray! Our fair city has maintained the highest possible bond rating! Woo-hoo! Yeah, baby!  Hip hip….. Hey, what’s the matter over there? (We look quizzically at the sad, sad star). Turn that frown upside down Mr. Star!  This is great!  It means we all have to pay less money for things than we would if the city [...]

DENIED. Pete Kott, hoping for a repeat of the Senator Ted Stevens corruption trial, was flatly denied today by Judge John Sedwick.  Kott claimed that the prosecution in his corruption trial had withheld evidence that might have proved him innocent.  Bill Allen, former CEO of oil services company VECO, who liked to buy politicians for [...]

It’s that time again Mudflatters and Mudpups!  As 2009 draws to a close, we reflect back on the year that was. We Alaskans expected to slip back into obscurity once our governor and ex-VP candidate decided to come home, learn a little something about politics and international affairs and keep her nose to the grindstone. [...]

A few weeks ago, Cook Inlet beluga whales got some good news. The federal National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) took an important step toward protecting critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for the Cook Inlet beluga whale in Alaska by proposing to designate more than 3,000 square miles of the imperiled whale’s habitat [...]

>Meep! Meep! Meep!< Corrupt Bastards Alert! Once again the Corrupt Bastards Club is in the news, and I’d like to say, “Thank you.”  Thank you corrupt bastards for reminding us that there is Alaska news and scandal that has nothing to do with Sarah Palin. OK, well…  she did take credit for taking down the [...]