Alaska has become the latest state to fall victim to the Republican War on Women. It’s difficult to imagine today that Alaska was once at the forefront of women’s rights, and reproductive choice, but in 1913, the Alaska Territorial Legislature gave women the right to vote as its first official act.  In 1970, a successful [...]

by Mel Green (Originally posted at Bent Alaska) Nearly 1,100 Alaskans — about 75% of contributors — have so far donated to One Anchorage, a March 7 press release announced. But it didn’t take long for anti-LGBT leader Jim Minnery to claim that “Outside Gay Rights Funds Bankroll Prop. 5 Supporters,” completely ignoring One Anchorage’s [...]

by Linda Kellen Biegel Tim Meyers stands at the front of room 306 at the UAA/APU Consortium Library. He’s the next guest presenter for the session: Sustainable Agriculture in Rural Alaska at the Alaska Botanical Garden’s Spring Conference. The title of the Conference is “Extend the Season, Expand Your Mind” in honor of guest gpeaker, [...]

Well, it’s Cheesy Grits Primary night in the deep south. So, what’s really important to the Republican primary voters in Alabama and Mississippi? What feature, above all others, is most critical in a president? Is it morality? Experience? True conservatism? Of course not. Better an immoral, un-experienced fake conservative than… President Obama. And if it’s [...]

by Linda Kellen Biegel On Thursday, I attended what is arguably the best forum for Municipal candidates in Anchorage — the Home And Land Owners (HALO) Candidate Forum at O’Malley’s on the Green, a restaurant on the Anchorage Golf Course. (Assemblywoman Jennifer Johnston) HALO usually manages to draw every candidate from the Anchorage School District [...]

The bronze medalist in the state’s 2008 Republican presidential primary, Ron Paul, decided to make a trip to Alaska this election cycle. Paul came in a close third behind frontrunner Mitt Romney, and second place winner Mike Huckabee. Alaskans, no matter what side of the aisle they’re on, tend to have a wide libertarian streak, [...]

(Note from Linda: On February 21st, I wrote a post asking if the Education Summit Community Dialogues seemed to reflect an agenda by the Mayor. I also promised to write a follow-up post giving my opinion. I changed my mind when we received the attached article, printed in its entirety below. Roger Elconin’s piece is [...]

She’s back! It’s like the sighting of a rare, and spectacular species of bird – one you thought might be extinct, and whose unmistakable song makes your ears bleed. I speak, of course, of former Pain spokesperson Meg Stapleton, appropriately referred to as Meg “Staple Tongue.” Or “Staplegun,” or “Meg the Mouth.” Take your pick. [...]

Every state has one. OK, not every state has one, but for our purposes here, you’re going to humor me and agree just to make me feel better about this. Behold, a link to a document charging that Barack Obama’s name should be withheld from the ballot this November. [Brace and Click] It seems that [...]

Palin aide Frank Bailey, whose story was published in the tell-all book Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin [Frank Bailey, Ken Morris, Jeanne Devon - Simon & Schuster] has agreed to pay $11,900 in civil penalties to the state of Alaska for publishing revelatory emails he retained from his time working for the State of Alaska [...]

PLEASE SIGN UP HERE for the final Education Summit Community Dialogue, to be held Wednesday, February 22nd at the Anchorage Senior and Activity Center, 1300 E. 19th Ave. Check in is at 5:15 p.m., the start is at 5:45 p.m. and it will run for about three hours. When I started out in college, I [...]

There’s that old question about elected officials. Would you want to sit down and have a beer with them? It’s a lousy litmus test when it comes to picking a President, but it turns out to be a fascinating sociological tool when applied to the two great American political movements of our time – The [...]

This little nugget was not seen on the TV broadcast. It may be because it’s a spoof… or not. The intertubes are in dispute. But the story goes that during a commercial break at the Grammy Awards last night, six time award winning vocalist Adele, who swept every category she was nominated for, sang a [...]

Well, look who came to CPAC. CPAC is the yearly Conservative Political Action Conference where conservatives of all stripes come together to wallow in varying degrees of narrow-mindedness, religious zeal, military might, fiscal conservatism, and social backwardness. There are usually some internal squabbles about things like LGBT rights, and how they do or don’t fit [...]

Alaska is a land of character and characters – colorful folks who’ve become deliciously quirky icons and who, like the late Uncle Ted Stevens, and the current Don Young, are mixed bags. Sure, the Congressman for All Alaska is admirably unafraid of his party’s leadership in DC. It’s always great to see him thumb his [...]