OK, it’s really a baker’s dozen reasons we at the Mudflats won’t be voting for Dan Sullivan for Mayor tomorrow. You get three whole bonus reasons, and frankly, there are many more we didn’t even have room for. Links abound in two shades of blue, financial hinkiness is bold. Let’s get to it. 13) Took [...]

The Mudflats has obtained documents showing that Mayor Dan Sullivan is grossly misrepresenting the costs of completing the first phase of the controversial Port of Anchorage Expansion Project. Anyone who has been following the costs associated with the project can hardly help but liken it to that old tongue-in-cheek definition of a boat – a [...]

Rep. Alan Dick has issued a “clarifying statement” to The Mudflats in response to communications his office has received regarding the article Help, Help! There’s an Elephant in My Uterus! The statement, including an apology, was issued via the House Majority Secretary, and was intended to clarify comments Dick made during a HESS committee meeting on [...]

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.  ~Pablo Neruda My head hurts. Three months after my arrest during an Occupy Wall Street protest on #D17, and two days away from my meeting with the Assistant DA about said arrest, I got beaten just outside of Zuccotti Park. I wasn’t the [...]

RED ALERT! This is an email from Jim Minnery of the Alaska Family Council.  Making it illegal to fire someone, or evict them from their home because they’re gay will mean the end of the world as we know it! Send money, and lots of it, NOW! That may as well be the text of [...]

Senator Lisa Murkowski now regrets voting for the Blunt amendment. Why? Because she got severe blowback from constituents. Murkowski traveled outside her Washington D.C. GOP bubble, and visited Alaska last weekend, where angry women promptly handed her her backside. Murkowski voted in lockstep with her party to attempt to pass the Blunt amendment, which would [...]

  [This article is cross-posted at The Huffington Post] Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was one of four women in the Senate, along with Susan Collins (R – ME), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH)  to vote this week for the Blunt Amendment, which would preclude insurance coverage for contraceptives and other medical procedures [...]

With Anchorage inching toward record snowfall this year, city streets are starting to look more and more like a marble run. Lack of adequate snow removal has many neighborhood roads down to one lane, creating hazardous walking, driving, and parking conditions for residents. That said, here’s a quick quiz for you. See if you can [...]

Sean Parnell seems to be doing all he can this week to solidify his credentials for membership in the Order of the Flaming Pants. His Captain Zero get-up begs for the much more awesome “Order of the Flaming Unitard,” but alas… no graphic for that one. So, the flaming pants it is. “Oh, everyone likes [...]

There is one man who is, at this moment, responsible for keeping hungry children from getting a hot meal that would cost the state only pennies a day. Who is this ethically challenged Republican? It’s Alaska’s own Bill “the naked baker” Stoltze. I suppose that technically we have to call him the “alleged naked baker” [...]

By Elstun Lauesen Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley first discovered the astonishing genetic similarity between two species in the mid 1970s, when they compared proteins in humans and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and found that they were 99 percent identical. Further experiments by the same team showed that 98.5 percent of DNA sequences are [...]

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 [...]

It’s always nice to report good news, and today’s news was really good. The Mudflats has had ongoing coverage of the protests against the Anchorage Hilton and the Anchorage Sheraton, and on Friday a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against Remington Hospitality (which demonstrates none.) ~The President of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka in Alaska [...]

By Shannyn Moore When I was 33, Mom and Pop Moore were staying with me. Mom was undergoing radiation and chemotherapy for breast cancer. For those of you who have been around a loved one with cancer, I don’t have to explain. For those of you who haven’t, nothing can prepare you for it. It [...]

The only thing more humiliating than a public figure’s gargantuan screwup-by-retweet (see above) is an alert citizen grabbing a screen shot of it before the perp’s hapless attempt to scrub it. When not embarrassing herself on Twitter, Karen Handel, the now famous, Palin-endorsed former gubernatorial candidate and reactionary from Georgia, has been busy making liars [...]