~Benlomond with an awesome shout out to Mudflats and our ‘moosecot!’ Mudflatters Benlomond and Honesty in Government were “boots on the ground” at Sarah Palin’s controversial appearance at the CSU Stanislaus campus. Here’s a diary on the protest demonstration from Benlomond. Up at 5am, and online to confirm location on the assembly area, and to [...]

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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 [...]

Don’t forget to tune in to Thursdays in the Mud! I’ll be on The Shannyn Moore Show from 1-2pm Alaska time (4-5 Eastern, 2-3 Pacific). You can live stream it HERE.

Everyone here at the Mudflats, is absolutely thrilled to be able to support the wonderful women of ArXotica as they take an unbelievable adventure, bringing the best of Alaska to the rest of the country. From Bethel, Alaska to The Big Apple, they have worked long and hard to realize their dream and represent the [...]

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 [...]

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” [...]

Tonight I wanted to share a video created by a very special global family here in Anchorage. Ujang has a chance to win a trip to Washington D.C.! But to win, he must have a great video (check!) and a lot of hits on YouTube. That’s where you come in! Click HERE to enjoy a [...]

Well, imagine my surprise.  It’s true that many Mudflats readers have become a bit enamored with “Brian the Moose,” a nice bull moose who hangs out in my yard and has become the de facto Mudflats mascot.  And it’s also true that many Mudflatters have obtained their very own portable plastic version of the real thing [...]

Thank you so much to everyone who voted for The Mudflats in the 2009 Bloggers Choice Awards for the Best Political Blog! I’m very pleased to announce that The Mudflats took the #1 spot again this year! It is very humbling to have won this award, and to have the support of so many of [...]

Dust off that virtual mantle Madame Ex-Governor, and make room for your 2009 Muddy Award! In addition to Sarah Palin’s other awards this year, such as Lie of the Year from Politifact for the Death Panel claim, the Sitting Duck Award from the National Association of Newspaper Columnists, one of the NY Daily News’ “Worst Celebrity Parents”, [...]

Quyana Cakneq Mudpups!!! Wow there are so many things to be thankful this holiday season especially in the Strongheart home! This past year the support, caring and generosity that everyone here at the Flats and on Anonymous Bloggers have given us has been overwhelming. From the hundreds of flat rate boxes full of food that [...]

Do you want to wish someone a Muddy Christmas and a Bloggy New Year? I got an email from Newt Gingrich’s “Human Events Newsletter” that told me all about what I could buy those special conservatives on my Christmas List. The list ranged from Glenn Beck’s book “The Christmas Sweater” (I get itchy just thinking [...]