Jeanne Devon (AKMuckraker)
Founder and Managing Editor

 

 

 

Jeanne Devon is an award-winning blogger and founding editor of The Mudflats, based in Anchorage, Alaska. The Mudflats is a repeat winner of the Bloggers Choice Award for Best Political Blog.  Devon was awarded Cook Inlet Keeper’s “Muckraker of the Year” award in 2009.  Her piece Chuitna and the Curse of Coal won the Alaska Press Club Award for Best Blog Commentary for 2010. She is a contributing writer to The Huffington Post, and also a contributing author to the book Going Rouge – An American Nightmare, compiled by the editors of The Nation Magazine, and has written for the investigative site truthout.org. The Mudflats was the winner of the Honorable Mention in the 2011 Anchorage Press Picks for Best Blog.

She is co-author of a major non-fiction book  Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin (Simon and Schuster/Howard Books). This highly anticipated political expose was co-written with former Sarah Palin insider Frank Bailey and award-winning novelist Ken Morris.

Devon has appeared on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, and numerous radio programs including The Mike Molloy Show with Brad Friedman, Left Coast Radio, The Nicole Sandler Show and others. She is featured on the weekly segment “Thursdays in the Mud” on The Shannyn Moore Show every Thursday on KOAN 1020am in Anchorage at 1pm. Articles on The Mudflats have been picked up by The Associated Press, and The Mudflats is linked on hundreds of blogrolls including The Washington Post, Daily Kos, and Americablog.  Read more about The Mudflats HERE.

Shannyn Moore
Contributing Editor

Shannyn Moore is an award winning broadcaster, political commentator, and blogger based in Anchorage, Alaska. In 2009, Shannyn was awarded Buzzflash’s Wings of Justice award for standing up to legal threats from Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and she received the top honor at Netroots Nation, The Steve Gilliard Journalism Grant of Merit. She has been a guest on shows hosted by Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz, Ron Reagan and numerous other radio programs. During the critical Fall 2008 national election campaign, she was featured on the Palinoscopy Report on the Air America’s This is America with Jon Elliott. She has also appeared on numerous television programs including Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, CBC’s Today hosted by Nancy Wilson, FOX and Friends, Hardball with Chris Matthews, The Rachel Maddow Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Shannyn is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. She can be heard on her daily talk radio show in Alaska on KOAN 1020AM Anchorage and KXLJ 1330AM Juneau from 11am-2pm Alaska time. Her weekly television show, Moore Up North, is broadcast every Saturday at 4pm statewide on KYES Channel 5. Shannyn was a contributing author to the 2009 book on Sarah Palin titled Going Rouge. She also has a weekly opinion column in The Anchorage Daily News. Shannyn has her own website which can be found at www.shannynmoore.com

Linda Kellen Biegel (Celtic Diva)
Contributing Editor

Linda Kellen Biegel came to Alaska in 1984  with a BA in Communications (PR & Journalism) from University of Dayton in Ohio. After finding sobriety, Linda experienced the Alaska lifestyle through a series of diverse jobs ranging from counselor at a runaway shelter to security at a Correctional Halfway House to Alaska Wilderness Gourmet jelly/jam maker using Alaska wild berries. She eventually spent almost 20 years working for Construction/Engineering outfits from the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay to the FAA to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, working for the Federal Government for 15-years.  Her Blue Oasis blog was chosen to represent Alaska in the DNCC State Blogger Pool at the Denver Convention. On August 29th, one day after Barack Obama’s inspiring speech at Invesco Field , her life as well as the lives of all Alaska bloggers took a bizarre turn when Gov. Sarah Palin was chosen to be John McCain’s VP running mate. As a result, she either assisted or was interviewed by media from the UK, Italy, Australia and Germany as well as national media outlets such as Wall Street Journal, NY Times, ABC Good Morning America’s Kate Snow, National Journal, Dallas Morning News, LA Times, and NPR.

Linda  is wife to computer programmer Josh and mother to 12-year-old Morrigan. Her family especially enjoys their summers in Alaska where Linda spends her time gardening and she joins her extended family in subsistence set-net fishing for Sockeye salmon as well as halibut fishing/whalewatching in the family’s homemade aluminum boat, “The Neverdone” (when it’s working). She resides in Anchorage, Alaska.

Contributors:

Jim Wright – is a retired US Navy Chief Warrant Officer. He lives in Alaska where he spends most of his time working in his woodshop or fishing. He occasionally consults for the Military. He is also the owner of the blog Stonekettle Station.

Thomas Dewar – lives in Anchorage, and is the Communications Director for the Alaska Public Employees Association/American Federation of Teachers. (APEA/AFT)

Ken Morris – Following a successful career on Wall Street, Ken Morris became an outspoken critic of aspects of the financial system, including the New York Stock Exchange. He is a frequent media contributor on political criticism and financial reform. He is the author of the award-winning novels Man in the Middle and The Deadly Trade. Ken lives in California with his wife and four sons. You can learn more about Ken at his website kennethmorris.net

Bill Sherwonit – has been a freelance nature writer since 1992.  His most recent book, “Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness” is now available HERE.   For nearly a quarter-century, Bill has written extensively about wild lands and wildlife. Though he continues to journey into the wilderness each year, he has also paid increasing attention to the wild nature of his home landscape: Anchorage.   He is the author of 12 books about Alaska, including three books about Denali, two about the Iditarod, and others about the Brooks Range and the necessity of wilderness, his evolving relationship with wild nature, Alaska’s bears and state parks.

Dianne Holmes - is a long time Anchorage resident who is active in civic affairs.

Rick Steiner – is a former University of Alaska professor and Marine Conservation Specialist. Statewide conservation specialist 1996–2010 (Anchorage), marine advisor for Prince William Sound 1983–1996 (Cordova), and arctic Alaska 1980–1983 (Kotzebue). Commercial fisheries, international conservation consulting, oil/environment work. Involved in all aspects of Exxon Valdez oil spill. Today, he conducts the Oasis Earth project – a global consultancy working with NGOs, governments, industry, and civil society to speed the transition to an environmentally sustainable society.

Zach Roberts – currently works with BBC journalist Greg Palast. He has researched and co-produced several of his BBC/Democracy Now! investigations which are on DVD,  including The Election Files and Big Easy to Big Empty .
I edited Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s investigative comic “Steal Back Your Vote!” which is available as a free download at www.StealBackYourVote.org  He is also the creator of the upcoming film The Rogue Candidate.

Brad Friedman – is an L.A.-based investigative journalist/blogger, political commentator, broadcaster, author, Commonweal Institute Fellow and the Publisher and Executive Editor of The BRAD BLOG . He is the regular fill-in host for the nationally syndicated Mike Malloy Show, and is the producer and co-host of the nationally syndicated “Green News Report”, a regular 6-minute radio feature heard on stations and podcasts across the country, with his partner and co-host Desi Doyen.

Elstun Lauesen

Jason Leopold – is the former Los Angeles bureau chief of Dow Jones Newswires where he spent two years covering the energy crisis and the Enron bankruptcy. He is the Deputy Managing Editor of truthout.org

Mel Green

John Aronno

Ship Bright – is a conservation entrepreneur whose experience in the private, public [both state and federal], and nonprofit/non-governmental organization [NGO] sectors gives him a unique multi-angled perspective on economic and environmental issues that we face today.  He is the Principal of BrightNGOsolutions offering consulting services to Philanthropists who desire to leverage their philanthropic dollars for the greater good as well as to nonprofit/NGO organizations on board development, mission focus, strategic planning, and fundraising.