Charges that Alaska’s one and only congressman took money for his legal defense fund illegally… (where have we heard THAT before in this state?) have been dropped, and Don Young has been cleared. The complaint stated that he’d taken too much money from an out-of-state bazillionaire donor with massive corporate interests in offshore drilling. In [...]

Yesterday, a long dark chapter in the history of Alaska politics came to an end. I decided that even though the day didn’t promise to hold any shocking news or big surprises, that I ought to be there nonetheless. The last of the self-described “Corrupt Bastards Club” have pleaded guilty and were sentenced by Judge [...]

Greetings from CPAC! Former Vice President Dick Cheney got a heck of a greeting at CPAC, 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 [...]

Wasn’t it just swell of Senator Al Kookesh (D) to give us such a great lesson? We should all say thanks, because we were wondering to ourselves, “Gee, is it really that bad if corportate interests can insinuate themselves into our government?  I mean corporations are people too.  And they have free speech – it’s just [...]

As the sentencing for former Veco CEO Bill Allen looms, a new strand in the web of corruption that rocked Alaska’s political world has been discovered.  It’s not much of a discovery really, but it’s been made official.  Bill Allen has formally fessed up and admitted that his company gave gifts and payed for lavish [...]

The latest chapter in the long sordid story of the Corrupt Bastards Club came to an end today.  Former five-term Valley Representative, and Iditarod musher Beverly Masek (R) was just sentenced to six months in federal prison, and three years probation, much shorter than the maximum five year penalty for conspiracy to commit bribery for [...]

Many Alaskans, while not being merciless and cold-hearted, were nonetheless, more than a little peeved with Corrupt Bastard John Cowdery’s sentece of six months home confinement…well, except for doctor’s appointments, and physical therapy, and church, and a couple other things.  The thought of an elected official selling his office, and selling the people of Alaska [...]

It’s been a while since the last Mudflats infiltration field trip.  So, today seemed like a good day to take a little drive to the Federal Courthouse in Anchorage.  Today is the day that the latest in a long string of “corrupt bastards” got sentenced.  You may recall a previous post or two talking about [...]

That’s right, embattled Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg is all about freedom of personal choice.  He thinks people have the right to choose  whethere to ignore legislative subpoenas or not.  He feels it’s a personal decision between you, your governor and your Attorney General.  And the legislature has no business interfering, and telling you what [...]

Interesting. It remains to be seen whether the legislature will exercise its ability to deal with the questionable past actions of Alaska’s Attorney General, Talis Colberg. He has thus far refused to appoint an independent investigator to find out if there was potential criminal witness tampering in the Troopergate investigation. State of Alaska employees were [...]

Voting is closed, and the winners of the 2008 Muddies will now be revealed. Our honorary winner and recipient of the Golden Muddy, of course, is Governor Sarah Palin.  We didn’t even open the voting on this one, because, frankly, we all knew what the outcome would be.  Our efforts were saved for the dirty [...]

Just noticed over on the Alaskans for Truth site, that they’ve got a Cafe Press shop! Looks like lots of goodies – hats, t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, hoodies, and even giant 3″x5″ stickers. There are also postcards and notecards so you can drop little notes of support, or scathing tirades to the legislators of your [...]

Are you ready for another installment in the tale of Troopergate?  Good. As you may recall, we last left our story as Alaska State Rep. Les Gara (D), (who for our purposes will be envisioned with a nice shiny helmet atop a feisty white horse), called on the Alaska State Troopers to look into possible criminal witness [...]

You may be hearing about how Sarah Palin has decided to cooperate with the Troopergate investigation. Most people who haven’t been following the ins and outs of this whole sordid affair, may think that this is a good thing. They may think she’s had a change of heart. They may have heard something about another [...]

Today’s the day. After three unsuccessful attempts to get the case thrown out, jury selection in the Ted Stevens trial will begin today. Ted Stevens is kind of like Queen Victoria, or Ramses the Great. Many of his ‘subjects’ simply can’t remember a time he wasn’t in power. To imagine someone else in the Senate, [...]