The Mudflats

Tiptoeing Through the Muck of Alaskan Politics

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Palin Rejects Stimulus Money. Throws Alaska Under the Bus to “Save Face.”

I can’t help noticing the irony of the front page of the Anchorage Daily News.  It pretty much says it all, quite poetically. A)  Over there on the left in the headlines section it says: Palin Cuts $80 Million from Budget - Gov. Palin announced today that she is vetoeing $80 million from the state [...]

More from Emmonak on CNN!

Here are two more clips of Dennis Zaki’s video footage that ran on CNN, CNN International, and Headline News today!  Commentary discussed the food/fuel crisis in rural Alaska.  This project has really gotten its wings.  Sources “inside” are saying that this project is putting the pressure where it needs to go. We are holding feet [...]

A Cry for Help from Rural Alaska. Is Anyone Listening?

Four days ago, a cry for help went out via the Bristol Bay Times.   Many of us have known that residents of Alaska’s rural villages are having a hard winter.  The weather has been unusually cold, and prices of heating oil and gasoline have been astronomical.  Add to that a disastrous collapsing salmon fishery in Bristol Bay [...]