by Linda Kellen Biegel My husband and I are big users of Google Maps on our iPhones anytime we go somewhere new. I’m especially fond of clicking on the “little man” and getting the “street view” of the area we are checking, if it’s available. It can be quite useful, actually, if one is researching/investigating [...]

I attended the April 1st Soapbox Speakout in honor of Community Activist, the late Ruth Moulton, on her birthday. It was held at the park her hard work helped create, Ruth Moulton Town Square Park (I understand the Administration at the time was fighting to make it a big, ugly parking lot.) There weren’t many [...]

John and Heather Aronno are amazing Alaskans. Their blog, Alaska Commons, is a powerful voice for progressives in our fair state. Please bookmark it as a must stop on your daily reading journey. I talked to John about this post before he posted it and I knew it would be something we should read. “PROPOSITION [...]

Tuesday night at the fights should be lively at tonight’s Anchorage Assembly meeting. Click on links for background on the agenda. Testimony will be heard on the speed hump program. I know, it sounds like a problem you should have that “little talk with your doctor” about. Not so. Speed humps on busy residential streets [...]

Post and Photos By Carl Johnson I have lived in two rather large metropolitan areas: the Twin Cities, with its two million people, and Los Angeles, with, well, way too many people.  I chose to move to Anchorage eleven years ago not because I was looking for urban, but because I was looking for wild [...]

When you consider all that Alaska is known for these days – (political corruption, mostly), it’s the little happy things about living in Anchorage that make all this humiliation bearable. One such bit of holiday joy is a 16-foot snowman that appears in the Airport Heights section of town every year. Dozens of kid-hours are [...]