~Thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more! Google for Pebble? It doesn’t seem possible that a company which has always been known for its progressive leanings, and whose slogan was “don’t be evil” could be supporting a project like The Pebble Mine. The first hint should have been the [...]

On the longest day of the year, in the Land of the Midnight Sun, Hays Research Group in Alaska came up with some interesting numbers. Seems that average Alaskans, if faced with the choice of voting for Barack Obama, or Sarah Palin in 2012, would come down decidedly NOT on the side of our ex-half-governor. [...]

Sarah Palin Slams Michelle Obama in Racially Charged Passage from New Book by Geoffrey Dunn In passages leaked from her forthcoming book America by Heart, Sarah Palin — the erstwhile quitter governor of Alaska, who now, by all indications, fancies herself as President of the United States — has taken another cheap shot at First [...]

My thoughts today turn to the special veterans in my life. This year, those thoughts are sadder with the passing in July of a special man, Vietnam Veteran, and dear friend Maurice Bailey. Mo served as leader of the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), Wasilla Chapter and was founder of the Veteran’s Aviation Outreach, whose [...]

Today, the President plans to speak to house parties across the country at 6:30 ET, 3:30 Pacific, and 2:30 Alaska time. He’ll field questions and talk about the importance of this year’s election — and about how much each commitment to vote matters in moving America forward. The Mudflats will have a live stream available [...]

Paul Loeb is the author of the wholly updated new edition of Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times (St Martin’s Press, $16.99 paperback, April 2010).  Loeb also wrote The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, the History Channel and American Book [...]

Jeanne did a great overview of yesterday’s press conference and the ensuing report from Independent Counsel Tim Petumenos on the illegality of Palin’s Alaska Fund Trust.  Of course, now the hamsters running the Palin spin machine are all running their furry little butts off and some amazing lies are being tossed out there as if [...]

  Sometimes, one just needs to show up to get a story.  On a really good day, one can show up and get several. I attended the Anchorage Memorial Day Ceremony at the Veterans Memorial downtown at Delaney Park…a multiple-block strip of park land that Anchorageites logically call “The Park Strip.”  Not only is attending the [...]

Wow. Just, wow. The United States and Russia have agreed to a new nuclear arms treaty that will be signed April 8 in Prague, Czech Republic, President Obama announced Friday after speaking with his Russian counterpart. The treaty substantially cuts the nuclear weapons that the United States and Russia will deploy and will significantly reduce [...]

As  the nation gears up for the most important vote of the Obama administration, tensions are high, and the “Tea Party” Movement has been kind enough to remove the mask.   Reworking a phrase – “Better to remain silent and be thought a bigot, than to speak and remove all doubt.”  Today the Tea Party spoke [...]

It seemed like a fairly slow news day, which allows one to hear the steady drip, drip, drip of news about you-know-who.  So, let’s just dive in and cover it all at once. And Let the Typos Begin! With a title like that, it was bound to happen.  And it will keep happening.  But the [...]

This submission came from a Mudflats reader who wishes only to be known as Mudflatter N. Mudflatter N works in an elementary school, and offered this post as a way of sharing her experience showing President Obama’s recent address  to a group of 9-12 year olds. ************************************* I work in an elementary school with a [...]

You can’t turn a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt I heard Thom Hartmann use this quote this morning on the radio.  I like good quotes, and that’s a good quote. I’m all for “sitting down with the enemy” to talk about compromise, engage in diplomacy and look for our commonalities.  [...]

[This article is cross-posted at The Huffington Post] What a difference a year makes. A year ago today, after being stunned by McCain’s VP pick, I had finished writing a piece called “What Is McCain Thinking? One Alaskan’s Perspective.”  It’s hard to imagine a time when the country was asking “Sarah Who?” but it was [...]

OK, everyone.  Buckle your seat belts.  It’s time for a parable. This one has to do with those (looks around to see who’s listening) crazy people that live up there in the hills next to our little virtual blog village.  You know the ones.  Every once in a while, one of them wanders through town, all disheveled and [...]