Voices from the Flats – Spare Me the (faux) Righteous Indignation, Mr. Mayor
By Vince Beltrami President of Alaska AFL-CIO Watching the Channel 2 News at 6 pm Friday night, I caught the coverage of Mayor Sullivan rolling out his “See, I’m a budget-cutting conservative mayor, even if the citizens don’t want this” 2011 budget plan. But what caught my attention most was the exchange between Assemblyman Mike [...]
Quote of the Day – Mayor Dan Sullivan
Friday morning at 7:30am, a man was found dead in a dumpster next to the Dimond Center Mall. The man had presumably crawled inside to stay warm on a cold night, when he had nowhere else to go. A mall worker closing up a store, threw some boxes in the dumpster and pushed the button to [...]
Mayor Dan Sullivan – You’ve Got Mail!
For background on this story click HERE for the Anchorage Daily News story, and HERE for my take, and HERE for a detailed analysis by Mel Green. And once you’ve done that, please enjoy this fantastic letter, sent by an Anchroage resident to the Assembly and the Mayor. Well done, Sir. Hopefully, others will become [...]
Sullivan and Starr. We Get What We Vote For.
OK, everybody who lives in the Anchorage area, raise your hand. Everybody who did NOT vote in the mayoral run-off election, keep your hand up. Be honest…come on. OK, would that 80% of you line up please, because I’m about to go down the row and bonk you on the head. It won’t hurt. I’ll [...]
A View from the Hill With Matt Felling and Mark Begich
It’s time for your weekly check-in from our nation’s capital with A View from the Hill with KTVA’s Matt Felling, or as I like to call it here, “Hey! I can see Washington D.C. from my house!” Kudos to Matt Felling for putting this weekly segment together. Last week we heard from Lisa Murkowski, so [...]
Boots on the Ground – Anchorage Chamber of Commerce Gets “Sullied”
New Mayor Dan Sullivan is working his magic on Anchorage. Yes, he’s all sunshine and light, breezing in to the Chamber of Commerce meeting with a strong message of hope, radiating enthusiasm as he celebrated Anchorage’s successes and looked to the future with strength and optimism. And yes, I’m being completely sarcastic. St. Elias was [...]
