The Mudflats

Tiptoeing Through the Muck of Alaskan Politics

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Voices from the Flats: Sarah Palin – An American Life or An American Lie?

Today’s Voices from the Flats contributing writer is Richard Fineberg. For three decades he has researched and reported on economic and environmental issues related to Alaska and global petroleum development. Fineberg came to Alaska in 1969 to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in political science at the University of Alaska, leaving that position in 1971 [...]
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Voices from the Flats – Palin Critic’s Attorney on Being “Named” in Going Rogue

Governor Girl Agoniste By Donald Craig Mitchell Last July in Fairbanks, with Todd smiling at her side and Piper sitting in her lap, Sarah Palin watched Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell take the oath to fill out her term in office as Governor of Alaska. Then she vanished. For the past four months the Forty-Ninth State [...]