By Jeanne Devon She will run, she won’t run, she will, she won’t, she will…   Everyone is weighing in. Everyone is asking. Hints are being dropped. Money is being raked. And yes, I believe that Sarah Palin is getting ready to inflict herself upon the nation once again. The national spotlight beckons to her [...]

Well, Mudflatters, this day has been a long time coming, but I’m happy to say it’s now official. Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin, the book by Palin insider Frank Bailey, award-winning author (and Mudflats contributor) Ken Morris, and yours truly (Jeanne Devon) will at last be a reality and is now available for pre-order at [...]

By Ken Morris, co-author of Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin, A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years Mudflats Friends: When I first appeared on Jeanne’s ground-breaking pages well over one year ago, I wrote about participating in the eBay auction to buy a meal with Sarah Palin to benefit a worthy veterans’ charity. A short time [...]

As many of you are now discovering, there’s been a reason I haven’t been as prolific on the blog as usual over these past months. There’s not a lot I can tell you now, but I’ve been collaborating with former Sarah Palin aide Frank Bailey, and former Wall Street Exec and award-winning novelist Ken Morris [...]

The news organization that broke the story about the unauthorized distribution of the draft manuscript of Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin – A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years has issued a statement. After being contacted by Bonfante Steinbeck, the legal firm representing authors Ken Morris, Frank Bailey and Jeanne Devon regarding use of their copyrighted [...]

…that AKM may be on her way home to us as we speak! Here’s your opportunity to welcome her back so she has a thread full of messages from well-wishers as soon as she looks at the blog! I know I can speak for Shannyn when I say both of us missed her terribly! WELCOME [...]

By Zach Roberts Special note: This is a message to Sarah, that I sent to her via Facebook. Alaskans will get all the places, some of the references and some of the names. If you don’t get them, give it a Google, or read TheMudFlats.net (why aren’t you reading it already? What’re you a member [...]

I’ll be online today, Wednesday November 3, at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, 11 a.m. Pacific, 10 a.m. Alaska time to take questions on the election results in Alaska, and how they will impact the state and the rest of the country. You can submit questions for the queue HERE. I look forward to discusssing what [...]

In this video, Dennis Gann of Cook Inletkeeper explains the who what and where of the proposed Chuitna Mine on Alaska’s Cook Inlet. The coal mining project would go right through highly productive salmon streams and dump seven million gallons of mine waste and toxic runoff every day into the waters of Cook Inlet, which [...]

My last two 4th of July’s have been challenging. Two years ago I lost my radio show. It was the best thing that could have happened, though it didn’t feel like it for at least three days.  I’ve recovered. Last year Sarah Palin threatened to sue me. She didn’t. She just wanted me to “Sit [...]

That’s right!  Tonight the Shannyn Moore Show is taping and it’s going to feature a citizen panel!  That means you could be one of Shannyn’s guests on the show that airs on KYES on Saturdays at 4pm. All you have to do is send an email to mooreupnorth(at)gmail(dot)com and tell Shannyn and her producers why [...]

We’ve got a super special treat today on that painful Monday back from a holiday weekend. I hope you love it like I do. But a warning. A serious warning. Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT attempt to drink anything during the video. If you must, pause the thing first. As a matter of face, [...]

I finally got my copy of Going Rouge today! I opened my mailbox to find the big white envelope I’d been waiting for. I flipped through and there was my essay – the last entry in the “Half-Baked Alaska” chapter – pages 109-117 to be exact. I am immediately preceded by Alaskans Elstun Lauesen and [...]

Well, the Muckrakers Ball was a blast!  Spouse and I arrived at 7:00 and Rumrunners was already filling up.  We were greeted by the wonderful people at Cook Inletkeeper who welcomed us and guided us to the back room where a huge spread of food awaited.  I was a bit nervous, but decided in the [...]

I’ve had lots of people asking me about the Muckraker of the Year award, and its origins. So here’s a guest post from one of the great Alaskan Muckrakers, Bob Shavelson, the Executive Director of Cook Inletkeeper. I want to thank Bob for his kind words, and extend to all readers an invitation to the [...]