I thought it was kind of funny when Sarah Palin, in her speech to the Tea Party Convention tonight, criticized President Obama (who just did an hour and a half unscripted back-and-forth with Republican leadership) for using a teleprompter, while reading from her own notes. Apparently paper, the low-tech version of the teleprompter, means you’re [...]

By Rep. Les Gara Alaska has the highest energy prices in the nation. The solution to the problem isn’t rejecting funds that could (if we choose) be dedicated to build wind, hydro and other renewable energy production. Urban Alaska is facing a dangerous short-term shortage of natural gas. Rural Alaska is facing a shortage of [...]

Budget cuts.  That’s where the rubber meets the road for fiscal conservatives.  Sarah Palin’s been talking a big game about fiscal conservatism.  Alaskans adored Ted Stevens and Don Young  and re-elected them for term after term after term (etc.) because they could bring home the pork, baby.  Don Young’s well-attended annual fundraiser is actually a [...]

Four days ago, a cry for help went out via the Bristol Bay Times.   Many of us have known that residents of Alaska’s rural villages are having a hard winter.  The weather has been unusually cold, and prices of heating oil and gasoline have been astronomical.  Add to that a disastrous collapsing salmon fishery in Bristol Bay [...]