The Mudflats

Tiptoeing Through the Muck of Alaskan Politics

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Sarah Palin Brings Cookies – The Sequel

Streeeeetch….. streeetch your minds back, Mudflatters.  It’s February of 2009, and Sarah Palin wings her way to the remote village of Russian Mission to address the problems of the food/fuel crisis that was causing rural residents to have to choose between heating their homes and feeding their families.  Palin’s solution?  No, not a state of [...]
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Stampede to Western Alaska!

Who needs a road to Nome?  With all the politicos who are suddenly interested in the Y-K Delta, how about a road to Nunam Iqua?  Or a road to Emmonak?  Think of the air travel it will save! Governor Sarah Palin Palin and her date, celebrity evangelical Franklin Graham, son of Rev. Billy Graham took [...]

Palin to Travel to Western Alaska!

Now we know!  We’ve been asking ourselves since January 12, what it would take to shame the governor into actually taking some personal time and doing something to help villages in Western Alaska who are running out of food and fuel this winter. Five full weeks after the news hit, we have an answer.  A [...]