OK, just to be clear, we here at The Mudflats totally heart the first amendment. It’s actually one of our favorite ones. We would never want to sound like we wanted to limit speech, or squelch the marketplace of ideas, no matter how mind-numbing, head-banging, or downright painfully idiotic those “ideas” may be. That said [...]

The past two budgets have included $84 million for a bridge…to somewhere in Alaska. Senators Wielechowski and French have written a letter to the Alaska Railroad with some concerns. ANCHORAGE- Today, Senators Bill Wielechowski and Hollis French are calling on Alaska Railroad officials to ensure steel products made only in America are used to build [...]

Want to see the Arctic Ocean? Just start driving the Haul Road north of Fairbanks. You’ll pass through miles and miles of rugged, beautiful, unfenced land. The road is rough and there aren’t many amenities like gas stations, toilets or cell service. And before you make it to the ocean, there’s one other complication: the [...]

Alaskans are a bunch of people who want to be around a bunch of people who don’t want to be around a bunch of people. By Shannyn Moore I once saw a bush pilot restart his plane with the gum wrapper off a piece of Big Red. I asked him if it would work. He [...]

Last week a woman called my radio station. She squealed at my producer, “Who is this woman? She sounds like a LIBERAL!” There is a good reason I sound like a liberal: I am. And the caller would be surprised to learn that this puts me right in step with the history and the foundation [...]

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 [...]

Yes, it has come to this.  Sarah Palin has shown herself once again absolutely unable to let anything pass. She visited the fabulous fishing town of Homer Alaska this weekend. If she were a fish, she’d be an easy catch.  Shiny lure?  Night crawler? Minnow? Egg-sucking leech?  Piece of bologna?  Herring?  Banana?  Doesn’t matter.  She’ll snap [...]

When driving in the rain is getting tiresome, try to follow a politically misguided neighbor. I haven’t seen many Mark Begich stickers, pro or con. This was a first. I’m pretty sure this guy didn’t vote for Mark after seeing the other side of his bumper and a grammar check. I’d like a sticker that [...]

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 [...]

Jeanne did a great overview of yesterday’s press conference and the ensuing report from Independent Counsel Tim Petumenos on the illegality of Palin’s Alaska Fund Trust.  Of course, now the hamsters running the Palin spin machine are all running their furry little butts off and some amazing lies are being tossed out there as if [...]

Sarah has a new blog entry. You’ll need a pair of chest waders and a barf bag to get through it. Blasting the president for not taking control of a free-market corporation reveals frayed tea bag credentials: These decisions and the resulting spill have shaken the public’s confidence in the ability to safely drill. Unless [...]

  Sometimes, one just needs to show up to get a story.  On a really good day, one can show up and get several. I attended the Anchorage Memorial Day Ceremony at the Veterans Memorial downtown at Delaney Park…a multiple-block strip of park land that Anchorageites logically call “The Park Strip.”  Not only is attending the [...]

  OK, so a Republican lost in a Democratic primary.  We can still enjoy it, right? I prefer to look at it as an entrenched politician with tons of name recognition and money got the boot in favor of a real progressive. See how much better that sounds? Arlen Specter (R) (D) just lost to [...]

If you’re trying to attract chickadees, sunflower seeds work really well. If you’re trying to catch a trout, you might try salmon eggs. What sort of shiny object or tasty treat would you use to lure a pack of hideously racist, homophobic, hate-filled whack jobs?  Let’s look it up. (flipping through my copy of ‘Homophobic [...]

I’d like to thank a very special “Boots on the Ground” reporter and friend, Mudflatter Geoffrey Dunn.  Dunn is finishing up a well-researched book due out this summer titled “The Lies of Sarah Palin.”  He’s having a hard time not making this a three-volume set.  He told me he’d call in a report after seeing Palin’s [...]