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 [...]

Well, it was a pretty exciting night in Anchorage! Rachel Maddow came and filmed her Tuesday night show right here in our humble city. Before I go pour myself into bed, I thought I’d put up one of my favorite segments of the show. This is Rachel interviewing Vic Fischer, one of the original delegates [...]

~Senator Johnny Ellis talks about the Alaska Film Incentives bill he sponsored in 2008 Fans of Shannyn Moore’s TV show Moore Up North will be thrilled to learn that the taping of the show has moved to a new location – Taproot! Join the crew tonight, Thursday, September 30 at 5:30pm, for the taping of [...]

Our very own Shannyn Moore will be hosting The Thom Hartmann Program today, Thursday, September 16. Thom is winging his way cross-country and asked Shannyn to fill the coveted slot in his absence. For those of you who have been living in a cave where radio signals do not penetrate, Thom Hartmann is the number [...]

After the turmoil and the tearing within the Alaska Republican Party this week, I wanted to get Andrew Halcro’s take on the situation. Andrew is an “effete young chap” (according to Sarah Palin), social moderate and fiscal conservative who was a 2-term Republican State Representative, and Independent Gubernatorial Candidate who ran against Sarah Palin in [...]

Last week, I wrote my take on the “Dr.” Laura Schlessinger “tirade,” where I discuss that it was about so much more than the “n-word” and I agreed that she absolutely needed to be held accountable. In reading the coverage of the issue on the blogosphere, it was obvious that thousands of people obviously felt the [...]

Talking about the death of former Senator Ted Stevens is a bit like playing with  political napalm these days.  I got the call that Stevens’ plane might  have gone down at midnight Alaska time, which was 4am for me on the East coast where I was at the time.  I went to the Anchorage Daily [...]

~The wreckage from the plane crash Ted Stevens survived in 1978. I wrote a thank you note to Rachel after watching this coverage. There is so much unable to explain about Alaska. It’s why I have a T.I.A moment every day. This. Is. Alaska. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it rips your guts out. For many [...]

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”-Norman Cousins Week before last, a fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico took his own life. It was the first reported suicide in this unending and unfolding BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. William Allen Kruse, [...]

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 [...]

The Anchorage Daily News put out their annual reader survey in today’s paper for The Best of Alaska section.  Congratulations to Mudflats contributing editor Shannyn Moore who won BEST BROADCAST PERSONALITY GOLD!  Shannyn was the ONLY Radio Personality to win.  We are not surprised.     Last year, Shannyn won the Anchorage Press Picks for 2009 as [...]

My dreams of a 40th birthday in Rome or Maui have been replaced with something far more meaningful. June 12th I will be walking in the Homer Cancer Walk with my mother who was diagnosed with an untreatable cancer in January. She is a retired teacher and has always given back. I’m really proud of [...]

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 [...]

This week on Moore Up North, Shannyn Moore interviewed Dr. Jack Hickel, the son of the late Governor Walter J. Hickel. I had the privilege of meeting and talking with Dr. Hickel. He’s an amazing man who shares his father’s vision of the owner state. Agree or disagree with his politics, he always put Alaska [...]

Mike Mason is a 27 year oil-industry veteran who worked on oil rigs at BP facilities on the North Slope of Alaska. On January 21, 2005, Corporate Crime Reporter ran an article detailing Mason’s allegations of BP falsifying the results of blowout preventer tests. At the time, Mason was working for Nabors Alaska Drilling Inc. [...]