~Thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more and more! No Bump in the Road for East Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan strikes again.  East Anchorage has long had traffic problems which include having a lot of kids, and a lot of straight flat roads where people tend to drive too fast.  A [...]

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 [...]

By Geoffrey Dunn Walter J. “Wally” Hickel (1919-2010), the colorful two-time Governor of Alaska and former U.S. Secretary of the Interior under Richard Nixon, had long declared that “I want to be buried standing up so I can fight for what I believe in forever.” He got his wish. At private services held earlier this [...]

By Geoffrey Dunn The death of Walter J. “Wally” Hickel (1919-2010) in Anchorage this past Friday marks the end of a remarkable era, not only in Alaska, but throughout the entire United States. The two-time Governor of the Last Frontier (elected once as a Republican in the 1960s, the second time as an Independent in [...]