Open Thread – The Winner
Congratulations to Dallas Seavey, winner of Iditarod XL. Seavey is a third generation Iditarod musher, and the youngest person ever to win the race. He made the journey in 9 days, 4 hours, 29 minutes, 26 seconds, the seventh-fastest time recorded on the race’s northern route. Second place finisher Aliy Zirkle had the eighth-fastest time. Read coverage at: The Alaska Dispatch – with excellent photos from Loren Holmes The Anchorage Daily News
Jeanne Devon on Political Nation with Al Sharpton
Tonight Jeanne appeared on Reverend Al Sharpton’s Show “Politics Nation” to talk “Game Change” with Sharpton, and Dana Milbank from The Washington Post. Here’s the clip. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Open Thread – Candles for Samantha
Tonight in downtown Anchorage, almost a thousand people gathered at a candle light vigil for Samantha Koenig, a young woman of 18 years who was abducted forcibly from her place of work – a coffee hut in Midtown Anchorage. She was taken the night of February 1, and has not been seen since. The Anchorage Daily News has details of the vigil HERE. A Facebook page for Samantha can be found HERE. Please contact the Anchorage Police Department if you have any information that might be helpful in solving this terrible crime. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the…
Gov. Sean Parnell – Spinning the Numbers and Sticking it to Alaska’s Kids
By Rep. Les Gara While I look for common ground with our Governor – like our efforts to keep pushing to find ways to build a natural gas pipeline (we agree a large diameter line that exports gas, produces low-cost gas, and brings in revenue is smarter than a small in-state line that brings us very high cost natural gas and no revenue) – I do disagree with him on educational policy. Yesterday we had a hearing on the University of Alaska. Alaska ranks last in the nation in college attendance and graduation. So what’s the Governor’s plan? Well, he…
Open Thread: National Columnist Dan Savage Talks-Up One Anchorage
On Thursday, nationally syndicated columnist (and creator of the “Santorum Google Bomb”) Dan Savage did a great write-up on his blog about One Anchorage. He put our Proposition 5 (yup, that’s what it will be on the ballot) in perspective compared to the big news coming out of Washington State: Washington State Got Marriage Equality This Week—But Anchorage Doesn’t Even Have Basic Civil Rights Protections for LGBT People Thirty-five years—that’s how long they’ve been fighting for basic civil rights protections up here in Anchorage, Alaska. The city and county governments of Anchorage combined into one body in 1976—the Municipality of…
Oyster Roundup – “Freedom,” “Shame,” and Crimes of the Sea
~Thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more! Here are five on the half shell. Links in the titles. Slurp! Doing Time for Fishy Crimes Arne Fuglvog, the corrupt fisheries aide of Lisa Murkowski will be serving jail time for fish crimes. He called his transgressions a “grand misjudgment.” Yes. Quite grand indeed. Back when he was charged, and confessed, his boss Lisa Murkowski reminded us that despite his confession, he was still innocent until proven guilty. He confessed to overfishing, falsifying reports, and selling his ill-gotten aquatic gains for almost a million dollars over…
Alaska’s Mitt Romney – Let the Mental Gymnastics Begin
Alaska is a land of character and characters – colorful folks who’ve become deliciously quirky icons and who, like the late Uncle Ted Stevens, and the current Don Young, are mixed bags. Sure, the Congressman for All Alaska is admirably unafraid of his party’s leadership in DC. It’s always great to see him thumb his nose at John Boehner. And he completely deserves a gold star for dubbing Governor Sean Parnell “Captain Zero.” But must he wear a propeller beanie on his head in a committee hearing, or wave the penis bone of a walrus at the head of the…