The Price of Oil, July 4th, and Chuck Berry
Messing with the caribou does nothing to alter our energy plight, now or in the future, and shame on politicians who suggest otherwise to frustrated constituents.
Messing with the caribou does nothing to alter our energy plight, now or in the future, and shame on politicians who suggest otherwise to frustrated constituents.
Amanda Coyne | Posted 06.25.2008 | Home
Last night in Anchorage, Obama staff told a small crowd that Obama would be coming to campaign in Alaska. A new poll has the margin closing here dramatically, to 5 points with 17 percent undecided.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
Even still-enamored journalists cannot fail to notice that it would be difficult to find a candidate less suited for the times or the office than McCain right now.
George Spyros | Posted 06.16.2008 | Green
Surfing is uniquely positioned to get everyone from lay persons to law-makers enthused about racing headlong into the rush of tackling the environmental crisis.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
Alaska is going to be very close this year. This stems from Republican office-holders apparently trying to take the "first in political corruption" award away from Louisiana.
Dawn Teo | Posted 06.08.2008 | Home
Obama's army goes deep behind enemy lines in the West. He and Dean are determined to compete in red states as a matter of strategy, forcing McCain to spend money and resources on his own turf.
CBS News | Posted 06.06.2008 | Business
Verizon in talks to buy Alltel; Federal Reserve concerned about inflation; Oil Prices taking toll on Iditarod. Alexis Christoforous reports. ...
Stephen Ducat | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green
In the view of conservatives, just as women are there to serve and must know their place, so must the Earth (along with its animals and indigenous inhabitants) be used as a resource that requires no reciprocity.
Chris Kelly | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
The Anchorage Daily News has discovered why Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the perfect person to be the next Dick Cheney: "She can look you in eye and tell you black is white." Especially when there's oil involved.
Mark Begich | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich is a candidate to represent Alaska in the U.S. Senate If you'd asked me four years ago, I would have said global warming...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news? So d...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics
Were Hillary the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have been able to dispatch a presidential neophyte like Barack Obama.
Reuters | Posted 03.11.2008 | Business
Michigan again recorded the highest unemployment rate in January, followed by Alaska, with most states recording little change in the measure, the Lab...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
The Democratic Party has structured its system in a way that thwarts insurgency, promotes secrecy, and creates the need for vast amounts of money. The process is perfectly Clintonian,
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics
Of the many strange spins the Clinton campaign has sold the media, few are as troubling as the idea that she is the stronger general election candidate.
Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 03.02.2008 | Living
I'm in Anchorage, Alaska right now where I watched the ceremonial start of the 2008 Iditarod yesterday.
Washington Post | Robert Barnes | Posted 02.24.2008 | Politics
When a federal jury in Alaska in 1994 ordered Exxon to pay $5 billion to thousands of people who had their lives disrupted by the massive Exxon Valdez...
Carl Pope | Posted 02.06.2008 | Home
Seattle -- According to Wikipedia, the Scythians were the first to use the military tactic of scorched earth -- destroying your own homeland to deny i...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics
Between Obama and Clinton, it's going to be a virtual tie. Both campaigns will immediately release spin on why they are now the frontrunner, and why the other should politely drop out of the race.
moreintelligentlife.com | Julius Strauss | Posted 01.24.2008 | Living
Julius Strauss has left behind his ranch in Canadian bear country to teach for a term in Anchorage, Alaska, where he learns some lessons about driving...
Harry Fuller | Posted 01.03.2008 | Business
Oil in troubled waters. Death to the polar bears?
Grist.org | Posted 01.02.2008 | Business
The U.S. Interior Department's Minerals Management Service plans to offer offshore oil and gas drilling rights to 29.7 million acres of Alaska's Chukc...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 09.20.2007 | Home
The FBI, working with an Alaska oil contractor, secretly taped telephone calls with Sen. Ted Stevens as part of a public corruption sting, according t...
AP via Anchorage Daily News | Dan Joling | Posted 09.14.2007 | Home
Ex-Veco Corp. CEO Bill Allen admitted in court Friday that he had company employees work several months on a remodeling project at the Girdwood home o...
AP | Dan Joling | Posted 09.13.2007 | Home
The former head of an oil field service company admitted Thursday in court that he bribed three Alaska legislators, including the son of a U.S. senato...
Today, Barack Obama posted a message to supporters on my.barackobama.com about the...
US News and World Report printed a short piece about GOP fears that the...
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! In honor of the great American holiday, Huffington Post has pulled together...
I've been running VoteVets.org for a couple of years now. In 2006 and in...
Tracie Egan, and Moe Tkacik, two writers from Jezebel.com were invited to appear on my show, Thinking...
Florida's bachelor Governor Charlie Crist is getting married, and to a woman, too. That's how badly...
Lee Grivas, the 26-year-old boyfriend of Christina Applegate, was found dead in...
From Media Matters: On the July 2 edition of MSNBC's Verdict, during the...
Today the New York Times reports on a jaw-dropping addition to the medical spa trend. Now comes...
Even with the GOP convention nearly two months away, some in the Republican...
PARIS — A French judge ordered Continental Airlines and five people...
The bottom-up political movement that Barack Obama has been so fervently encouraging may have come too...
Jackson Williams | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics