Don Young Part Of FBI Investigation On Bribery Charges
An Alaska businessman admitted to giving gifts to Republican Rep. Don Young, the state's long-serving sole congressman, in a confession made public th...
An Alaska businessman admitted to giving gifts to Republican Rep. Don Young, the state's long-serving sole congressman, in a confession made public th...
Shannyn Moore | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
The "Tea Party" movement flies in the face of what the true patriots in Boston stood for. Corporate lobbying-run groups are creating the illusion of grass roots protests at the health care town hall meetings.
Michael Markarian | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
Allowing imports, driven by personal stories, has always been the tack of the trophy hunting groups and it's precisely what has allowed mass killings of polar bears by Americans to occur.
Shannyn Moore | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics
The wrongs of the Bush DOJ do not make Ted Stevens innocent nor do they exonerate him. The attempts to make him a martyr by local right wing apologists are pathetic.
Shannyn Moore | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
Why did Karl Rove's right-hand man and special assistant to George W. Bush, under Congressional investigation for felony vote caging, come to Alaska over 20 times last year?
Sarah Newman | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
Lawrence Lessig, through his group, Change Congress, has already done some of the important legwork to get us involved in removing the influence of special interests in Congress.
Sarah Newman | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics
While it's amusing to read about politicians who thought they could surreptitiously pass below the radar, it's important for citizens like you and me to make sure they're held accountable
Shannyn Moore | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
Anyone who thinks we don't need a more transparent election process here in Alaska because their candidate is in the lead is a pathetic partisan hack.
ProPublica | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
Adding to the mystery of the missing Alaskan voters, there was the fact that the poll predictions were wrong.
Shannyn Moore | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
All camps -- Stevens and Begich in the Senate race, and Don Young and Ethan Berkowitz in one of the House races with the strangest results -- are still at work. It feels like 2000 Bush-Gore around here.
Shannyn Moore | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Alaska needs an election autopsy STAT. This year's turnout was smaller than the election of 2004 by 6.1%. I would have to smoke more than salmon to believe that Alaska, with Palin on the ballot, decided to sit this one out.
Shannyn Moore | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
We're supposed to believe that overall participation decreased by 11%. This historic election both nationally and for Alaska had the lowest Alaska turnout for a presidential race ever!?! Something stinks.
AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — After a sometimes thrilling, sometimes bumpy run in the national spotlight, Alaska saw its governor defeated for vice presid...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
So, as you no doubt know, two days ago, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was convicted of multiple counts of making false statements about a quarter million...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
Prewitt: "It's going to be a tight race, but Stevens could still win this thing. Stevens has been around so long, and we do have a very partisan situation up here in Alaska."
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
Prewitt: The book is my experience working as the confidential source who spent nearly four years helping the F.B.I. pry the lid open on the sordid world of political corruption in Alaska and Washington.
Politico | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
Apparently, putting Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on the Republican presidential ticket was enough to take the state's electoral votes out of play, but ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
The GOP can't catch a break in Alaska. First Senator Ted Stevens was indicted for by a federal grand jury and insisted on a trial before the election ...
Carl Pope | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
Ted Stevens' indictment reminds me of Al Capone's eventual conviction for tax evasion. Stevens has presided over a massive raid on the federal treasury for years.
Amanda Coyne | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home
GOP lawmakers John Cowdery and Donny Olson were secretly recorded in a restaurant with former VECO oil executive Bill Allen. "[Allen] wants you "to vote the way we voted... [We] can probably go $25,000."
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
In an article that got buried underneath a holiday news cycle late last week, the AP revealed that Alaska Rep. Don Young has been using campaign donat...
McClatchy Newspapers | Sean Cockerham and Erika Bolstad | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Facing bad publicity and a dwindling campaign account, U.S. Rep. Don Young last year turned to the "AK Wolfpack," a group of more than 20 lobbyists, i...
Amanda Coyne | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
When the FBI arrived in 2006 brandishing warrants, the official Democratic Party line was: "It's a sad day for Alaska." But many of us could barely contain our glee. We'd been screaming about corruption forever.
The Hill | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Several lobbyists, including hired guns who worked on transportation, Interior and Alaska issues, had unparalleled access to Rep. Don Young's (R-Alask...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.24.2008 | 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.
McClatchy | Erika Bolstad | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics