We're celebrating because we just found out that AK Muckraker - Jeanne Devon - has been named Cook Inletkeeper's 2009 Alaska Muckraker of the Year:
The Sarah Palin Death Panel:ROBERT SIEGEL: ..... I guess, my question for you is which one of those two women will be' [...]
--- by AK Muckraker“Homework on a Saturday?” you think. “What’s the deal with THAT?”
Well, this is the deal. We’ve been waiting for health care, and talking about health care and listening to other people talk about health care, and getting screamed [...]
Back in March 2008, Progressive Alaska posted an article about fishery issue coverage by Alaska media, called Writing About Commercial Fishery Issues in the Alaska Press. A lot has changed in that 20-month period.
(Mara Kimmel with husband Ethan Berkowitz at Elmendorf AFB last week, meeting President Obama)
During her Barbara Walters interview, the Crazy Woman stated: 
Marcus Baram has compiled an index to Going Rogue, which was published without one. Baram's index has been published at Huffington Post. If you have additions or corrections, Marcus suggests you send them HERE.
Author and journalist, Dahr Jamail, will be speaking at the University of Alaska Anchorage Monday evening. Here's the campus newsletter announcement:
Social Sciences Building, Room 118
Dahr Jamil's new book is called "The Will to Resist," and [...]
Jeremy Lansman, owner of KYES TV, Anchorage's channel 5, has been wanting to get Shannyn Moore onto local TV for quite a while. Well, it will come to pass finally today - in about ten minutes.
The Crazy Woman's facebook ghost writer wants us to be afraid. Very afraid:
I. Ann Strongheart from Anonymous Bloggers, delivered her and her late husband Segundo's new daughter, Gabriella Kegginacangaq Strongheart, late Thursday. 
[Progressive Alaska is going to attempt structuring writings about fisheries issues. Hopefully, we'll be publishing articles on Fridays that look at the rapidly changing fisheries environment in Alaska and elsewhere.]
In 2008, Judy and I campaigned & canvassed for, and donated to President Obama's campaign. Many, many times.
Even before I served in the U.S. Army, I thought Veterans should get a day of paid vacation on November 11th every year. Never got that vacation day, though - headed out to work in about an hour. 
The Alaska House wants almost $1,000,000.00 of Alaskans' money to keep a pricey, upscale gallery open in Manhatten's swank Soho District. At the gallery, owner proprietor Alice Rogoff shows off her growing collection of Alaskan art. Every time the gallery is profiled or has an event, [...] 
Possibly the most prescient immediate reaction to the tragedy last week was that by Josh Marshal, at Talking Points Memo. His headline read:
On October 18th, Progressive Alaska published an article by Sherwood Ross on the huge expansion of the use of lethal drone aircraft in Afghanistan and Pakistan by the Obama administration. While use of the drones limits possibilities for American combat casualties compared to his predecessor, [...] 
It is still Sunday in Alaska, but in Berlin it is the 20th anniversary of the breach of the Berlin Wall. On November 9th, 1989:
I. The term "homeland security" has bothered a lot of people from all through the American political spectrum since it was coined back in late 2001, in the wake of the September 11th airplane hijackings and crashes, and the September 18th-November 16th anthrax attacks.
Major L. Eduardo Caraveo, 52, of Woodbridge, Va.Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow, 32, of Plymouth, Ind.
Capt. John P. Gaffaney, 54, of San Diego, Calif.
Spc. Frederick Greene, 29, of Mountain City, Tenn.
Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Tillman, Okla.
Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, [...]
I. Saradise Lost Resurrected
The Alaska Commons has a great essay on comparisons between Eddie Burke and Vic Fischer. Here are the YouTubes, made at a recent Anchorage Assembly meeting, that are attached to that essay.
Here's Maria Callas singing the pathetically touching pre-suicide song of a princess forced to become a nun after she had conceived a love child out of wedlock, in Puccini's short story, Sister Angelica.
[author and premiere investigative blogger Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel) is live blogging the House Judiciary Committee hearings on renewal of the Patriot Act. Today's hearing begins at 7:00 a.m. Alaska time. Her live blogging can be found here, at EMPTYWHEEL.
--- by Jane Hamsher
Four weeks ago, American linguist and war critic, Noam Chomsky took questions during an appearance at the Commonwealth Club of California:
Here's a collection of right-wing signs, many of them from 2009 teabagger rallies. Their erudition speaks loudly on behalf of their real message:
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Yesterday, my next-door neighbor and I retrieved our floats from a cove where they settled in after being sheared off their mooring in a wind storm. Here I was, towing it out of the icy corner of the cove Sunday:
