From Erika Bolstad in Washington D.C. --
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's book may be selling even faster than it can be printed, but a survey of what news piqued the public's interest this week found people were far more interested in what's going on with health care. The debate [...]
Back on September 3, 2008, when Progressive Alaska published Saradise Lost - Chapter Sixteen -- Palin's Views on the End Times, no Alaska news outlet called, emailed, texted or knocked on my door to question the veracity of my claims about Palin's millennialist beliefs. Nor [...] Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
From Erika Bolstad in Washington D.C. –
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is calling for a hearing to look into how the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force developed recommendations that calling for pushing back the age and frequency at which women get screened for breast cancer.
Murkowski, along with 21 other senators [...]
Last Wednesday, I managed to have the best talk ever with Alaska Democratic Party gubernatorial primary candidate Ethan Berkowitz. He was the guest speaker at Drinking Liberally's newest Anchorage incarnation.
So gentle readers we return, once again, to the "riveting" hagiography of Alaska's first female governor, Queen Ester of the North, our very own Sarah Louise Heath Palin.
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:This is another excellent installment of KTVA's Matt Felling in his "View from the Hill" series...a weekly discussion with Alaska's two Senators. This week he spoke to Mark Begich about Health Care and military issues. This is a good piece to look at when discussing today's impending cloture vote. [...]
The Sarah Palin Death Panel:ROBERT SIEGEL: ..... I guess, my question for you is which one of those two women will be' [...]
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.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
You know I wish Lawrence O'Donnell would quit calling Palin an "Alaskan Blogger". It just cheapens the brand.Juneau
SEAGLA Social Fridays (6-8 p.m.) for GLBT people and our friends over 21, at The Imperial Bar, downtown.
Fairbanks
"The Morality of Same-Sex Marriage" with Dr. Joseph Thompson 11/20, 6 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium at UAF.
UAF Gay-Straight [...]
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Even though Levi Johnston didn't bare all for Playgirl magazine, the Alaskan hunk did not disappoint.From Erika Bolstad in Washington D.C. --
The fact checking of former Sarah Palin's new memoir continues, and now, questions have been raised about her role in the lawsuit against Exxon Mobil. People involved in the legal wrangling tell Reuters that they believe the former Alaska governor distorted her importance [...]
From Ms. Palin's masterwork, we learn that the personal really is the political. Every encounter with a critic seems to be a skirmish in the culture wars, from the Alaska debate moderator who didn't play fair once to the "wealthy, effete young chap" who ran against her for governor but' [...]
Pete Kott speaks to Alaska media about his case from Dennis Zaki on Vimeo.
Yeah, in Alaska we can't even keep 'em in jail when we catch them breaking the law on [...]
Reading was a special bond between my mother and me. Mom read aloud to me--poetry by Ogden Nash and the Alaska writer Robert Service, along with snippets of prose. She would quote biblical proverbs ans ask me to tell her what I thought. She found [...]
