Juneau
SEAGLA Social Fridays (6-8 p.m.) for GLBT people and our [...]
From Don Hunter in Anchorage --
Mayor Dan Sullivan this afternoon vetoed $174,000 in amendments the Assembly added to the 2010 city budget Tuesday.
Sullivan lined out a $124,000 increase in grants for arts organizations, and an additional $50,000 for library services.
Sullivan noted that both those amendments were on top of [...]
From Bill White in Anchorage --
Former state Rep. Ralph Samuels from Anchorage announced this afternoon that he is running for governor in next year’s Republican primary.
Samuels currently is vice president for government and community relations in Alaska for tourism giant Holland America Line.
He served six years in the state House [...]
A man was arrested for allegedly throwing two tomatoes at Sarah Palin from the second floor balcony during a book signing event at the Mall of America in Minnesota, MyFoxTwinCities.com. reported.From David Lightman in D.C.:
Look at it this way, Sarah Palin told a Washington journalists’ dinner Saturday night: If Joe Biden had lost, he’d be peddling a book today titled, “Going Rogaine.”
Biden, of course, is now vice president (and with a head of thinning hair), while Palin stopped in [...]
From the Associated Press --
A longtime critic of Sarah Palin has filed an ethics complaint alleging past aides of the former Alaska governor misused state resources during her run as the Republican vice presidential candidate.
Andree McLeod filed her complaint Friday with the state attorney general's office. Five other ethics [...]
I want to thank all of the folks who have offered their services to help go through the emails. A very special thank-you to Phil Munger, who is giving me a scanner!
I don't have them yet but should by the end of this week or the' [...]
From Erika Bolstad in Washington D.C. --
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski introduced an amendment today to the health care bill that effectively bans the government from using guidelines from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force to deny coverage.
Murkowski's amendment, aimed at guidelines the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force released last' [...]
If President Obama, who I voted for because I thought he was progressive, sends 30,000 troops into Afghanistan it’s time to institute compulsory military service in the United States. Our military has depended on “Stop Loss,” the ultimate Catch-22, to keep volunteers in the military seemingly for ever. I think [...]
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 [...]
--- by Jane Hamsher
I don't always agree with Matthews, but he is dead on here.
And Norah O'Donnell points out an important piece as well when she identifies Palin supporters as feeling somehow "victimized". These Christian white Americans, clearly the majority in this country, have convinced themselves that they are [...]
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 [...]
From Newsmax.com:
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 [...]
