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The current mayor of Anchorage, Alaska Dan Sullivan is the son of former mayor George Sullivan [1922-2009] who was mayor from 1967 to 1981. When the elder Sullivan left office in Jan. 1982, an unusual agreement was suggested by the Anchorage Assembly [city council] to continue the former mayor's life insurance coverage, apparently as a tribute to his accomplishments. Last month, three mo...
DailyKos (Alaska) - Thu 2:09 a.m. - 4 clicks 
Shaved right before me was the top fundraiser for the Anchorage event, Gene Pool (yeah, I know...I didn't ask). His impressive total: $2,546.76 I don't know what I expected when I walked into the McGinley's Pub for the St. Baldrick's Day event. I didn't expect such a warm reception from the Foundation volunteers who were working tirelessly on the silent auction, signin...
Celtic Diva's Blue Oasis - Mon 3:29 p.m. - 4 clicks
The puppy is asleep between trips outside (we are having housebreaking success!!!) so here's a quick update: I posted about this at Facebook: St. Baldrick's Day--Linda Kellen Biegel is shaving her head for a cure! Date: Saturday, March 6, 2010 Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm Location: 645 G Street, Suite 101 , Anchorage, AK Saturday morning, I will be losing ALL of my hair (yes,...
Celtic Diva's Blue Oasis - Mar 5 - 2 clicks
Radio Kenai's five stations dominate the local commercial airwaves. John Davis, the radio media magnate, has infused right-wing propaganda through most of the syndicated shows that he broadcasts. John, and his partner in opine, Joe Nicks, offer their own profundities in the Think About It series. At best, their ideas are insipid, but more often they are, in the satirical way Rush uses the word...
SOL in Soldotna, Alaska - Mar 2 - 2 clicks
My district chair has sent out the rally cry to Muldoon to begin to prepare for the Caucus in March. She says: The Democratic Party has scheduled a Caucus on Saturday March 20th, 2010 at the Lucy Cuddy Center, UAA campus at 9:00 a.m. (Building # 6 on map: http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/map/... Bravo. Give me some more vitamins. Raucus Caucus. Raucus Caucus. I read ...
Celtic Diva's Blue Oasis - Feb 21 - 4 clicks
So I come out of my frazzled and frustrated writing haze to... well, write. But had to give a little tip of the hat to Elizabeth Peratrovich on Elizabeth Peratrovich Day - or the 65th anniversary of the passing of the Alaskan Anti-Discrimination Bill. For the most part, I'm just going to repost last year's bit, "What is Elizabeth Peratrovich Day?" I do want to add one GREAT way to celebrate the d...
Alaska Real - Feb 16 - 6 clicks
Tonight's episode featured a "unique" story line where character Chris Griffin was dating a girl with Down's Syndrome. A dangerous territory for comedy to be sure, that turned ugly, when Ellen (the character with Down's Syndrome) revealed that her mother was the former governor of Alaska. The website insinuates that outrage would be justified...I disagree. It's clear to me that they ...
Celtic Diva's Blue Oasis - Feb 14 - 3 clicks
One of the first things that struck me when I started going through MSNBC's 3000 pages of emails from the State of Alaska is that whomever was making the decisions on what to "redact" and what to release was much more lax with these emails than with my records request. A number of these emails were VERY embarassing for Palin in that they irrefutably back-up what former friends and ex...
Celtic Diva's Blue Oasis - Feb 13
The last two days I've been working very hard on things that aren't the blog! --Naturally, I'm reading the MSNBC emails. --I was not able to testify about the Executive Branch Ethics Act yesterday at the Anchorage LIO because public testimony happened while I had to pick up my daughter, so I wrote and submitted my testimony to the members of the Administrative Regulation Review Joint Com...
Celtic Diva's Blue Oasis - Feb 10
I know, I know…SOL rarely takes on state or national figures, but Lisa Murkowski has written a few opinion pieces in the local rags lately that offer poorly thought through ideas. Since Lisa has invaded my turf, I think a SOL response is order. I wish I could say that I was using a bit of hyperbole with my headline, but unfortunately that’s what will happen if the US goes along with Lisa Murkowsk...
SOL in Soldotna, Alaska - Feb 4 - 2 clicks
I'd take a bet that not one of the 13,113 Alaskans who voted for Nikiski's Bob Bird would have voted for Mark Begich. But if Bob didn't run, most of his votes would have gone to Ted Stevens who trailed his opponent by a little over 3000 votes. Without Mark Begich in the US Senate, the Democrats would not have had the 60th vote needed to quell Republican efforts to filibuster. The defeat would h...
SOL in Soldotna, Alaska - Dec 31 - 3 clicks
Does anyone lament the loss of the snow geese that used to use the flats as a feeding ground on their yearly migration? KSRM used to have a contest to spot their first arrival in the spring. And what about the caribou? I didn’t see a single one there this past summer. It wasn’t too long ago that you could often spot beluga whales in the lower Kenai. You still might get lucky and see a few come up...
SOL in Soldotna, Alaska - Dec 29 - 3 clicks
Today is Make-fun-of-contradictions Day. Some choice quotes from today’s News-Miner article on Lisa Murkowski’s Health Care Town Hall Meeting. Rick Sikma of North Pole asked why the federal government thought it ought to be involved in health care in the first place. “I don’t see that in the Constitution,†he said, applause drowning out the rest of [...]...
I Love Cynics - Dec 23
If you haven't heard, last week the senate voted to keep the language in the defense authorization act to keep retirement pay to the veterans who served in the Alaska Territoral Guard. Sen. Begich press release Sen. Murkowski press release From Begich: Sens. Begich and Murkowski introduced a bill providing for the pensions to be restored to the ATG members, but were also successful in ge...
Alaska Real - Oct 14
Tomorrow (Tuesday, October 6) is a day of local elections in the Fairbanks North Star Borough. I’ve done a little work on one campaign, enough to make me sad for the state of electoral politics. I spent one evening and one morning recently (in separate weeks) working for a particular local candidate. (I’ll say that he’s [...] ...
Fairbanks Pedestrian - Oct 5 - 2 clicks
I read Julie O'Malley's column (in the Anchorage Daily News) on the Masek sentencing last week, and it's been a point of discussion with several friends. Beverly Masek was an Alaskan representative convicted on corruption charges in the string of corruption investigations, indictments and convictions to hit the state in recent years, the most notable of them being Sen. Ted Stevens. Besides ol' U...
Alaska Real - Sep 28
From Indian Country Today: Obama administration makes new promise on Indian health I've been cautious to say anything on health care. As an Alaska Native, I've lived with pre-paid health care my whole life. It wasn't until I was a nanny, and had to navigate quite a bit of Denali Kid Care and doctor's outside of the Native health care system did I start to gain an appreciation for the enormity ...
Alaska Real - Sep 24 - 3 clicks
Just stumbled on this very cool opportunity for Native artists of all kinds. The Alaska Native Heritage Center is starting an Alaska Native Playwrights Project , in which artists will go through a 5-day writing intensive and 7-month mentoring process to see the story they want to tell put into script form. From the site: Alaska Native Playwrights Project (ANPP) seeks to identify, teach and ...
Alaska Real - Sep 10
