It's rare that anything happening in Juneau carries national significance, but the avalanche that took out our hydroelectric power two weeks ago has forced the entire community to reduce its electricity consumption by significant degrees.Stores, though open, went partially dark. Neon signs were switched off...
the alaskan clown show
On the day after an avalanche took out five local hydroelectric transmission towers -- an event that will quintuple Juneau's electricity rates for the next few months -- the Senate.
Tomorrow, I'll be mailing my vote to approve our faculty's new collective bargaining agreement, which was negotiated over the course of about 14 months in 2007 and early 2008.In the.
KTVA, the CBS affiliate in Anchorage, just ran a nearly unwatchable, nine-minute "human interest" segment on Ted "Tubemaster" Stevens (who might actually have to face a real Democratic opponent this year). The station's intro to the piece single-handedly justifies the absence of television in our...
It's been nothing short of infuriating to watch Alaska's resistance (sub.) to the possible (though unlikely) listing of polar bears as a "threatened" species. The state has exactly zero polar.
In response to the least-asked question of the primary season -- "So what the hell is happening in Alaska?" -- the answer is clear.People in Alaska are still rug-chomping crazy.With.
Shorter Practically verbatim Ted Stevens:That's a nice newspaper you have there. Be a shame if something happened to it.Crikey. Stevens appears to believe that he can cut off federal funding for the Anchorage Daily News. What's truly pathetic about all of this is that Stevens...