Yearly Archives: 2016
Bright, shiny objects: Pre-election news
The line to vote early at the Gambell Street Division of Elections office in Anchorage is 50 voters deep and a 20-minute wait to get...
Vince Beltrami shouldn’t even be on the ballot?
BELTRAMI DIDN'T TURN IN HALF THE SIGNATURES REQUIRED
When Vince Beltrami filed signatures to run as an independent candidate, he came up short. He had 70...
Bob Sivertsen, Ketchikan’s family man, running for District 36
Bob Sivertsen just blew through the door, covered in rain.
And by "blew," the writer means there were 60-mile-knot winds behind him, and rain battering sideways...
Book Review: ‘Open to Debate’
Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line, by Heather Hendershot
There has been no conservative in modern times more...
Candidate Kastner proposes limits on lawmakers’ PACs
Alaska Senate candidate Kevin Kastner says if elected to office, he'll introduce a bill to ban all elected state officials from participating or forming...
Bright, shiny objects: Strange bedfellows
First came the flier in the mailbox that says Bill Wielechowski, the most diehard Democrat in the Senate, defends Libertarian values.
Now, it appears that he...
Cathy Giessel, healer, citizen lawmaker
It was two years ago when Sen. Cathy Giessel was stretching her legs in a hotel lobby during a break at an Arctic conference...
Beltrami and Giessel true colors emerge in District N
BELTRAMI: NOT SAFE FOR WORK...FOR KIDS...OR DISTRICT N
AFL-CIO Union boss Vince Beltrami has a habit of belittling regular people on social media and in...
Parade of uglies for final election days
Nasty things are bound to happen during the week leading up to the election, and we've found some doozies arriving in mailboxes:
BILL WIELECHOWSKI SAYS HE'S...
Joe Miller, what were you thinking?
Maybe it's theft. Maybe it's mail fraud. Maybe it's just playing fast and loose with the law.
The Alaska Republican Party on Monday filed a...