It’s Bike to Work Day, Anchorage!
Here are some tips on where to find Anchorage Bike to Work Day events and a special Alaska Commons Short film. More »
We Are All Frank Luntz (and you can too!)
As media consumers, we all have anchors - people we get our news from and tend to trust. Talking heads directly or indirectly rely on people like Luntz to supply them with More »
Nakupenda Yeyo: I Love You, Mama
The literary care package, scratched and battered from its 3000-mile journey from the coffee table of my mother’s living room in New Jersey, is part of a tradition she started when I More »
Court is in Session: Assembly Certifies Controversial Election
The question put before the Anchorage Assembly during the special meeting Thursday night was not an enviable one, nor was it a clear one. The election should not have been certified for fundamental More »
Stand Against Racism Luncheon: Year 5
As a veteran of such “let’s all get together and feel alright” Bob Marley-style social events, I have seen many a mighty idea such as this experience an epic fail. This did More »
Ron Paul’s Alaska?
The GOP should be a big tent. Conservatism means a group of people with a common focus, but without any single-issue litmus tests or required ideology. I have outlined More »
It’s Bike to Work Day, Anchorage!
Here are some tips on where to find Anchorage Bike to Work Day events and a special Alaska Commons Short film.
We Are All Frank Luntz (and you can too!)
As media consumers, we all have anchors – people we get our news from and tend to trust. Talking heads directly or indirectly rely on people like Luntz to supply them with well thought out, scrutinized, poll tested, data-backed information about policy; most often slanted to benefit one side or another.
Nakupenda Yeyo: I Love You, Mama
The literary care package, scratched and battered from its 3000-mile journey from the coffee table of my mother’s living room in New Jersey, is part of a tradition she started when I was a child. Every month, she would purchase one or two books by notable African-American authors; and two or three others from some other literary heavyweight. I remember watching her hands, slim and brown, slide over the dusty cracked spines of second-hand paperbacks. Her long fingers stretching like brown snakes, and darting out to snatch a dog-eared copy of a Langston Hughes’ anthology from the crowded shelf.
Court is in Session: Assembly Certifies Controversial Election
The question put before the Anchorage Assembly during the special meeting Thursday night was not an enviable one, nor was it a clear one.
The election should not have been certified for fundamental democratic reasons.
Stand Against Racism Luncheon: Year 5
As a veteran of such “let’s all get together and feel alright” Bob Marley-style social events, I have seen many a mighty idea such as this experience an epic fail.
This did not happen last Friday. In an orderly fashion, a planned – yet, very engaging – conversation was had.
Ron Paul’s Alaska?
The GOP should be a big tent. Conservatism means a group of people with a common focus, but without any single-issue litmus tests or required ideology. I have outlined previously what the GOP means to me. That is my personal ideology and I accept other people’s views for what they are. It is important to always listen to other points of view with an open mind. Doing so helps one understand where he or she is coming from. It can also strengthen your views or perhaps change your point of view.
While I have my issues with the many citizens Ron Paul supporters dismiss wholly as the “establishment” I also have issues with religious neo-libertarianism.… Read the rest
“United Against the War on Women” Anchorage March – Video
Exclusive video footage of the “Unite Against the War on Women March” on Saturday, April 28, 2012.
House Bill 80: The Long Journey of a Bad Idea
As halfhearted eulogies for “policy that could have been” occupy our morning reads, it is important to take a second look at one proposal that did not pass, but will continue to be misused, mischaracterized, and intentionally misunderstood in political sport.
When We Lose Our Vote
Tuesday night’s assembly meeting played host to a dozen or so offerings of testimony from Anchorage residents. They reported personal accounts of voting issues, accounts of poll workers identifying ballot shortages and AccuVote machine problems, and the need for an independent investigation and a do-over election. Additionally, a new chair was elected in Assemblyman Ernie Hall (as correctly predicted here last week).
Non-Traditional GOP Values
Republican, Democrat or independent; it doesn’t matter as much as our need for people in the Alaska Legislature to represent sanity. We need sanity with mutual respect, discussion and compromise. Our bipartisan working group in the Alaska Senate has been a great example of government that works.
