Alaska Politics Information Directory

This is the place to talk about Alaska politics, state, local, national. Public life in the Last Frontier has never been more interesting -- Sarah Palin, a new governor, a new Anchorage mayor, the political corruption investigation, ...

He wants the Government to get involved with the Alaska Gas Pipeline (largest private construction project ever in North America) that Palin visciously worked on and sealed the deal to get the construction deal finalized which was ...

by Hal_10000I'm not exactly a fan of Sarah Palin, as you may have noticed. But the latest ”gotchya!” is a bit of a reach. Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, a fierce opponent of Democratic health-care reform efforts who has sa...

Both of Alaska's uber-corrupt senior representatives in Congress, Senator Ted Stevens and Congressman Don Young, have thought they could get away with murder-- or at least anything and everything just short of murder-- because the once ...

It never ceases to amaze me just how petty Alaskan politics can get sometimes - especially when they smell a chance to stick it to Sarah Palin. This week, the issue is Palin's appointment of anew State Senator to fill the seat vacated ...

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Campaign finance activist Doris "Granny D" Haddock, who walked across the country pushing for reform at age 90, died last night surrounded by family in her Dublin home. She was 100. Haddock fell ill Sunday afternoon after returning from lunch with a ...

The nation's governors and state school chiefs will propose standards Wednesday for what students should learn in English and math, from kindergarten through high school, a crucial step in President Obama's campaign to raise academic standards across ...

A fiery critic of President Obama on health care, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told an audience in Calgary on Saturday that her family crossed the border to get medical treatment in Canada while she was growing up. "My first five years of life we ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Sarah Palin has criticized Canada's health care program, saying the socialized system should be dismantled in favor of free enterprise. But during a speech Saturday in Calgary, Palin acknowledged the irony of her family using ...

The family of a teen who may have bumped a fuel lever on a helicopter that led to a fatal crash in Alaska says the operator should have installed an inexpensive guard to keep the lever from moving accidentally. Quinn Ellington's family put out a ...

Click "Submit Abuse" if you feel this post is inappropriate. Explain why below if you wish. The words favorite and politician are not words I often use in the same sentence, but I do have some. To get a full ten, I have to go back a ways in history ...

Eric Schwaab, the new chief at National Marine Fisheries Service, is stepping into the job at a time when frustration with federal fisheries policy is bubbling over in coastal towns from Maine to Alaska. Schwaab was sworn in as the assistant ...

Former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin made her stand-up comedy debut by performing a monologue on Jay Leno’s chat show. Sarah Palin, joined by husband Todd Palin, signs copies of 'Going Rogue' to a large crowd at BJ's Wholesale Club in ...

In 1967, during their first of many vacations in Alaska, they encountered growling grizzlies and proposed 10 pristine areas as national parks. With the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980, these and many other ...