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Oh, crap.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A California publicist and two co-authors have terminated a book deal with a former aide of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
San Diego-based Releve Marketing and PR announced Tuesday it will no longer represent or co-author Frank Bailey’s upcoming book “Renegade: Sarah Palin’s Hatchet Man.”
Christiana Grace, company co-owner and one of the [...]

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When I first heard that Mark Begich would be holding a town hall meeting at Bartlett High School tonight, I figured I’d better stay as far away from that crazy as possible. Even though I want to support Senator Begich in the fight for health care, I knew that there would be a good [...]

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Thanks, Sarah!

Thanks to Sarah Palin who decided to quit her job last month, the Legislature called a special session and voted to overturn her veto of energy stimulus funds. We were the only state in the nation to refuse the funds. We also had a major crisis in bush Alaska last winter due to…energy [...]

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The Tundra Drums is reporting that some federal stimulus money will be making its way to rural Alaskan villages to help replace honey buckets with flush toilets. In this day and age, no one should be using a honey bucket. When I lived in the village, I had a honey bucket for the [...]

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Have you ever been under such stress that you didn’t realize how bad it was until it was over? The air clears, you can breathe deeply again and your shoulders slide down from their previous position somewhere around your ears.
That’s how I feel today. The nightmare is over, no matter what. The [...]

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When I read the article entitled, “Troopers Investigate Reports of Illegal Subsistence Fishing” over at the Alaska Dispatch website, I was incredulous. Apparently, fishermen in Marshall have protested state-imposed fishing limits by catching fish outside of the two 18-hour periods per week. These limits were set by the state to protect the king [...]

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