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The American Autumn: An Accurate Protest Movement Scares The Pants Off Conservatives In Both Parties | adn.com

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Rudy_Wittshirk - Oct. 16 (Opinion) - Now there is another precisely-aimed protest movement in America. “Occupy Wall Street” looks like it has “legs”---and if those legs don’t freeze off this Winter, watch out!

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Mindlessly following Palin tour does the media no favors:

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Elise Patkotak - Jun. 08 (Opinion) - First, Sarah Palin makes the term "lamestream media" her own, then she goes and proves they really are. And the lamestream media is right there helping her by acting like a bunch of buffoons. Like summer movies, the coverage being provided of Palin's summer vacation is vacuous and forgettable -- it is, as the Bard would say, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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Write-ins favor Murkowski; Miller won't quit

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Sean Cockerham, Erika Bolstad, Kyle Hopkins, Richard Mauer - Nov. 03 (News) - Election returns on Tuesday showed Lisa Murkowski with a good chance to become only the second candidate to run a successful write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate in the nation's history. But Joe Miller wasn't giving up, and his campaign was getting ready for a possible court fight.

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Miller bodyguard has links to Alaska militia group: Alaska Newsreader

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - Oct. 23 (Investigative Report) - William Fulton, the chief Joe Miller bodyguard involved in the handcuffing of a journalist Sunday at a campaign event in an Anchorage school, denies he's a member of the Kenai Peninsula-based Alaska Citizens Militia but maintains regular communication with the group on its Web forum and has been called "supply sergeant" by the group's founder. Talking Points Memo reports that Fulton, owner of DropZone Security in Anchorage, sometimes seems to conduct business via the forum but also expresses opinions on the role of citizen militias in society. Read more: http://www.adn.com/2010/10/21/1512346/miller-bodyguard-has-links-to.html#ixzz13FoHfdwp

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Miller campaign consultant known for anti-gay rhetoric: Alaska Newsreader

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - Oct. 22 (News Report) - Financial disclosure forms filed by Joe Miller's Senate campaign show he paid $2,500 for consulting services to Terry Moffitt, the North Carolina man who heads the Family Policy Network and is behind the "Hope for Homosexuals" program that urges gays to reject "unnatural and sinful" living and embrace Christianity.

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Miller security guards handcuff journalist

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Richard Mauer - Oct. 17 (News) - The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller at the end of a public event in an Anchorage school.

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Columbia Glacier's floating arm aids study of world sea levels:t

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Rosemary Shinohara - Aug. 09 (News Report) - Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound, once grounded on the ocean floor, three years ago spawned a floating arm, say scientists who have been studying it.

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Higher temperatures prolong Alaska growing season: Climate change |

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - Aug. 02 (News Report) - Researchers say higher temperatures have given Alaska a longer growing season.According to the Alaska Climate Research Center, Fairbanks is 2 1/2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer and 11 percent drier than it was 100 years ago.

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Risks of deep-water drilling brushed off by oil industry: Gulf of Mexico oil spill | adn.com

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Dallas Morning News - By Randy Lee Loftis - Jul. 01 (News Report) - he 5,000 feet of water between the Gulf of Mexico's surface and the Deepwater Horizon blowout has kept the oil and natural gas flowing.

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BP helped state investigate itself

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By RICHARD MAUER rmauer@adn.com - Jun. 27 (Investigative Report) - When two state agencies received complaints in 2005 that a BP drilling contractor routinely cheated on tests of blowout preventers and BP knew it, the agencies let the very companies accused of wrongdoing join the investigation.

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Bristol Bay sockeye thrive on diversity, scientists say

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Sandi Doughton - Jun. 02 (News Report) - SEATTLE -- In nature, as in stock investing, the key to success is a diversified portfolio, says a new study by University of Washington biologists. tool goes here Sockeye salmon from Bristol Bay make up a valuable and dependable commercial fishery

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BP exec acknowledges public frustration: Gulf of Mexico oil spill | adn.com

Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Greg Bluestein, Matthew Brown - May. 24 (News Report) - The BP executive in charge of fighting the Gulf of Mexico oil spill said Monday his company knows people are frustrated by its failure to plug the well that has been gushing for more than a month and is now spreading damage through Louisiana's wetlands.

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Shell sends engineer to lobby for Arctic drilling

Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Erika Bolstad - May. 06 (News Report) - WASHINGTON -- Shell Oil, hoping to put a vast distance between the oil gushing from a BP rig into the Gulf of Mexico and its own pending Arctic project, sent a top executive and engineer to Capitol Hill this week to persuade decision-makers that the

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Service seeks views on ANWR's future: wilderness or oil?

Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Erika Bolstad - May. 04 (News Report) - WASHINGTON -- The three-decade long fight over whether oil companies should be allowed inside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is taking on a new wrinkle that could lock up the refuge for good. tool goes here The wrinkle is the idea of declaring

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Delicate battle against spill unfolds deep in Gulf

Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Harry R. Weber, Ray Henry - May. 04 (News Report) - PORT FOURCHON, La. - It is a job that requires the expertise of a rocket scientist and the precision of a surgeon. tool goes here Engineers are racing to stem the disastrous oil leak a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico, relying on a series of highly

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Groups challenge EPA permits for Arctic drilling by Shell

Tue, 04 May 2010 13:04:42 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Dan Joling - May. 04 (News Report) - Alaska Native and conservation groups are challenging a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to grant Clean Air Act permits to Shell Oil for drilling offshore exploration wells in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas as early as this summer.

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Bear killed by Inuit hunter confirmed hybrid 'grolar': Alaska Newsreader

Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - May. 03 (News Report) - urthermore, genetic tests determined the bear was the offspring of a female hybrid and a male grizzly, making it likely the first known second-generation hybrid, reports CBC News.

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BP didn't plan for major spill: Oil | adn.com

Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Cain Burdeau, Holbrook Mohr - May. 01 (News Report) - British Petroleum once downplayed the possibility of a catastrophic accident at an offshore rig that exploded, causing the worst U.S. oil spill in decades along the Gulf Coast and endangering shoreline habitat.

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Feds collect dead eagles to help Native traditions

Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - May. 01 (News Report) - The bald eagle may be America's emblem, but the birds are susceptible to the same dangers as the average crow. Each year, thousands of bald eagles are hit by cars, electrocuted and accidentally poisoned. tool goes here But unlike crows or any other

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Scientists find Western U.S. lakes warming faster than land: Climate change

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Matt Weiser - Jan. 04 (News Report) - Lake Tahoe, Clear Lake and four other large lakes in Northern California and Nevada are warming faster than the surrounding atmosphere, suggesting climate change may affect aquatic environments faster and sooner.

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Polar bear listing no threat to development

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Anchorage Daily News - By Geoffrey L. Haskett - Dec. 26 (Opinion) - The simple fact is that development and the protection of threatened and endangered species can and do coexist in Alaska, precisely because of these cooperative efforts and in concert with the careful and prudent application of the Endangered Species Act.

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Palin's anti-intellectualism dangerous: Stephen Haycock

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Anchorage Daily News - By Steve Haycox - Nov. 27 (Editorial) - A dangerous divide has been developing for some years in America, between those who are comfortable negotiating the wide array of knowledge and information sources now available, and those who are not. It is in many aspects a class divide, one side characterized by wealth, professional degrees, security and complacency, the other by shrinking incomes and high credit card debt, anxiety about the future, and anger at those in power.

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Portrayal in Palin book irks ex-aide

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Anchorage Daily News - Nov. 24 (News Report) - "I'm just pilloried right and left and turned into the big bad wolf here for stuff I didn't do," said Bitney, who is now an aide to Valdez Republican Rep. John Harris. "It's like I'm this fictional character that she's decided to make me out to be this sort of incompetent slob."

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Ethics investigator rules against Palin: Gov. Sarah Palin

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Rachel D'oro - Jul. 21 (News Report) - An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by trading on her position in seeking money for legal fees, in the latest legal distraction for the former vice presidential candidate as she prepares to leave office this week

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Palin attorney blasts investigation rumors: Gov. Sarah Palin

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By SEAN COCKERHAM scockerham@adn.com - Jul. 04 (News Report) - Gov. Sarah Palin's personal attorney issued a statement Saturday denouncing rumors that Palin resigned because she is under criminal investigation and threatening legal action for publishing "defamatory" material about the governor.

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