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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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Middle class pays a price for the rich

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Anchorage Daily News - By Elise Patkotak - Jan. 05 (Opinion) - As Congress prepares to go back into session and finally get a grip on the deficits that are strangling our economy and our children's financial future, I think we should stop for a moment and take a look at the latest frivolous spending that they have in their cross hairs for elimination.

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Court rejects Miller, lifts certification hold

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Anchorage Daily News - By Lisa Demer - Dec. 29 (News Report) - Lisa Demer / Anchorage Daily News: Judge tosses Miller lawsuit, clears way for Murkowski swearing-in — A federal judge today dismissed Republican Joe Miller's federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of the Nov. 2 election, clearing the way for U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski to be certified as the winner.

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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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Murkowski says 'Let's Make History'

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Sean Cockerham, Erika Bolstad - Sep. 18 (News) - With the slogan "Let's Make History," Lisa Murkowski announced Friday that she'd pursue a write-in bid to keep her seat in the U.S. Senate after losing the Republican primary to Joe Miller.

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Beck rally is symbolic violence on King

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Alan Boraas - Sep. 04 (Opinion) - Glenn Beck's assertion that it was mere coincidence the "Restore America" rally fell on the 47th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is pure fabrication. In fact, the Restore America event is a textbook case of symbolic violence.

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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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Ethics board still weighing Palin defense fund complaint:

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Sean Cockerham - Apr. 29 (News Report) - The state ethics board still hasn't taken action on its investigator's finding nine months ago that Sarah Palin's legal defense fund likely violated the law.

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Fish and Game tight-lipped on killing of collared wolves: Wolves | adn.com

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Tim Mowry - Apr. 15 (News) - "Regional supervisor David James with the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks has finished an investigation into the shootings of the collared wolves, which were among 15 wolves state wildlife biologists killed from a helicopter..."

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