Monday, August 29, 2011

Ear to the Ground

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The Kenai Borough's mayoral race had two mentions in this Sunday's ADN's Ear .  First up was a bit about how a fund-raiser for M...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Candidate Deadlines and Class Warfare in Soldotna

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Monday is the last day to file for the various elected borough and city positions that will be open this fall.  Predictably, many announced ...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

6 Pack

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The salmon are in the freezer, most of the big summer chores are almost done and maybe, just maybe, there will be some time to devote to thi...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Get Well Soon

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The CPGH is in the news again and there are two interesting developments.  The first story to break is that Mayor Carey has been given the g...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011

(Not) Waiting For Superman

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I think I should tie each of my blog titles to some song.  The last posting about Dave Carey not seeking re-election could have featured Par...
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Carey's Notion - Blame it on the Aristocrats

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It's old news by a day, but I am sure most of you are aware that Carey has decided not to seek a second term as borough mayor.  It's...
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Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Tee Off with Chenault

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So there is this special session because the house, the senate and the governor can't play nice. It's costing the state tens of thou...
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Friday, April 15, 2011

Chenault Puts On His Big Boy Britches

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Who knew Mike could be so funny, especially in such a smarmy way? Mimicking Senate Leader Gary Steven's speech rebutting Sean Parnell...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Preposterous Alaska

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Sometimes you just have to smile. I hope you all read the most excellent OpEd piece in today's PC by Les Gara about the Governor'...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Nobody Loves Whales

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Captain Dave Carey has it out for white whales, but unlike Ahab, Dave doesn't have issues with a big sperm, but rather he has a thing fo...
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Friday, April 01, 2011

Dumbing-Down Politics

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Did you happen to see the informal assessment earlier this week that pegged Alaska as the fifth dumbest state in the US? We here on the K...
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Friday, March 18, 2011

Allowances Must Be Made

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Breaking news is that the AK legislature just voted to double the office allowance of the elected officials.  House members now can get $16...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

Suckers for Cox

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photo by D Petri from the PC It was just two years ago when Schaeffer Cox (the dapper gent in the hat pictured between Bob Bird and Tom ...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Mike Chenault: One Definition of Insanity...

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...is, of course, repeating the same mistake and hoping for different results.  We keep electing Mike Chenault to the State House and the re...
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Monday, March 07, 2011

KPBSD - Unprincipled Principals

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OK, here's your challenge: name more than 5 principals in the entire KPBSD that are genuine educational leaders (and not just former coa...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Political Junkies on Political Junkets

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You know the conservatives are in charge when the state and borough credit cards come out and the politicians fly off to DC to meet with lob...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Do Tell...Don't Ask?!?

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Oh, the ultimate power that being the Borough Assembly President brings. Gary Knopp has met with Borough Mayor, Davey Carey, to begin revi...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Dis-Union

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As noted in my previous post, since the super-rich were granted another extension of their tax breaks, the EPA and government workers' u...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Time To Apply a Strong Hand With the Clarion

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Now that the super-rich have been given the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts and as the costs of two unfunded wars and the interest on th...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Wake Up and Smell the Giveaway

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Oh, Boy.  $1,000,000,000 + and that is just a start of the serious money that the State of Alaska is proposing that we give away to the oil ...
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