Friday, March 14, 2014

Cathy Giessel to Alaskans: Shut Up and Go Away!

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HB 77, the the unsuccessful pro-development, anti-public input legislation sponsored by Gov Parnell last year is back in revision this year....
Sunday, February 16, 2014

Peter Micciche: Direct Deposit Bribery

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It used to be when someone bribed or paid off a politician, money was stuffed in a paper sack and passed off in some back room.  But Alaska ...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Prince Peter's Game of Thrones

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So, who cares that the state operating budget will have over a $2Billion deficit next year? Who cares if we will have to start tapping our...
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Saturday, December 21, 2013

Pay Raids for Parnell and Co

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He was for it before he was against it, but Gov Sean Parnell and cronies, despite huge budget deficits and declining oil productions, will g...
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Friday, December 13, 2013

Oily Politics - Breaking the Bank in Alaska

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I don't think that anyone with a shred of integrity is at all surprised by the recent budget fiasco Alaska's republicans have brough...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

HB 77 - Fast Tracking the Destruction of a Salmon Stream

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I'm willing to accept that reasonable people can disagree about most things and I think it's a good to be open to divergent ideas. O...
Sunday, June 09, 2013

Pimp My Ride: Micciche's (Fairly) New Rig

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Micciche's New Ride The ink is barely dry on SB 21, the Oil Tax restructuring bill passed by the slimmest margins this last legislat...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Smokin' in The Good Ol' Boys Room / Pay Cuts for Workers, Pay Raises for the OverLords

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Just when you think that things down in Juneau couldn't get any more atrocious, Mike 'COS' Chenault had a personal $74,000 item ...
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Monday, April 08, 2013

The Alaskan GOP: The Party of Bear-Shit Crazy

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Being an Alaskan political blogger has become a full-time occupation since the current legislative session began in January. Our local repub...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Crude Dreams/Crude Schemes

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Jack Roderick, long-time Alaskan public servant, oil industry analyst and author of Crude Dreams which examines the often slimly roll that t...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Another Republican Makes Sense

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I hope you all got to read Bert Stedman's Compass piece in today's ADN. If not take a few minutes to read it here . Stedman, the A...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Micciche: Doing Something Stupid in Juneau

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To nobody's surprise, the Alaska senate passed the massive tax break bill for the major oil companies.  The vote that will give these co...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

Mike Chenault: COS eats COS

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Click to enlarge this COS Mike Chenault is a hack-blogger's dream and this past weekend, has shown Alaskans what he is made of:  A s...
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Monday, February 04, 2013

SOL in Alaska

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Oh, Crap, and I literally mean Oh, Crap.  One of the first bits of legislation passed by the Republican controlled House of Representative...
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Friday, February 01, 2013

The Brown Queen of the GOP: Through the Looking Glass, Comically

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It's official, Russ Millette, the elected chair of the Alaska GOP was ousted last night by the Republican Party leadership and in his pl...
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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Ethics 101 for Micciche

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Former Soldotna mayor and now state senator, Peter Micciche made the front page of the ADN Wednesday in an article that addresses his possi...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

State of the State: The Madness Begins

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The Best Big Oil Can Buy  Chris Miller — Associated Press The legislature has gaveled in and the Republican-led House, Senate and execut...
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Thursday, December 06, 2012

TrooperGate Sequel: The Brother-In-Law

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For the record, I didn't vote for SP, but I have to admit I was more-or-less impressed with the first few months of her term as governor...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Post Election Post

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Alright, SOL has been AWOL, well away on leave actually, but away nonetheless.  I happily missed the whole pre-election madness, but returne...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Billy Narkiewicz for State Senate

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Reason # 213 while we’re SOL here in SOLdotna is the race for the Alaskan senate seat here in our district.   Only two republicans filed, ...
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