What Do I Know?

A Dittman poll predicted 50% for and 41% against Prop. 5 a week before the April 3 Anchorage Municipal election.  The actual outcome was 58%...

I signed up for the Alaska Redistricting Board email alerts.  I'd suggest that anyone interested in this do the same.  I got an email  a...

I met new District 6 (Interior Alaska north of Fairbanks) representative Alan Dick today and asked him what it is like getting started in Ju...

Click here (not on map) for interactive version While checking on the results for the black candidates for Congress, I found this  New Yo...

[UPDATE Oct. 17, 2013:  See more recent post with updates .] A couple of years ago I tried to find out how many African-American Congress ...

I gave a neighbor a ride downtown tonight and she was headed first to the Denaina Center for the Lisa Murkowski reception. Father Fr...

I was surprised to see that the voting was just in the hallway at the entrance to the school I was sent to.  The whole time I was there peop...

 The ADN tells us today what we all suspected: A particularly warm and dry October made the month feel more like September than normal...

Image from Giessel website [Information here is from the candidates' websites, other web information including the Alaska Public Offi...

First there was another  a robo poll Q1: If you've already voted, push 1;  If you are highly likely to vote, press 2, etc.;  Q2:  Whi...

[I've been trying to write a concise, coherent and insightful post dealing with the attacks on educated people.  But as I read more, the...