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Judge Matthews, Mayor Cremata, Attorney Brena The judge hadn't ruled on the East Anchorage petition and said he'd do so today.  It&#...

When we checked in for our 8am flight home from Seattle, they asked for volunteers because the flight was full.  I had been looking forward ...

We wandered into downtown Winslow and stopped at the bookstore (Eagle Harbor Book Co.) where we ran into three local Bainbridge Island autho...

It may not seem to be notable for a university to have a head with a doctorate, but for a number of years the University of Alaska system ...

Imagine the high school newspaper editor's father being arrested by his best friend's father and sent out of state for the crime of ...

Since I didn't do close ups of Southeast Alaska in the previous post , here they are - plus the two extra maps I didn't get up in th...

Paul goes for regular runs and hikes and picks up his friends' dogs to go with him.  It's nice to be able to walk into the woods -...

People spend good money to go into Imax theaters to see huge images of the natural world. But even people sitting in window seats often ig...

Wednesday evening I got to slip into Centennial Hall to catch a bit of the Alaska Folk Festival in downtown Juneau.  ...

There's no reason I should be surprised.  It's 90 minutes south via jet from Anchorage to Juneau.  Downtown Juneau is snow free and ...

When the weather is so spectatular, I have no choice but to post a couple of pictures.  A little out of Anchorage, Girdwood Valley and Tur...

A friend of mine has decided that kids going hungry here in Anchorage isn't right. He's working to End Child Hunger by 2015 . He'...

I just finished Lynn Schooler's Walking Home - in time for tonight's book club meeting.  It's not a book I would have picked and...

The mountains look small and distant in Anchorage, compared to Juneau's in-your-face vertical walls.  But the weather on Friday in Ancho...