What Do I Know?

 Our mail in ballots came several days ago.  The primary is August 12.  It's an open primary - all the names will be on the ballot and t...

[UPDATE April 4, 2015:  Here's an update where the governor says he wouldn't have done it, but his attorney general called the shot...

We flew down to LA right after the film festival ended and slept most of Monday. But I did get in a bike ride down to Venice beach. T...

I get press releases every day and usually take note, I might look into one and write a pot about the issue, but I seldom put them here on t...

My first post on this topic came out of frustration that I couldn't easily find the answer. It's sort of easier now, but not really...

Senator Tim Scott was appointed to the US Senate in December 2012 until the November 2014 election to fill the position after Jim DeMint r...

This Steller Jay was oblivious to yesterday's election.  Didn't mention it at all when he came to visit today.  Instead he wan...

David Brat's the econ professor at Randolf-Macon College in Virginia who knocked off House Majority Leader  Eric Cantor in the Republica...

Your guess is as good as mine.  I guess in today's internet style I should have titled this "The Ten Takeaways From Yesterday's...

HOUSE DISTRICT 24 Total Number of Precincts 7 Precincts Reporting 7 100.0% Times Counted 7389/13514 54.7% Total V...

As of the 10:50pm Election Report. Although these all have 100% of the precincts counted, there are still absentee and questioned ballots ...

District 5 race in Fairbanks, Dem. Adam Wool is leading incumbent Pete Higgins by 276 votes with 66% of precincts reporting. District 15 D...

Most races have from 0% to 50% of precincts reporting. The initiatives - marijuana, minimum wage, Bristol Bay, and repeal of Anchorage'...

"Alaska es tres veces más grande que España, pero tiene menos población que la ciudad de Zaragoza. Para salir elegido senador en ese e...

I finally made it to vote early yesterday over on Gambell.  I got there about 1:30 pm. I've never seen the early voting so cr...

Things get curiouser and curiouser as Alice said.   As I was following the tracks on Paul Singer, a major donor to the Dan Sullivan campaign...

We were only gone from Sunday to Friday, but here's what was in our mail when it was delivered Saturday.   Up til now Alaska's never...

The way labels affect how people treat each other has always fascinated me.  When I was a doctoral student and teaching my first graduate ...