What Do I Know?

I was writing Part 2 of this post on the Redistricting Board, when, I got sidetracked on the Supreme Court decision the Anchorage Daily Ne...

In Write Hard, Die Free , Howard Weaver writes of his frustration as a reporter in Juneau constrained by journalistic convention from actual...

Let's do our crying first.   Our political debates flounder when the parties do not agree on the facts.  Much of the debate today is ove...

I've sent an email to the Chair of the Board asking for some explanation of their decision.  If you read my post yesterday on the benefi...

The Redistricting Board met today - and are meeting in Executive Session to select a new Executive Director as I write this - in open sessio...

Brian Hove Image from Morris Thompson The third candidate for the Redistricting Board's Executive Director position was Brian Hove. ...

Here are my very rough notes, no time to clean them up a bit before the next candidate.  But I can't image them finding a better qualifi...

Image from UAA The first candidate to be interviewed by the Board was Rachel Morse.  She's worked with Rural Cap, Alaska Soil and Wa...

I learned just now that Rich Mauer of the Anchorage Daily News pressed the Board on the Public Meetings Act and got them to open the interv...

My son sent me a link to a long history of Pad Thai from The Morning News: It begins: by Pitchaya Sudbanthad ...