Progressive Alaska

"Not without putting on some welding gloves first, dear," was probably Gov. Palin's reply to her inquisitive daughter, who wa...

I must have heard the poor soldier say that a hundred times while I was in U.S. Army Basic Training at Ft. Polk Louisiana, in the early spri...

Erin and Hig are headed to the funnel between Gunsight Mountain and Lion's Head, where the Copper River drainage and Matanuska headwater...

I just got an e-mail from Michelle Meyer, the Campaign Director for Alaskans for Clean Elections. Here's what Michelle says: THANK YOU...

Erin McKittrick e-mailed me Sunday evening from a cabin just east of Eureka. As she put it, "so, as often happens with us, things took...

A couple more items before I head out to a full work week. Last week I was volunteering for the Mat-Su Democrats, as we prepare for the Febr...

It turns out that this weekend's pre-eminent Alaska investigative journalist was Sheila Toomey, the Anchorage Daily News gossip columni...

People have been debating global warming, ANWR oil development and the fate of the Polar Bear as separate issues and in various intermixture...

Alaska Public Radio Network 's AK opened their program this morning, Chasing the Sun, with a segment about my friend and former collea...

I got to hear a rehearsal of my newest work, Winter Songs, this morning at UAA. In 2006, the Alaska Pro Musica , UAA's pre-eminent cham...