Last month, I examined the possibility that Senate polls could prove to be biased or “skewed” against Democrats. If the polls have even a modest bias ...
Sarah Palin: Romney in ‘Never Never Land’ on Amnesty
“Where the heck have these GOP establishment types been during this election season? GOP Senate candidates are promising to do everything in the...
Remote Vote Might Decide
To fend off his Republican challenger, Democratic Alaska Sen. Mark Begich is depending on rural voters and rural issues. In June, the United States En...
Sarah Abandoned Conservative Principles to Endorse Walker
By Jake Walker – The major issue prompting Palin to endorse the Walker-Mallot ticket is incumbent Republican Sean Parnell’s dismantling of her o...
Alignment Issues
It’s kind of like “My Best Friend’s Wedding.” In that classic chick flick, Julia Roberts is chasing after Dermot Mulroney, and Dermot Mulroney is chas...
Mark Begich’s Bold Debate Lie Easily Debunked
Despite overwhelming evidence, Senator Mark Begich (D., Alaska) denied having attacked Republican Ted Stevens in attack ads during the 2008 Sen...
Family friend: ‘We need to keep him’
– Hank Harrison, a retired teacher, shared why he thinks incumbent Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) should serve another term at a coffee shop...
The Mark and Lisa Show
It started in July when Sen. Lisa Murkowski objected to Sen. Mark Begich including her name on a press release and citing her in a radio ad. It intens...
The Money in Key Legislative Races
Here are the most recent fundraising numbers from state House and Senate races that I’ve been keeping an eye on. (Some, I’ll admit, a closer eye than ...
By Noon Friday
An Alaska Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that the governor’s office must start providing documents about the National Guard scandal to Alaska Pub...
The Race that Keeps Us Up at Night
If there’s a race that keeps us awake at night, it’s Alaska. The state is home to one of the most important Senate races in the country, but it also h...
Alaska Ground Zero in Fight to Legalize Pot
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — From slick video ads online to scrawled chalk messages on college campus sidewalks, intense get-out-the-vote drives are mobil...
“The New Oil Order”
The oil selloff appears to be permanent. Record-breaking increases in U.S. production, a resurgent Libya, and Saudi Arabia lowering its prices in a bi...
Begich, Sullivan Spar over ISIS
Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Republican Dan Sullivan sparred over the best way to respond to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)on Thursday ...
Walker on Top
Below is a summary from local pollster Ivan Moore’s most recent survey question–paid for by gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker– which shows Walker-Ma...
Ludicrous to Implement Medicaid Reforms Being Suggested
The State’s Medicaid Reform Advisory Group has met for the last six months in relative obscurity. That changed today (Wednesday) when more than 200 pa...
Why Alaska’s Senate race might be closer than anyone thinks
“It’s going to come down to the ground game.” Most of the time, this isn’t really true. Fundamentals such as party registratio...
Harry Reid’s Last Effort to Save Mark Begich’s Seat
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is giving endangered Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, a legislative gift ahead of next week’s election. Reid sen...
Dems Happy with a Draw in the Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is crossing his fingers that Republicans won’t come close to capturing the six Senate seats they need t...
Feds Seek to Change Alaska’s Hunting Rules
FAIRBANKS — The National Park Service wants to formalize a ban on several predator hunting techniques in Alaska’s 10 national preserves. A rules chang...
Begich’s Senate Leader Holding Up All Action
THERE IS no controversy over the nomination of William Nooter to be a judge on the D.C. Superior Court. His presentation before a Senate committee was...
Everything Is Unpredictable in Alaskan Politics
SITKA, Alaska – Now the boats are tied down against fall storms, and the streets of the island town where I live smell of soy sauce and brown su...
Sarah Palin to ‘Bug’ Liberals by Running Again
Former Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said she hopes to again run for elected office. In a Tuesday interview on ...
Ted Cruz, Mitt Romney to Rally with Dan Sullivan
Mitt Romney, the GOP’s 2012 nominee and tacit head of the party’s establishment, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a tea party firebrand, are b...
State House & Senate Debates
Anne Hillman (left) and Ellen Lockyer (right) host Alaska’s legislative candidates for the State House and the State Senate in 2014. The 2014 ed...
Old Investigation Bites Don Young Again
Refusing to release information on the “Coconut Road Corruption Investigation” that targeted Rep. Don Young will cost the Department of Justice more t...
Media Hypocrisy Says Bristol
This is what I don’t understand. I have mostly stayed out of the public eye for the past few years. I clock in and out of work – yes I actually have ...
Pot Industry Projects 6 Years of Growth in Alaska
The state of Alaska stands to gain $23 million in annual tax revenues from a fully ramped-up legal marijuana market, according to a report released th...
Breaking Ranks: Lyman Endorses Dan
State Senator Lyman Hoffman officially endorsed Dan Sullivan for US Senate Friday. The former Attorney General and Natural Resources commissioner is s...
Outlier Poll Puts Begich Ahead of Sullivan
If you’re a regular reader of FiveThirtyEight you’ll know that our Senate forecast has said pretty much the same thing every day. When we officially l...
Begich Is Running Against Obama
WASHINGTON – The conventional wisdom espoused by the mainstream media is Democrats polling poorly in this year’s midterm elections are distancing them...
Alaska Could Save $19.5M with Marijuana Legalization
An argument that doesn’t seem to have the weight it should among the legalization crowd is the amount that would be saved if the Drug War is ended. Th...
Shadowy Group Displays Your Voting Record to Your Neighbors
A series of letters from a shadowy group is telling Alaskans’ friends and neighbors whether they voted in previous elections — and threatening t...
AFN Supports Begich, Opposes Marijuana
ANCHORAGE — As the 2014 Alaska Federation of Natives convention wound to a close Saturday, attendees heard from ever-popular Sen. Lisa Murkowski, appr...
Alaska’s Independent in the Race Upsets the Political Order
Kansas, South Dakota, Alaska, and Maine all feature major independent candidates in statewide races, wreaking havoc with the usual political order. Am...
Feds Recognize Same-Sex Marriage in Alaska
The federal government is recognizing gay marriage in six more states and extending federal benefits to those couples, Attorney General Eric Holder an...
Sarah Palin Blasts CNN’s Carol Costello for Laughing at Female Assault Victim
In a Thursday evening Facebook post, Palin wrote that though CNN routinely contacts her for requests for comment, the network never “contacted m...
Dems Have Already Conceded Alaska’s Senate Seat
Using the poll aggregator at the Huffington Post, I’ve compiled the current state of the hottest races this cycle, as well as what would happen ...
Surviving Alone in Alaska
Over 240 kilometers (150 mi) north of the Arctic Circle, a man by the name of Heimo Korth and his wife Edna brave the harsh and unforgiving Alaskan la...
The Story of How Ted Stevens Lost
A group of Washington overlords—federal prosecutors—sometimes break rules and wreck people’s lives. President Obama may soon appoint one of them...
Cook Inlet Tribal Council Builds Native Culture Video Game
The North Slope of Alaska is a hostile place for a little girl and her animal companion. In Never Alone, they’ll have to wade through fierce blizzards...
Begich-Sullivan Debate Doesn’t Change Votes
U.S. Senate candidates Mark Begich and Dan Sullivan sparred Thursday over who can better move Washington to bring more resource development to Alaska....
Governor Chided
The head of Alaska’s largest Native organization publicly criticized Gov. Sean Parnell Thursday morning, the opening day of the Alaska Federation of N...
Flying Higher and Higher
Shares of Alaska Air Group (ALK) are up 7.1% to $50.09 after the company reported record third quarter net income of $200 million, a 27% increase over...
Saving Native American Tongues
Alaska’s governor signed a bill on Thursday to officially recognize the state’s 20 indigenous languages in a symbolic move that gives a no...
One of the Sharpest Put Downs of the President
Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) offered one of the sharpest put downs about the president on Wednesday, when he told the Washington Examiner’s Rebec...