Anchorage Edition: August 29, 2008

Fri, August 29, 2008
Posted in Anchorage Edition, Elections

Each week, host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska. Topics this week include:

National attention turns to Alaska (again) — this time because Sarah Palin was picked as VP candidate alongside John McCain in the race for the White House
Alaskan thoughts on the Obama-Biden ticket, in contrast to McCain-Palin
What happens if Palin goes to Washington as VP and Parnell goes to the U.S. House?
U.S. House race between Republicans Don Young and Sean Parnell is effectively tied until the Division of Elections can perform a recount from this week’s statewide primary election (Young in the lead by 152 votes at the moment)
More primary election results for U.S. House (Berkowitz and Benson) and U.S. Senate (Stevens and Begich) and some of the local items
All statewide ballot measures fail in the primary
Additional results from the state legislative races — largely status quo, despite corruption controversies of the last couple of years

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HOST: Michael Carey, independent journalist

GUESTS:

Paul Jenkins, voiceofthetimes.net
Matthew Zencey, Anchorage Daily News
Nellie Moore, independent journalist
Steve MacDonald, KTUU Channel 2 News

KSKA (FM) BROADCAST: Friday, August 29, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.

KAKM (TV) BROADCAST: Friday, August 29, 2008 at 9:00 p.m. Repeats Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 5:00 p.m.

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