Anchorage Edition: October 12, 2007
Fri, October 12, 2007
Host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska.Discussion this week includes:
- Anchorage Forum on oil taxes
- Special Legislative Session to start next week on oil taxes
- Congressman Don Young draws two new challengers, including legislator Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux of Kodiak and former legislator Ethan Berkowitz
- Former Rep. Tom Anderson to be sentenced Monday for being found guilty of corruption
- Fire Marshal faults BP for number of fires on the North Slope
Anchorage Edition: October 5, 2007
Fri, October 5, 2007
Host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska.
This week Michael Carey talks with Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Howard Weaver about the state of media in the world today, including how new media is used in journalism. Weaver is Vice President of News for The McClatchy Company, publisher of 31 daily newspapers across the country, includin the Anchorage Daily News. He worked in Alaska as a journalist from 1972 to 1995, serving as McClatchy’s Managing Editor, then Editor-in-Chief, at the Anchorage Daily News, from 1981 to 1995.
Anchorage Edition: September 28, 2007
Fri, September 28, 2007
Host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska. Discussion this week includes:
- Overview and reflection on Rep. Pete Kott corruption trial that ended with jury rendering a guilty verdict on three of four counts
- Expectations for upcoming trial of former Rep. Vic Kohring
- Overview of politics of Pebble Mine and Fairbanks Rep. Jam Ramras’ controversy with Native groups
- BP Alaska President’s recent talk about company’s operations to business group and Alaska’s rank near bottom of worldwide “political stability” survey by consulting group Wood Mackenzie
- Background on Nikiski fertilizer plant shutdown
- Govenor Sarah Palin request of Sen. Ted Stevens to talk about corruption trials and investigations
- Assessment of State Sen. John Cowdery not attending the special session due to health reasons
Anchorage Edition, September 21, 2007
Fri, September 21, 2007
Host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska. Discussion this week:
- Final stages of Rep. Pete Kott corruption trial.
- State Sen. John Cowdery announcement that he won’t attend the special session.
- Channel 2 News’ Permanent Fund Dividend “man-on-the-street” interviews.
- Alaska Public Offices Commission looks at Sen. Lesil McGuire.
- Gov. Sarah Palin and others in Republican Party say it is time for Ben Stevens to step down as a member of the Republican National Committee.
Anchorage Edition: September 14, 2007
Fri, September 14, 2007
Host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska. Discussion this week:
- Special task force recommends a change in the mix of taxes for Anchorage residents
- Alaska Congressional Delegation at Alaska State Chamber’s annual meeting
- North Slope fires in the oil fields
- Representative Pete Kott corruption trial
- Memorial to Alaska broadcasting pioneer Augie Hiebert
Anchorage Edition: September 7, 2007
Fri, September 7, 2007
Host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska.
- Governor Palin sets a special Legislative session for Juneau starting October 18
- Anchorage Daily News’ lengthy Q&A with Governor Palin
- Corruption trial of former House Speaker Pete Kott continues, but the trial of former legislator Bruce Weyhrauch does not
- Is it time to scrap the municipality’s I/M tests?
- The state of organized labor in Alaska and Anchorage
Anchorage Edition: August 31, 2007
Fri, August 31, 2007
Host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska.
- Governor Palin decides it’s time to sell (or shut down) Matanuska Maid
- Governor Palin is staying in Wasilla until the next legislative session, and her kids will stay, too
- Senator Lisa Murkowski expresses doubts about the natural gas pipeline project
- Former Senator and current Presidential candidate Mike Gravel comes to town to campaign and reflects on his place in Alaskan history
- Department of Transportation says a bridge to Gravina Island in southeast is unlikely at best
- Joshua Wade, cleared of murder charges several years ago, is now sought by police and the FBI in a new case of a missing woman in Anchorage
Anchorage Edition: August 24, 2007
Fri, August 24, 2007
Host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska.
- Representative Mike Kelly (R-Fairbanks) has called on Senator Ted Stevens, Representative Don Young and others to resign.
- Anchorage Assemblyman Dan Sullivan wants to change the way Anchorage officials are elected.
- The new oil tax the Legislature instituted last year will bring in some $800 million less than predicted.
- Florida officials don’t want the $10 million Congressman Don Young appropriated for Coconut Road near Fort Myers.
- Todd Palin, Governor Sarah Palin’s husband, returns to work for BP. This inevitably raises the question of conflict of interest.
- The last hurrah of the Murkowski jet.
Anchorage Edition: August 17, 2007
Fri, August 17, 2007
Host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska.
- Will Alaska face leaner times as the investigations of our Congressional delegation continue?
- Congressman Don Young held a picnic on the Park Strip.
- As special Legislative session is scheduled for this fall.
- New ethics bill takes effect.
- 40th anniversary of the 1967 flood in Fairbanks
- F-22 Raptors arrive in Alaska — what’s their significance in general and in Alaska specifically?
- Red Flag — the world’s largest aerial war game — will be held in Alaska.
- Missile defense construction continues — and we had some Russian visitors.
- MidAmerican Energy is going to submit a proposal to construct a gas line.
- Senate President Lydia Green has been asked where to hold the special Legislative session and she flipped that decision right back to the Governor.
- What does the weakening real estate market mean for Alaska?
- Speaker John Harris said the Senior Care special session (held in June) was based on a fictional poll.
Anchorage Edition: August 10, 2007
Fri, August 10, 2007
Host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska.
- Uncle Ted returns home to a warm welcome
- the Ted Stevens note to U.S. Attorney Wev Shea
- Don Young’s annual pig roast provokes great theater
- Ray Metcalfe — who has appeared on NPR and been quoted in the Economist, Newsweek and just about everything except World Weekly News — attacks Mayor Mark Begich
- Gov. Palin extend the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) commentary date
- Will there be an alcohol tax proposal on the ballot?
Anchorage Edition: August 3, 2007
Fri, August 3, 2007
Host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska.
- The FBI raids Senator Ted Stevens’ home
- A lot of what we’re hearing by way of allegations has to do with earmarks
- Alaska’s image. Go on the Web, turn on the TV, go to the movies. Alaska is taking a pounding in the media
- Lisa Murkowski has had her day in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other media
- Is Alaska more corrupt than it used to be and if so, why?
- Jake Metcalfe announces he is running for the U.S. House
Anchorage Edition: July 27, 2007
Fri, July 27, 2007
Host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska.
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