Tag Archives: Alaska

A word about our friends

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Most of the blogging I’ve been doing these past few weeks — most of it, really, since opening up business at Henkimaa.com — has been about the Anchorage equal rights ordinance, which if passed would protect LGBT people from discrimination based solely on their sexual orientation or gender identity/expression in jobs, housing, financial practices, and [...]
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WAR goes down! 23 yeas, 35 nays!

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 16 April 2009
WAR goes down! 23 yeas, 35 nays.  Repeat: Wayne Anthony Ross will NOT be Alaska Attorney General. We fought the good fight, people, and we WON! The lima beans of the state are dancing. And so, I bet, are Alaska Natives, women who’ve suffered from domestic abuse & other violence, and all of the friends and allies [...]
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Alaska newspaper editorials against WAR

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 16 April 2009
At least one of Alaska’s daily newspapers have come out editorially against the confirmation of Wayne Anthony Ross to be Alaska’s attorney general: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner — “Reject Ross: Nominee for top legal post is wrong man for the job” (April 16) The ADN is doesn’t really like him, but is quite a bit more week-kneed: Anchorage Daily [...]
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WAR’s antigay letter to the Alaska Bar Association, 1993

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 15 April 2009
You’ve heard about it, now here it is: the famous letter written by Wayne Anthony Ross to the Alaska Bar Association and published in the Alaska Bar Rag in the early 1990s (turns out it was 1993) which referred to LGBTQ Alaskans as “degenerates.”  My friend Steve passed it to me earlier today after an [...]
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Jay Ramras: “We won’t necessarily be coloring within the lines”

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Representative Jay Ramras, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, doesn't seem to mind joining Alaska attorney general-nominee Wayne Anthony Ross — not to mention Gov. Sarah Palin herself — in coloring outside the lines of Alaska state law.
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Pro-WAR = anti-LAW

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Just last night I posted about the opinions that Alaska attorneys with direct experience dealing with Attorney General-nominee Wayne Anthony Ross have of WAR’s mediocre legal abilities: His middling scores on the Alaska Bar Association surveys when he applied for seats on the Alaska Supreme Court and Court of Appeals are not simply statistics, but indicative [...]
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Anti-WAR letter: Opposing Wayne Anthony Ross

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 14 April 2009
I’m a writer-blogger, not a political blogger — though I did try it out a little last fall after Palin became a vice-presidential candidate. But it proved too emotionally exhausting for me, & other Alaska progressive bloggers were doing it better. Sometimes, though, you gotta take a stand on something. So here’s the [...]
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Berry inaccurate

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 20 April 2006
Crowberry. An indigenous Alaskan (i.e.,North American) species. This one isn’t yetripe. Much though I appreciate the Glycemic Index Newsletter, & all the GI people behind it, I wish they would be a little less lax about their inaccuracy about how many species of berry are native to the North American continent, [...]
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Say what….?

By Mel | Published: Monday, 10 April 2006
Highbush cranberry (night shot). Anindigenous Alaskan (i.e., North American)species. I finally got around to reading the April issue of the Glycemic Index Newsletter. But I was pretty astounded to read, in an otherwise excellent article about how wonderful blueberries are (yes they are!), the following statement: Wild blueberries are one of three berries native [...]
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