Tag Archives: Anchorage

The “friendly snowplows” of Anchorage: Making things livable for cars & (some) homeowners, but creating unnavigable nightmares for people who walk

From the Alaska Dispatch today comes news that Anchorage’s “friendly snowplows” have helped Anchorage to the top of Livability’s list of the 10 most livable winter cities. Right. Walk a few blocks in MY winter boots. Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets 2011-01-09: Home. Yeah.

Home. Yeah. #oztrip #fb # @Inked_Tigress Thanks for your tweets. Some of the best thought out I’ve seen in reply to Inked_Tigress # My cat is in “why were you gone so long but I an SOOOO happy you’re back” … Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets 2011-01-08: Saturday twice over

These tweets recount (in part) my epic journey home from Australia, wherein due to the time travel characteristics of flying westbound across the International Date Line I got to experience Saturday the 8th of January twice, & arrived at LAX … Continue reading

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Credit the Sully Trust, Debit the Public Trust

A Trustworthy Friend sent this to me last night after reading my $193,000 Sullygate post. Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets, 2010-03-04: Sullygate

For other news stories & posts on this topic, see my bibliography on all things Sullygate. Here’s Dan Sullivan, described today at Mudflats as “Mayor/Trustee Hybrid” of Anchorage. I’m pretty ticked about what I called “insurance-gate” in my tweets… but … Continue reading

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Words for equality

A compilation of links to blog posts & opinion pieces favoring addition of “sexual orientation” to the Municipality of Anchorage’s equal rights code. Continue reading

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Prevo's red herrings

There’s no doubt that the Anchorage Baptist Temple’s Jerry Prevo has followed Jesus’ instruction to the fishermen Simon Peter and Andrew to become a fisher of men. But evidence suggests he also excels as a fisher of red herrings, especially when it comes to his opposition to equal rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transfolk. Continue reading

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Sermon (a poem)

“I take as my text the Book of Job — / for are we not like him, innocent, / suffering, crying out for justice? / are we not like him, each of us / surrounded by these righteous, / these pious friends who so love us, / who console us with false accusations, who comfort us with lies?” Continue reading

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Equality Works fundraiser

Usually Friday nights for me are home nights. After all, that’s the night “Battlestar Galactica” is on!  Except that… “Battlestar Galactica” is over [sigh].  But [brightening up] at least I have the DVDs! Okay, well, that’s the night “Dollhouse” is … Continue reading

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Listening to Eddie

Yesterday, in between finding myself in front of a TV camera at lunchtime & watching the results in the evening, I listened in on Eddie Burke’s talk radio show on KBYR 700-AM.  I’d heard Mr. Burke would be devoting his … Continue reading

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