Tag Archives: Anchorage

Credit the Sully Trust, Debit the Public Trust

By Mel Green | Published: Fri, 5 March 2010
A Trustworthy Friend sent this to me last night after reading my $193,000 Sullygate post.
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The Daily Tweets, 2010-03-04: Sullygate

By Mel Green | Published: Thu, 4 March 2010
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 now I’m gonna call it Sullygate. For he hath sullied our fine democracy. (Again.) I’m [...]
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Words for equality

By Mel Green | Published: Tue, 2 June 2009
A compilation of links to blog posts & opinion pieces favoring addition of "sexual orientation" to the Municipality of Anchorage's equal rights code.
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Prevo's red herrings

By Mel Green | Published: Fri, 22 May 2009
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.
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Sermon (a poem)

By Mel Green | Published: Sun, 17 May 2009
It’s Sunday, a day of sermons. Tales have it that Rev. Jerry Prevo will be delivering one of his predictable diatribes against homosexuality from his pulpit at the Anchorage Baptist Temple (broadcast live at 11:00 AM on KCFT-TV — cable channel 19, broadcast channel 35). In counterpoint, this week’s sermon at 2:00 PM at MCC [...]
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Equality Works fundraiser

By Mel Green | Published: Sat, 16 May 2009
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 on!  Except that… “Dollhouse” had its season finale last week [sigh].  But [brightening up] — [...]
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Listening to Eddie

By Mel Green | Published: Thu, 14 May 2009
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 show to discussion of the equal rights ordinance that was introduced the night before in [...]
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Channel 11 interview, part 2 (the full story)

By Mel Green | Published: Wed, 13 May 2009
Once upon a time I was a probationary employee of the Book Cache at Sears Mall. And then they discovered I was... [gasp]... a lesbian!
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Channel 11 interview, part 1 (the video)

By Mel Green | Published: Wed, 13 May 2009
It was a surprise to me: around 10:30 or so this morning I got a call at work, on my direct line, from someone identifying himself as a reporter. I’m not entirely unused to getting calls from reporters — faculty in my department are often asked to comment on this or that issue in the [...]
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The noise begins

By Mel Green | Published: Tue, 12 May 2009
The Anchorage Daily News has a story by Megan Holland on the proposed equal rights ordinance: “Assembly to consider gay rights ordinance — Discrimination ban: Proposal would also cover veterans; Rev. Prevo plans fight” No big surprise that Jerry Prevo of the Anchorage Baptist Temple plans to battle the ordinance — Prevo was also a [...]
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