Tag Archives: politics

Channel 11 interview, part 1 (the video)

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 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 [...]
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance | Also tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

The noise begins

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 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 vocal [...]
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance | Also tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Against discrimination in Anchorage

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Anchorage Assemblymember Patrick Flynn posted on his blog this morning on Sunday that an ordinance to bar discrimination based upon sexual orientation or veteran’s status in the Municipality of Anchorage would be introduced at tonight’s Anchorage Assembly meeting.  Per Mr. Flynn’s blog: This change, which is consistent with Anchorage’s long history of social justice, would prevent: “discrimination [...]
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance | Also tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

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 [...]
Posted in Alaska politics | Also tagged , , , | 2 Comments

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 [...]
Posted in Alaska politics | Also tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

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.
Posted in Alaska politics | Also tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 [...]
Posted in Alaska politics | Also tagged , , , | Leave a comment

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 [...]
Posted in Alaska politics | Also tagged , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Note to Jeff Bezos: #glitchmyass

By Mel | Published: Monday, 13 April 2009
My tweet of the day: Note to Jeff Bezos: #glitchmyass, we deserve more explanation & apology than that for #amazonfail. Do you really want to regain our trust? Things have really snowballed. In fact I’d say it’s a snow-boulder now, what with the Twitter hashtag #amazonfail, the online petition which is now at over 17,000 signatures, & [...]
Posted in Field of Words | Also tagged , , | Leave a comment

Amazon Rank – Google bomb ‘em!

By Mel | Published: Sunday, 12 April 2009
Yep, it’s true. Amazon.com has decided that all any any books about or by LGBTA folk are “adult content” — the equivalent of pornography. Hence, they’ve removed the sales rankings for those books. Hence those books are tougher to find when searching for books on Amazon. This is regardless of the books’ sexual [...]
Posted in Field of Words | Also tagged , , | Leave a comment