Posted on 10/18/2008 7:40:41 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Alaska's minorities feel ignored by Palin Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:49 AM EDT
Alaska's black leaders say they're not surprised to see Gov. Sarah Palin at the center of the controversy over injecting the race issue into the presidential campaign.
Continue reading this entry ... politics, palin, sarah-palin, blacks 8 10 Comments Palin daughter, fiance consider summer wedding Thu Oct 2, 2008 8:42 PM EDT
The teenage pregnant daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her boyfriend are considering a summer wedding.
Continue reading this entry ... politics, palin, sarah-palin, daughter 5 6 Comments Alaska Natives question Palin's support Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:35 AM EDT
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin routinely notes her husband's Yup'ik Eskimo roots. But those connections haven't erased doubts about her in a community long slighted by the white settlers who flocked to Alaska and dominate its government.
Continue reading this entry ... politics, palin, sarah-palin, natives, alaska-natives 30 66 Comments Palin church promotes converting gays Fri Sep 5, 2008 8:12 PM EDT
Gov. Sarah Palin's church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer.
Continue reading this entry ... politics, palin, sarah-palin, gays 18 43 Comments Alaskans to receive state payouts topping $3,200 Fri Sep 5, 2008 5:30 PM EDT
It's the season for Alaskans to be rewarded just for living here and this year's take is extra sweet: $3,269, a record share of the state's oil wealth combined with a special cash payout to help with stratospheric energy prices.
Continue reading this entry ... us-news, alaska, dividend 0 0 Comments Levi Johnston to join Palin family at convention Tue Sep 2, 2008 5:01 PM EDT
The boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's unwed, pregnant daughter will join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn.
Continue reading this entry ... politics, palin, sarah-palin, daughter, cvn, bristol-palin 4 6 Comments Husband of veep choice is snowmobile racer Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:17 AM EDT
He's known as a doting, blue-collar husband who stands on the sidelines as his wife blazes a historic trail in politics.
Continue reading this entry ... politics, palin, cvn, profile, todd-palin 3 2 Comments Melting Arctic Ocean opens new shipping frontier Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:58 PM EDT
Rapidly melting ice on Alaska's Arctic is opening up a new navigable ocean in the extreme north, allowing oil tankers, fishing vessels and even cruise ships to venture into a realm once trolled mostly by indigenous hunters.
Continue reading this entry ... us-news, arctic, melting 0 0 Comments Alaska legislator charged with bribery, conspiracy Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:06 PM EDT
A grand jury indicted an Alaska legislator on bribery and conspiracy counts in a federal investigation of corruption that already has led to convictions against three former state lawmakers.
Continue reading this entry ... us-news, pipeline, bribe 0 0 Comments 'Into the Wild' pilgrimages increase in Alaska Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:51 AM EDT
Ron Alexander has long been intrigued with the true story of a young idealist who met his death in Alaska's unyielding wilderness in 1992.
Continue reading this entry ... us-news, wild, into-the-wild, the-wild, pilgrimages, ron-alexander 10 3 Comments Alaska village threatened by warming gets funding Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:07 AM EDT
One of Alaska's most eroded villages is getting more than $3 million in state aid to help it relocate to higher ground as Alaska tries to cope with the effects of global warming.
Continue reading this entry ... us-news, science, village, erosion 1 0 Comments
Even the Chicago Tribune is dropping AP
That is a flat out lie.
Rachael D’Oro is (or was) a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News.
I’m a former reporter myself and worked on Alaskan newspapers, although not in Anchorage. The Daily News had several good reporters, but they also had several others on the staff who lacked, to put it in kind terms, ethical virtue and moral clarity. The Daily News is no friend of the Palins and has consistently published articles since her rise to national prominence which were mean-spirited and vindictive, at least in my opinion.
I’m no longer with the media, though, so I can’t really speak with first-hand knowledge any more. I can say, however, that my interactions with some of those Daily News reporters led to my decision to change careers.
Palin’s move not abrupt or shocking
On Saturday’s front page, The Associated Press’ Rachel D’Oro wrote “Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abruptly announced Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, a shocking move that rattled the Republican party but left open the possibility that she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.” (emphasis mine).
Ms. D’Oro’s disdain for Gov. Palin is clear. How would D’Oro have Gov. Palin announce her decision so that it would not be abrupt? Maybe call D’Oro a week earlier to let her know the announcement was coming? A shocking move? Bold and daring maybe, but hardly shocking. I actually recovered from the shock of it all quite nicely so that it didn’t affect my celebration of the 4th one iota. I watched a little news over the weekend and I didn’t see one Republican official who was rattled. They all had a lot to say, but rattled - hardly.
Ms. D’Oro failed to report Palin’s explanation that I saw later in a snippet of her shocking announcement - that she didn’t want to take a salary as governor while she was campaigning, unlike our president and his rival McCain and many others who stayed in their office collecting taxpayer money for governing while they spent almost all their time campaigning. In fact, I think there are 2 Republican governors doing that now.
Please report the news on the front page and put biased commentary and selective reporting on the editorial page.
Rich Schwanbeck
Elk Grove Village
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=305840&src=
FReepers find latest AP smear job smells like a rat
Texas for Sarah Palin ^ | Tuesday, July 21, 2009 | Josh Painter
Associated Press writer Rachel D’Oro, who has a history of writing negative pieces on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, is out with another of her trademark smear jobs. The article is going out from the AP to thousands of news outlets around the world. Let’s take a look:
The report obtained by The Associated Press says Palin is securing unwarranted benefits and receiving improper gifts through the Alaska Fund Trust, set up by supporters.
How did AP obtain the report? The copy of the report linked to (PDF) by the Anchorage Daily News has this warning stamped on it in big, bold, letters:
CONFIDENTIAL report regarding Ethics Complaint pursuant to Alaska Statute 39.52.340
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