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Sunday morning on the radio again

I’ll be back with Brian Copeland tomorrow on his radio show out of San Francisco discussing the latest turn of events up here in Alaska in the Troopergate scandal. 

If you want to listen in, I’ll be with Brian at a little after 9 AM San Francisco time.  You can figure out on your own when that is in your time zone…except for my family who, after my being in Alaska 36 years, still have trouble with whether it is earlier or later on the East Coast versus Alaska. So let me help them. If you are my family and

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Only if it comes from the bird cages

If I put carrots or apples or snow peas in my dogs’ dishes for their meal, they would turn their nose up at it and probably turn me in to the ASPCA. But let that same food fall from the bird cages and they stand eagerly under the cages waiting for it to drop like manna from heaven.  I’ll never understand.

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My respect for her continues to diminish

I wish Sarah would find her backbone and say no to the hate campaign they’ve decided she should carry for McCain.  We never saw her like this up here and it makes me wonder, when she loses, who will be coming back to run our state? Is the Sarah we elected anywhere still around?

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Feeding the hungry

Let’s put politics aside this week and talk about some realities we will be facing this winter in Anchorage. A public service announcement used to air that pointed out that no one dreamed of growing up to be an addict, or homeless, or alcoholic.  No one dreams of that, but a short jog down some of Anchorage’s meaner streets shows that it happens more often than we imagine.

Because there are organizations dedicated to helping these people, most of us spend our days without giving them a second thought. They are someone else’s problem; except they aren’t. They are our

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My day in a fog

Today I go to the dentist and get a wisdom tooth removed. Yes, I’m extremely old and still have a wisdom tooth left in my mouth. I think it was left in my mouth in the hope that it would leech some intelligence into my brain.  Since that didn’t work, they’re pulling it. And I get kickapoo joy juice to help me through it as well as pain medication after. So I will spend today in a smiling fog. Tomorrow I may not be so happy.

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There was a time

There was a time when my friend Sandra and I would have stayed up all night celebrating the anniversary of my arrival in Barrow. Now we’re lucky if we can stay awake after dinner long enough to get a celebratory phone call in. Getting older is certainly one of the most interesting passages of my life to date.

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I want me some of that

So the government gives Wall Street and various senate and house pork projects over $800 billion. Now California may want up to $7 billion. I’d like to know where the line is forming for these requests because I could sure use a billion or so to tide me over the next few years.

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Apologies

To all those who listened to the Brian Copeland show this morning, I offer my apologies. I was bumped to next Sunday and they were supposed to announce that but, of course, they didn’t. Show business…the last refuge of the truly rude.

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Once again, why I love Alaska

Every Saturday at noon, I get in my car and tune in to public radio’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”. If you’ve never heard this show, treat yourself. It’s hysterical. Anyhow, my routine is to drive to my latte stand, get my daily caffeine allowance and then drive around and explore different parts of Anchorage for the hour the show is on. It’s the only way I can guarantee uninterrupted listening. Since fall is in its last throes up here and snow is rapidly moving down the mountains, I took a route that brought me up through the foothills on

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