Tag Archives: Alaska

A word about our friends

Posted on Tue, 23 June 2009 by Mel Green

Most of the blogging I’ve been doing these past few weeks — most of it, really, since opening up business at Henkimaa.com — has been about the Anchorage equal rights ordinance, which if passed would protect LGBT people from discrimination … Continue reading →

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WAR goes down! 23 yeas, 35 nays!

Posted on Thu, 16 April 2009 by Mel Green

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 … Continue reading →

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Alaska newspaper editorials against WAR

Posted on Thu, 16 April 2009 by Mel Green

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” … Continue reading →

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WAR's antigay letter to the Alaska Bar Association, 1993

Posted on Wed, 15 April 2009 by Mel Green

You’ve heard about it, now here it is: the famous letter written by Wayne Anthony Ross to the Alaska Bar Association and published in the Alaska Bar Rag in the early 1990s (turns out it was 1993) which referred to … Continue reading →

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Jay Ramras: "We won't necessarily be coloring within the lines"

Posted on Wed, 15 April 2009 by Mel Green

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.

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Pro-WAR = anti-LAW

Posted on Wed, 15 April 2009 by Mel Green

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 … Continue reading →

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Anti-WAR letter: Opposing Wayne Anthony Ross

Posted on Tue, 14 April 2009 by Mel Green

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 … Continue reading →

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Berry inaccurate

Posted on Thu, 20 April 2006 by Mel Green

Much though I appreciate the Glycemic Index Newsletter, & all the GI people behind it, I wish they would be a little less lax about their inaccuracy about how many species of berry are native to the North American continent, … Continue reading →

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Say what….?

Posted on Mon, 10 April 2006 by Mel Green

The GI Newsletter thinks there are only three berry species indigenous to North America. Oh please… there are many more.

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