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Anchorage Gets Jolted Just After 7am (4.6)

What Do I Know?

Some quakes you wonder about - "Was that a quake?"Not this one.  The room jerked hard as if startled.  And then it was over, maybe a few seconds.  No damage here, but it definitely got our attention.[I changed the title from 4.8 to 4.6.  The original U... »

Salazar says Shell offshore permits still under study

Fairbanks Daily News Miner Dermot Cole Blog

If Shell goes ahead with offshore oil exploration in Alaska waters it will be done under the most cautious program in the history of the world, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said this week. In a ... »

Alaska Meets Beethoven - May 5th

Progressive Alaska

Come hear the Anchorage Concert Chorus sing my Alaska Trees.  Among other great stuff. »

Another GOP talking point bites the dust. High gas prices have NOTHING to do with domestic production.

The Immoral Majority

Courtesy of SF Gate: The Alaskan Explorer had sailed to a Washington refinery, but was forced to return to Alaska with 300,000 barrels because the onshore storage tanks were too full to accept the oil, Anil Mathur, CEO of the Alaska Tanker Co., which o... »

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Exxon deal in Russia requires closer look by state revenue department

Fairbanks Daily News Miner Dermot Cole Blog

In testimony before House and Senate committees in recent days, Alaska Revenue Commissioner Bryan Butcher has praised a deal signed last week between Exxon and a Russian-owned oil company, saying t... »

Three UAF professors earn Fulbright scholarships for research in India, Uganda, South Africa

DermotCole

Three members of the University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty will be studying overseas next year as Fulbright Scholars, pursuing research in India, Uganda and South Africa. Brian O'Donoghue. Judy... »

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Alaska should mark legislative centennial with a view to reform

Fairbanks Daily News Miner Dermot Cole Blog

As the Legislature mashed unrelated bills together Sunday afternoon that contained movie subsidies, oil and gas exploration subsidies and natural gas storage subsidies, an Anchorage legislator ra... »

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Spray-paint vandals target south-side homes, vehicles

Anchorage Daily NewsAlaska News

Anchorage police say vandals spray-painted profanity, racial slurs and smiley faces on a dozen homes, a school, vehicles and signs overnight and early this morning in a South Anchorage subdivision.Click to Continue » »

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