Alaska politics: Batting 500

"In Alaska politics are like sports"

This statement today by a co-worker (Jill Fankhauser, to give her proper credit) is 150 percent true. The way people in the Lower 48 rehash and discuss in detail the big play at a football game or baseball game... we apply that fervor to politics. And given the big push to get a gas pipeline built (it would be the largest privately funded project in North America) and the evolving corruption investigation, there's more than plenty of material to draw lively play-by-play accounts from. (Sen. Stevens, or "Uncle Ted" as he has been long referred to by Alaskans, the longest serving senator in Congress, he's been a senator since Alaska has been a state... was recently indicted by a grand jury... and he's just one in a long line of Alaska politicians, lobbyists and businessmen facing, or already locked inside, jail). A good time to be a journalist... a good place too!