Amy's articles

Here's the links to a few of the stories I wrote up for last week's edition of the Alaska Star. The first link takes you to my next installment of Outside the Ordinary. It's about my day of packrafting on Crow Pass. The second is a commentary I wrote that laments - to a degree - that I'm missing out on this year's windfall permanent fund dividend ($3,269 for each Alaska resident). The third is a little blurb about how Sarah Palin hysteria crossed paths with the Star.

Lightweight rafts open up backcountry possibilities

Singing the dividend blues

Alaska Star newspaper sold on eBay
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Sarah Palin pandemonium

OK, I realize I've been pretty mum about our governor, turned VP candidate, Sarah Palin. Some of it has to do with not having the time to post much of anything on this blog -- a lot of it has to do with being so inundated by Palin-everything, that it's the last thing I want to write about at the end of the day. But, since I have followed her career from the time she was a gubernatorial candidate, running against Republican incumbent Frank Murkowski -- talked to her on the phone for an article I wrote about that race -- I have a pretty good sense of who she is and how she handles leadership. Rather than laying my opinions on the line -- that's not my style -- I invite any questions people have. Just post a comment, and I'll reply as quickly as possible. A good starting point for discussion is the editorial we ran in the Alaska Star the week after the big news (probably the biggest news to hit Alaska in a decade). The link is below. I look forward to hearing from you.

http://alaskastar.com/stories/090408/edi_20080904023.shtml

First editorial

Here's the link the first editorial I've ever written about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's "lousy" plan to give Alaskans $100 per month spend on energy consumption (fuel, utilities, etc.). If you want my opinion, just click on the link ; )

http://alaskastar.com/stories/052908/edi_20080529013.shtml