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Villages will get free Citgo heating fuel again: Rural Alaska

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Kyle Hopkins - Mar. 26 (News Report) - Opponents see the Citgo fuel program as a political ploy by Venezuela's socialist president, Hugo Chavez, to make the United States look bad. An outspoken critic of the U.S., Chavez has referred to former President George Bush as "the devil" and on Sunday called President Barack Obama an "ignoramus." "I know they're bickering with each other down yonder," Schaeffer said. "We're so far away and cold, we don't pay attention to it."

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Begich lead over Stevens grows

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Anchorage Daily News - By Sean Cockerham - Nov. 15 (News Report) - The latest count shows Begich with 138,959 votes to 137,937 for Stevens. Alaskan Independence Party candidate Bob Bird is in third place with 12,144 votes, followed by Libertarian David Haase and nonpartisan Ted Gianoutsos.

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Palin on health care

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - Oct. 08 (Editorial) - She did not make a big issue of health care in her campaign for governor. During her two years in office, she has focused almost exclusively on ethics reform and high-stakes efforts to reform oil taxes and stimulate progress on an Alaska gas pipeline to the Lower 48.

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Some of Palin's remarks stretch the truth: Politics

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - Sep. 04 (News Report) - Gov. Sarah Palin's remarks to the Republican National Convention about her record in state government stretched the truth.THE FACTS: Palin implies that construction has begun on a major natural gas pipeline from the top of Alaska into Canada. That is not correct. In fact, no building has begun and actual construction is years away, if it ever happens. This summer the Alaska Legislature, at Palin's request, passed a bill under which the state will issue a "license" to a Canadian energy company, TransCanada Corp., and pay it up to $500 million as an incentive to someday build this enormous project, which Alaska politicians have long sought with little success. The license is not a construction contract, and federal energy regulators have not yet approved the project.

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Stevens investigation widens

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:48:16 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Erika Bolstad; Richard Mauer - Aug. 01 (News Report) - An ever-widening federal corruption probe into Alaska politics has zeroed in on a land sale involving the SeaLife Center in Seward and a former aide to U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.

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