Alaska News Nightly?
Goodness - listening to NPR’s “All Things Considered” is now like listening to Alaska Public Radio’s “Alaska News Nightly”.
It’s all Alaska all the time.
We’ve all read a bazillion articles this week on Sarah and Alaska. Palin’s True North by Timothy Egan of the New York Times is my favorite. It really captures what Alaska is about. Egan has spent quite a bit of time up here and gets Alaska.
I particularly liked this section:
The governor isn’t so much a tough-minded reformer — see her sidling up to indicted Senator Ted Stevens, the earmarks directed to her hometown or the pressure from her governor’s office against a bad-boy former brother-in-law and trooper — nor is she some Annie Oakley throwback.
She is, though, a very recognizable Alaskan.
Among Alaskans, drunken driving, teenage pregnancy, shooting wildlife out of season and courting an independent political party whose founder once said, “the fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government,” are not disqualifying issues. They’re dinner-table stories.
Every home seems to have a freezer in the garage stuffed with moose meat and 10 pounds of alder-smoked chinook. Owning a small amount of marijuana is protected by the privacy clause of the Alaska constitution, the courts have ruled.
A bush pilot, flying low over a glacier in a wicked snowstorm, once asked me to reach into his glove compartment for a map. A flask of whiskey fell out, and he took a swig — without missing a beat.
That’s pretty much who we are…
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