DOWN -- Electoral process: Joe's lament may be just a taste of the corporate muscle in play for 2012. It's just beginning, everybody.
UP -- Occupy Fairbanks: Activists heed borough's request to clean up gazebo for Veterans Day. Nice touch. Polite protest.
UP -- Airport travelers: Anchorage due for TSA's better body scanners -- generic image rather than virtual strip search. Polite prevention.
EVEN -- Escopeta Oil: State says not so fast on big Cook Inlet gas discovery. Maybe it's there. Maybe not so much.
EVEN -- Goose Creek prison: Ready for tours and first inmates, this gleaming new Graybar Hotel just needs lawmakers' blessing. We'll see.
EVEN -- New leg building backers: Sen. Linda Menard and company win Legislative Council vote, but four Mat-Su lawmakers balk. Tough sell.
UP -- Alaskans: With a $38 billion Permanent Fund and $14 billion in reserves to boot, we don't look like the rest of the country. Give thanks.
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