UP -- Valdez and Cordova: Clear skies give snowbound cities a break. But keep the shovels close to hand.
DOWN -- Southcentral Alaskans: Those same clear skies mean cold, and some of us are grumbling. Must be getting soft. Remember, there's no such thing as bad weather. Just bad gear.
UP -- Coastal Zone program backers: Initiative to revive local voices development gets 33,000 signatures in less than a month and in dead of winter. Democracy lives.
UP -- Kikkan Randall: Alaska's finest nordic skier keeps blazing to medals on the World Cup circuit. It's not the kiss, it's the kick.
DOWN -- Seattle sports fans: GCI and Root can't come to terms, so that steady diet of Mariners baseball may be gone in 2012. Try the Pilots and Bucs, live.
EVEN -- Alaska bears: Well, Yogi, you're spared the snare for now but keep an ear open for air traffic. Our Board of Game isn't cuddly.
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