Sheila Toomey

Hey, Anchortowners, check it out. You’re about to witness an amazing vanishing act. The University of Alaska is closing the Anchorage office of the Cooperative Extension Service, transferring its technicians and advisers to the hinterlands and eliminating its programs. As a result, hundreds of volunteers who put in thousands of hours making our community the … Continue reading Loss of Cooperative Extension Service is a shot to the soul of Anchorage

In Rogers Park and College Gate, out in Muldoon and downtown below the bluff, in Mountain View and Turnagain people got up that morning and thought it was just another day.

The Legislature gavels back to life Jan. 21, and people who have to care are oiling their snark.

Jockeying is underway for that empty state Senate seat created by reapportionment out in the Butte. (OK, it includes Palmer and Chugiak too.)

KTOO reporter Lisa Phu tweeted a festive photo Tuesday from the governor's Christmas open house in Juneau.

Twits who speak in 140-word bursts are having fun following posts by Rick Gorka, a flack for the Mead Treadwell campaign. According to Gorka, The Other Dan Sullivan has blocked him from reading his Twitter posts.

Hope that "The Frozen Ground" movie will actually play in a theater here got a boost from word that USC will screen the movie on Aug. 22, a day before its alleged American premiere.

Ear rarely congratulates political machines, but we all must stand in awe of the brilliant maneuver to burnish The Other Dan Sullivan's political persona by dressing him in a uniform and sending off him to war in Afghanistan.

So, enough already. Is he going to run for the U.S. Senate or not?

Who was that guy in the suit and tie, under an umbrella, marching in the Fourth of July parade downtown?

When did the oil tax bill, SB 21, become the "More Alaska Production Act"?

Or perhaps not. There's a joke going around that starts: "Did you hear the one about Bill Walker, Sean Parnell, Joe Miller, Mead Treadwell, marijuana and oil taxes all getting together on the same Primary Election ballot?"

Our Sarah caused an embarrassing international stir this week -- although it wasn't her fault.