Anchorage Edition: October 19, 2007

Fri, October 19, 2007
Posted in Anchorage Edition

Host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska. Discussion this week includes:

Start of the Special Legislative Session.
Judge John Sedwick’s message to the community in connection with former Rep. Tom Anderson’s five-year prison sentence.
Congressman Don Young’s nearly half-million in legal fees.
Former Rep. Vic Kohring’s upcoming corruption trial and Kohring’s recent Letters to the Editor in the Anchorage Daily News.
The Justice Department’s request that the state not to become involved in investigating public corruption in Alaska, and the administration’s response.
Anchorage Police Department $6 million in overtime expenses.
Linehan murder trial and television coverage.

HOST: Michael Carey, independent journalist