Anchorage Edition: September 12, 2008

Fri, September 12, 2008
Posted in Anchorage Edition

Each week, host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska. Topics this week include:

All Sarah Palin, all the time in the national media and as Palin has returned to Alaska after the VP nomination
Was Sarah Palin wrong to take the State’s per diem while staying at home in Wasilla?
What’s the status of the “Troopergate” investigation this week?
Is the media avoiding the question “Is Palin qualified to be Vice President?”
Why does Palin have trouble with conservative Republicans in Alaska, when she’s so popular among right-wing politicos in the lower 48?

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HOST: Michael Carey, independent journalist

GUESTS:

Paul Jenkins, voiceofthetimes.net
Frank Gerjevic, Anchorage Daily News
Steve MacDonald, KTUU Channel 2

KSKA (FM) BROADCAST: Friday, Septmeber 12, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.

KAKM (TV) BROADCAST: Friday, September 12, 2008 at 11:00 p.m. (no repeat broadcast this week, Anchorage Edition will return to its normal schedule next week)

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One Response to “Anchorage Edition: September 12, 2008”

Dick on September 13, 2008 at 10:34 am

It costs the state of Alaska $356,500.00 annually to maintain and staff the Governor’s Mansion in Juneau. That is where the governor of Alaska is supposed to live while serving their term. The State Capital, and legislature, is about a hundred yards down the street. Governor Palin prefers to live at home in Wasilla, over 600 miles away, and collect per diem, while the state continues to pour the money into the empty Governor’s Mansion in Juneau. That is not efficient or ethical.

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/09_omb/budget/Gov/comp9.pdf

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