| July 3, 2009 | - Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska announced that she would not seek reelection and that she would resign by the end of July. “'We're not retreating,'” she said, citing General Douglas MacArthur, who was not the author of the quotation. “'We are advancing in another direction.'” No one knew why she resigned. “Everybody I’ve talked to thinks it’s a little crazy,” said conservative pundit William Kristol. “But maybe not. What is she going to accomplish in the next year as governor?”
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AP via NO Times-Picayune
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LAT
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LAT
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WP
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Politico
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Anchorage Daily News
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NYT
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NYT
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| December 14, 2008 | - Wasilla Bible Church in Alaska was damaged by a fire, likely arson. Governor Sarah Palin issued a statement affirming her “faith in the scriptural passage that what was intended for evil will in some way be used for good.”
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Anchorage Daily News
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AP via Denver Post
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| November 21, 2008 | -
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin pardoned a turkey, then gave a televised interview as other turkeys were slaughtered in the background. “It's nice to get out,” she said as an upended turkey was killed, “and participate in something that isn't so heavy-handed politics that it invites criticism.”
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BBC
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| November 20, 2008 | - Senator Ted Stevens, a felon, lost his seat to Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, for whom he promised to pray.
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LA Times
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| November 7, 2008 | -
Democrats added to their majorities in both houses of Congress, while Senate races in Minnesota, Georgia, and Alaska remained undecided.
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New York Times
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| October 21, 2008 | -
Alaska
Senator Ted Stevens was found guilty on charges that he lied about receiving $250,000 in gifts. Stevens testified that the items were not gifts, merely things he was holding onto for friends. “We have lots of things in our house that don't belong to us,” he said.
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Washington Post
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| September 8, 2008 | - Reporters discovered that the Alaskan governor's official jet, which Palin claimed to have sold on eBay, was in fact removed from the site and sold, at a loss, to one of Palin's campaign contributors.
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The Independent
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| September 2, 2008 | - It emerged that McCain did not properly vet Alaska governor Sarah Palin in selecting her as his running mate, and that he interviewed her in person only on the same day he offered her the position. Despite McCain's opposition to earmarks, Palin, when mayor of the 6,700-resident town of Wasilla (known to state troopers as Alaska's “meth capital”), hired lobbyist Steven Silver to help win federal earmarks totaling $27 million. It also emerged that Palin, 44, received her first passport in 2006.
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Washington Post
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Boston Globe
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Juneau Empire
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Talking Points Memo
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| September 1, 2008 | -
McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, 44, as his running mate. Palin, an evangelical Christian, supports the death penalty, believes that the “jury's still out” on global warming, opposes abortion, and is mother to five children: Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and five-month-old Trig, who has Down syndrome. Rumors arose that Bristol, 17, was the actual mother of Trig; in response, Palin announced that Bristol was actually five months pregnant with the child of a man named “Levi” and would soon marry him.
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Telegraph.co.uk
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Washington Times
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Washington Post
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Independent
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| May 6, 2008 | - Yup'ik-speaking voters in Alaska demanded better bilingual election materials, citing a 2002 ballot in which “natural gas” had been rendered as “this gas in the stomach.”
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Anchorage Daily News
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| February 12, 2008 | - A moose fell from a 150-foot cliff in Alaska, just missing state trooper Howard Peterson. Peterson thought the moose might have been lonely, as the area is populated mostly by sheep, but state wildlife biologist Rick Sinnott disagreed. “They occasionally have bad days,” he said of moose, “like the rest of us.”
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Anchorage Daily News
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| December 3, 2007 | - A hundred-ton pile of horse manure mysteriously appeared in an empty lot in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Anchorage Daily News
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| August 1, 2007 | -
Congressman Don Young of Alaska apologized for threatening to bite Congressman Scott Garrett of New Jersey.
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TPMmuckraker
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| June 28, 2007 | - “Is it a surprise to anybody in this room that if you don’t have any money, you don’t get any justice?” asked Alaska Senator Mike Gravel at the third debate of the Democratic presidential candidates. Gravel called for the abolition of the income tax and the war on drugs, Ohio
Congressman Dennis Kucinich called for the abolition of NAFTA and the WTO, and Hillary Clinton predicted that global warming would create jobs for millions of Americans. Joseph Biden and Barack Obama reminisced about getting tested for HIV.
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New York Times
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| December 13, 2006 | - The governor of Alaska announced she would sell a private jet that had been used for state business on eBay.
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Bloomberg
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| October 16, 2006 | - The first Eskimo was killed in the Iraq war; it took 20 men a full day to dig his grave through the permafrost in a town 350 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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New York Times
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| May 17, 2006 | - In Alaska an elephant named Maggie was refusing to use her $100,000
treadmill.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| April 26, 2006 | - President George W. Bush pointed out that not drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was depriving the United States of one million barrels of oil per day, and it was reported that Iraq's
oil production had dropped by one million barrels per day since the U.S. invasion.
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The New York Times
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Beat the Press
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| March 21, 2006 | - A ruptured British Petroleum oil pipeline in Alaska had leaked over 240,000 gallons of oil, much of it into the Arctic Ocean.
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The Independent via Commondreams
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| September 15, 2005 | - In Alaska a 20-foot-long treadmill was installed at a zoo to help an elephant named Maggie lose a few hundred pounds.
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Reuters
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| July 13, 2005 | - A native Alaskan was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for killing six walruses.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| June 30, 2005 | - Lightning struck a sleeping child's mattress in Kansas, sparked a wildfire in Alaska's interior, shocked a boy in New Hampshire through his video-game controller, killed both a golfer and a prisoner in Ohio, and struck the offices of the National Weather Service in Iowa.
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KTUU.com
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The Boston Channel
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WBNSTV
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TheIowaChannel.com
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| March 16, 2005 | - The Senate passed a resolution that will permit drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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The New York Times
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| December 28, 2004 | - Scientists were concerned about rats overrunning Alaska.
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New York Times
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| June 11, 2004 | - In Alaska, a college radio DJ was fired for celebrating Ronald Reagan's death on the air.
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Associated Press
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| April 9, 2004 | - A chicken
farmer in Alaska
injected eggs with dye to produce orange, red, green, purple, pink, and blue chicks. Colored ducklings were also available.
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BBC
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| October 16, 2001 | -
President Bush was still trying to exploit the terrorist
attacks as an excuse to drill for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge.
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| October 16, 2001 | - A commuter plane crashed in Alaska, killing nine people.
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| October 9, 2001 | - A drunk in Alaska shot a hole in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, spilling 150,000 gallons of oil onto the tundra.
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| October 2, 2001 | -
Republicans were arguing that drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was now a matter of national security.
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| September 4, 2001 | - It nonetheless authorized the clearing of 135 acres in Alaska for an antimissile base.
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| June 5, 2001 | - Some brown bears started a wildfire in Alaska.
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| April 24, 2001 | - An oil pipe broke on Alaska's North Slope spilling 92,400 gallons of “produced water,” a mixture of salt water and oil, onto the tundra, making it the largest tundra spill on the North Slope to date.
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| January 23, 2001 | - Several people in the Alaskan village of Manokotak apparently were infected with botulism after eating fermented beaver tails and feet, a traditional delicacy made by burying the beaver parts and letting them rot.
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| January 2, 2001 | - There were wildfires in Florida and California and on the Alaskan tundra.
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| December 0, 2000 | -
Alaskan lawmakers issued a report concluding that Governor Sarah Palin broke state ethics laws when she sought to have her ex-brother-in law, a state trooper, fired from his post. Palin announced that the report cleared her of any “legal wrongdoing or unethical activity,” even though it did not.
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CBS News
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| July 25, 2000 | - A bear killed and partially ate a man in Alaska.
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| June 0, 2000 | - Most Alaskan
glaciers were retreating.
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Science Daily
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