With grease stains from his early days in the oil fields and battle scars from three decades in politics, Tony Knowles is presenting himself to voters this year as the ideal candidate to build a new pipeline across Alaska.
TRAVERSE CITY - Late last week, Mike Glaesmer asked Bay State Breakers coach David McCauley for his unconditional release from the Eastern Junior Hockey League club. He wanted to come home.
Nebraska-Omaha opens its 28-game Central Collegiate Hockey Association schedule this weekend when it hosts Western Michigan on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 27-28. Faceoff at the Qwest Center Omaha (16,680) will be at 7:05 p.m. CDT each night.
Karl Wellner, money manager to the ultrarich, recalls club hopping in a convertible Bentley with one of his clients last winter in Palm Beach, Fla., when the $350,000 car ran out of gas. His client thumbed a ride to a gas station and soon the two were on their way.
Sarah Palin's campaign for governor sounds a lot like her campaign for mayor of Wasilla 10 years ago, when she made her first big move in Alaska politics.
Sarah Palin's campaign for governor sounds a lot like her campaign for mayor of Wasilla 10 years ago, when she made her first big move in Alaska politics. In 1996, Palin ran against an "old boy network" that she said controlled local government. She vowed to replace "stale leadership" and a "tax-and-spend" mentality with "fresh ideas and energy."
When he's not leading Jackson or selling houses, Martin Griffin hikes through glaciers that used to cloak much of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. "Climate change is going on, and there is a huge cost," said Griffin, 44, Jackson's mayor since 1995.
