Sunday, April 19, 2009

New look, and a few pieces of news

Experimenting with some improvements to the blog, including a bit of a change in the look. Let me know what you think!

And a few bits if you're looking:

The Immoral Minority has a post up about Palin's new rural advisor.

Mudflats has a post about the Alaskan Marie Antoinette of the moment, regarding rural energy.

And some of the post-mortem on Palin's AG pick, Wayne Anthony Ross, who was rejected in an historic vote for Alaska, the Juneau Empire reported on which of the Southeast, and Juneau, legislators that voted. This was quite telling (representative) of the mood of Alaska Native citizens about Ross:

Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Haines, and Sen. Albert Kookesh, D-Angoon, both spoke out against Ross on the floor.

Both are Alaska Native, and Kookesh said the Native community could not support Ross "because of the past history and dealings with this gentleman."

All of the Native legislators voted against confirming Ross.



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6 comments:

Ishmael said...

I like the new look! Very sleek. Love the header shot, too. Did you do that?

I noticed Nome's Richard "Machine Gun" Foster did not vote. I heard he was had a dialysis appointment. I wonder if he would have voted the best interest of his district, or stick with another gun nut? I'm going with the latter....

hello said...

Nice new look. Pink maybe wasn't you. I love the new photo at the top, but also loved the old one...

teal said...

l o v e the new layout!

Anonymous said...

nice new look sister!

and yeah, I was able to enjoy the weekend too...

Anonymous said...

I like this look much better than the old. Looks great.

Writing Raven said...

Thanks all! I think the look is growing on me... but it's still going to have a few more changes.

Ishmael - I'm going with guys with guns stick together. And I like YOUR new look!