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Alaska
Alaska (
i/əˈlæskə/) is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait. Alaska is the 4th least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska's 722,718 residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area.
Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $7.2 million ($120 million in today's[when?] dollars) at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km²). The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized (or incorporated) territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.
The name "Alaska" (Аляска) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning "the mainland" or, more literally, "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed". It is also known as Alyeska, the "great land", an Aleut word derived from the same root.
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Alaska Interior
The Alaska Interior covers most of the U.S. state's territory. It is largely wilderness. Mountains include Mount McKinley in the Alaska Range, the Wrangell Mountains, and the Ray Mountains.
The largest city in the interior is Fairbanks, Alaska's second-largest city, in the Tanana Valley. Other towns include North Pole, just southeast of Fairbanks, Eagle, Tok, Glennallen, Delta Junction, Nenana, Anderson, Healy and Cantwell.
Interior Alaska experiences extreme seasonal temperature variability. Winter temperatures in Fairbanks average −12 °F (−24 °C) and summer temperatures average +62 °F (+17 °C). Temperatures there have been recorded as low as −65 °F (−54 °C) in mid-winter, and as high as +99 °F (+37 °C) in summer. Both the highest and lowest temperature records for the state were set in the Interior, with 100 °F (38 °C) in Fort Yukon and −80 °F (−64 °C) in Prospect Creek. Temperatures within a given winter are highly variable as well; extended cold snaps of forty below zero can be followed by unseasonable warmth with temperatures above freezing due to chinook wind effects.
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Alaska North Slope
The Alaska North Slope is the region of the U.S. state of Alaska located on the northern slope of the Brooks Range along the coast of two marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean, the Chukchi Sea being on the western side of Point Barrow, and the Beaufort Sea on the eastern.
The region contains the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, with the bulk of Alaska's known petroleum until the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field was discovered in 1968, as well as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which itself has been the subject of controversy surrounding the possibility of petroleum drilling within its boundaries. The petroleum extracted from the region is transferred south by means of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System to Valdez on the Pacific Ocean.
Within the North Slope, only a surface "active layer" of the tundra thaws each season; most of the soil is permanently frozen year-round. On top of this permafrost, water flows to sea via shallow, braided streams or settles into pools and ponds. Along the bottom of the Landsat 7 image on the right the rugged terrain of the Brooks Range mountains is snow-covered in places (blue areas) and exposed (pink areas) in others.
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Alaska Panhandle
Southeast Alaska, sometimes referred to as the Alaska Panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, which lies west of the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The majority of Southeast Alaska's area is part of the Tongass National Forest, the United States' largest national forest. In many places, the international border runs along the crest of the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains (see Alaska boundary dispute). The region is noted for its mild rainy climate and beautiful scenery.
Southeast Alaska is the northern terminus of the Inside Passage, a protected waterway of convoluted passages between islands and fjords, beginning in Puget Sound in Washington state. This was an important travel corridor for native canoeists, as well as gold-rush steam ships, and in modern times is an important route for ferries and cruise ships. Southeast Alaska has a land area of 35,138 miles (56,549 km), comprising six entire boroughs and three census areas, in addition to the part of Yakutat Borough lying east of 141° West longitude. Although it has only 6.14 percent of Alaska's land area, it is larger than the state of Maine, and almost as large as the state of Indiana. The Southeast Alaskan coast is roughly as long as the west coast of Canada. The 2000 census population of Southeast was 72,954 inhabitants, about 42 percent of whom were concentrated in the city of Juneau.
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Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands (English pronunciation: /əˈl(j)uːʃən/; possibly from Chukchi aliat, "island") are a chain of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones , forming part of the Aleutian Arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean, occupying an area of 6,821 sq mi (17,666 km²) and extending about 1,200 mi (1,900 km) westward from the Alaska Peninsula toward the Kamchatka Peninsula, thus marking a line between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Crossing longitude 180°, they are the westernmost part of the United States (and by one definition the easternmost; see Extreme points of the United States). Nearly all the archipelago is part of Alaska and usually considered as being in the "Alaskan Bush", but at the extreme western end the small, geologically related, and remote Commander Islands are in Russia. The islands, with their 57 volcanoes, are in the northern part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. The Alaska Marine Highway passes through the islands.
Physiographically, they are a distinct section of the larger Pacific Border province, which in turn is part of the larger Pacific Mountain System physiographic division.
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Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage) is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the 64th-largest city and northernmost major city in the United States. With 291,826 residents in 2010 (and 380,821 residents within its Metropolitan Statistical Area, which combines Anchorage with the neighboring Matanuska-Susitna Borough), it is Alaska's largest city and constitutes more than 40 percent of the state's total population; amongst the 50 states, only New York has a higher percentage of residents who live in the state's largest city.
Anchorage has been named All-America City four times, in 1956, 1965, 1984/1985 and 2002, by the National Civic League. It has also been named by Kiplinger as the most tax friendly city in the United States.
Russian presence in south central Alaska was well established in the 19th century. In 1867, U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward brokered a deal to purchase Alaska from a debt-ridden Imperial Russia for $7.2 million (about two cents an acre). The deal was lampooned by political rivals as "Seward's folly", "Seward's icebox" and "Walrussia". By 1888, gold was discovered along Turnagain Arm.
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Area code 907
Area code 907 covers the entire state of Alaska, except for the small southeastern Alaska community of Hyder, Alaska, which uses the 250 area code of neighboring Stewart, British Columbia[1]. Area code 907 was assigned in 1957 along with area code 808 for Hawaii. It is one of only 13 remaining area codes serving an entire state.
Ten-digit dialing is still required in Alaska as many calls within the state are classified as long-distance phone calls. People therefore must often guess if they need to dial 1+907 or not (if they don't know the actual location of the business / person they are calling).
Area code 907 is the largest area code (in physical size) in the U.S., and is second only to Canadian area code 867 in land area among codes in the North American Numbering Plan. Because the Aleutian Islands of Alaska straddle 180 degrees longitude, 907 can be considered to be both the farthest west and the farthest east area code in the NANP. It was also the longest area code to dial on a rotary phone (taking 26 pulses to dial out) until the proliferation of touchtone phones and the opening up of area codes previously unused within the NANP.
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Barrow, Alaska
Barrow (
/ˈbæroʊ/) (Inupiaq Utqiaġvik or Ukpiaġvik ) is the largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the 9th northernmost city in the world and is the northernmost city in the United States of America, with nearby Point Barrow being the nation's northernmost point. Barrow's population was 4,212 at the 2010 census. The city was named after Sir John Barrow.
The city derived its name from Point Barrow, which was named by Frederick William Beechey in 1825 after Sir John Barrow of the British Admiralty. The location has been home to Native Inupiat Eskimo people for over 1,000 years under the name Ukpeagvik or "place where snowy owls are hunted".
Barrow is located at 71°17′44″N 156°45′59″W / 71.29556°N 156.76639°W / 71.29556; -156.76639. It is the only U.S. city on the continent of North America with an antipode on uninhabited dry land. The antipode is in Antarctica at 71°17′44″S 23°14′1″E / 71.29556°S 23.23361°E / -71.29556; 23.23361. Barrow is roughly 1,300 miles (2,100 km) south of the North Pole. Only 5.3% of the Earth's surface lies as far from the Equator as Barrow.
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Bethel, Alaska
Bethel (Mamterilleq in Central Alaskan Yup'ik) is a city located near the west coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, 340 miles (550 km) west of Anchorage. Accessible only by air and river, Bethel is the main port on the Kuskokwim River and is an administrative and transportation hub for the 56 villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Bethel is the largest community in western Alaska and in the Unorganized Borough, as well as the 9th largest in the state, with a population estimated to be 6,080 as of the 2010 Census. Bethel is home to the lone detention center in southwestern Alaska, the Yukon Kuskokwim Correction Center. In 2009, Bethel opted out of status as a "Local Option" community, theoretically opening the door to allowing alcohol sales in the city; residents and city officials maintain that all liquor license requests will be actively opposed.
Annual events in Bethel include a noted dogsled race, the Kuskokwim 300, and Camai, a traditional Yupik dance festival held each spring.
Southwestern Alaska was for thousands of years the traditional place of Yup'ik people and their ancestors. They called their village Mamterillermiut, meaning "Smokehouse People", after their nearby fish smokehouse. It was an Alaska Commercial Company trading post during the late 19th century, and had a population of 41 people in the 1880 U.S. Census.
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Big Lake, Alaska
Big Lake is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,635 at the 2000 census.
Big Lake is located at 61°32′15″N 149°53′28″W / 61.5375°N 149.89111°W / 61.5375; -149.89111 (61.537449, -149.891104).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 144.8 square miles (375 km2), of which, 131.9 square miles (342 km2) of it is land and 12.9 square miles (33 km2) of it (8.89%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,635 people, 971 households, and 647 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 20.0 people per square mile (7.7/km²). There were 2,122 housing units at an average density of 16.1/sq mi (6.2/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 87.13% White, 0.34% Black or African American, 7.32% Native American, 0.27% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.87% from other races, and 4.02% from two or more races. 1.97% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Butte, Alaska
Butte is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census the population was 3,246.
It is located between the Matanuska River and the Knik River approximately five miles southeast of Palmer. It is accessible via the Old Glenn Highway.
Butte is located at 61°32′53″N 149°1′36″W / 61.54806°N 149.02667°W / 61.54806; -149.02667 (61.548030, -149.026617).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 41.0 square miles (106 km2), of which, 40.3 square miles (104 km2) of it is land and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2) of it (1.80%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,561 people, 884 households, and 671 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 63.6 people per square mile (24.5/km²). There were 964 housing units at an average density of 23.9/sq mi (9.2/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 92.50% White, 0.51% Black or African American, 2.89% Native American, 0.12% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 0.51% from other races, and 3.40% from two or more races. 1.25% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Chase, Alaska
Chase is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 34 at the 2010 census.
Chase is located at 62°25′20″N 150°4′39″W / 62.42222°N 150.0775°W / 62.42222; -150.0775 (62.422316, -150.077553).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 93.5 square miles (242 km2), of which, 92.9 square miles (241 km2) of it is land and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2) of it 0.66% is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 41 people, 21 households, and 9 families residing in the CDP. The population density at that time was 0.4 per square mile (0.15 /km2). There were 90 housing units at an average density of 1 per square mile (0.39 /km2). The racial makeup of the CDP was 100.00% White.
There were 21 households out of which 14.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.9% were married couples living together, 4.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 52.4% were non-families. 42.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.95 and the average family size was 2.70.
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Chickaloon, Alaska
Chickaloon is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 272 at the 2010 census.
Chickaloon is located at 61°47′38″N 148°28′58″W / 61.79389°N 148.48278°W / 61.79389; -148.48278 (61.793994, -148.482733).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 80.2 square miles (208 km2), of which, 79.4 square miles (206 km2) of it is land and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2) of it (1.05%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there are 213 people, 87 households, and 58 families residing in the CDP. The population density is 2.7 people per square mile (1.0/km²). There are 208 housing units at an average density of 2.6/sq mi (1.0/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP is 77.93% White, 1.41% Black or African American, 15.49% Native American, 0.94% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 1.88% from other races, and 2.35% from two or more races. 1.41% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Cook Inlet
Cook Inlet stretches 180 miles (290 km) from the Gulf of Alaska to Anchorage in south-central Alaska. Cook Inlet branches into the Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm at its northern end, almost surrounding Anchorage.
The watershed covers about 100,000 km² of southern Alaska, east of the Aleutian Range and south of the Alaska Range, receiving water from its tributaries the Knik River, the Little Susitna River, and the Susitna and Matanuska rivers. The watershed includes the drainage areas of Mount McKinley. Within the watershed there are several national parks and the active volcano Mount Redoubt, along with three other historically active volcanoes. Cook Inlet provides navigable access to the port of Anchorage at the northern end, and to the smaller Homer port further south. Approximately 400,000 people live within the Cook Inlet watershed. Before the growth of Anchorage, Knik was the destination for most marine traffic in upper Cook Inlet.
The Cook Inlet region contains active volcanoes, including Augustine Volcano and Mount Redoubt. Volcanic eruptions in the region have been associated with earthquakes and tsunamis, and debris avalanches have resulted in tsunamis also. There was an earthquake of the magnitude of 7.1 on December 31, 1901 generated by an eruption that caused several tsunamis. In 2009 a lahar from Mt. Redoubt threatened the Drift River oil terminal.
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Dillingham, Alaska
Dillingham ( /ˈdɪlɪŋhæm/) (Curyuk in Central Alaskan Yup'ik), also known as Curyung and (for the southwestern section) Kanakanak, is a city in Dillingham Census Area, Alaska, United States. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 2,329.
Dillingham is on Nushagak Bay at the confluence of the Nushagak River, an inlet of Bristol Bay, an arm of the Bering Sea in the North Pacific, in southwestern Alaska. It is located at Coordinates: 59°2′48″N 158°30′31″W / 59.04667°N 158.50861°W / 59.04667; -158.50861 (59.046751, -158.508665).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 35.7 square miles (92 km2). 33.6 square miles (87 km2) of it is land and 2.1 square miles (5.4 km2) of it (5.93%) is water. This may change as the City of Dillingham will likely petition the State of Alaska to increase the size of its boundaries to include most of Nushagak Bay and Wood River, to gain revenue from the Nushagak District and Wood River Special Harvest Area commercial salmon fisheries.
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Ed Kalnins
The Wasilla Assembly of God is a church in the town of Wasilla, Alaska. Founded in 1951, it is a member of the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal Christian denomination.
The church gained national attention in 2008 when United States presidential candidate Senator John McCain chose Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, an attendee of the church until 2002, as his running mate in the 2008 election.
The church's founding pastor was Paul Riley. Originally meeting in the Wasilla Community Hall in 1951, the church purchased property and constructed a building that would be expanded and eventually house the church until the early 1980s when new land further down Knik-Goosebay Road was purchased and a new church built to accommodate growth. Around this time Tim McGraw succeeded Riley as pastor. McGraw served as pastor for 12 years before being succeeded by Ed Kalnins in 1999.
After the 2008 nomination of Sarah Palin for Vice President of the United States, senior pastor Ed Kalnins' preaching was scrutinized by the media. His sermons were available on the church website. USA Today reported the Huffington Post assertion that "Kalnins has preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell; questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted into heaven; and preached that the Sept. 11 attacks and the war in Iraq were part of a world war over Christianity". Kalnins preached "I believe that Alaska is one of the refuge states... in the Last Days, and hundreds of thousands of people are going to come to this state to seek refuge. And the church has to ready to minister to them".
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FAA
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the national aviation authority of the United States. An agency of the United States Department of Transportation, it has authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S. The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 created the organization under the name "Federal Aviation Agency", and adopted its current name in 1966 when it became a part of the United States Department of Transportation.
The FAA's major roles include:
In December 2000, an organization within FAA called the Air Traffic Organization, or ATO, was set up by presidential executive order. This became the Air Navigation Service Provider for the airspace of the United States and for the New York (Atlantic) and Oakland (Pacific) oceanic areas. It is a full member of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation.
FAA issues a number of awards to holders of its licenses. Among these are demonstrated proficiencies as an aviation mechanic, a flight instructor, a 50-year aviator, or as a safe pilot. The latter, the FAA "Wings Program", provides a series of ten badges for pilots who have undergone several hours of training since their last award. A higher level can be claimed each year. For more information see "FAA Advisory Circular 61-91H".
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Fairbanks, Alaska
Fairbanks ( /ˈfɛərbæŋks/) is a home rule city in and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.
Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska, and second largest in the state behind Anchorage. It is the principal city of the Fairbanks, Alaska, Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of the Fairbanks North Star Borough and is the northernmost Metropolitan Statistical Area in the United States.
According to 2010 census, the population of the city was 31,535, and the Fairbanks metropolitan area's population was 97,581. Fairbanks is home to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the oldest of Alaska's current colleges.
Captain E. T. Barnette founded Fairbanks in August 1901 while headed to Tanacross (or Tanana Crossing, where the Valdez-Eagle trail crossed the Tanana River), where he intended to set up a trading post. The steamboat on which Barnette was a passenger, the Lavelle Young, ran aground while attempting to negotiate shallow water. Barnette, along with his party and supplies, were deposited along the banks of the Chena River 7 miles (11 km) upstream from its confluence with the Tanana River. The sight of smoke from the steamer's engines caught the attention of prospectors working in the hills to the north, most notably an Italian immigrant named Felice Pedroni (better known as Felix Pedro) and his partner Tom Gilmore. The two met Barnette where he disembarked and convinced him of the potential of the area. Barnette set up his trading post at the site, still intending to eventually make it to Tanacross.
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Farm Loop, Alaska
Farm Loop is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census the population was 1,028.
Farm Loop is located at 61°37′42″N 149°8′44″W / 61.62833°N 149.14556°W / 61.62833; -149.14556 (61.628426, -149.145602).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 8.9 square miles (23 km2), of which, 8.8 square miles (23 km2) of it is land and 0.11% is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,067 people, 334 households, and 268 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 120.7 people per square mile (46.6/km²). There were 350 housing units at an average density of 39.6/sq mi (15.3/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 92.97% White, 0.28% Black or African American, 3.37% Native American, 0.28% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 0.19% from other races, and 2.81% from two or more races. 2.44% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Fishhook, Alaska
Fishhook is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census the population was 4,679.
Fishhook is located at 61°40′38″N 149°15′54″W / 61.67722°N 149.265°W / 61.67722; -149.265 (61.677320, -149.265043).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 88.4 square miles (229 km2), of which, 88.1 square miles (228 km2) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) of it (0.33%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,030 people, 663 households, and 509 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 23.0 people per square mile (8.9/km²). There were 730 housing units at an average density of 8.3/sq mi (3.2/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 91.38% White, 0.44% Black or African American, 3.55% Native American, 0.79% Asian, 0.20% Pacific Islander, 0.69% from other races, and 2.96% from two or more races. 1.67% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Gateway, Alaska
Gateway is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,552 at the 2010 census.
Gateway is located at 61°34′35″N 149°15′9″W / 61.57639°N 149.2525°W / 61.57639; -149.2525 (61.576398, -149.252506).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 16.8 square miles (44 km2), of which, 16.3 square miles (42 km2) of it is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2) of it (3.04%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,952 people, 981 households, and 781 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 181.5 people per square mile (70.1/km²). There were 1,084 housing units at an average density of 66.6/sq mi (25.7/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 88.25% White, 0.71% Black or African American, 4.00% Native American, 0.91% Asian, 0.14% Pacific Islander, 0.98% from other races, and 5.01% from two or more races. 2.41% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Glacier View, Alaska
Glacier View is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census the population was 234. The terminus of Matanuska Glacier is located approximately three miles southwest of Glacier View.
Glacier View is located at 61°49′7″N 147°42′53″W / 61.81861°N 147.71472°W / 61.81861; -147.71472 (61.818532, -147.714741).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 450.6 square miles (1,167 km2), of which, 448.2 square miles (1,161 km2) of it is land and 2.4 square miles (6.2 km2) of it (0.54%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 249 people, 104 households, and 61 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 0.6 people per square mile (0.2/km²). There were 260 housing units at an average density of 0.6/sq mi (0.2/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 88.76% White, 0.40% Black or African American, 7.23% Native American, 0.40% Asian, and 3.21% from two or more races.
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Hatcher Pass
Hatcher Pass (3886 ft./1148 m.) is a mountain pass through the southwest part of the Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska. It is named after Robert Hatcher, a prospector and miner. The nearest incorporated communities are Palmer and Wasilla, approximately 12 miles (19 km) to the south, and Willow, approximately 26 miles (42 km) to the west. The communities are at an elevation of approximately 250 feet (76 m) in the Mat-Su valley.
From the west, the pass is reached from the Parks Highway by a road winding approximately 40 miles (64 km) up the valley of Willow Creek. The pass divides the alpine headwaters of Willow Creek on the west from Fishhook Creek and Independence Bowl on the east side. To the east the road drops into and follows the Little Susitna River canyon downstream, and south, some dozen miles to the abrupt mountain front at the edge of the broad Matanuska-Susitna Valley. The road is unpaved and minimally maintained for about 20 miles (32 km) over the pass. This central portion of the road is usually closed by snow from late September to July. Although closed to car traffic, this section of road is heavily traveled in winter and spring by snowmachines and skiers.
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Homer, Alaska
Homer is a city located in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to the 2010 Census, the population is 5,003. One of Homer's nicknames is "the cosmic hamlet by the sea"; another is "the end of the road".
Homer is located at 59°38'35" North, 151°31'33" West (59.643059, -151.525900).
Homer is on the shore of Kachemak Bay on the southwest side of the Kenai Peninsula. Its most distinguishing feature is the Homer Spit, a narrow 4.5 mile (7 km) long gravel bar that extends into the bay, on which is located the Homer Harbor.
Much of the coastline as well as the Homer Spit sank dramatically during the Good Friday Earthquake in March 1964. After the earthquake, very little vegetation was able to survive on the Homer Spit.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 22.4 square miles (58 km2), of which, 10.6 square miles (27 km2) is land and 11.9 square miles (31 km2) is water. The total area is 52.83% water.
Tiller digs indicate that early Alutiiq people probably camped in the Homer area although their villages were on the far side of Kachemak Bay.
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Houston, Alaska
Houston is a city in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located roughly 33 miles from downtown Anchorage "as the crow flies", although it is a 58 mile drive by car between the two points. The population was 1,912 at the 2010 census.
Houston is located at 61°36′30″N 149°46′25″W / 61.60833°N 149.77361°W / 61.60833; -149.77361 (61.608309, -149.773719).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 23.5 square miles (61 km2), of which, 22.4 square miles (58 km2) of it is land and 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2) of it (4.89%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,202 people, 445 households, and 292 families residing in the city. The population density was 53.7 people per square mile (20.7/km²). There were 581 housing units at an average density of 25.9 per square mile (10.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 84.03% White, 0.33% Black or African American, 8.24% Native American, 0.67% Asian, 0.33% Pacific Islander, 0.92% from other races, and 5.49% from two or more races. 2.33% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Juneau, Alaska
The City and Borough of Juneau ( /ˈdʒuːnoʊ/) is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the panhandle of the U.S. state of Alaska. It has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of the then-District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900. The municipality unified on July 1, 1970, when the city of Juneau merged with the city of Douglas and the surrounding Greater Juneau Borough to form the current home rule municipality.
The area of Juneau is larger than that of Rhode Island and Delaware individually and almost as large as the two states combined. Downtown Juneau 58°18′07″N 134°25′11″W / 58.30194°N 134.41972°W / 58.30194; -134.41972 is nestled at the base of Mount Juneau and across the channel from Douglas Island. As of the 2010 census, the City and Borough had a population of 31,275.
Juneau is named after gold prospector Joe Juneau, though the place was for a time called Rockwell and then Harrisburg (after Juneau's co-prospector, Richard Harris). The Tlingit name of the town is Dzántik'i Héeni ("river where the flounders gather"), and Auke Bay just north of Juneau proper is called Aak'w ("little lake") in Tlingit. The Taku River, just south of Juneau, was named after the cold t'aakh wind, which occasionally blows down from the mountains.
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Kenai Peninsula
The Kenai Peninsula is a large peninsula jutting from the southern coast of Alaska in the United States. The name Kenai is probably derived from Kenayskaya, the Russian name for Cook Inlet, which borders the peninsula to the west.
The peninsula extends approximately 150 miles (240 km) southwest from the Chugach Mountains, south of Anchorage. It is separated from the mainland on the west by Cook Inlet and on the east by Prince William Sound. Most of the peninsula is part of the Kenai Peninsula Borough. Gerasim Izmailov was the first to explore and map the peninsula in 1789.
The glacier-covered Kenai Mountains (7,000 ft/2,130 m) run along the southeast spine of the peninsula along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska. Much of the range is within Kenai Fjords National Park. The northwest coast along the Cook Inlet is flatter and marshy, dotted with numerous small lakes. Several larger lakes extend through the interior of the peninsula, including Skilak Lake and Tustumena Lake. Rivers include the Kenai River, famous for its salmon population, as well as the Russian River, the Kasilof River, and the Anchor River. Kachemak Bay, a small inlet off the larger Cook Inlet, extends into the peninsula's southwest end, much of which is part of Kachemak Bay State Park
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Kenai, Alaska
Kenai ( /ˈkiːnaɪ/) is a city in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 7,464. In 2009, the population was 7,945.
Kenai is located at 60°33′31″N 151°13′47″W / 60.55861°N 151.22972°W / 60.55861; -151.22972 (60.558738, -151.229616).
Kenai is located on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula near the outlet of the Kenai River to the Cook Inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 35.5 square miles (92 km2), of which, 29.9 square miles (77 km2) of it is land and 5.6 square miles (15 km2) of it (15.85%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 6,942 people, 2,622 households, and 1,788 families residing in the city. The population density was 232.2 people per square mile (89.6/km²). There were 3,003 housing units at an average density of 100.4 per square mile (38.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 82.76% White, 0.49% Black or African American, 8.74% Native American, 1.66% Asian, 0.23% Pacific Islander, 1.12% from other races, and 5.00% from two or more races. 3.82% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Ketchikan, Alaska
Ketchikan ( /ˈkɛtʃɨkæn/) is a city in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, United States, the southeasternmost sizable city in Alaska. With an estimated population of 14,070 in 2010 within the city limits, it is the fifth most populous city in the state.
Ketchikan's economy is based upon tourism and fishing, and the city is known as the "Salmon Capital of the World." The Misty Fjords National Monument is one of the area's major attractions. For most of the latter half of the 20th century, a large portion of Ketchikan's economy and life centered around the Ketchikan Pulp Company pulp mill in nearby Ward Cove.
Ketchikan is named after Ketchikan Creek, which flows through the town. Ketchikan comes from the Tlingit name for the creek, Kitschk-hin, the meaning of which is unclear. It may mean "the river belonging to Kitschk"; other accounts claim it means "Thundering Wings of an Eagle."
Ketchikan's secondary post office box ZIP code, 99928, is the highest ZIP code ever assigned in the United States, although most residents use the ZIP code 99901. Ketchikan also has the world's largest collection of standing totem poles, found at three major locations: the City of Saxman, Totem Bight State Park, and the Totem Heritage Center. Some totem poles are replicas made during the Roosevelt Administration through the CCC, which employed Natives in replicating their heritage through carving totems.
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Knik River, Alaska
Knik River ( /ˈknɪk/) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 744 at the 2010 census. The region is mostly famous for being the home of Robert Hansen, a serial killer who murdered at least 17 prostitutes in the early 1980s.
Knik River is located at 61°28′15″N 148°51′38″W / 61.47083°N 148.86056°W / 61.47083; -148.86056 (61.470970, -148.86064) (Sec. 24, T016N, R003W, Seward Meridian), in the Palmer Recording District.
The community is at the head of the Knik Arm of Cook Inlet in Southcentral Alaska, 27 km (17 mi) northeast of Anchorage. The community has developed along the south bank of the Knik River, which flows into Knik Arm, at the southern border of the Mat-Su Borough. It lies along the Old Glenn Highway and Knik River Road.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 93.2 square miles (241 km2), of which, 90.4 square miles (234 km2) of it is land and 2.8 square miles (7.3 km2) of it (2.95%) is water.
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Kodiak, Alaska
Kodiak (Кадьяк, Kadʹyak) is one of 7 communities and the main city on Kodiak Island, Kodiak Island Borough, in the U.S. state of Alaska. All commercial transportation between the entire island and the outside world goes through this city either via ferryboat or airline. The population was 6,130 as of the 2010 census.
Originally inhabited by Alutiiq natives for over 7000 years, the city was settled in the 18th century by the subjects of the Russian crown and became the capital of Russian Alaska. Harvesting of the area's sea otter pelts led to the near extinction of the animal in the following century and led to wars with and enslavement of the natives for over 150 years. As part of the Alaska Purchase by the United States in 1867, Kodiak became a commercial fishing center which continues to this day. A lesser economic influence includes tourism, mainly by those seeking outdoor adventure trips. Salmon, halibut, the unique Kodiak Bear, elk, Sitka Deer (black tail), and mountain goats invite hunting tourists as well as fishermen to the Kodiak Archipelago. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game maintains an office in the city and a website to help hunters and fishermen obtain the proper permits and learn about the laws specific to the Kodiak area. The city has four public elementary schools, a middle and high school, as well as a branch of the University of Alaska. An antenna farm at the summit of Pillar Mountain above the city historically provided communication with the outside world before fiber optic cable was run. Transportation to and from the island is provided by ferry service on the Alaska Marine Highway as well as local commercial airlines.
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Kotzebue, Alaska
Kotzebue (Qikiqtaġruk in Iñupiaq) is a city in Northwest Arctic Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. The population of the city was 3,201 as of the 2010 census.
Kotzebue gets its name from the Kotzebue Sound, which was named after Otto von Kotzebue, who explored the sound while searching for the Northwest Passage in the service of Russia in 1818.
Kotzebue is located at 66°53′50″N 162°35′8″W / 66.89722°N 162.58556°W / 66.89722; -162.58556 (66.897192, −162.585444).
Kotzebue lies on a gravel spit at the end of the Baldwin Peninsula in the Kotzebue Sound. It is 33 miles (53 km) north of the Arctic Circle on Alaska's western coast.
Kotzebue is approximately thirty miles from Noatak, Kiana, and other nearby smaller towns.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 28.7 square miles (74 km2), of which 27.0 square miles (70 km2) is land, and 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2), or 5.76%, is water.
Kotzebue is a gateway to Kobuk Valley National Park and other natural attractions of northern Alaska.
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Lake Louise, Alaska
Lake Louise (Sasnuu’ Bene’ in Ahtna) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. Although it is an isolated settlement and is close to Glennallen, it is considered part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area like all other locations in the Mat-Su Borough. At the 2010 census the population was 46. The first recorded name of Lake Louise was Shosubenich, which means "great flat water with many islands". Later, Lake Louise was named Lake Adah after a girlfriend of Lieutenant Castner. Later Captain Edwin Glenn changed the name to Lake Louise in honor of his wife. The U.S. Army established a recreation facility at the lake towards the end of World War II and built the first road into the area. Lake Louise road runs about 20 miles (32 km) from the Glenn Highway to the lake. There are still several dilapidated cabins at the "Army Point" campground, including one that was used for four days by General Dwight D. Eisenhower before he was president. The lake is also home to the Lake Louise State Recreation Area.
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Lakes, Alaska
Lakes is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census the population was 8,364.
Lakes is located at 61°36′27″N 149°18′15″W / 61.6075°N 149.30417°W / 61.6075; -149.30417 (61.607440, -149.304056).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 15.4 square miles (40 km2), of which, 13.6 square miles (35 km2) of it is land and 1.7 square miles (4.4 km2) of it (11.25%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 6,706 people, 2,217 households, and 1,775 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 491.3 people per square mile (189.7/km²). There were 2,329 housing units at an average density of 170.6/sq mi (65.9/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 89.49% White, 0.60% Black or African American, 4.58% Native American, 0.54% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 0.55% from other races, and 4.16% from two or more races. 1.95% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Matanuska Valley
Matanuska-Susitna Valley (known locally as the Mat-Su or The Valley) is an area in Southcentral Alaska south of the Alaska Range about 35 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska. It is known for the world record sized cabbages and other vegetables displayed annually in Palmer at the Alaska State Fair. It includes the valleys of the Matanuska, Knik, and Susitna Rivers. 11,000 of Mat-Su Valley residents commute to Anchorage for work. It is the fastest growing region in Alaska and includes the towns of Palmer, Wasilla, Big Lake, Houston, Willow and Talkeetna.
The valleys are shaped by three mountain ranges: the Alaska Range, the Talkeetna Mountains and the Chugach Mountains. The Matanuska-Susitna Valley was carved by glaciers leaving thousands of lakes. The Mat-Su rivers and lakes are home to the spanning grounds of chinook, coho, sockeye, pink, and chum salmon. The area is home to 31 state parks and campgrounds.
The 23,000 square mile Matanuska-Susitna Borough, (the Alaskan equivalent of a county) governs the Mat-Su Valley. According to the 2010 Census, the borough's population is 88,995, a 50% increase since 2000.
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Meadow Lakes, Alaska
Meadow Lakes is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,570 at the 2010 census.
Meadow Lakes is located at 61°35′59″N 149°36′58″W / 61.59972°N 149.61611°W / 61.59972; -149.61611 (61.599661, -149.616036).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 70.0 square miles (181 km2), of which, 67.0 square miles (174 km2) of it is land and 3.0 square miles (7.8 km2) of it (4.32%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 4,819 people, 1,702 households, and 1,215 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 72.0 people per square mile (27.8/km²). There were 2,003 housing units at an average density of 29.9/sq mi (11.5/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 87.86% White, 0.54% Black or African American, 5.42% Native American, 0.60% Asian, 0.21% Pacific Islander, 0.58% from other races, and 4.79% from two or more races. 3.01% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Nome, Alaska
Nome (Siqnazuaq in Iñupiaq) is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. According to the 2010 Census, the city population was 3,598. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901, and was once the most populous city in Alaska. Nome lies within the region of the Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC).
The city of Nome claims to be home to the world's largest gold pan, although this claim has been disputed by the Canadian city of Quesnel, British Columbia.
In the winter of 1925, a diphtheria epidemic raged among Inuit in the Nome area. Fierce territory-wide blizzard conditions prevented delivery of a life-saving serum by airplane from Anchorage. A relay of dog sled teams was organized to deliver the serum. The annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race commemorates this historic event.
The origin of the city's name "Nome" is still under debate. The name may have been given by Nome's founder, Jafet Lindeberg: within trekking distance of his childhood home in Kvænangen, Norway, there is a Nome valley (Norwegian: Nomedalen).
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Palmer, Alaska
Palmer is the borough seat of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in the state of Alaska, USA. It is part of the Anchorage Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city is 5,937.
The first people to live in the Matanuska Valley, where Palmer is located, were the Dena’ina and Ahtna Athabaskans. They moved throughout the area, living a subsistence lifestyle and trading with other native groups. Their trade routes were along the Matanuska River. Russians came to Alaska in 1741 and brought the Russian Orthodox religious tradition to the indigenous peoples of the region. In the mid-1880s, an entrepreneur named George W. Palmer built a trading post on the Matanuska River, near present-day Palmer. The town was later named after this Alaskan pioneer.
In the late 19th century, the U.S. government began to take interest in the Matanuska coal fields located north of Palmer. This interest sparked financiers to consider constructing the Alaska Central Railroad in 1904. The advent of WWI created a need for high quality coal to fuel US battleships and by 1917 the US Navy had constructed rail from the port of Seward to the Chickaloon coal deposits. At the end of WWI,the US Navy distributed land in the coal fields to war veterans and additional land was opened to homesteading. Farmers, miners and homesteaders began to populate the area. The Palmer Post Office was opened July 6, 1917 under the name of Warton. With railroad accessibility, new markets for agriculture began to open up for farmers in the Matanuska Valley.
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Petersburg, Alaska
Petersburg (Tlingit: "Steamboat Canyon") is a city in Petersburg Census Area, Alaska, in the United States. According to 2009 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 2,824 full time residents.
The north end of Mitkof Island was a summer fish camp utilized by Kake Tlingits from Kupreanof Island. Remnants of fish traps and some petroglyphs have been carbon-dated back some 2,000 years. Petersburg was named after Peter Buschmann, a Norwegian immigrant. He built a cannery, sawmill, docks and early structures. Petersburg flourished as a fishing port. (thanks in part to the plentiful number of icebergs from the nearby LeConte Glacier which would provide a source for cooling fish). His colony grew into Petersburg which, by 1910 was incorporated and was populated largely by people of Scandinavian origin thus giving Petersburg the nickname "Little Norway". May 17 (Norwegian Constitution Day) is celebrated annually in Petersburg on the third weekend in May. The cannery, along with three others have operated continuously since their completion. With the establishment of the cannery, Alaskan Natives, including Chief John Lott, began living year-round at the site.
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Petersville, Alaska
Petersville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was four at the 2010 Census.
Petersville is located at 62°22′37″N 150°44′49″W / 62.37694°N 150.74694°W / 62.37694; -150.74694 (62.376890, -150.746952).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 355.4 square miles (920 km2), of which, 354.1 square miles (917 km2) of it is land and 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2) of it (0.37%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 27 people, 17 households, and 7 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 0.1 people per square mile (0.0/km²). There were 189 housing units at an average density of 0.5/sq mi (0.2/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 88.89% White, 7.41% Native American and 3.70% Pacific Islander.
There were 17 households out of which 5.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 29.4% were married couples living together, and 58.8% were non-families. 58.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.59 and the average family size was 2.00.
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Seward Peninsula
The Seward Peninsula is a large peninsula on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It projects about 320 kilometers (200 mi) into the Bering Sea between Norton Sound, the Bering Strait, the Chukchi Sea, and Kotzebue Sound, just below the Arctic Circle. The entire peninsula is about 330 kilometers (210 mi) long and 145 km (90 mi)-225 km (140 mi) wide.
The Seward Peninsula was once part of the Bering land bridge, a roughly thousand mile wide swath of land connecting Siberia with mainland Alaska during the Pleistocene Ice Age. This land bridge aided in the migration of humans, as well as plant and animal species from Asia to North America. Archeological discoveries throughout the Seward Peninsula show proof that Inupiat Eskimos have been living in the region for thousands of years.[dubious – discuss] Excavations at sites such as the Trail Creek Caves and Cape Espenberg in the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve as well as Cape Denbigh to the south have provided insight into the timeline of prehistorical migrations from Asia to the Seward Peninsula.
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Seward, Alaska
Seward is a city in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 3,016.
It was named after William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. In 1867, he fought for the U.S. purchase of Alaska which he finally negotiated to acquire from Russia.
In 1793 Alexander Baranov of the Shelikhov-Golikov company (precursor of the Russian-American Company) established a fur trade post on Resurrection Bay where Seward is today, and had a three-masted vessel, the Phoenix, built at the post by James Shields, an English shipwright in Russian service.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 21.5 square miles (56 km2), of which, 14.4 square miles (37 km2) of it is land and 7.1 square miles (18 km2) of it (32.93%) is water.
Adjoining communities include Bear Creek and Lowell Point.
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,830 people, 917 households, and 555 families residing in the city. The population density was 196.0 people per square mile (75.7/km²). There were 1,058 housing units at an average density of 73.3 per square mile (28.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 72.12% White, 2.44% Black or African American, 16.68% Native American, 1.84% Asian, 0.18% Pacific Islander, 0.88% from other races, and 5.87% from two or more races. 2.40% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Sitka, Alaska
The City and Borough of Sitka, formerly called New Archangelsk (Russian: "Новоaрхангельск" or "Ново-Архангельск"; transliterated: "Novoarkhangelsk" or "New-Arkhangelsk") under Russian Rule, is a unified city-borough located on Baranof Island and the southern half of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean (part of the Alaska Panhandle), in the U.S. state of Alaska. With a population of 8,881 as of 2010, Sitka is the fourth-largest city by population in Alaska. Urban Sitka (Downtown) 57°03′5.62″N 135°20′19.11″W / 57.0515611°N 135.3386417°W / 57.0515611; -135.3386417, the part that is usually thought of as the "city" of Sitka, is situated on the west side of Baranof Island.
The current name "Sitka" (derived from Sheet’ká, a contraction of the Tlingit name Shee At'iká) means "People on the Outside of Shee", Sheet’-ká X'áat'l (often expressed simply as Shee) being the Tlingit name for Baranof Island.
Sitka's location was originally settled by the Tlingit people over 10,000 years ago. The Russian heritage of Sitka did not begin until Old Sitka was founded in 1799 by Alexandr Baranov, the governor of Russian America. Baranov arrived under the auspices of the Russian-American Company, a "semi-official" colonial trading company chartered by Tsar Paul I.
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Skwentna, Alaska
Skwentna is a census-designated place (CDP) on Iditarod Trail in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census the population was 37.
Skwentna is located at 61°52′46″N 151°15′59″W / 61.87944°N 151.26639°W / 61.87944; -151.26639 (61.879482, -151.266455).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 449.7 square miles (1,165 km2), of which, 442.8 square miles (1,147 km2) of it is land and 6.9 square miles (18 km2) of it (1.54%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 111 people, 50 households, and 29 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 0.3 people per square mile (0.1/km²). There were 360 housing units at an average density of 0.8/sq mi (0.3/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 92.79% White, 6.31% Native American, and 0.90% from two or more races.
There were 50 households out of which 22.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.0% were married couples living together, 6.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.0% were non-families. 36.0% of all households were made up of individuals and none had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.22 and the average family size was 2.90.
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Soldotna, Alaska
Soldotna is a city in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 4,163. It is the seat of the Kenai Peninsula Borough.
In 1947, after World War II, the United States government allowed settling of land on parts of the Kenal Peninsula under the Homestead Act. Veterans of the United States armed services were given a 90-day preference over non-veterans in selecting land and filing for property. Also in that year, the Sterling Highway right-of-way was cleared of trees from Cooper Landing to Kenai. The location of present-day Soldotna was selected as the site for the highway's bridge crossing the Kenai River.
The construction of the Sterling Highway provided a link from the Soldotna area to the outside world. More homesteads were taken and visitors came to fish in the area. The Soldotna post office opened in 1949 and other businesses opened in the next few years.
Oil was discovered in the Swanson River region in 1957, bringing some new economic development to the area. In 1960, Soldotna was incorporated as a city with a population of 332.
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Susitna, Alaska
Susitna is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP is 18.
Susitna is located at 61°33′27″N 150°34′36″W / 61.5575°N 150.57667°W / 61.5575; -150.57667 (61.557631, -150.576743).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 158.9 square miles (412 km2), of which, 158.2 square miles (410 km2) of it is land and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2) of it (0.38%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 37 people, 19 households, and 6 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 0.2 people per square mile (0.1/km²). There were 102 housing units at an average density of 0.6/sq mi (0.2/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 89.19% White, and 10.81% from two or more races.
There were 19 households out of which 15.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 26.3% were married couples living together, 10.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 63.2% were non-families. 47.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 26.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.95 and the average family size was 3.14.
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Talkeetna, Alaska
Talkeetna is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census the population was 876.
Talkeetna is located at 62°18′41″N 150°5′13″W / 62.31139°N 150.08694°W / 62.31139; -150.08694 (62.311397, -150.087053) at the confluence of three rivers, the Susitna, Chulitna and Talkeetna. The Talkeetna townsite was established in 1919 when the railroad surveyed and auctioned 80 lots. The average price at the sale was $14.25. Flightseeing, rafting, mountain biking, hiking, camping, fishing and hunting make up a large portion of the local economy. Talkeetna is a 2.5 hour drive from Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska. The core downtown area is classified as a National Historic Site, with buildings dating from the early 1900s including Nagley's General Store, Fairview Inn and the Talkeetna Roadhouse.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 42.9 square miles (111 km2), of which, 41.6 square miles (108 km2) of it is land and 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2) of it (3.19%) is water.
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Tanaina, Alaska
Tanaina is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census the population was 8,197.
Tanaina is located at 61°37′27″N 149°25′58″W / 61.62417°N 149.43278°W / 61.62417; -149.43278 (61.624211, -149.432817).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 27.5 square miles (71 km2), of which, 27.1 square miles (70 km2) of it is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2) of it (1.53%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 4,993 people, 1,609 households, and 1,266 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 184.3 people per square mile (71.1/km²). There were 1,700 housing units at an average density of 62.7/sq mi (24.2/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 87.88% White, 0.54% Black or African American, 4.67% Native American, 0.60% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.38% from other races, and 4.91% from two or more races. 3.44% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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Tanana Valley
The Tanana Valley is a lowland region in central Alaska in the United States, on the north side of the Alaska Range where the Tanana River emerges from the mountains.
The region experiences great extremes of temperature during the year. During the winter months, the air is prone to stratification due to temperature inversions, leading to thick fogs. During the summer, the surrounding plains are generally boglike, and include much permafrost and many pingoes.
The Tanana Valley is the most populated area of Alaska north of the Alaska Range. Its largest city is Fairbanks. Other communities include:
Coordinates: 64°24′N 147°00′W / 64.4°N 147.0°W / 64.4; -147.0
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Twin cities
Twin cities are a special case of two cities or urban centres which are founded in close geographic proximity and then grow into each other over time. The term Twin Cities in the United States refers specifically to the cities Minneapolis and Saint Paul, both of which are in the midwestern state of Minnesota.
Cities twinned geographically do not necessarily match demographically, economically, or politically.
In most cases, cities that grow into each other's space in this way lose their individual identities, and whatever border or barrier still separates them becomes irrelevant as they fuse into one new city. One famous example of this is Budapest in Hungary, which began as two settlements (Buda and Pest) facing each other across the Danube at a strategic fording place along a trade route. However, there are twin cities which have been able to resist this final union and have maintained individual identity against the tides of history, economics and demographics.
Twin cities often share an airport, into whose airport codes are integrated the initials of both cities; DFW (Dallas-Fort Worth), MSP (Minneapolis-St. Paul), and RDU (Raleigh-Durham) are examples.
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Unalaska, Alaska
Unalaska (Aleut: Iluulux̂) is a city in the Aleutians West Census Area of the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Unalaska is located on Unalaska Island and neighboring Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Islands off of mainland Alaska.
The population was 4,376 at the 2010 census, which is 79% of the entire Aleutian West Borough. Almost all of the community's port facilities are on Amaknak Island, better known as Dutch Harbor or just "Dutch". It is the largest fisheries port in the U.S. by volume caught. It includes Dutch Harbor Naval Operating Base and Fort Mears, U.S. Army, a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
Dutch Harbor lies within the city limits of Unalaska and is connected to Unalaska by a bridge. Amaknak Island is home to almost 59 percent of the city's population, although it has less than 3 percent of its land area.
The Aleut or Unangan have lived on Unalaska Island for thousands of years. The Russian fur trade reached Unalaska when Stepan Glotov and his crew arrived on August 1, 1759. The Unangan people, who were the first to inhabit the island of Unalaska, named it "Ounalashka" meaning ‘Near the Peninsula’. The regional native corporation has adopted this moniker, and is known as the Ounalashka Corporation. Dutch Harbor was so named by the Russians because they believed that a Dutch vessel was the first European ship to enter the harbor.
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Valdez, Alaska
Valdez ( /vælˈdiːz/) is a city in Valdez-Cordova Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to the 2010 US Census, the population of the city is 3,976. The city is one of the most important ports in Alaska. The port of Valdez was named in 1790 after the Spanish naval officer Antonio Valdés y Fernández Bazán.
Valdez is a fishing port, both for commercial and sport fishing. Freight moves through Valdez bound for the interior of Alaska. Sightseeing of the marine life and glaciers, together with both deep-sea fishing, and heli skiing support a tourist industry in Valdez. The oil from the Trans-Alaska pipeline is loaded onto ships at the Valdez oil terminal. It is sometimes called the Switzerland of Alaska.
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company is one of the biggest employers in town but it started to move several positions to its headquarters in Anchorage since the town council passed a resolution charging a tax to all the tankers coming into the port to be loaded with oil. This has had an impact in the population size and the economy.
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Wasilla High School
Wasilla High School (WHS) is a public secondary school in Wasilla, Alaska, United States, serving students in grades 9–12. The school is part of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District, with admission based primarily on the locations of students' homes.
The school became nationally known following former pupil, Governor Sarah Palin's nomination as the Republican vice-presidential running mate to John McCain in the 2008 United States presidential election.
Classes are run on a semester schedule. Students take seven classes at at time. Classes are offered in: fine arts, language arts, mathematics, physical education, social studies, world language, technology, and science. As of the 2010-2011 school year, there are ten AP classes offered. WHS also participates in the University of Alaska Anchorage's Tech Prep program, allowing students to receive college credit for automotive technology classes.
In 2004, teacher Anthony R. Jensen became a James Madison fellow for being a distinguished history teacher.
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Wasilla, Alaska
Wasilla is a city in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, United States and the sixth-largest city in Alaska. It is located on the northern point of Cook Inlet in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley of the southcentral part of the state. The city's population was 7,831 at the 2010 census. Wasilla is the largest city in the borough and a part of the Anchorage metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 364,701 in 2008.
Established at the intersection of the Alaska Railroad and Old Carle Wagon Road, the city prospered at the expense of the nearby mining town of Knik. Historically entrepreneurial, the economic base shifted in the 1970s from small-scale agriculture and recreation to support for workers employed in Anchorage or on Alaska's North Slope oilfields and related infrastructure. The George Parks Highway turned the town into a commuter suburb of Anchorage. Several state and federal agencies have offices in Wasilla, including the Alaska Departments of Environmental Conservation, Labor and Divisions of Public Assistance, Social Services.
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Willow, Alaska
Willow is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2000 census the population was 1,658.
The community got its start in 1897 when miners discovered gold on Willow Creek. Ships and boats brought supplies and equipment up Cook Inlet, landing at Knik or Tyonek. From Knik, a 26-mile summer trail went northwesterly. The trail along Willow Creek heading east became Hatcher Pass Road, currently an adventurous scenic road used during the summer tour season.
In 1920, the Alaska Railroad built its Willow station house at mile 185.7 along the tracks leading from Seward to Fairbanks.
During World War II, a radar warning station and airfield were built near the railroad tracks; a post office was established in 1948.
By 1954, Willow Creek was Alaska's largest gold mining district, with a total production approaching 18 million dollars.
Around 1970, before construction of the Parks Highway, Willow had a population of 78 until land disposals, homestead subdivisions, and completion of the George Parks Highway in 1972 fueled growth in the area.
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Alaska native
Alaska Natives are indigenous peoples of Alaska: Inupiaq, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.
Ancestors of the Alaska Natives are known to have migrated into the area thousands of years ago, and established varying indigenous, complex cultures that have succeeded each other over time. That developed sophisticated ways to deal with the challenging climate and environment. Europeans and Americans began to trade with Alaska Natives in the nineteenth century. New settlements around trading posts were started by Russians, British and Americans.
In the 1800s and In 1971 Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, which settled land and financial claims for lands and resources which they had lost to European Americans. It provided for the establishment of 13 Alaska Native Regional Corporations to administer those claims. Similar to the separately defined status of the Canadian Inuit and First Nations, which are recognized as distinct peoples, Alaska Natives are in some respects treated separately from Native Americans in the United States. An example of this separate treatment is that Alaska Natives are allowed the harvesting of whales and other marine mammals under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.
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Bristol Palin
Bristol Sheeran Marie Palin (born October 18, 1990) is the second child and oldest daughter of former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd.
After Bristol Palin became a single mother at age 18, she began to publicly advocate teenage pregnancy prevention, and is now a paid speaker on the subject of teen pregnancy.
She competed in the fall 2010 season of Dancing with the Stars, where she received lower scores from the judges than some other contestants but was voted through week after week by fans. She reached the finals, finishing in third place.
Palin was born and raised in Wasilla, Alaska. She was named "Bristol" after the Bristol Inn where her mother Sarah was employed; Bristol, Connecticut, the headquarters city of ESPN, where her mother Sarah hoped to work as a sportscaster; and the Bristol Bay area of Alaska, where her father Todd grew up.
Beginning in 2005, Bristol attended Juneau-Douglas High School and began dating Levi Johnston. In 2008, she briefly lived in Anchorage with her aunt and uncle and attended West Anchorage High School. She returned to Wasilla, where she graduated from Wasilla High School in May 2009.
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Chad Carpenter
Chad Carpenter is an American cartoonist, well known for his comic panel Tundra. Carpenter launched the strip in the Anchorage Daily News in 1991, and since then he has self-syndicated it to over 330 newspapers, an unusually high amount for strips in self-syndication.
Carpenter was born at an early age and raised in Wasilla, Alaska, immersed in nature as he grew up. In 1988, in his early 20s, he left the state and moved to Sarasota, Florida, where he met Dik Browne, best known for creating the popular comic strip Hagar the Horrible, and Mike Peters, creator of the strip Mother Goose and Grimm. Both cartoonists advised him; Peters told him to draw what he knew. This inspired Carpenter to create a comic about the nature and wildlife he had come to know so well back in Alaska.
He lives with his wife Karen and three children.
Created in 1991, Tundra is published on a daily basis, always in one of two formats: Either a single-panel gag comic or a three-panel strip with regular characters and more complex humor. This alternation is similar to that used in Mother Goose and Grimm and Non Sequitur. Unlike those strips, Tundra tends to deal with wildlife and the outdoors; its humor appeals to all demographics, young & old. Tundra also occasionally uses reader-submitted ideas.
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Charles Wohlforth
Charles P. Wohlforth (born 24 May 1963) is an Alaskan author and writer.
Wohlforth's books include The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change, which won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, in the Science and Technology category, in 2004. Wohlforth has also authored a number of travel guides, including several editions of the annual Frommer's Alaska. He graduated from Princeton University.
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Dena'ina
The Dena'ina (also Tanaina) are an Alaska Native people, an extended tribe of American Indian lineage. They are the original inhabitants of the southcentral Alaska region ranging from Seldovia in the south to Chickaloon in the northeast, Talkeetna in the north, Lime Village in the Northwest and Pedro Bay in the Southwest.
The name means "The people," and is related to the preferred name for the Navajo people "Dene". The Dena'ina name for Cook Inlet is Tikahtnu meaning "Big Water River" or Nuti meaning "Saltwater." The Dena'ina are the only Northern Athabascan group to live on saltwater and this allowed them to have the most sedentary lifestyle of all Northern Athabascans. Their traditional language, Dena'ina, currently has about 70-75 fluent speakers out of a total population of about 1,400. Dena'ina is one of eleven Alaska Athabascan languages. There are four primary dialects of Dena'ina: Inland, Iliamna, Upper Inlet, and Outer Inlet.
The city of Anchorage chose to honor the Dena’ina by naming the city's new convention center the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center.
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Dena'ina (tribe)
The Dena'ina (also Tanaina) are an Alaska Native people, an extended tribe of American Indian lineage. They are the original inhabitants of the southcentral Alaska region ranging from Seldovia in the south to Chickaloon in the northeast, Talkeetna in the north, Lime Village in the Northwest and Pedro Bay in the Southwest.
The name means "The people," and is related to the preferred name for the Navajo people "Dene". The Dena'ina name for Cook Inlet is Tikahtnu meaning "Big Water River" or Nuti meaning "Saltwater." The Dena'ina are the only Northern Athabascan group to live on saltwater and this allowed them to have the most sedentary lifestyle of all Northern Athabascans. Their traditional language, Dena'ina, currently has about 70-75 fluent speakers out of a total population of about 1,400. Dena'ina is one of eleven Alaska Athabascan languages. There are four primary dialects of Dena'ina: Inland, Iliamna, Upper Inlet, and Outer Inlet.
The city of Anchorage chose to honor the Dena’ina by naming the city's new convention center the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center.
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Dianne M. Keller
Dianne Michelle Keller is an American politician and a former Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
Keller was born in Anchorage. She was elected as the Mayor of Wasilla in 2002 and re-elected in 2005. She survived a no-confidence vote in July 2008. She is a member of the Alaska Republican Party, and publicly endorsed Sarah Palin's candidacy for Vice-President in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. Her term expired in October 2008.
She was featured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on October 20, 2008.
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John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican presidential nominee in the 2008 United States election.
McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. In October 1967, while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. McCain experienced episodes of torture, and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer. His war wounds left him with lifelong physical limitations.
He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona, where he entered politics. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, he served two terms, and was then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, winning re-election easily four times, most recently in 2010. While generally adhering to conservative principles, McCain at times has had a media reputation as a "maverick" for his willingness to disagree with his party on certain issues. After being investigated and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the Keating Five, he made campaign finance reform one of his signature concerns, which eventually led to the passage of the McCain-Feingold Act in 2002. He is also known for his work towards restoring diplomatic relations with Vietnam in the 1990s, and for his belief that the war in Iraq should be fought to a successful conclusion. McCain has chaired the Senate Commerce Committee, opposed spending that he considered to be pork barrel, and played a key role in alleviating a crisis over judicial nominations.
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Portugal. The Man
Portugal. The Man is an American rock band based in Portland, Oregon, but originally from Wasilla, Alaska. The group released their first two albums with Fearless Records. They also released material on their own imprint Approaching AIRballoons through indie label Equal Vision Records. They signed to Atlantic Records on April 2, 2010.
The members of Portugal. The Man were all born and raised in Alaska, with the exception of Jason Sechrist, who was born in Portland, Oregon, and Ryan Neighbors, who grew up in Salem, Oregon. Around August 2002, the band Anatomy of a Ghost was formed after Gourley moved to Portland, having had no previous singing experience. Anatomy of A Ghost quickly gained popularity, but before long, the group broke up. Portugal. The Man was originally started as John Gourley's side project, with Carothers playing bass. Before they had a drummer, they used drum machines and synth-loops as the backing beat. Gourley and Carothers teamed up with Wesley Hubbard, Nick Klein (former guitar tech for Anatomy of a Ghost) and Harvey Tumbleson, and formed Portugal. The Man. The band left Alaska and went to Portland with the intent of recording and touring. The band recorded demos in the summer of 2004 and followed this with a tour with Chiodos that fall. In spring 2005, Klein and Tumbleson left and soon after Sechrist joined the band. Portugal. The Man's debut record Waiter: "You Vultures!" was released by Fearless Records on January 24, 2006. The album was produced by Casey Bates.
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Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palini/ˈpeɪlɨn/ (née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice presidency. Her book Going Rogue has sold more than two million copies. Since January 2010, she has provided political commentary for Fox News, and hosted a television show, Sarah Palin's Alaska. Five million viewers tuned in for the first episode, a record for The Learning Channel.
She was elected to Wasilla City Council in 1992 and became mayor of Wasilla in 1996. In 2003, after an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor, she was appointed Chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, responsible for overseeing the state's oil and gas fields for safety and efficiency. The youngest person and first woman to be elected Governor of Alaska, Palin held the office from December 2006 until her resignation in July 2009. She has since endorsed and campaigned for the Tea Party movement, as well as several candidates in the 2010 midterm elections. From the time of her Vice Presidential nomination in 2008, Palin was considered a potential candidate for the 2012 presidential election until she announced in October 2011 that she would not run.
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Todd Palin
Todd Mitchell Palin (born September 6, 1964) is the husband of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the 2008 vice-presidential nominee of the Republican Party. He is an American oil field production operator, commercial fisherman and champion snowmobile racer, winning the Tesoro Iron Dog race four times.
Palin was born and raised in Dillingham, Alaska to James F. "Jim" and Blanche Palin (née Roberts).
His father, a native of Seattle, Washington, is a former general manager of Matanuska Electrical Association. His mother, a former secretary of the Alaska Federation of Natives, is one-quarter Yup'ik Eskimo, and his maternal grandmother, Helena (Bartman) Andree, is a member of the Curyung tribe. His paternal grandfather, Frederick William Palin, was born in Hartney, Manitoba, Canada in February 1905.
In 1982, Palin graduated from Wasilla High School, which is the same alma mater of his wife and their eldest two children, son Track and daughter Bristol. He has taken some college courses but does not have a degree.
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Vic Kohring
Vic Kohring (born August 2, 1958, in Waukegan, Illinois) is a former Alaska State legislator. He was elected to seven consecutive two-year terms in the Alaska House of Representatives, beginning in 1994. Kohring represented District 14, Wasilla.
Kohring was indicted on federal bribery and extortion charges on May 4, 2007. He, along with former state legislators Pete Kott and Bruce Weyhrauch, were accused of soliciting and accepting bribes from VECO, an oilfield services company. Their offices were among 20 searched by FBI agents on August 31, 2006. Kohring resigned his seat on June 20, 2007.[citation needed]
On November 1, 2007, a federal jury found Kohring guilty in three out of four criminal charges and acquitted on the fourth, a charge of extortion. In May 2008, he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Kohring asked outgoing President George W. Bush for a pardon that was not granted.
Kohring was released on June 11, 2009. The conviction was vacated, and in 2011, Kohring agreed to plead guilty in exchange for being sentenced to time served and conditions on his release.
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William Bright
William Bright (August 13, 1928 Oxnard, California – October 15, 2006 Louisville, Colorado) was an American linguist who specialized in Native American and South Asian languages and descriptive linguistics.
Bright earned a bachelor's degree in linguistics in 1949 and a doctorate in the same field in 1955, both from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a professor of linguistics and anthropology at UCLA from 1959 to 1988. He then moved to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he remained on the faculty until his death.
Bright was an authority on the native languages and cultures of California, and was especially known for his work on Karuk, a Native American language from northwestern California. His study of the language was the first carried out under the auspices of the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. He was made an honorary member of the Karuk tribe—the first outsider to be so honored—in recognition of his efforts to document and preserve their language which led to its revival. Bright was also known for his research on the native American languages Nahuatl, Kaqchikel, Luiseño, Ute, Wishram, and Yurok, and the South Asian languages Lushai, Kannada, Tamil, and Tulu.
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Floatplane Tour of Wasilla, AK
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- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Take a ride in an Alaska Bush plane and see Sarah Palin's house, Wasilla and the surrounding area. Includes a flight over a glacier about 15 minutes by air from Wasilla.
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Take a ride in an Alaska Bush plane and see Sarah Palin's house, Wasilla and the surrounding area. Includes a flight over a glacier about 15 minutes by air from Wasilla.
Our small town of Wasilla, AK
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- Updated: 03 Aug 2012
Just running some errands around Wasilla.
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Just running some errands around Wasilla.
- published: 22 Jul 2012
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Wasilla, Alaska
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- Duration: 10:35
- Updated: 18 Oct 2012
Just 39 miles from the Anchorage International Airport, Wasilla boasts the perfect combination of Alaskan adventure and small town charm. Gateway to the Mat-Su Valley and the Best of Alaska. You'll experience a cinematic preview of Wasilla, Alaska's local activities, attractions, and more, including a greeting from Sarah Palin! Commissioned by: Wasilla Convention & Visitors Bureau Copyright 2008: Stage 2 Studios.
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Just 39 miles from the Anchorage International Airport, Wasilla boasts the perfect combination of Alaskan adventure and small town charm. Gateway to the Mat-Su Valley and the Best of Alaska. You'll experience a cinematic preview of Wasilla, Alaska's local activities, attractions, and more, including a greeting from Sarah Palin! Commissioned by: Wasilla Convention & Visitors Bureau Copyright 2008: Stage 2 Studios.
- published: 31 Jul 2010
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- author: PlanItAlaska
Aurora Borealis; Wasilla, Alaska; March 8, 2012
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Time-lapse video of the amazing aurora on the evening of March 8, 2012, from Wasilla, Alaska. Details: Canon 40D, 10-22mm, f/3.5, ISO 800, 10s exp every 15s. Processed in Adobe Lightroom and Premiere Elements. Music: "Twin Nebulas" by Fortadelis from "Solid Void". www.jamendo.com
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Time-lapse video of the amazing aurora on the evening of March 8, 2012, from Wasilla, Alaska. Details: Canon 40D, 10-22mm, f/3.5, ISO 800, 10s exp every 15s. Processed in Adobe Lightroom and Premiere Elements. Music: "Twin Nebulas" by Fortadelis from "Solid Void". www.jamendo.com
- published: 11 Mar 2012
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- author: James Stewart
Miss Wasilla = Sarah Palin (Aug30'12)
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- Duration: 2:21
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
Thumbs up this video if you laughed hardcore at some of those photos. :P Personal Channel: youtube.com Facebook - facebook.com Twitter - twitter.com Tumblr - mikerizzi.tumblr.com Formspring - http Instagram - @mikerizzi Follow That Gay Crew www.twitter.com
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- published: 30 Aug 2012
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- author: ThatGayCrew
Welcome to my New Home WASILLA ALASKA USA.
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- Duration: 3:51
- Updated: 17 May 2012
Kararating ko lang..hahahhaa
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Kararating ko lang..hahahhaa
- published: 17 May 2012
- views: 125
- author: leliferl
Aurora, Oct 12, 2012 Wasilla, AK
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- Duration: 1:44
- Updated: 06 Dec 2012
Shot this on an XH-A1 with some color correction. Cant fix the grainy part though.
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Shot this on an XH-A1 with some color correction. Cant fix the grainy part though.
- published: 14 Oct 2012
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- author: statebowler2003
Promos: NTSF:SD:SUV::: Wasilla Hills Cop
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NTSF's sister strike force is in need of a few specialists. Help NTSF:AK:Canoe:: on the Season Finale this Thursday at 12:15am.
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NTSF's sister strike force is in need of a few specialists. Help NTSF:AK:Canoe:: on the Season Finale this Thursday at 12:15am.
- published: 01 Nov 2012
- views: 4426
- author: adultswim
Ranch Home FOR SALE Wasilla Alaska
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- Duration: 2:57
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
Large Ranch with Lots to Love! Established neighborhood within minutes of Wasilla. Well treed 1.37 acre lot offers privacy, over sized back deck, & double driveways. 330 Sqft enclosed porch, 1356 Sqft home, over sized 1 car garage, open kitchen/living/dining. Nice master, wood stove, pantry and more! NEW: furnace, well pump, full metal roof, interior paint, and kitchen features. Paved streets, natural gas heat, recreational opportunities. Minutes from town, gas station, Iditarod Trail, and more!
http://wn.com/Ranch_Home_FOR_SALE_Wasilla_Alaska
Large Ranch with Lots to Love! Established neighborhood within minutes of Wasilla. Well treed 1.37 acre lot offers privacy, over sized back deck, & double driveways. 330 Sqft enclosed porch, 1356 Sqft home, over sized 1 car garage, open kitchen/living/dining. Nice master, wood stove, pantry and more! NEW: furnace, well pump, full metal roof, interior paint, and kitchen features. Paved streets, natural gas heat, recreational opportunities. Minutes from town, gas station, Iditarod Trail, and more!
- published: 14 Sep 2012
- views: 117
- author: TheMair123
Wasilla Babe, Sarah 'Death' Palin To Obama: Grow a 'Big Stick'!
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- Duration: 6:23
- Updated: 21 Sep 2012
Wasilla Babe, Sarah Palin — Urges Obama To Grow a 'Big Stick': www.politicalarticles.net
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Wasilla Babe, Sarah Palin — Urges Obama To Grow a 'Big Stick': www.politicalarticles.net
- published: 13 Sep 2012
- views: 507
- author: politicalarticles
JasonUpton.com Release - Wasilla (2006)
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- Duration: 64:02
- Updated: 19 Nov 2012
Pending Timeline.
http://wn.com/JasonUptoncom_Release_Wasilla_2006
Pending Timeline.
- published: 07 Aug 2012
- views: 2232
- author: Jason Upton
Wasilla Warriors vs Bartlett Golden Bears, Alaska High School Basketball
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- Duration: 12:16
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
2012 Alaska high school basketball highlights. Two of Alaska's State Championship hopefuls met in a foundation game on January 26th. Steve Maduro, Treshawn King-Dunbar, Trenton Anthony, Jai Rial and the Bartlett Golden Bears visit Connor Devine, Braydon Kuiper, Dane Kuiper, Eric Roberts and the Wasilla Warriors. No WPI points were in the balance, but the WPI ranked Wasilla #1 coming in and Bartlett #3.
http://wn.com/Wasilla_Warriors_vs_Bartlett_Golden_Bears,_Alaska_High_School_Basketball
2012 Alaska high school basketball highlights. Two of Alaska's State Championship hopefuls met in a foundation game on January 26th. Steve Maduro, Treshawn King-Dunbar, Trenton Anthony, Jai Rial and the Bartlett Golden Bears visit Connor Devine, Braydon Kuiper, Dane Kuiper, Eric Roberts and the Wasilla Warriors. No WPI points were in the balance, but the WPI ranked Wasilla #1 coming in and Bartlett #3.
- published: 13 Feb 2012
- views: 1276
- author: AlaskanAthlete
West Valley Wolfpack vs Wasilla Lady Warriors, Alaska high school basketball
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- Duration: 7:51
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
2011-2012 Gatorade Alaska Basketball Player of the Year (Girls) Hannah Mattson and the West Valley Lady Wolfpack meet Alaska Basketball Player of the Year nominee Alyssa Hutchins and the Wasilla Lady Warriors in the semi-finals of the 2012 Dimond Lady Lynx Alaska Prep Shootout.
http://wn.com/West_Valley_Wolfpack_vs_Wasilla_Lady_Warriors,_Alaska_high_school_basketball
2011-2012 Gatorade Alaska Basketball Player of the Year (Girls) Hannah Mattson and the West Valley Lady Wolfpack meet Alaska Basketball Player of the Year nominee Alyssa Hutchins and the Wasilla Lady Warriors in the semi-finals of the 2012 Dimond Lady Lynx Alaska Prep Shootout.
- published: 10 Mar 2012
- views: 523
- author: AlaskanAthlete
Service vs. Wasilla, 2012 Alaska 4A State Basketball Tournament
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- Duration: 11:16
- Updated: 29 Nov 2012
The top seeded Wasilla Warriors (19-1), champions of the Northern Lights Conference, meet the 5th seeded at-large Service Cougars in the semi finals of the 2012 Alaska 4A State basketball tournament. Seniors Connor Devine, Braydon Kuiper and Dillon Ferro lead the Warriors, as juniors Adam Klie, Amu Aukusitino, and Marques Robinson lead the Cougars.
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The top seeded Wasilla Warriors (19-1), champions of the Northern Lights Conference, meet the 5th seeded at-large Service Cougars in the semi finals of the 2012 Alaska 4A State basketball tournament. Seniors Connor Devine, Braydon Kuiper and Dillon Ferro lead the Warriors, as juniors Adam Klie, Amu Aukusitino, and Marques Robinson lead the Cougars.
- published: 19 Mar 2012
- views: 930
- author: AlaskanAthlete
Sarah Palin Wasilla Church Has Kooky Prophecy Sessions
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- Duration: 2:41
- Updated: 28 Oct 2012
Sarah Palin's odd religious sect should NOT be a test of public office as she runs for Vice President, but given that John McCain and Sarah Palin have already made Palin's religion a campaign issue, it's a valid topic for public consideration (not as an electoral factor). The Wasilla Assemblies of God is holding, in one week, what it calls a Masters Commission in which prophecies for God and Alaska and the United States will be discussed. It seems that the church's leaders claim that God is "invading" Alaska and say that Wasilla is the key to God's plans for the entire world. It's hard to conclude that they are not talking about Sarah Palin's vice presidential campaign.
http://wn.com/Sarah_Palin_Wasilla_Church_Has_Kooky_Prophecy_Sessions
Sarah Palin's odd religious sect should NOT be a test of public office as she runs for Vice President, but given that John McCain and Sarah Palin have already made Palin's religion a campaign issue, it's a valid topic for public consideration (not as an electoral factor). The Wasilla Assemblies of God is holding, in one week, what it calls a Masters Commission in which prophecies for God and Alaska and the United States will be discussed. It seems that the church's leaders claim that God is "invading" Alaska and say that Wasilla is the key to God's plans for the entire world. It's hard to conclude that they are not talking about Sarah Palin's vice presidential campaign.
- published: 01 Sep 2008
- views: 208233
- author: nyprogressive
Carver Wolverines (Alabama) vs Wasilla Warriors, Alaska High School Basketball
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- Duration: 9:59
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
Alaska High School basketball highlights from Doc Larson's 2011 Roundball Classic. Jeremy Johnson, Craig Sword, Tony Armstrong, and the Carver Wolverines of Montgomery, Alabama vs Connor Devine, Dane Kuiper, Braydon Kuiper, and the Wasilla Warriors. Filmed on December 21st at Wasilla High School in Alaska.
http://wn.com/Carver_Wolverines_Alabama_vs_Wasilla_Warriors,_Alaska_High_School_Basketball
Alaska High School basketball highlights from Doc Larson's 2011 Roundball Classic. Jeremy Johnson, Craig Sword, Tony Armstrong, and the Carver Wolverines of Montgomery, Alabama vs Connor Devine, Dane Kuiper, Braydon Kuiper, and the Wasilla Warriors. Filmed on December 21st at Wasilla High School in Alaska.
- published: 24 Dec 2011
- views: 6154
- author: AlaskanAthlete
Guest Speaker Paul Keith Davis at Wasilla Assembly of God - Mother's Day
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- Duration: 75:45
- Updated: 17 Nov 2012
Recorded Live 05/03/2012
http://wn.com/Guest_Speaker_Paul_Keith_Davis_at_Wasilla_Assembly_of_God_Mother's_Day
Recorded Live 05/03/2012
- published: 20 May 2012
- views: 805
- author: wasillaag
Wasilla Warrior Basketball Highlights week 2-24-12
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- Duration: 1:18
- Updated: 06 Mar 2012
Wasilla high school basketball highlights, Devine, Ferro, Kuiper, McGregor
http://wn.com/Wasilla_Warrior_Basketball_Highlights_week_2-24-12
Wasilla high school basketball highlights, Devine, Ferro, Kuiper, McGregor
- published: 26 Feb 2012
- views: 2598
- author: FerroAlaskaGuides
Town Meeting, Wasilla, Alaska
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- Duration: 5:20
- Updated: 06 Dec 2012
A transcript of a town meeting from Wasilla, AK, dramatically read by the actor, Chris Schneider
http://wn.com/Town_Meeting,_Wasilla,_Alaska
A transcript of a town meeting from Wasilla, AK, dramatically read by the actor, Chris Schneider
- published: 10 Sep 2008
- views: 61342
- author: Chris Schneider
Wasilla Car Race
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- Duration: 15:00
- Updated: 23 Feb 2012
The Celebrity Race in North Star Speedway Wasilla Alaska
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The Celebrity Race in North Star Speedway Wasilla Alaska
- published: 06 Jun 2011
- views: 3739
- author: TheDavinciproduction
Tuesday Night Fights Chuck vs Bryson Wasilla, AK
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- Duration: 8:50
- Updated: 20 Mar 2012
Two amateurs fight in the ring. In the Local Fights at the Menard Sports Center.
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Two amateurs fight in the ring. In the Local Fights at the Menard Sports Center.
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 478
- author: th3b1rd1sth3w0rd
Wasilla ADDXPRO BMX, Skate & Scooter Promo
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- Duration: 4:35
- Updated: 23 Aug 2012
I DO NOT CLAIM ANY RIGHTS OR OWNERSHIP OF THIS SONG. LINK to my other snowboard channel: www.youtube.com LINK to my Facebook like page: www.facebook.com This is an edit of an event that ADDXPRO organized in Wasilla, Alaska at the Menard Sports Center. It was a fun jam that happened to show support for our troops. It was about a month ago but I haven't finished it until now because windows movie maker wasn't working, and now i made it on an Apple Macbook. Enjoy this video because it took forever to make!! Rate, Comment, & Subscribe. Song: Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn, and John SKATERS: Rhoads Warner Erin Hogan John Bales Henry Young Dylan Berry Justin Keith BIKERS: Jake Graham Mike McNab Wyatt Goerth Travis Bittick Tristan Phinex Warner Kaleb Paulus James Cogan SCOOTERERS: Ryley McAtee Ben Boss Taylor Aastrom TAGS: skate board sponsor me skate video 2011 season alaska wasilla soldotna board slide 50-50 kick flip heel flip tre flip 360 flip hard flip 180 ramps crash bail fall vid video edit burton dc shoes lakai nike sb america promo teaser event to support our troops apple macbook windows movie maker menard sports center fun jam edit video ADDXPRO young folks
http://wn.com/Wasilla_ADDXPRO_BMX,_Skate_Scooter_Promo
I DO NOT CLAIM ANY RIGHTS OR OWNERSHIP OF THIS SONG. LINK to my other snowboard channel: www.youtube.com LINK to my Facebook like page: www.facebook.com This is an edit of an event that ADDXPRO organized in Wasilla, Alaska at the Menard Sports Center. It was a fun jam that happened to show support for our troops. It was about a month ago but I haven't finished it until now because windows movie maker wasn't working, and now i made it on an Apple Macbook. Enjoy this video because it took forever to make!! Rate, Comment, & Subscribe. Song: Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn, and John SKATERS: Rhoads Warner Erin Hogan John Bales Henry Young Dylan Berry Justin Keith BIKERS: Jake Graham Mike McNab Wyatt Goerth Travis Bittick Tristan Phinex Warner Kaleb Paulus James Cogan SCOOTERERS: Ryley McAtee Ben Boss Taylor Aastrom TAGS: skate board sponsor me skate video 2011 season alaska wasilla soldotna board slide 50-50 kick flip heel flip tre flip 360 flip hard flip 180 ramps crash bail fall vid video edit burton dc shoes lakai nike sb america promo teaser event to support our troops apple macbook windows movie maker menard sports center fun jam edit video ADDXPRO young folks
- published: 20 Nov 2011
- views: 1088
- author: snowboardergirl14
Paul Keith Davis at Wasilla Assembly of God Church Alaska
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- Duration: 57:06
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
Watch more videos at www.wasillaag.net Recorded Live 09 Paul Keith Davis spent twenty years in the business arena before entering full-time ministry. He and his wife Wanda founded WhiteDove Ministries after the Lord sovereignty sent a beautiful white dove to them as a prophetic sign of their calling. They have traveled extensively speaking at conferences and churches imparting the end-time mandate of preparation for the Glory and Manifest Presence of Christ.
http://wn.com/Paul_Keith_Davis_at_Wasilla_Assembly_of_God_Church_Alaska
Watch more videos at www.wasillaag.net Recorded Live 09 Paul Keith Davis spent twenty years in the business arena before entering full-time ministry. He and his wife Wanda founded WhiteDove Ministries after the Lord sovereignty sent a beautiful white dove to them as a prophetic sign of their calling. They have traveled extensively speaking at conferences and churches imparting the end-time mandate of preparation for the Glory and Manifest Presence of Christ.
- published: 21 Sep 2011
- views: 3055
- author: wasillaag
photo: USAF / Staff Sgt. Jonathan Lovelady
10 Dec 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. In the desert of central Australia still resides a primitive tribe known as the Arunta. This non-technological and stateless group, which mainly depends on hunting and gathering, had suffered several inexplicable deaths ... Therefore, they organized an atinga, or revenge group ... When the guiltless tribe learned of their approach, they sent out a delegation of young women as a token of peace....(size: 5.8Kb)
photo: AP / Todd Williamson
10 Dec 2012
MÉXICO, D.F., diciembre 9 (EL UNIVERSAL).- La Voz México, programa de talentos de Televisa, confirmó la muerte de la cantante Jenni Rivera, a través de su Twitter. "Que toquen fuerte las bandas, suelten por mí mariposas, apláudanme con sus palmas... http.//twitpic.com/bkmhl0 .Descanse en paz Jenni Rivera" ... Además, anunció un homenaje luctuoso dedicado a la cantante ... Descanse en Paz" ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)
photo: AP / Narciso Contreras
10 Dec 2012
December 10, 2012 -- Updated 1327 GMT (2127 HKT). (CNN) -- Syria is raising concern in two letters to the United Nations that the United States may be attempting to frame it for the use of chemical weapons, Syrian state-run media reported Monday. The letters, addressed to U.N ... The move by President Bashar al-Assad's government follows recent reports that Syrian forces appear to have begun preparing chemical weapons for use ... "The U.S ... 1. 2....(size: 11.5Kb)
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra
09 Dec 2012
Syria's rebel leaders have agreed to come under a united command in a bid to integrate diverse fighting groups and streamline the route for arms essential to their struggle against President Bashar al-Assad. The new body, expected to be announced officially on Sunday, hopes to form the basis of a united rebel front ... "It also aims to get the situation under control once the regime falls." ... 378 Source.. Agencies. Share ... News ... Egypt....(size: 18.6Kb)
Huffington Post
11 Dec 2012
But don't tell that to small business owners facing a tax hike ... They recite it as gospel ... Bush and extended by Obama in 2010 ... ___ ... (Interview at 2.50) In November 2008 Sarah Palin visited Triple D farm near her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska to <a href=""http.//voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/11/sarah-palin-pardons-a-turkey.html"" target="_hplink">grant the traditional Thanksgiving pardon to one turkey</a>....(size: 13.3Kb)
noodls
10 Dec 2012
(Source. USA Wrestling) Top college & high school wrestlers look to capture individual & team titles at Reno Tournament of Champions. By Ryan Teubner RTOC. 12/10/2012. Reno, Nev. - The 18th Annual Reno Tournament of Champions will be held at the Reno Events Center from Dec. 14-16. The tournament will feature a two-day high school tournament followed by a one-day college tournament ... 6 and 20, respectively ... High School ... Wasilla HS (Wasilla, AK)....(size: 8.5Kb)
The Examiner
07 Dec 2012
In the week and weekend ahead ... on Dec ... on Dec ... • Wasilla High School Thespian Society presents its production of Joseph Kesselring’s dark comedy “Arsenic and Old Lace” Dec ... Bogard Rd., Wasilla for roles in its Valentine’s dinner theater murder mystery, “Wedding From Hell.” This will be a fundraiser for MY House ... • A fundraiser to benefit 2-year-old Wasilla boy, Seth Bellamy, will be at the American Legion, December 8th ... Kim Dr., Wasilla ... 1....(size: 4.7Kb)
MSNBC
07 Dec 2012
Downtown Wasilla was hit with a power outage Thursday night affecting about 3,600 people Thursday night but power has been restored, according to the Matanuska Electric Association ......(size: 1.0Kb)
MSNBC
07 Dec 2012
Alaska State Troopers responded to a REDDI (Report Every Drunk Driver Immediately) report on a black BMW sedan around the Church Road area of the Parks Highway Thursday morning, according to AST dispatch reports ... Troopers identified the driver as 27-year-old Megan Soczka of Wasilla ... Advertise ... ....(size: 1.9Kb)
MSNBC
05 Dec 2012
Three Anchorage KFC restaurants including two in Midtown and one in Muldoon closed late last month, according to a local franchisee of the national fried-chicken chain ... Both Wagstaff Atte Alaska and Robert Carle, a Wasilla KFC franchisee with Wit-Rey Inc ... Advertise . AdChoices ... ....(size: 1.8Kb)
MSNBC
05 Dec 2012
Editor's note. This story contains graphic details of a sexual assault and murder; reader discretion is advised ... According to a statement from U.S ... "Samantha made the coffee and handed it to Keyes; he then pulled out a gun and demanded money ... Even as Keyes pretended that Koenig was alive, however, he executed a plan to dispose of her body, where it wouldn't be found until April when Keyes told investigators where to look near Wasilla ... ....(size: 6.8Kb)
noodls
05 Dec 2012
BASS PRO SHOPS ANNOUNCES. NEW ANCHORAGE, ALASKA OUTPOST® STORE. Store Will Feature Wetlands Nature Center. And Adjacent Product Testing Area. Anchorage, Alaska - Bass Pro Shops, America's most popular outdoor store, will open a 100,000 square foot Bass Pro Shops Outpost® store in Anchorage, Alaska ... All northbound vehicular traffic to all northern Alaska including Wasilla, Denali, Fairbanks and Mt ... Bass Pro Shops is also the No ... (noodl....(size: 8.0Kb)
Seattle Post
04 Dec 2012
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) â A strong earthquake Monday was felt over a 175-mile swath of Alaska, including the state's largest city, but there were no immediate reports of damage beyond items knocked off shelves ... Dave Parker, who felt the quake at his home in Wasilla, about 45 miles north of Anchorage ... Karen Whitworth, an artist with an online gallery, was in her Wasilla studio when the rumbling began ... ___ ... ....(size: 2.5Kb)
Huffington Post
04 Dec 2012
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A strong earthquake Monday was felt over a 175-mile swath of Alaska, including the state's largest city, but there were no immediate reports of damage beyond items knocked off shelves ... Dave Parker, who felt the quake at his home in Wasilla, about 45 miles north of Anchorage ... Karen Whitworth, an artist with an online gallery, was in her Wasilla studio when the rumbling began ... ___ ... Also on HuffPost ... 23 ... Boston, MA ... ....(size: 7.5Kb)
MSNBC
04 Dec 2012
noodls
02 Dec 2012
(Colorado Springs, Colo.) December 01, 2012. In the Men's Air Rifle Final, it was Connor Davis (Shelbyville, Ky.) coming up with his second straight big win at the 2012 Winter Airgun Championships ... Entering the final in third, two points behind leader and fellow Jr National Team member Ryan Anderson (Wasilla, Alaska), Davis would shoot a 103.2 final and out-shoot Anderson for the top podium position ... Team, was third with 460.2....(size: 4.8Kb)
noodls
01 Dec 2012
November 29, 2012 ICE deports Briton living in Wasilla to face child sex assault charges ... Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) ... Farrington was apprehended by ERO officers earlier this month near his residence in Wasilla, Alaska, based upon an outstanding deportation order ... "The Wasilla community is safer now that this convicted felon and accused child predator is where he belongs....(size: 3.3Kb)
"Wasilla" redirects here. For the Ossetian god of the same name, see Ossetian mythology.
| Wasilla | |
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| Coordinates: 61°34′54″N 149°27′9″W / 61.58167°N 149.4525°W / 61.58167; -149.4525Coordinates: 61°34′54″N 149°27′9″W / 61.58167°N 149.4525°W / 61.58167; -149.4525 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alaska |
| Borough | Matanuska-Susitna |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Verne E. Rupright |
| Area | |
| • Total | 12.4 sq mi (32.2 km2) |
| • Land | 11.7 sq mi (30.3 km2) |
| • Water | 0.7 sq mi (1.8 km2) |
| Elevation | 341 ft (104 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 7,831 |
| • Density | 669.3/sq mi (258.4/km2) |
| Time zone | Alaska (AKST) (UTC-9) |
| • Summer (DST) | AKDT (UTC-8) |
| ZIP codes | 99600-99699 |
| Area code | 907 |
| FIPS code | 02-83080 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1411788 |
| Website | www.cityofwasilla.com |
Wasilla is a city in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, United States and the sixth-largest city in Alaska. It is located on the northern point of Cook Inlet in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley of the southcentral part of the state. The city's population was 7,831 at the 2010 census. Wasilla is the largest city in the borough and a part of the Anchorage metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 364,701 in 2008.
Established at the intersection of the Alaska Railroad and Old Carle Wagon Road, the city prospered at the expense of the nearby mining town of Knik. Historically entrepreneurial, the economic base shifted in the 1970s from small-scale agriculture and recreation to support for workers employed in Anchorage or on Alaska's North Slope oilfields and related infrastructure. The George Parks Highway turned the town into a commuter suburb of Anchorage.[1] Several state and federal agencies have offices in Wasilla, including the Alaska Departments of Environmental Conservation, Labor and Divisions of Public Assistance, Social Services.
Wasilla gained international attention when Sarah Palin, who served as Wasilla's mayor before her election as Governor of Alaska, was chosen by John McCain as his vice-presidential running mate in the 2008 United States presidential election.
Wasilla is named after Chief Wasilla, a local Dena'ina chief.[2] "Wasilla" is the anglicized spelling of the chief's Russian-given name, Vasilij, which corresponds to the English name Basil.[3]
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History[link]
Glacial ice sheets covered most of the northern hemisphere during the last glacial period, between 26,500 and 19,000–20,000 years ago,[4] until they disappeared between 10,000 and about 7,000 years ago.[5] Early humans moved through the area and left evidence of their passage.[5] The Matanuska-Susitna valley was eventually settled by the Dena'ina Alaska natives who utilized the fertile lands and fishing opportunities of Cook Inlet. The Dena'ina are one of the eleven sub-groups comprising the indigenous Athabaskan Indian groups extending down Canada's western coast. Russians occupied Alaska from 1741, including strategic trading posts in Lower Cook Inlet, until Alaska's sale to the United States in 1867.[6] Near the mouth of the Matanuska River, the town of Knik was settled about 1880. In 1900, the Willow Creek Mining District was established to the north and Knik thrived as a mining settlement.[7]
In 1917, the U.S. government planned the Alaska Railroad to intersect the Carle Wagon Road (present Wasilla-Fishhook Road) which connected Knik and the mines.[8] Knik businesses and residents rushed to purchase plattes and the town declined. Wasilla Station was named for the nearby Wasilla Creek. Local miners used the name "Wassila Creek", referring to Wassila, a chief of the Dena'ina. There are two sources cited for the name, one being derived from a Dena'ina word meaning "breath of air" while another stating Dena'ina derived it from the Russian name "Vasili."[9][10] As Knik declined into a ghost town, Wasilla served early fur trappers and miners working the gold fields at Cache Creek and Willow Creek. More than 200 farm families from the Upper Midwest were moved into the Matanuska and Susitna valleys in 1935 as part of a U.S. government program to start a new farming community to counteract this trend; their linguistic influence is still audible in the region.[11]
The area was a supply base for gold mines near Hatcher Pass through World War II. Until construction of the George Parks Highway around 1970, nearby Palmer was the leading city in the Matanuska Valley. Wasilla was at the end of the Palmer-Wasilla highway and the road to Big Lake provided access to land west of Wasilla. The Parks Highway put Wasilla at mile 40–42 of what became the major highway and railroad transportation corridor linking Southcentral Alaska to Interior Alaska. As a result, population growth and community development shifted from the area around Palmer to Wasilla and the surrounding area. Wasilla was incorporated as a city in 1974.[12] All non-borough municipalities throughout Alaska are designated cities.[13]
In 1994, a statewide ballot initiative to move the capital of Alaska to Wasilla was defeated by a vote of about 116,000 to 96,000.[14][15] About that time, the Matanuska Valley began to recover from an economic collapse, beginning a sustained boom that involved dramatic population growth, increased local employment, and a boom in residential and commercial real estate development.[16] The local real estate market slowed in 2006. In 2008, suburban growth and dwindling snow forced organizers of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to bypass Wasilla permanently.[17] The race had its start in Wasilla from 1973 to 2002, the year when reduced snow cover forced a "temporary" change to Willow.[17]
Geography[link]
Wasilla is located at 61°34′54″N 149°27′9″W / 61.58167°N 149.4525°W / 61.58167; -149.4525 (61.581732, −149.452539).[18]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 12.4 square miles (32.2 km²). 11.7 square miles (30.4 km²) of it is land and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km²) of it (5.64%) is water.
The Dena'ina (Tanaina) Native Americans called the area Benteh, meaning 'among the lakes'.[19]
Located near Wasilla Lake and Lake Lucille, Wasilla is one of two cities in the Matanuska Valley. The community surrounds Mi. 39–46 of the George Parks Highway, roughly 43 highway miles (69.2 km) northeast of Anchorage. Nearly one third of the people of Wasilla drive the 40-minute commute to work in Anchorage every day.[20] Six miles to the southeast is Mount POW/MIA.
Climate[link]
January temperatures range from 4 °F (−16 °C) to 29 °F (−2 °C); July temperatures vary from 47 °F (8 °C) to 78 °F (26 °C). The average annual precipitation is 17 inches (430 mm), with 50 inches (130 cm) of snowfall.
| Climate data for Wasilla, Alaska | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 49 (9) |
51 (11) |
56 (13) |
65 (18) |
77 (25) |
86 (30) |
86 (30) |
82 (28) |
74 (23) |
63 (17) |
55 (13) |
53 (12) |
86 (30) |
| Average high °F (°C) | 22 (−6) |
26 (−3) |
34 (1) |
44 (7) |
56 (13) |
63 (17) |
65 (18) |
64 (18) |
55 (13) |
40 (4) |
27 (−3) |
22 (−6) |
43 (6) |
| Average low °F (°C) | 5 (−15) |
10 (−12) |
16 (−9) |
27 (−3) |
36 (2) |
43 (6) |
48 (9) |
46 (8) |
38 (3) |
26 (−3) |
13 (−11) |
6 (−14) |
26 (−3) |
| Record low °F (°C) | −40 (−40) |
−41 (−41) |
−30 (−34) |
−16 (−27) |
8 (−13) |
27 (−3) |
34 (1) |
27 (−3) |
−14 (−26) |
−14 (−26) |
−25 (−32) |
−40 (−40) |
−41 (−41) |
| Precipitation inches (mm) | 0.8 (20) |
0.9 (23) |
0.5 (13) |
0.7 (18) |
0.8 (20) |
1.6 (41) |
2.5 (64) |
2.7 (69) |
2.7 (69) |
1.8 (46) |
1.2 (30) |
1.0 (25) |
17.2 (437) |
| Snowfall inches (cm) | 8.4 (21.3) |
8.9 (22.6) |
5.8 (14.7) |
2.5 (6.4) |
0.1 (0.3) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
4.7 (11.9) |
8.7 (22.1) |
12.8 (32.5) |
52.1 (132.3) |
| Source: weatherbase.com[21] | |||||||||||||
Demographics[link]
| Historical populations | |||
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1930 | 51 |
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| 1940 | 96 | 88.2% | |
| 1950 | 97 | 1.0% | |
| 1960 | 112 | 15.5% | |
| 1970 | 300 | 167.9% | |
| 1980 | 1,559 | 419.7% | |
| 1990 | 4,028 | 158.4% | |
| 2000 | 5,469 | 35.8% | |
| 2010 | 7,831 | 43.2% | |
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As of the census of 2000,[23] there were 5,469 people (up from 4,028[24] in 1990), 1,979 households, and 1,361 families residing in the city. The population density was 466.8 people per square mile (180.2/km²). There were 2,119 housing units at an average density of 180.9 per square mile (69.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 85.46% White, 0.59% Black or African American, 5.25% Native American, 1.32% Asian, 0.13% Pacific Islander, 1.32% from other races, and 5.94% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.68% of the population.
There were 1,979 households out of which 43.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.2% were married couples living together, 13.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.2% were non-families. 23.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.76 and the average family size was 3.27.
In the city the age distribution of the population shows 33.6% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 19.0% from 45 to 64, and 6.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30. For every 100 females there were 99.5 males; for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.0 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $48,226, and the median income for a family was $53,792. Males had a median income of $41,332 versus $29,119 for females. The per capita income for the city was $21,127. About 5.7% of families and 9.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.6% of those under the age of 18 and 9.7% of those 65 and older.
Economy[link]
Wasilla began as a transportation logistics and trade center serving natural resource extraction (mining, trapping & timber) followed by small-scale agricultural activity circa 1935; around 1975, construction of the Parks Highway substantially reduced travel time to Anchorage (approximately 43 miles away), encouraging the transition to a satellite bedroom community where workers commute to Anchorage for employment.[25] Local service employment has increased in recent years.[26]
About 35 percent of the Wasilla workforce commutes to Anchorage.[20] The local economy is diverse, and residents are employed in a variety of city, borough, state, federal, retail and professional service positions.[27] Tourism, agriculture, wood products, steel, and concrete products are part of the economy. One hundred and twenty area residents hold commercial fishing permits; commercial fishermen work seasonally in Lower Cook Inlet and distant Bristol Bay or the Gulf of Alaska & Prince William Sound (there are no commercial fisheries in Upper Cook Inlet).[26]
Recreation[link]
The Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry in Wasilla was established in 1967, "to give a home to the transportation and industrial remnants and to tell the stories of the people and the machines that opened Alaska to exploration and growth."[28]
The Alaska Avalanche hockey team of the NAHL play home games in Wasilla at the Curtis D. Menard Memorial Sports Center (formerly called the Wasilla Multi-Use Sports Complex).[29] In 2010, the Menard Center lost a tenant when the Arctic Predators did not play as a member of the Indoor Football League.[30]
Charles Wohlforth, in a Frommer's travel guidebook on Alaska, described Wasilla as "...the worst kind of suburban sprawl of highway-fronting shopping malls and gravel lots."[31]
Nude dancing and striptease acts are not allowed.[32]
Government[link]
The Wasilla City Council is the city's legislature; it enacts laws and policy statements, sets the property tax rate, and approves the budget and funds for city services. It has six members, elected at-large by Wasilla residents for three year terms.[33] The Mayor is elected separately. A run-off election will be held if no candidate for Mayor receives more than 40% of the votes cast. Run-off elections are not held for city council seats. All positions are part time.
The following is a list of mayors of Wasilla.
| Time in office | Name | Notes |
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| 1974-1976 | Leo Nunley | |
| 1976-1980 | Elizabeth "Pat" Hjellen | |
| 1980-1983 | Harold Newcomb | |
| 1983-1984 | Marilyn McGuire | |
| 1984–1985 | Richard "Ken" DeCamp | [34] |
| 1985–1986 | Charlie Bumpus | [35] |
| 1986–1987 | Harold Newcomb | [36] |
| 1987–1996 | John C. Stein | [37] |
| 1996–2002 | Sarah Palin | [38] |
| 2002–2008 | Dianne M. Keller | [38] |
| 2008–present | Verne E. Rupright | [39] |
Education and health[link]
Wasilla is served by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District. It has four high schools:[40]
- Burchell High School
- Mat-Su Career and Technical High School
- MidValley High School
- Wasilla High School
There are also career training and technical colleges in Wasilla: Charter College - Wasilla
In January 2006 a new hospital, Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, opened. It is outside the city limits halfway between Wasilla and its twin town of Palmer.[41]
Transportation[link]
The Glenn Highway connects Wasilla to Anchorage and communities on the Kenai Peninsula, the Glenn, along with the George Parks Highway link the Matanuska Valley to northward to the rest of the state and Canada. The Alaska Railroad serves Wasilla.
The city-owned Wasilla Airport, with a paved 3,700 foot (1,130 m) runway, provides air taxi services.[42] Wasilla also has eight public-use seaplane bases located on area lakes.[43] Private-use air facilities registered with the FAA include 43 land-based airstrips, eight additional seaplane bases, two heliports and one STOLport.[43]
Religion[link]
- Wasilla Assembly of God was founded in 1951 and is a member of the Assemblies of God denomination.[44] The church's founding pastor was Paul Riley, and its current pastor is Ed Kalnins, who took over in 1999.
- Wasilla Bible Church, non-denominational, evangelical church, was described by Time as one of the largest and most influential churches in the city.[45]
- The Roman Catholic Sacred Heart Parish.[46]
- St. Lazarus Russian Orthodox Mission, affiliated with the Orthodox Church in America, meets in the old chapel at Sacred Heart Parish.[47]
- St. Herman Mission, affiliated with the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.[48]
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a stake based in Wasilla, with several wards meeting in a chapel on E Dellwood St.[49]
- Wasilla Church of Christ[50]
- St. David's Episcopal Church
- Meier Lake Episcopal Conference Center.[51]
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church was founded in the late 1970s and is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Its current pastor is Rev. Duane Hanson, and its youth director is Ian McConnell.
Notable people[link]
- John Gourley and Zachary Carothers from the band Portugal. The Man
- Chad Carpenter,[52] cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Tundra
- Lisa Kelly (Ice Road Trucker) on the History Channel now lives in Wasilla
- Vic Kohring, state legislator[53]
- Specialist Jeremy Morlock, a U.S. Army soldier who murdered three civilians in Afghanistan.[54][55]
- Members of the Palin family:
- Sarah Palin, former mayor of Wasilla, former Alaska Governor, and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate
- Todd Palin, professional snowmobile racer, four-time Iron Dog race champion, husband of Sarah Palin
- Bristol Palin, Teen Abstinence Ambassador for the Candie's Foundation, daughter of Todd and Sarah Palin[56][57]
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| Sarah Palin | |
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| Palin speaking at the 2012 CPAC in Washington, D.C. | |
| 9th Governor of Alaska | |
| In office December 4, 2006 – July 26, 2009 |
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| Lieutenant | Sean Parnell |
| Preceded by | Frank Murkowski |
| Succeeded by | Sean Parnell |
| Chairperson of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission | |
| In office February 19, 2003 – January 23, 2004 |
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| Governor | Frank Murkowski |
| Preceded by | Camille Oechsli Taylor[1] |
| Succeeded by | John K. Norman[1] |
| Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska | |
| In office October 14, 1996 – October 14, 2002 |
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| Preceded by | John Stein |
| Succeeded by | Dianne M. Keller |
| Member of the Wasilla City Council from Seat E |
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| In office October 19, 1992 – October 14, 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Dorothy Smith |
| Succeeded by | Colleen Cottle |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sarah Louise Heath (1964-02-11) February 11, 1964 (age 48)[2] Sandpoint, Idaho, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Todd Palin (m. August 29, 1988) |
| Children | Track (b. 1989) Bristol (b. 1990) Willow (b. 1994) Piper (b. 2001) Trig (b. 2008)[3] |
| Residence | Wasilla, Alaska |
| Alma mater | University of Idaho - (B.S., 1987)[4] |
| Occupation | Local news sportscaster Commercial fisherman Politician Author Political commentator[5] |
| Religion | Non-denominational Christian[6][7] |
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Sarah Louise Palin i/ˈpeɪlɨn/ (née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice presidency. Her book Going Rogue has sold more than two million copies. Since January 2010, she has provided political commentary for Fox News, and hosted a television show, Sarah Palin's Alaska. Five million viewers tuned in for the first episode, a record for The Learning Channel.
She was elected to Wasilla City Council in 1992 and became mayor of Wasilla in 1996. In 2003, after an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor, she was appointed Chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, responsible for overseeing the state's oil and gas fields for safety and efficiency. The youngest person and first woman to be elected Governor of Alaska, Palin held the office from December 2006 until her resignation in July 2009. She has since endorsed and campaigned for the Tea Party movement, as well as several candidates in the 2010 midterm elections. From the time of her Vice Presidential nomination in 2008, Palin was considered a potential candidate for the 2012 presidential election until she announced in October 2011 that she would not run.
Early life and family[link]
Palin was born in Sandpoint, Idaho. She is the third of four children (three daughters, one son) born to Charles R. "Chuck" Heath, a science teacher and track and field coach, and Sarah "Sally" (née Sheeran), a school secretary. Palin's siblings are Chuck Jr., Heather, and Molly.[8][9][10][11][12] Palin is of English, Irish, and German ancestry.[13]
When Palin was a few months old, the family moved to Skagway, Alaska,[14] where her father received his teaching job.[15] They relocated to Eagle River in 1969, and finally settled to Wasilla in 1972.[16][17]
Palin played flute in the junior high band, then attended Wasilla High School where she was the head of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes,[7] and a member of the girls' basketball and cross country running teams.[18] During her senior year, she was co-captain and point guard of the basketball team that won the 1982 Alaska state championship, earning the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" for her competitive streak.[19][20][21]
College[link]
After graduating from high school, Palin enrolled at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.[22] Shortly after arriving in Hawaii, Palin transferred to Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu for a semester in the fall of 1982, and then to North Idaho College, a community college in Coeur d'Alene, for the spring and fall semesters of 1983.[23] (In June 2008, the Alumni Association of NIC gave her its Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.)[23][24]
In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty pageant.[25][26] She finished third in the Miss Alaska pageant,[27][28] playing flute in the talent portion of the contest,[29] and receiving both the Miss Congeniality award and a college scholarship.[19]
She attended the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, in late 1984 and early 1985, and Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska in late 1985. Palin returned to the University of Idaho in the spring of 1986, and received her bachelor's degree in communications with an emphasis in journalism in 1987.[23][30][31][32]
Early career and marriage[link]
After graduation, she worked as a sportscaster for KTUU-TV and KTVA-TV in Anchorage,[33][34] and as a sports reporter for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman,[35][36] fulfilling an early ambition.[37]
On August 29, 1988, she eloped at age 24 with her high school sweetheart, Todd Palin. Following the birth of their first child, she helped in her husband's commercial fishing business.[38]
Early political career[link]
Main articles: Early political career of Sarah Palin and Electoral history of Sarah Palin
City council[link]
Palin was elected to the Wasilla City Council in 1992 winning 530 votes to 310.[39][40] Throughout her tenure on the city council and the rest of her political career, Palin has been a Republican since registering in 1982.[41]
Mayor of Wasilla[link]
Concerned that revenue from a new Wasilla sales tax would not be spent wisely,[42] Palin ran for mayor of Wasilla in 1996, defeating incumbent mayor John Stein[43] 651 to 440 votes.[44] Her biographer described her campaign as targeting wasteful spending and high taxes;[19] her opponent, Stein, said that Palin introduced abortion, gun rights, and term limits as campaign issues.[45] The election was nonpartisan, though the state Republican Party ran advertisements for Palin.[45] Palin ran for re-election against Stein in 1999 and won, 909 votes to 292.[46] In 2002, she completed the second of the two consecutive three-year terms allowed by the city charter.[47] She was elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors[48] in 1999.[49]
First term[link]
Palin had a contretemps with the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, a local newspaper, and became involved in personnel challenges and "a thwarted attempt to pack the City Council" during her first year in office.[50] Using income generated by a 2% sales tax that had been approved by Wasilla voters in October 1992,[51] Palin cut property taxes by 75% and eliminated personal property and business inventory taxes.[43][52] Using municipal bonds, she made improvements to the roads and sewers, and increased funding to the Police Department.[45] She also oversaw new bike paths and procured funding for storm-water treatment to protect freshwater resources.[43] At the same time, she shrank the local museum's budget and deterred talk of a new library and city hall.[43]
Soon after taking office in October 1996, Palin eliminated the position of museum director[53] and asked for updated resumes and resignation letters from "city department heads who had been loyal to Stein,"[54] including the police chief, public works director, finance director, and librarian.[55] Palin stated this request was to find out their intentions and whether they supported her.[55] She temporarily required department heads to get her approval before talking to reporters, saying that they first needed to become acquainted with her administration's policies.[55] She created the position of city administrator,[45] and reduced her own $68,000 salary by 10%, although by mid-1998 this was reversed by the city council.[56]
In October 1996, Palin asked library director Mary Ellen Emmons if she would object to the removal of a book from the library if people were picketing to have the book removed.[57] Emmons responded that she would, and others as well.[57] Palin explained that she not been proposing censorship but had been discussing many issues with her staff that were "both rhetorical and realistic in nature."[57] No attempt was made to remove books from the library during Palin's tenure as mayor.[58]
Palin said she fired Police Chief Irl Stambaugh because he did not fully support her efforts to govern the city.[59] Stambaugh filed a lawsuit alleging wrongful termination and violation of his free speech rights.[60] The judge dismissed Stambaugh's lawsuit, holding that the police chief served at the discretion of the mayor, and could be terminated for nearly any reason, even a political one,[61][62] and ordered Stambaugh to pay Palin's legal fees.[61]
Wasilla City Hall
Location of Wasilla, Alaska
Second term[link]
During her second term as mayor, Palin proposed and promoted the construction of a municipal sports center to be financed by a 0.5%[45] sales tax increase and $14.7 million bond issue.[63] Voters approved the measure by a 20 vote margin and the Wasilla Multi-Use Sports Complex (later named the Curtis D. Menard Memorial Sports Center) was built on time and under budget. However, the city spent an additional $1.3 million because of an eminent domain lawsuit caused by the failure to obtain clear title to the property before beginning construction.[63] The city's long-term debt grew from about $1 million to $25 million due to $15 million for the sports complex, $5.5 million for street projects, and $3 million for water improvement projects. The Wall Street Journal characterized the project as a "financial mess."[63] A city council member defended the spending increases as being caused by the city's growth during that time.[64]
Palin also joined with nearby communities in hiring the Anchorage-based lobbying firm of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh to lobby for federal funds. The firm secured nearly $8 million in earmarks for the Wasilla city government,[65] including $500,000 for a youth shelter, $1.9 million for a transportation hub, and $900,000 for sewer repairs.[66]
In 2008, Wasilla's current mayor credited Palin's 75 percent property tax cuts and infrastructure improvements with bringing "big-box stores" and 50,000 shoppers per day to Wasilla.[39]
State-level politics[link]
In 2002, Palin ran for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, coming in second to Loren Leman in a five-way Republican primary.[67] Following her defeat, she campaigned throughout the state for the nominated Republican governor-lieutenant governor ticket of Frank Murkowski and Leman.[68] Murkowski and Leman won, Murkowski resigned from his long-held U.S. Senate seat in December 2002 to assume the governorship. Palin was said to be on the "short list" of possible appointees to Murkowski's U.S. Senate seat,[68] but Murkowski ultimately appointed his daughter, State Representative Lisa Murkowski, as his successor in the Senate.[69]
Governor Murkowski offered other jobs to Palin, and in February 2003, she accepted an appointment to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which oversees Alaska's oil and gas fields for safety and efficiency.[68] While she had little background in the area, she said she wanted to learn more about the oil industry, and was named chair of the commission and ethics supervisor.[1][68][70] By November 2003 she was filing non-public ethics complaints with the state attorney general and the governor against a fellow commission member, Randy Ruedrich, a former petroleum engineer and at the time the chair of the state Republican Party.[68] He was forced to resign in November 2003.[68] Palin resigned in January 2004 and put her protests against Ruedrich's "lack of ethics" into the public arena[19][68] by filing a public complaint against Ruedrich,[71] who was then fined $12,000. She also joined with Democratic legislator Eric Croft[72] in complaining that Gregg Renkes, then the attorney general of Alaska,[73] had a financial conflict of interest in negotiating a coal exporting trade agreement.[74][75] Renkes also resigned his post.[19][70]
From 2003 to June 2005, Palin served as one of three directors of "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.," a 527 group designed to provide political training for Republican women in Alaska.[76] In 2004, Palin told the Anchorage Daily News that she had decided not to run for the U.S. Senate that year against the Republican incumbent Lisa Murkowski because her teenage son opposed it. Palin said, "How could I be the team mom if I was a U.S. Senator?"[77]
Governor of Alaska[link]
Main article: Governorship of Sarah Palin
In 2006, running on a clean-government platform, Palin defeated incumbent Governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary.[78][79] Her running mate was Sean Parnell, who since leaving the state senate in 2001 had worked as a corporate lobbyist.[citation needed]
In the November election, Palin was outspent but victorious, defeating former Democratic governor Tony Knowles by a margin of 48.3% to 40.9%.[19] She became Alaska's first female governor, and, at the age of 42, the youngest governor in Alaskan history, the state's first governor to have been born after Alaska achieved U.S. statehood, and the first not to be inaugurated in Juneau (she chose to have the ceremony held in Fairbanks instead). She took office on December 4, 2006, and for most of her term was very popular with Alaska voters. Polls taken in 2007 showed her with 93% and 89% popularity among all voters,[80] which led some media outlets to call her "the most popular governor in America."[72][80] A poll taken in late September 2008 after Palin was named to the national Republican ticket showed her popularity in Alaska at 68%.[81] A poll taken in May 2009 showed Palin's popularity among Alaskans was at 54% positive and 41.6% negative.[82]
Palin declared that top priorities of her administration would be resource development, education and workforce development, public health and safety, and transportation and infrastructure development. She had championed ethics reform throughout her election campaign. Her first legislative action after taking office was to push for a bipartisan ethics reform bill. She signed the resulting legislation in July 2007, calling it a "first step", and declaring that she remained determined to clean up Alaska politics.[83]
Palin frequently broke with the Alaskan Republican establishment.[84][85] For example, she endorsed Parnell's bid to unseat the state's longtime at-large U.S. Representative, Don Young,[86] and she publicly challenged then-U.S. Senator Ted Stevens to come clean about the federal investigation into his financial dealings. Shortly before his July 2008 indictment, she held a joint news conference with Stevens, described by The Washington Post as intended to "make clear she had not abandoned him politically."[76]
Palin promoted the development of oil and natural-gas resources in Alaska, including drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Proposals to drill for oil in ANWR have occasioned national debate.[87]
In 2006, Palin obtained a passport[88] and in 2007 traveled for the first time outside of North America on a trip to Kuwait. There she visited the Khabari Alawazem Crossing at the Kuwait–Iraq border and met with members of the Alaska National Guard at several bases.[89] On her return journey she visited injured soldiers in Germany.[90]
Budget, spending, and federal funds[link]
In June 2007, Palin signed a record $6.6 billion operating budget into law.[91] At the same time, she used her veto power to make the second-largest cuts of the capital budget in state history. The $237 million in cuts represented over 300 local projects, and reduced the capital budget to $1.6 billion.[92]
In 2008, Palin vetoed $286 million, cutting or reducing funding for 350 projects from the FY09 capital budget.[93]
Palin followed through on a campaign promise to sell the Westwind II jet, a purchase made by the Murkowski administration for $2.7 million in 2005 against the wishes of the legislature.[94] In August 2007, the jet was listed on eBay, but the sale fell through, and the plane later sold for $2.1 million through a private brokerage firm.[95]
Gubernatorial expenditures[link]
Palin lived in Juneau during the legislative session and lived in Wasilla and worked out of offices in Anchorage the rest of the year. Since the office in Anchorage is 565 miles from Juneau, while she worked there, state officials said she was permitted to claim a $58 per diem travel allowance, which she took (a total of $16,951), and to reimbursement for hotels, which she did not, choosing instead to drive about 50 miles to her home in Wasilla.[96] She also chose not to use the former governor's private chef.[97] Republicans and Democrats have criticized Palin for taking the per diem and $43,490 in travel expenses for the times her family accompanied her on state business.[98][99] In response, Palin's staffers said that these practices were in line with state policy, that her gubernatorial expenses are 80% below those of Murkowski, her predecessor,[98] and that "many of the hundreds of invitations Palin receives include requests for her to bring her family, placing the definition of 'state business' with the party extending the invitation."[96] In February 2009, the State of Alaska, reversing a policy that had treated the payments as legitimate business expenses under the Internal Revenue Code, decided that per diems paid to state employees for stays in their own homes will be treated as taxable income and will be included in employees' gross income on their W-2 forms.[100] Palin herself had ordered the review of the tax policy.[101]
In December 2008, an Alaska state commission recommended increasing the Governor's annual salary from $125,000 to $150,000. Palin stated that she would not accept the pay raise.[102] In response, the commission dropped the recommendation.[103]
Federal funding[link]
In her State of the State address on January 17, 2008, Palin declared that the people of Alaska "can and must continue to develop our economy, because we cannot and must not rely so heavily on federal government [funding]."[104] Alaska's federal congressional representatives cut back on pork-barrel project requests during Palin's time as governor; despite this, in 2008 Alaska was still the largest per-capita recipient of federal earmarks, requesting nearly $750 million in special federal spending over a period of two years.[105]
While there is no state sales tax or income tax in Alaska, royalty revenues from the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field (consisting mostly of state-owned lands) have funded large state budgets since 1980, with the exact amounts largely dependent upon the prevailing price of petroleum. As a result, state revenues doubled to $10 billion in 2008. For the 2009 budget, Palin gave a list of 31 proposed federal earmarks or requests for funding, totaling $197 million, to Alaska's senior U.S. Senator Ted Stevens.[106][107] Palin has stated that her decreasing support for federal funding was a source of friction between her and the state's congressional delegation; Palin requested less in federal funding each year than her predecessor Frank Murkowski requested in his last year.[108]
Bridge to Nowhere[link]
Main article: Gravina Island Bridge
In 2005, before Palin was elected governor, Congress passed an omnibus spending bill that contained a $442-million earmark for constructing two Alaska bridges. The Gravina Island Bridge, intended to provide a link between the Ketchikan airport on Gravina Island and the city of Ketchikan at a cost of $233 million in Federal grant money, received nationwide attention as a symbol of pork-barrel spending. As the island only has a population of 50, the bridge became known as the "Bridge to Nowhere." The public furor led to Congress removing the earmarks, but retaining the allotted funds to Alaska as part of its general transportation fund.[109]
In 2006, Palin ran for governor with a "build-the-bridge" plank in her platform,[110] saying she would "not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project ... into something that's so negative."[111] Palin criticized the use of the word "nowhere" as insulting to local residents[110][112] and urged speedy work on building the infrastructure "while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist."[112]
As governor, Palin canceled the Gravina Island Bridge in September 2007, saying that Congress had "little interest in spending any more money" due to "inaccurate portrayals of the projects."[113] Alaska did not return the $442 million in federal transportation funds.[114]
In 2008, as a vice-presidential candidate, Palin characterized her position as having told Congress "thanks, but no thanks, on that bridge to nowhere." A number of Ketchikan residents said that the claim was false and a betrayal of Palin's previous support for their community.[114] Some critics said that her statement was misleading, as she had expressed support for the spending project and kept the federal money after the project was canceled.[115] Palin was criticized for allowing construction of a 3-mile access road, built with $25 million in federal transportation funds set aside as part of the original bridge project, to continue. A spokesman for Alaska's Department of Transportation said that it was within Palin's power to cancel the road project, but noted that the state was still considering cheaper designs to complete the bridge project, and that in any case, the road would open up the surrounding lands for development.[116][117]
Gas pipeline[link]
See also: Alaska gas pipeline
In August 2008, Palin signed a bill authorizing the State of Alaska to award TransCanada Pipelines — the sole bidder to meet the state's requirements — a license to build and operate a pipeline to transport natural gas from the Alaska North Slope to the continental United States through Canada.[118] The governor also pledged $500 million in seed money to support the project.[119] It is estimated that the project will cost $26 billion.[118] Newsweek described the project as "the principal achievement of Sarah Palin's term as Alaska's governor."[120] The pipeline faces legal challenges from Canadian First Nations.[120]
Predator control[link]
See also: Governorship of Sarah Palin#Environment
In 2007, Palin supported a 2003 Alaska Department of Fish and Game policy allowing the hunting of wolves from the air as part of a predator control program intended to increase moose and caribou populations for subsistence-food gatherers and other hunters.[121][122] In March 2007, Palin's office announced that a bounty of $150 per wolf would be paid to the 180 volunteer pilots and gunners, to offset fuel costs, in five areas of Alaska. 607 wolves had been killed in the prior four years. State biologists wanted 382 to 664 wolves to be killed by the end of the predator-control season in April 2007. Wildlife activists sued the state, and a state judge declared the bounty illegal on the basis that a bounty would have to be offered by the Board of Game and not by the Department of Fish and Game.[121][123] On August 26, 2008, Alaskans voted against ending the state's predator control program.[124]
Public Safety Commissioner dismissal[link]
Main article: Alaska Public Safety Commissioner dismissal
Palin dismissed Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan on July 11, 2008, citing performance-related issues, such as not being "a team player on budgeting issues"[125] and "egregious rogue behavior."[126] Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein said that the "last straw" was Monegan's planned trip to Washington, D.C., to seek funding for a new, multimillion-dollar sexual assault initiative the governor hadn't yet approved.[127] Monegan said that he had resisted persistent pressure from Palin, her husband, and her staff, including state Attorney General Talis J. Colberg, to fire Palin’s ex-brother-in-law, Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten; Wooten was involved in a child custody battle with Palin’s sister after a bitter divorce that included an alleged death threat against Palin's father.[128][129] At one point Sarah and Todd Palin hired a private investigator to gather information, seeking to have Wooten officially disciplined.[130] Monegan stated that he learned an internal investigation had found all but two of the allegations to be unsubstantiated, and Wooten had been disciplined for the others — an illegal moose killing and the tasering of his 11-year-old stepson, who had reportedly asked to be tasered.[129] He told the Palins that there was nothing he could do because the matter was closed.[131] When contacted by the press for comment, Monegan first acknowledged pressure to fire Wooten but said that he could not be certain that his own firing was connected to that issue;[129] he later asserted that the dispute over Wooten was a major reason for his firing.[132] Palin stated on July 17 that Monegan was not pressured to fire Wooten, nor dismissed for not doing so.[125][131]
Monegan said the subject of Wooten came up when he invited Palin to a birthday party for his cousin, state senator Lyman Hoffman, in February 2007 during the legislative session in Juneau. "As we were walking down the stairs in the capitol building she wanted to talk to me about her former brother-in-law," Monegan said. "I said, 'Ma'am, I need to keep you at arm's length with this. I can't deal about him with you.[133] She said, 'OK, that's a good idea.'"[129]
Palin said there was "absolutely no pressure ever put on Commissioner Monegan to hire or fire anybody, at any time. I did not abuse my office powers. And I don't know how to be more blunt and candid and honest, but to tell you that truth. To tell you that no pressure was ever put on anybody to fire anybody." Todd Palin gave a similar account.[134]
On August 13 she acknowledged that a half dozen members of her administration had made more than two dozen calls on the matter to various state officials. "I do now have to tell Alaskans that such pressure could have been perceived to exist, although I have only now become aware of it," she said.[131][133][135] Palin said, "Many of these inquiries were completely appropriate. However, the serial nature of the contacts could be perceived as some kind of pressure, presumably at my direction."[125][136]
Chuck Kopp, whom Palin had appointed to replace Monegan as public safety commissioner, received a $10,000 state severance package after he resigned following just two weeks on the job. Kopp, the former Kenai chief of police, resigned July 25 following disclosure of a 2005 sexual harassment complaint and letter of reprimand against him. Monegan said that he did not receive a severance package from the state.[125]
Legislative investigation[link]
On August 1, 2008, the Alaska Legislature hired an investigator, Stephen Branchflower, to review the Monegan dismissal. Legislators stated that Palin had the legal authority to fire Monegan, but they wanted to know whether her action had been motivated by anger at Monegan for not firing Wooten.[137][138] The atmosphere was bipartisan and Palin pledged to cooperate.[137][138][139] Wooten remained employed as a state trooper.[130] She placed an aide on paid leave due to a tape-recorded phone conversation that she deemed improper, in which the aide, appearing to act on her behalf, complained to a trooper that Wooten had not been fired.[140]
Several weeks after the start of what the media referred to as "troopergate", Palin was chosen as John McCain's running mate.[138] On September 1, Palin asked the legislature to drop its investigation, saying that the state Personnel Board had jurisdiction over ethics issues.[141] The Personnel Board's three members were first appointed by Palin’s predecessor, and Palin reappointed one member in 2008.[142] On September 19, Todd Palin and several state employees refused to honor subpoenas, the validity of which were disputed by Talis Colberg, Palin's appointee as Alaska's Attorney General.[143] On October 2, a court rejected Colberg's challenge to the subpoenas,[144] and seven of the witnesses, not including Todd Palin, eventually testified.[145]
Branchflower Report[link]
On October 10, 2008, the Alaska Legislative Council unanimously voted to release, without endorsing,[146] the Branchflower Report, in which investigator Stephen Branchflower found that firing Monegan "was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority," but that Palin abused her power as governor and violated the state's Executive Branch Ethics Act when her office pressured Monegan to fire Wooten.[147] The report stated that "Governor Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates to advance a personal agenda, to wit: to get Trooper Michael Wooten fired."[148] The report also said that Palin "permitted Todd Palin to use the Governor's office [...] to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired."[148][149]
On October 11, Palin's attorneys responded, condemning the Branchflower Report as "misleading and wrong on the law."[150] One of Palin's attorneys, Thomas Van Flein, said that it was an attempt to "smear the governor by innuendo."[151] Later that day, Palin did a conference call interview with various Alaskan reporters, where she stated, "Well, I’m very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing... Any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that."[152]
Alaska Personnel Board investigation and report[link]
The bipartisan State of Alaska Personnel Board reviewed the matter at Palin's request.[153] On September 15, the Anchorage law firm of Clapp, Peterson, Van Flein, Tiemessen & Thorsness filed arguments of "no probable cause" with the Personnel Board on behalf of Palin.[154][155] The Personnel Board retained independent counsel Timothy Petumenos, a Democrat, as an investigator. On October 24, Palin gave three hours of depositions with the Personnel Board in St. Louis, Missouri.[156] On November 3, 2008, the State of Alaska Personnel Board reported that there was no probable cause to believe Palin or any other state official had violated state ethical standards.[157][158][159][160][161] The report further stated that the Branchflower Report used the wrong statute in reaching its conclusions, misconstrued the available evidence and did not consider or obtain all of the material evidence required to properly reach findings in the matter.[157]
Job approval ratings, with comparisons[link]
As governor of Alaska, Palin's job approval rating ranged from a high of 93% in May 2007 to 54% in May 2009. In November 2006, the month before Palin took office, Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski’s job approval rating was 19%.[162]
| Date | Approval | Disapproval | Pollster |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2007[163] | 93% | Not reported | Dittman Research |
| May 30, 2007[164] | 89% | Not reported | Ivan Moore Research |
| October 19–21, 2007[165] | 83% | 11% | Ivan Moore Research |
| April 10, 2008[166] | 73% | 7% | Rasmussen Reports |
| May 17, 2008[167] | 69% | 9% | Rasmussen Reports |
| July 24–25, 2008[168] | 80% | Not reported | Hays Research Group |
| July 30, 2008[168] | 64% | 14% | Rasmussen Reports |
| September 20–22, 2008[169] | 68% | Not reported | Ivan Moore Research |
| October 7, 2008[170] | 63% | 37% | Rasmussen Reports |
| March 24–25, 2009[171] | 59.8% | 34.9% | Hays Research |
| May 4–5, 2009[171] | 54% | 41.6% | Hays Research |
| June 14–18, 2009[172] | 56% | 35% | Global Strategy Group |
In April 2009, SurveyUSA reported job approval ratings for the following U.S. governors: Bob Riley (AL) 54%, Arnold Schwarzenegger (CA) 25%, Chet Culver (IA) 42%, Kathleen Sebelius (KS) 46%, Steve Beshear (KY) 47%, Tim Pawlenty (MN) 46%, Jay Nixon (MO) 56%, Bill Richardson (NM) 46%, David Paterson (NY) 25%, Ted Kulongoski (OR) 40%, Tim Kaine (VA) 50%, Christine Gregoire (WA) 40%, and Jim Doyle (WI) 35%. (Polls taken April 24–26, 2009).[173]
Resignation[link]
Main article: Resignation of Sarah Palin
On July 3, 2009, Palin announced that she would not run for re-election in the 2010 Alaska gubernatorial election and would resign before the end of July. In her announcement,[174] Palin stated that both she and the state had been expending an "insane" amount of time and money ($2.5 million)[175] to address "frivolous" ethics complaints filed against her,[175][176][177][174] and that her decision not to seek reelection would make her a lame duck governor.[174] A Palin aide said Palin was "no longer able to do the job she had been elected to do. Essentially, the taxpayers were paying for Sarah to go to work every day and defend herself."[178] Palin and her husband Todd had personally incurred more than $500,000 in legal fees defending against ethics charges brought against her as governor.[175] Palin transferred the office of governor to Sean Parnell in Fairbanks on July 26, 2009.[179]
In December 2010, new rules governing Alaska executive branch ethics, stemming from Sarah Palin's tenure as governor, took effect.[181] "These include allowing for the state to pay legal costs for officials cleared of ethics violations; (and) allowing for a family member of the governor or lieutenant governor to travel at state cost in certain circumstances . . ."[181]
2008 vice-presidential campaign[link]
Main article: John McCain presidential campaign, 2008
Several conservative commentators met Palin in the summer of 2007.[182] Some of them, such as Bill Kristol, later urged McCain to pick Palin as his vice presidential running mate, arguing that her presence on the ticket would provide a boost in enthusiasm among the Religious Right wing of the Republican party, while her status as an unknown on the national scene would also be a positive factor.[183]
On August 24, 2008, during a general strategy meeting, Steve Schmidt, and a few other senior advisers to the McCain Campaign, discussed potential vice presidential picks with the consensus settling around Palin. The following day, the strategists advised McCain of their conclusions and he personally called Palin, who was at the Alaska State Fair.[184]
On August 27, she visited McCain's vacation home near Sedona, Arizona, where she was offered the position of vice-presidential candidate.[185] According to Jill Hazelbaker, a spokeswoman for McCain, he had previously met Palin at the National Governors Association meeting in Washington in February 2008 and had come away "extraordinarily impressed."[186] Palin was the only prospective running mate who had a face-to-face interview with McCain to discuss joining the ticket that week.[187] Nonetheless, Palin's selection was a surprise to many because a main criticism he had of Obama was his lack of experience, and speculation had centered on other candidates, such as Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, and former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge.[188] On August 29, in Dayton, Ohio, McCain announced that he had chosen Palin as his running mate.[188]
Palin was the first Alaskan and the second woman to run on a major U.S. party ticket.[188]
Since Palin was largely unknown outside Alaska before her selection by McCain, her personal life, policy positions, and political record drew intense media scrutiny.[189] On September 1, 2008, Palin announced that her daughter Bristol was pregnant and that she would marry the father, Levi Johnston.[190] During this period, some Republicans felt that Palin was being unfairly attacked by the media.[191] Timothy Noah of Slate magazine predicted that Palin's acceptance speech would be "wildly overpraised" and might end speculation that she was unqualified for the job of vice president because the press had been beating her up for "various trivial shortcomings" and had lowered the expectations for her speech.[192] On September 3, 2008, Palin delivered a 40-minute acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention that was well received and watched by more than 40 million people.[193] A Rasmussen poll taken immediately after the Convention found that 51% of Americans believed that the media was "trying to hurt" Palin with negative coverage, and 40% believed Palin to be ready for the Presidency.[194]
During the campaign, controversy erupted over alleged differences between Palin's positions as a gubernatorial candidate and her position as a vice-presidential candidate. After McCain announced Palin as his running mate, Newsweek and Time put Palin on their magazine covers,[195] as some of the media alleged that McCain's campaign was restricting press access to Palin by allowing only three one-on-one interviews and no press conferences with her.[196] Palin's first major interview, with Charles Gibson of ABC News, met with mixed reviews.[197] Her interview five days later with Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity went more smoothly and focused on many of the same questions from Gibson's interview.[198] Palin's performance in her third interview with Katie Couric, of CBS News, was widely criticized; her poll numbers declined, Republicans expressed concern that she was becoming a political liability, and some conservative commentators called for Palin to resign from the Presidential ticket.[199][200] Other conservatives remained ardent in their support for Palin, accusing the columnists of elitism.[201] Following this interview, some Republicans, including Mitt Romney and Bill Kristol, questioned the McCain campaign's strategy of sheltering Palin from unscripted encounters with the press.[202]
Palin reportedly prepared intensively for the October 2 vice-presidential debate with Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden at Washington University in St. Louis. Some Republicans suggested that Palin's performance in the interviews would improve public perceptions of her debate performance by lowering expectations.[199][203][204] Polling from CNN, Fox and CBS found that while Palin exceeded most voters' expectations, they felt that Biden had won the debate.[205][206]
Upon returning to the campaign trail after her debate preparation, Palin stepped up her attacks on the Democratic candidate for President, Illinois Senator Barack Obama. At a fundraising event, Palin explained her new aggressiveness, saying, "There does come a time when you have to take the gloves off and that time is right now."[207] Palin said that her first amendment right to "call Obama out on his associations" was threatened by "attacks by the mainstream media."[208]
Palin appeared on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" segment on October 18. Prior to her appearance, she had been parodied several times by Tina Fey, who was noted for her physical resemblance to the candidate.[209] In the weeks leading up to the election, Palin was also the subject of amateur parodies posted on YouTube.[210]
Controversy arose after it was reported that the Republican National Committee (RNC) spent $150,000 of campaign contributions on clothing, hair styling, and makeup for Palin and her family in September 2008. Campaign spokespersons stated the clothing would be going to charity after the election.[211] Palin and some media outlets blamed gender bias for the controversy.[212][213] At the end of the campaign, Palin returned the clothes to the RNC.[214]
The election took place on November 4, and Obama was projected as the winner at 11:00 PM EST.[215] In his concession speech McCain thanked Palin, calling her "one of the best campaigners I've ever seen, and an impressive new voice in our party for reform and the principles that have always been our greatest strength."[215] While aides were preparing the teleprompter for McCain's speech, they found a concession speech written for Palin by George W. Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully. Two members of McCain's staff, Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter, told Palin that there was no tradition of Election Night speeches by running mates, and that she would not be speaking. Palin appealed to McCain, who agreed with his staff.[216]
After the 2008 election[link]
Palin was the first guest on commentator Glenn Beck's Fox News television show on January 19, 2009, commenting on Barack Obama that he would be her president and that she would assist in any way to bring progress to the nation without abandoning her conservative views.[217]
On January 27, 2009, Palin formed the political action committee, SarahPAC.[218] The organization, which describes itself as an advocate of energy independence,[219] supports candidates for federal and state office.[220] Following her resignation as Governor, Palin announced her intention to campaign "on behalf of candidates who believe in the right things, regardless of their party label or affiliation."[221] It was reported that SarahPAC had raised nearly $1,000,000.[222] A legal defense fund was set up to help Palin challenge ethics complaints, and it had collected approximately $250,000 by mid-July 2009.[222][223] In June 2010, Palin's defense fund was ruled illegal and will have to pay back $386,856 it collected in donations because it used Palin's position as governor to raise money for her personal gain. Palin subsequently set up a new defense fund.[224]
In March 2010, Palin started a show to be aired on TLC called Sarah Palin's Alaska.[225] The show was produced by Mark Bennett.[226] Five million viewers tuned in for the premiere episode, a record for TLC.[227] Palin also has secured a segment on Fox News.[226] Two guests that she was shown to have interviewed claimed to have never met her. Guests LL Cool J and Toby Keith stated that footage shown on the segment was actually taken from another interview with someone else, but was used in Palin's segment.[228]
On December 8, 2010, it was reported that SarahPAC and Palin's personal credit card information were compromised through cyber attacks. Palin's team believed the attack was executed by Anonymous during Operation Payback.[229] The report was met with skepticism in the blogosphere.[230] Palin's email had been hacked once before in 2008.[231]
In August 2009, she coined the phrase "death panel", to describe health care reform. She stated that it would require Americans such as her parents or her child with Down syndrome, "to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."[232] The phrase was criticized by many on both sides of the political aisle and Politifact named it the "Lie of the Year of 2009"[233]
[edit] Going Rogue and America by Heart
Main article: Going Rogue: An American Life
In November 2009, Palin released her memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, in which she details her private and political career, including her resignation as Governor of Alaska. Palin said she took the title from the phrase 'gone rogue' used by McCain staffers to describe her behavior when she spoke her mind on the issues during the campaign.[234] The subtitle, "An American Life," mirrors the title of President Ronald Reagan's 1990 autobiography.[235] Less than two weeks after its release, sales of the book exceeded the one million mark, with 300,000 copies sold the first day. Its bestseller rankings were comparable to memoirs by Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.[236][237][238]
Palin traveled to 11 states in a bus, with her family accompanying her, to promote the book. She made a number of media appearances as well, including a widely publicized interview on November 16, 2009, with Oprah Winfrey.[239] In November 2010 HarperCollins released Palin's second book, titled America by Heart.[240][241][242] The book contains excerpts from Palin's favorite speeches, sermons and literature as well as portraits of people Palin admires, including some she met in rural America on her first book tour.[240]
Tea Party movement[link]
Main article: Tea Party movement
On February 6, 2010, Palin appeared as the keynote speaker at the inaugural Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Palin said the Tea Party movement is "the future of politics in America."[243] She criticized Obama for rising deficits, and for "apologizing for America” in speeches in other countries. Palin said Obama was weak on the War on Terror for allowing the so-called Christmas bomber to board a plane headed for the United States.[244] Palin’s speaking fee was reported to be $100,000. Judson Phillips, the founder of Tea Party Nation, the social networking site that sponsored the convention, did not confirm the amount paid to Palin saying he was contractually obligated not to speak about it.[citation needed]
On Labor Day, September 5, 2011, Palin was the featured speaker at a Tea Party Express rally in Manchester, New Hampshire's Victory Park. New Hampshire is traditionally the host of the nation's first Presidential primary. She addressed an enthusiastic crowd that the Los Angeles Times estimated to number 1,000 but which the local New Hampshire Union-Leader newspaper reported as "at least 500". Many in the crowd chanted "Run, Sarah, run!" during her speech.[citation needed]
Palin told the rally attendees that it was time to grow the Tea Party movement and it was important for them to avoid internal bickering with Establishment Republicans.[245] She told the crowd, “The Tea Party movement is bigger than any one person and is not about any one candidate.”[246]
"Pink Elephant" movement and 2010 endorsements[link]
In the middle of 2010, Palin flagged the launch of a new "Pink Elephant Movement."[247] She set about endorsing a number of female GOP candidates.[248] Her endorsement helped Georgia Gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel to take the lead in the campaign for the Republican nomination,[249] though ultimately Handel lost the primary. Palin has endorsed several female candidates nationally. Ryan Rudominer, a spokesman for the House Democratic campaign operation has called her involvement in various U.S. House campaigns a "great thing across the board."[250] She spoke at a May 2010 fundraiser for the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life political advocacy group and political action committee that supports pro-life women in politics, in which she coined the term "mama grizzly."[251][252]
In the months ahead of the November 2010 elections, Palin selectively endorsed Republican candidates, and was a significant fundraising asset to those she campaigned for during the primary season.[253] According to Politico, Palin's criteria for endorsing candidates was whether they had the support of the Tea Party movement and the support of the Susan B. Anthony List.[254] In terms of success, Palin was 7-2 for Senate endorsements; 7-6 for House endorsements; and 6-3 in endorsements of gubernatorial candidates[255] Palin's endorsement of Joe Miller in the August 24 Alaska primary election for U.S. Senator was identified as a possible pivotal moment in Miller's upset of the incumbent Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski.[256][257] According to Daily Beast reporter Shushannah Walshe, Christine O'Donnell's prospects of upsetting establishment Republican candidate Mike Castle "changed overnight" due to Palin's endorsement. O'Donnell defeated Castle in the September 14 primary for Joe Biden's former Senate seat in Delaware.[258] Her O'Donnell endorsement further increased tensions between Palin and the Republican establishment: leading conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer described the endorsement as "reckless and irresponsible";[259] party strategist Karl Rove argued that her endorsement may have cost the GOP the Delaware Senate seat;[260] and commentators including Politico's Ben Smith posited that Palin's support of O'Donnell contributed to dashing Republican hopes of regaining control of the U.S. Senate.[261] Palin's influence over the primaries nonetheless further increased speculation that she would seek to be the party's nominee for President in 2012,[262] with political pundits Paul Mirengoff, David Frum, and Jonathan Chait identifying Palin as the front-runner.[263][264][265]
Possible 2012 presidential and Senate campaign[link]
Beginning in November 2008, following Palin's high profile in the presidential campaign, there was an active "Draft Palin" movement.[266] On February 6, 2010, when Fox News asked her if she would be running for president in 2012, she replied, "I would be willing to if I believe that it's right for the country."[267] She added, "I won't close the door that perhaps could be open for me in the future."[268]
In November 2010, Palin confirmed that she was considering running for the Presidency, and was "having that discussion with my family." She stated she realised her level of experience could cause problems with winning the nomination, and criticized the "lamestream media" for focusing attention on her personal life.[269]
During March 2011, Palin and her husband toured India at the invitation of Indian newsmagazine India Today,[270] subsequently visiting Israel.[271] During the tour she was asked about her future candidacy; she said, "I don't think there needs to be a rush to get out there as a declared candidate. It's a life-changing decision".[272] In response to another question, she said "It’s time that a woman is president of the United States of America."[273]
Palin has since denied that she is running for Senate and said that her recent purchase of a home in Scottsdale was not a full-time residence.[274]
On October 5, 2011, Palin stated that she had decided not to seek the Republican nomination for President.[275]
Personal life[link]
Sarah and Todd Palin have five children: sons Track (born 1989)[276][277] and Trig Paxson Van (born 2008), and daughters Bristol Sheeran Marie[278] (born 1990), Willow (born 1994), and Piper (born 2001).[3][279] Palin's youngest child, Trig, was prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome.[280]
Palin has two grandchildren, a boy named Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston, who was born to her eldest daughter, Bristol, and her then-fiancee, Levi Johnston, in 2008,[281] and a girl named Kyla Grace Palin, who was born to son Track and his wife, Britta, in 2011.[282] Her husband Todd worked for the British oil company BP as an oil-field production operator, retiring in 2009, and owns a commercial fishing business.[42][283]
Palin was born into a Roman Catholic family.[6] Later, her family joined the Wasilla Assembly of God, a Pentecostal church,[284] which she attended until 2002. Palin then switched to the Wasilla Bible Church.[285] When in Juneau, she attends the Juneau Christian Center.[286] Palin described herself in an interview as a "Bible-believing Christian."[6]
Political positions[link]
Main article: Political positions of Sarah Palin
- Palin has been a registered Republican since 1982.[287]
Health care[link]
- Palin opposed the 2010 health care reform package, saying it would lead to rationing of health care by a bureaucracy, which she described using the term "death panels". This legislation is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as modified by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.[288] Palin characterizes the act as an "unfunded mandate" and supports defunding it,[289] as well as repealing portions of the act.[290]
Social Issues[link]
- Palin opposes same-sex marriage,[291] abortion including in cases of rape and incest, and embryonic stem cell research.[292] She supports capital punishment,[293] and parental consent for female minors seeking an abortion.[294] She has called marijuana use a "minimal issue" and suggested that arresting pot-smokers should be a low priority for local police, though she opposes legalizing the substance.[295]
Education[link]
- Palin supports sex education in public schools that encourage abstinence along with teaching about contraception.[296]
- She supports discussion of creationism during lessons on evolution in public schools.[297] Palin believes evolution "should be taught as an accepted principle" and said that her belief in God's role in Earth's creation "is not part of the state policy or a local curriculum in a school district. Science should be taught in science class."[298]
Guns[link]
- A Life Member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), Palin interprets the Second Amendment as including the right to handgun possession and opposes bans on semi-automatic assault weapons.[299] She supports gun safety education for youth.[300]
Environment[link]
- Palin supports off-shore drilling, and land-based drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.[87][301] When commenting on the Gulf Coast oil disaster Palin said, "I repeat the slogan 'drill here, drill now.'"[302] She said, "I want our country to be able to trust the oil industry."[303] Palin asked supporters to read an article by Thomas Sowell that criticized Obama for having BP pay to an escrow fund.[304]
- Palin has expressed skepticism about the causes of global warming,[305] but agrees that "man's activities certainly can be contributing to the issue" and that action should be taken.[306] She is opposed to cap-and-trade proposals, such as the defunct American Clean Energy and Security Act. Palin has acknowledged that "Simply waiting for low-carbon-emitting renewable capacity to be large enough will mean that it will be too late to meet the mitigation goals..that will be required [for carbon dioxide] under most credible climate-change models."[307]
Foreign policy[link]
- Palin is a strong supporter of Israel.[308][309] Referring to Iran's threat to Israel, Palin said Obama would be reelected if "he played the war card. Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decided really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel, which I would like him to do."[310]
- On foreign policy, Palin supported the Bush Administration's policies in Iraq, but is concerned that "dependence on foreign energy" may be obstructing efforts to "have an exit plan in place."[311][312] Palin supports preemptive military action in the face of an imminent threat, and supports U.S. military operations in Pakistan. Palin supports NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia,[313] and affirms that if Russia invaded a NATO member, the United States should meet its treaty obligations.[314]
- On foreign policy, Palin supported the surge strategy in Iraq, the use of additional ground forces in Afghanistan, and, in general, maintaining a strong defensive posture by increasing the defense budget. She believes Islam and democracy can co-exist. She supports strengthening America's alliance with Japan. She supports the de-nuclearization of North Korea. She supports working with China to reduce American debt and improve the human rights and political freedom of Chinese citizens.[315]
Public image[link]
Main article: Public image of Sarah Palin
Prior to the 2008 Republican National Convention, a Gallup poll found that most voters were unfamiliar with Sarah Palin. During her campaign to become vice president, 39% said Palin was ready to serve as president if needed, 33% said Palin was not, and 29% had no opinion. This was "the lowest vote of confidence in a running mate since the elder George Bush chose then-Indiana senator Dan Quayle to join his ticket in 1988."[316] Following the Convention, her image came under close media scrutiny,[189][317] particularly with regard to her religious perspective on public life, her socially conservative views, and her perceived lack of experience. Palin's experience in foreign and domestic politics came under criticism among conservatives as well as liberals following her nomination.[318][319][320][321] At the same time, Palin became more popular than John McCain among Republicans.[194]
One month after McCain announced Palin as his running mate, she was viewed both more favorably and unfavorably among voters than her opponent, Delaware Senator Joe Biden.[322] A plurality of the television audience rated Biden's performance higher at the 2008 vice-presidential debate.[322][323] Media outlets repeated Palin's statement that she "stood up to Big Oil" when she resigned after 11 months as the head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, due to abuses she witnessed involving other Republican commissioners and their ties to energy companies and energy lobbyists, and again when she raised taxes on oil companies as governor.[168][324] In turn, others have said that Palin is a "friend of Big Oil" due to her advocacy of oil exploration and development including drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the de-listing of the polar bear as an endangered species.[168][324] The National Organization for Women did not endorse McCain/Palin, endorsing Barack Obama instead.[318][325]
Palin was selected as one of America’s "10 Most Fascinating People of 2008" by Barbara Walters for an ABC special on December 4, 2008.[326] In April 2010, she was selected as one of the world's 100 most influential people by TIME Magazine.[327]
In the wake of the January 8, 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Palin faced criticism for her SarahPAC website's inclusion of a graphic that included a crosshair over Giffords's district. Palin responded to the criticism of the graphic, saying that "Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them," controversially equating the accusations of her role in the shooting to a "blood libel".[328][329] Following her response, an ABC News-Washington Post poll found that 46% of respondents viewed Palin's actions after the shooting unfavorably, while 30% approved and 24% had no opinion.[330]
Bibliography[link]
- Going Rogue: An American Life (2009)
- America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag (2010)
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- ^ "Sarah Palin tells AIPAC she's pro-Israel". Jewish Journal. September 2, 2008. http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/item/sarah_palin_tells_aipac_shes_pro_israel_20080902/+. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
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| Name | Palin, Sarah Heath |
| Alternative names | Heath, Sarah Louise; Palin, Sarah Louise |
| Short description | Governor of Alaska |
| Date of birth | February 11, 1964 |
| Place of birth | Sandpoint, Idaho |
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Keith Lamont Davis (born December 30, 1978 in Dallas, Texas) is an American football safety for the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League. He was signed by the Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2002. He played college football at Sam Houston State.
Davis has also been a member of the Dallas Cowboys, Berlin Thunder, Miami Dolphins and Oakland Raiders.
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Early years[link]
He was a two-time All-State and All-District wide receiver and defensive back for Class AA Italy High School in Texas. He was also a starter for the baseball and basketball team that won the 1997 Class AA State Championship.
College career[link]
He signed with Sam Houston State where he finished his career ranked fourth on the school’s tackle list with 339 stops.
As a junior, he was named Southland Conference Football League Defensive Player of the Year and team MVP after posting 99 tackles and 2 interceptions.
As a senior, he led his team with 96 tackles, 7 pass defended, 3 forced fumbles, 1 sack and 1 fumble recovery. He earned All-America honors from the American Football Coaches Association and All-Southland League honors as a senior.
Professional career[link]
Dallas Cowboys (first stint)[link]
Davis was signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent for the 2002 season. He made the Cowboys' practice squad initially, and subsequently the active roster, playing eight games as a backup safety and on special teams. He was credited with five tackles from scrimmage, two quarterback pressures, one pass breakup and eight tackles on special teams.
Before the start of the 2003 training camp, he was shot in the right hip and left elbow around 2:20 a.m. outside the Dallas Gentlemen's Club. Davis had driven to the club after closing time to pick up a friend. The friend was sitting at a table where an altercation broke out, and spilled outside to the parking lot, culminating with his shooting while defending her girlfriend. While he did nothing to provoke the incident, and was regarded as an unwitting victim, head coach Bill Parcells believed Davis should not have placed himself in a questionable situation and released him from the team.
Davis did not play football that season, but rejoined the club in 2004, after Parcells gave him a second chance, re-signing him in January 2004 to play in NFL Europe. Davis took advantage of the opportunity and was named all-league, while helping the Berlin Thunder to the World Bowl XII championship. During that season, he became a dynamic cover player on special teams and a fan favorite for the Cowboys.
He blossomed in 2005 after playing primarily on special teams his first two seasons in the league. He started 15 games at free safety and finished fourth on the team with 68 tackles. He also led the club in special teams tackles, with 16, and had a forced fumble. His strong play convinced the New Orleans Saints to sign him to a restricted free-agent offer sheet, but the Cowboys retained the three-year veteran by matching the offer.
In 2006 he was shot for the second time in just three years. This time he was randomly shot in the back of the head and in his right thigh, while driving to church at 5:30 in the morning on a Dallas freeway. He drove himself to the hospital and was later released.
In 2008, the Cowboys did not want to lose Davis' leadership and skills as an unrestricted free agent, but he wanted a chance to start and that wasn't going to happen again in Dallas, because of his weaknesses in pass coverage.
He left as one of the top special teams players in franchise history.
Miami Dolphins[link]
Davis signed with the Miami Dolphins, reuniting him with team vice president Bill Parcells. Surprisingly, the Dolphins released him a day before the final preseason game. [1]
Dallas Cowboys (second stint)[link]
Just days after being released by the Dolphins, Davis was re-signed by the Dallas Cowboys on August 31, 2008. It said a lot about how his teammates felt about him, when he was named captain despite being on the roster only a few days. He also led the team in special teams tackles with 20.
Oakland Raiders[link]
The Oakland Raiders signed him as a free agent to add depth to the safety position, but waived him before the 2009 season started, leading to his retirement.
References[link]
- ^ Salguero, Armando (August 27, 2008). "Dolphins release safety Keith Davis". Miami Herald. http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolphins_in_depth/2008/08/dolphins-rele-1.html. Retrieved 2009-03-15.
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| Name | Davis, Keith |
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| Short description | Player of American football |
| Date of birth | December 30, 1978 |
| Place of birth | Italy, Texas |
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