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Alaska AFL-CIO endorses Barack Obama over Sarah Palin
No matter how much Alaska workers may want to support the Republican presidential ticket billing Gov. Sarah Palin’s name as second-in-command, they should cast their votes instead for Democrat Barack Obama, a state labor organization leader said Monday in Fairbanks.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner  –  Sep 2, 2008 08:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
Fairbanksans learn to preserve in Cooperative Extension Service's jam session
Taking the mystery out of the chemistry and physics of preserving summer’s bounty, and putting it in layman’s terms is a specialty of Roxie Rodgers Dinstel, a Tanana District extension professor.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner  –  Sep 2, 2008 08:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
Looking Back in Fairbanks — Sept. 2
September 2, 1998 — The National Weather Service has confirmed what many in Fairbanks already suspected — the summer of 1998 was a wet one. So wet, in fact, that the town has seen only one other season like it in almost a century of record-keeping. And while Tuesday’s clouds might hit at more of the same for autumn, forecasters predict a drier, albeit cooler, September. Of the 90 brief days in an Interior summer, rain fell on 78 of them this year, according to the weather service.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner  –  Sep 2, 2008 08:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
Fairbanks North Star Borough wants leeway in road commission laws
Public officials in Fairbanks asked state lawmakers to consider loosening their leash on neighborhood road commissions.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner  –  Sep 2, 2008 08:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
Fairbanks Film Festival lets Alaska filmmakers shine
The culture on display through the films including "Anger" — a work done, as festival organizers put it, in the tradition of Czech animation — contrast with the authentic, old-time-Fairbanks feel of the park and its cracking wood shingles and historic railroad car and steamboat.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner  –  Sep 2, 2008 08:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
McCain's camp says Palin underwent detailed review
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Sarah Palin's path to the Republican ticket started with her name on a list - and a team of some 25 people poring through public records searching for trouble spots without her knowledge. Then came the 70-question survey and a nearly three-hour interview.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner  –  Sep 2, 2008 03:11 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
On holiday, big news on Palin, hurricane unfurled on nation's TV sets
NEW YORK -- A seat in front of the television — rather than a backyard barbecue — was the place to be on Labor Day with fast-breaking news stories about Hurricane Gustav and head-turning revelations about GOP vice presidential choice Sarah Palin.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner  –  Sep 2, 2008 02:32 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
Palin disclosures overshadow GOP convention opening
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- John McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, said Monday her 17-year-old unmarried daughter was five months pregnant, the latest in a string of disclosures that left the McCain campaign defending his choice and the thoroughness of the background check of the little-known Alaska governor.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner  –  Sep 2, 2008 01:07 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
Palin hires attorney for Troopergate investigation
ANCHORAGE -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate, has hired a private practice attorney to defend her in the investigation into the firing of her public safety commissioner.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner  –  Sep 1, 2008 10:10 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
Alaskans offer hurricane help
ANCHORAGE — Alaskans are offering their help to states facing Hurricane Gustav.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner  –  Sep 1, 2008 5:49 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?