Here's an Alaska story I'd love to see y'all follow up on. Sealaska, a big backer of Sen. Lisa Murkowski, has its eye on clearcutting some of the last Old Growth Forest in the Tongass National Forest.

http://www.alternet.org/story/155928/why_some_of_our_last_remaining_old-growth_forests_may_be_privatized_for_a_political_favor?page=entire

Why Some of Our Last Remaining Old-Growth Forests May Be Privatized for a Political Favor

The House will take up an omnibus bill that critics have denounced as a sweeping effort to roll back environmental laws and privatize public lands.
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The bill that could go to a vote as early as Tuesday includes one measure that would privatize some of the last remaining old-growth trees inside Alaska's Tongass National Forest, a rugged wilderness often called the "crown jewel of the U.S. public lands system." The legislation would convey tens of thousands of acres of Tongass forestland to Sealaska Corp., a native corporation that helped bankroll Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski's 2010 write-in reelection victory. "

Some really creepy things going down here. Need to shine a light on it.

Meanwhile, in other Alaska news, some Militia guys got convicted for some really nasty things.

http://www.adn.com/2012/06/18/2510442/our-view-militia-was-more-than.html

Militia was more than talk

Arms and threats took militia beyond the realm of fantasy

An Anchorage jury on Monday convicted Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox and one of his colleagues, Lonnie Vernon, of conspiracy to murder, the most serious charge in a list against the self-styled sovereign individuals.

If this was a game born of a strange brew of ideology and general anti-government vitriol, the players found out Monday that the game stopped when they began to stockpile weapons, draw up hit lists of government officials and attempt to intimidate government employees and law enforcement officers.

Here's the story on the conviction: http://www.adn.com/2012/06/18/2510148/jury-convicts-alaska-militia-members.html#storylink=misearch

Please! if you can't make it to the snhow, Use Chris HAyes or the Jewish guy. Don't use Melissa Harris Parry! She is Condecending(sp?) and arrogant. I much prefef your (and their) enterining snd imformstive take on the news getting off soapbox. Nuff said.

Everyone knows that Romney is rolling in dough, but does he have to make such a public display of it?