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Frontiersman v. Times of London

By | 09.08.08 | 5:45 pm

TALKEETNA, Alaska — Looks like a feud has kicked up between The Times of London and the local paper that covers Gov. Sarah Palin’s hometown, the Mat-Su Frontiersman.

Here’s the paragraph that started it in The Times:

[Wasilla is] a small, unkempt-looking place, defined by a series of

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Palin to Wasilla Librarian: Are You OK With Censorship?

By | 09.03.08 | 5:00 am

ANCHORAGE — Tuesday afternoon, the Mat-Su Frontiersman, in Wasilla, hosted me in their offices so I could dig through their print archives to get a sense of Gov. Sarah Palin’s tenure as mayor there.

I photocopied one story, from December 1996, about Palin’s run-in with Wasilla’s director of libraries, More…

Palin on Running Wasilla: “It’s Not Rocket Science”

By | 09.02.08 | 7:08 pm

WASILLA, Alaska– I’m here at the Mat-Su Frontiersman‘s offices flipping through their print archives. I was curious about what then-Mayor Sarah Palin said at the time about giving her top managers a loyalty test and eventually firing her chief of police.

I’m reading an article from October 1996, More…