wasilla

ANCHORAGE — We’re still going through documents from the time Sarah Palin served as mayor of her hometown, Wasilla, that I picked up from the clerk’s office on Tuesday. We’ve got about seven years worth of city council meeting minutes, agendas, resolutions and other related local government paperwork in all. Four of us have tackled [...]

VP candidate rose to power by looking out for No. 1. Now that she’s on the national stage, she could be back to politics as usual.

ANCHORAGE — Tuesday I picked up a stack of cds that hold all of the meeting minutes, agendas, resolutions and legislation from Gov. Sarah Palin’s time as mayor of her hometown, Wasilla. Apparently, Sen. John McCain’s campaign hadn’t thought to do the same before tapping Palin.
Mike Lillis and Matt DeLong are pitching in to [...]

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, Mary Ellen Emmons. The article is in [...]

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, in which a reporter named Laura Mitchell Harris [...]

Laura McGann is twittering live from a press conference with Sarah Palin’s successor as mayor of Wasilla, Dianne Keller. First, a little background on Keller: when Palin was completing her term as mayor in 2002, she backed Keller to replace her over her husband’s stepmother, Faye Palin, who supports abortion rights. Keller’s term [...]

PHILADELPHIA — With a steady stream of info on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — including a torrent from TWI’s own Laura McGann, now on the scene in Alaska — emerging since Sen. John McCain chose her as his running mate, many are questioning just how intensively Palin was vetted by the McCain campaign.
Arthur B. Culvahouse, [...]

Quoting Laura McGann’s twitter feed out of Wasilla, AK:
“Walmart employs 4 times as many people here as the city of Wasilla.”
and
“Another fun fact: Palin beat her opponent in the 1996 mayor’s race 616-413.”
A true metropolis.