There is a measles epidemic in New York City. So far, it has sickened some 329 people, with no end in sight. This isn’t to be confused with the ongoing epidemic of measles in eastern Washington State. New York City has declared a public health emergency. The City has issued an emergency health order. ll…
Early in WC’s legal career, the superior court would appoint private attorneys to defend criminals when the Public Defender Agency had a conflict of interest. WC was appointed to represent Mike Carman in an armed robbery case back in 1977. Court-appointed counsel wasn’t given a choice. WC undertook the defense of Carman. Carman was being…
Ryan Zinke, of course, was Trump’s ethically-challenged Secretary of the Interior, who resigned under pressure as the ethics investigations mounted. Not before working grievous harm to the lands, airs and waters he had sworn to protect, of course. Trump’s nominee to succeed Zinke is David Bernhardt, a career lobbyist for Big Agriculture. Bernhardt was a…
Good news for Alaska conservationists has been scarce the last two years. Too many old fights have come back. So when on a single day, Friday, March 29, 2019, there are two different wins, well, it’s worth a blog post. The first win came for Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. Disgraced former Secretary of the Interior…
When WC was a much younger lawyer, circumstances put him in extended contact with the late, arch-conservative Larry Carpenter, former Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly member and former member of the Alaska State House. At one point, WC mentioned to Carpenter that WC was involved in a case where unrestrained capitalism had run amok. Carpenter’s…
Harold Thomas Martin III is the National Security Agency contractor who had 50 terabytes of classified data – an almost unimaginably large volume – cached in his home. That doesn’t include the six bankers’ boxes of paper documents he’d also smuggled out. He was busted in 2017 and has just copped a plea. But there’s…
It’s once again time for a half-hearted nod to due diligence as WC attempts to follow-up on earlier blog posts. It’s not journalism; it’s not even close to journalism. But it may demonstrate WC is paying attention. Long-time reader Larry McGee reports seeing a Miller ’20 bumpersticker on a beater pickup recently. Bad Penny has come…
