Alaska Governor Palin Denies Eyeing White House Run in 2012

Sarah Palin is Trying to Get a $11 Million Book Deal for Her Memoir (Videos)

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin State of State Address ~ January 23, 2009 (Videos)

Inside Sarah Palin’s War On The Media

The press release was classic Palin. You can hear the twang of her voice when you read it: Governor Palin says to Media, “There you go again.”

Governor Sarah Palin: "I feel like these individuals and entities have much better things to do..."

The missive from the governor’s office addressed “news organizations [pursuing] erroneous and often outrageous leads on a variety of non-issues.”  It came after an excerpt of an interview with Palin from an upcoming film entitled Media Malpractice… How Obama Got Elected was released on YouTube. The interview clips saturated the national news, and in it the governor lashed out at the perceived media bias against her, as she did in the press release. A few days later excerpts from an interview from late December appeared on Esquire’s website, again bashing bloggers and the news media as a whole.

The governor’s press release cites a Politico story entitled “Palin: Media Goes Easy on Kennedy” as “particularly troubling.”  In the release, the governor’s quoted as saying, “I was not commenting at all [in the documentary] on Caroline Kennedy as a prospective U.S. senator, but rather on the seemingly arbitrary ways in which news organizations determine the level and kind of scrutiny given to those who aspire to public office.”

A Cry for Help from Rural Alaska ~ Where Is Sarah Palin?

Cold and Hungry, Here at Home in Alaska

Four days ago, a cry for help went out from rural Alaska via the Bristol Bay Times. Many of us have known that residents of Alaska’s rural villages are having a hard winter. The weather has been unusually cold this year, and prices of heating oil and gasoline have been astronomical. Add to that a disastrous collapsing salmon fishery in Bristol Bay that left residents in that area heading in to winter with less than usual, and you have the makings for a humanitarian crisis.

So in desperation, Nicholas Tucker, from the Village of Emmonak (eh-MON-eck) sent out a cry for help. With 21 days left in the month, Mr. Tucker had only $440 left to feed and keep his family of nine warm, with heating oil at $7.83/gallon. As Emmonak runs out of fuel, it will have to be flown in, potentially raising the price to $9/gallon or more. While contemplating his own plight, he wondered how many other families of the 800 living in his village were having similar hard times. So he sent out a message on his VHF radio, asking his neighbors how they were doing. Twenty five answers came. Here are a few:

Death of Wasilla Hospice Nurse Darlene “Dar” Miller Shocks Coworkers

Darlene "Dar" Miller, hospice nurse died in a house fire on January 6, 2009 in Wasilla, Alaska.

WASILLA — Darlene “Dar” Miller’s death in a house fire last week staggered coworkers all too familiar with death, loss and grief.

Miller spent the last eight years as a nurse with Mat-Su Regional Homecare and Hospice, an organization that provides in-home care for terminally ill patients and support for their families.

Her peers are finding there’s no coping mechanism to ease the shock of such a sudden, traumatic loss.

“We’re experts in grief and the dying process, but it’s different when it’s one of your own,” said Barbara Mistler, the center’s director. “Who takes care of the caregivers?”

Firefighters found the 54-year-old Miller unconscious and badly burned, but still alive in her Wasilla home Jan. 5. Though a cause has yet to be established, the long-smoldering fire apparently started near a bed on the first floor, burning so hot it charred beams and melted pictures on the wall. Miller’s two dogs died next to her.

She was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for burn treatment, but she died the next day.

Sarah Palin Whines About Bloggers, Caroline Kennedy and the Media

Several people have directed me today to the raw video of an interview of Sarah Palin, conducted by John Ziegler, last seen losing his mind at Nate Silver over a weird poll he conducted with myriad foundational logic deficiencies. It’s a wide ranging discussion, primarily focuses on the way Palin feels she was treated by the media, which is all she ever talks about anymore.

One of the more trenchant moments (in fact, the only trenchant moment) comes late in the interview, when Palin is invited to make a comparison between herself and Caroline Kennedy. Basically, Palin seems to think that “class bias” is enabling favorable coverage of the New York Senate hopeful: