Greens organizing in Juneau!

Jeremy Dodson and a few other Greens in Juneau are organizing, and I'm helping them set up a blog. It's pretty minimal at the moment, but should be a nice starter. Here's the link.

Braun's withdrawn

Oh, well.

Senate district D candidate

David Braun, it turns out, has a website. Braun is the Green Party candidate for Senate district D, running against Democrat Joe Thomas and Republican Ralph Seekins. He hails from Healy. He is, however, a federal employee, and so may not run for state office, evidently. He's been told by the US Office of Special Counsel that he has to either quit his job or withdraw his candidacy. Braun's got until Oct. 27 to decide what he'll do, but his name is already on the ballot.

Green policy database

GreenPRO is the Green Policy, Resolutions, and Ordinance Database, a project of the Green Institute, a Green think tank. The database is a resource of various policies, resolutions, regulations, and ordinances enacted by Green and other progressive bodies and officeholders. The database is small at the moment (it was only put on line Oct. 12), but already covers such topics as corporate accountability, election reform, peace initiatives, and sustainability policies.

Green assemblyman in Fairbanks

Mike Musick has been elected to Seat G on the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly, by a whopping 61.66 percent! (7005 votes)

The News-Miner has an article about the election results. What strikes me about this is that people with such divergent views as Charlie Rex and Nadine Hargesheimer or Luke Hopkins agree that Musick will make a good assemblyman. When both conservatives and liberals can postively agree on the quality of a person, that's a good sign. We certainly don't need the divisiveness that was evident on the assembly during Rick Solie's tenure...