Thursday - December 27, 2007

Featured Event: Open discussion -- What are our political hopes and prospects for 2008?

Thursday - December 20, 2007

Featured Speaker: Les Gara, Alaska State Representative -- "How a New Oil Tax Was Born:  A Recovered (or Recently Vacationed) Legislator Tells All."

Thursday - December 13, 2007

Featured Speaker: Rich McClear -- "Peacekeeping and Nation-building: Kosovo 8 Years Later."

Thursday - December 6, 2007

Featured Speaker: Ethan Berkowitz, Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. 

Thursday - November 29, 2007

Featured Speaker: Ryan Buchholdt, President, Alaska Young Democrats -- "Millennial Majority."

Thursday - November 22, 2007

Thanksgiving Day -- No Meeting. Give thanks for our sorely challenged but functioning democratic system, and for all past American heroes and heroines who, beginning in 1620, have tried to maintain and improve it!

Thursday - November 15, 2007

Featured Speaker: Jonathan Teeters, Alaska Democratic Party, Statewide Organizer -- "Democratic Ground Game for 2008: Presidential Caucus and Field Strategy."

Thursday - November 8, 2007

Featured Speaker: Chris Rose, Executive Director, Renewable Energy Alaska Project (REAP).

Thursday - November 1, 2007

Featured Speaker: Barbara Sarantitis, Alaska Workers Association -- "New Hope and a Winning Way to Organize Low-Income Workers."

Thursday - October 25, 2007

Featured Event: Open discussion:  what issues concern us in this political season?

Thursday - October 18, 2007

Featured Speaker: Michael Cull -- "Vietnam, A Country, Not a War," emphasizing new opportunities for Alaskans to help with its recovery.

Thursday - October 11, 2007

Featured Speaker: Kay Brown, Alaska Communications Director, Democratic National Committee.

Friday - October 5, 2007

Featured Event: Bartlett Club Fall Banquet
Featured Speaker: Eric Croft --"It's Time To Be Democrats Again!"
Where: Anchorage Senior Center
Time: Social hour at 6:00 pm, Dinner at 7:00 pm (choice of Prime Rib or Halibut Olympia).
Admission: $30 if purchased or reserved in advance, $35 at the door.
Questions, reservations, tickets:  522-6870 or 272-7360

Thursday - October 4, 2007

Featured Speaker: Bill Wielechowski, Alaska State Senator -- "How 'Clean Elections' Will Work for Alaska."

Thursday - September 27, 2007

Featured Speaker: Patti Higgins, Chair of the Alaska Democratic Party.

Thursday - September 20, 2007

Featured Speaker: Harry Crawford, State Representative -- "Oil Taxes and What We Can Do About Them."

Thursday - September 13, 2007

Featured Speaker: Tim Sullivan, Weed and Seed Program -- "Together, We Create Change that Inspires Lives and Our Community."

Thursday - September 6, 2007

Featured Speaker: Jake Metcalfe, Democratic Candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Thursday - August 30, 2007

Featured Speaker: John Blaine -- "The Curious Pathway to Town Square - 1985-2007"

Thursday - August 23, 2007

Featured Speaker: Rod McCoy -- "Wal Mart's Muldoon Site Plan, A Bait and Switch?"

Thursday - August 16, 2007

Featured Speaker: Sharon Cissna, Alaska State Representative -- "Alaska Health Odyssey."

Thursday - August 9, 2007

Featured Speaker: Rhonda McBride, KTUU-TV Channel 2 -- She was recently chosen as a Poynter Institute Ethics Fellow, an ongoing training program to promote best practices in ethical decision making in the newsroom.  Rhonda also organizes the "What Would You Do?" ethics panel at the Alaska Press Club annual conference. She'll talk about some the day-to-day ethics issues reporters wrestle with and invite you to weigh in on some of those dilemmas.

Thursday - August 2, 2007

Featured Speaker: Diane Benson, Candidate for U. S. House of Representatives -- "Corruption, Elections and Politics."

Thursday - July 26, 2007

Featured Speaker: Allen Kemplen, Former AK State Representative -- "Winter City Planning."

Thursday - July 19, 2007

Featured Speaker: Aaron Selbig, KUDO Talk Show Host -- Title TBA

Thursday - July 12, 2007

Featured Speaker: EnXco, A Large National Alternative Energy Company -- "The Fire Island Wind Farm."

Thursday - July 5, 2007

Holiday -- No Meeting

Thursday - June 28, 2007

Featured Speaker: Max Gruenberg, Alaska State Representative -- “Inquiries, Investigations, Indictments and the Special Session…where do we go from here on both these issues?”

Thursday - June 21, 2007

Featured Speaker: Holis French, Alaska State Senator -- "Health Care for All Alaskans."

Thursday - June 14, 2007

Featured Event: Open Forum.

Thursday - June 7, 2007

Featured Speaker: Jana Chatham, Director of Community Development, Nine Star Education and Employment Services -- "Community Prisoner Release Program."

Thursday - May 31, 2007

Featured Speaker: Rep. Les Gara -- "VECO, the FBI, and Five Even Better Reasons to Fix Alaska's Flawed Oil Tax."

Thursday - May 24, 2007

Featured Speaker: Don Fleming -- "What is Victims For Justice?"

Thursday - May 17, 2007

Featured Speaker: Steve Cleary, Executive Director, Alaska Public Interest Research Group (AKPIRG) -- "Clean Elections."

Thursday - May 10, 2007

Featured Event: Open discussion.  Bring your ideas and concerns!

Thursday - May 3, 2007

Featured Speaker: Robin Bronen, Executive Director, Alaska Immigration Justice Project -- "Comprehensive Immigration Reform."

Thursday - April 26, 2007

Featured Speaker: Rich McClear, a founder of KUDO and media consultant in the Balkans and Middle East -- "Recent Developments in the Middle East - Reflections After a Trip."

Thursday - April 19, 2007

Featured Speaker: Ray Metcalfe -- "Ethics: Corruption, and What the Legislature Won't Do to Fix It."

Thursday - April 12, 2007

Featured Speaker: Ivan Moore, of Ivan Moore Research (public opinion polls, etc.) -- "Reading the Election Tea Leaves."

Thursday - April 5, 2007

Featured Speaker: Barb Brink, Attorney with Alaska Legal Services and recipient of a Liberty Award from the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska in 2006 -- "Alaska Legal Services: A Look Into the Future."

Thursday - March 29, 2007

Featured Speaker: Harold Heinze, CEO of Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority, past President of ARCO-Alaska, and Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources under Gov. Hickel -- "Cook Inlet Natural Gas - A Look into the Future."

Thursday - March 22, 2007

Featured Speakers: School Bond Issues and Anchorage School Board Candidates.

Thursday - March 15, 2007

Featured Speakers: Anchorage Assembly Candidates for East Anchorage and Midtown Anchorage.

Thursday - March 8, 2007

Featured Speakers: Anchorage Assembly Candidates for Eagle River (Seat C) and South Anchorage; The Parks and Recreation Bond will also be discussed.

Thursday - March 1, 2007

Featured Speakers: Anchorage Assembly Candidates for Eagle River (Seat A) and West Anchorage. March will be devoted to municipal candidates and ballot issues.

Thursday - February 22, 2007

Featured Speaker: Don Fleming -- "An Independent Observer's Conclusion About The Pebble Mine."

Thursday - February 15, 2007

Featured Speaker: Lanie Fleischer -- "Our Parks Need Us."

Thursday - February 8, 2007

Featured Event: Open discussion.

Thursday - February 1, 2007

Featured Speaker: Heidi Franklin, Northern Dynasty Representative -- "The Pebble Mine Project."

Thursday - January 25, 2007

Featured Speaker: Sheila Selkregg -- "Action and Insights to End Anchorage Gangs."

Thursday - January 18, 2007

Featured Speaker: Barb Brink -- "Alaska Legal Services - Representing Alaska's Poor in the 21st Century."

NOTE: This meeting was cancelled at the last minute due to Royal Fork's unannounced closure.

Thursday - January 11, 2007

Featured Speaker: Cal Williams -- "The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same". In celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Williams, a longtime worker for civil rights, will contrast the position of women and minorities from Dr. King's days to the days of Barack Obama.

Thursday - January 4, 2007

Featured Speaker: Cynthia Wentworth -- "Transport and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The European Example."