Refine Search

  •  
  •  
Baked Alaska: Unusual heat wave hits 49th state

...That record was set in 1969, according to Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the online forecasting service Weather Underground."This is the hottest heat wave in Alaska since '69," he said. "You're way, way from normal."It's...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-06-19/baked-alaska-unusual-heat-wave-hits-49t
State | Local
The Company You Keep

Now Playing Synopsis: Working from a script by Lem Dobbs, Robert Redford directs and stars in The Company You Keep as Jim Grant, a former member of the Weather Underground who has been hiding out under an assumed identity ever since members of the group participated in a bank heist that ended in a guard's death. When a young reporter figures out the truth, Grant must stay one step ahead of the FBI, who want to bring charges against him for the decades-old murder. The Company You Keep screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi Cast: Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review

US Superstorm threat launches mass evacuations

...season, "so it's kind of taking something from both," said Jeff Masters, director of the private service Weather Underground.Masters said the storm could be bigger than the worst East Coast storm on record - the 1938 New England hurricane...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2012-10-28/us-superstorm-threat-launches-mass-ev
Not For Web
New fiction in bloom at Juneau's libraries

...through the sixties and seventies as they explore the means of social change through groups like Black Power and the Weather Underground. "Derailed," by James Siegel. This is how the affair begins: A beautiful married woman. A lonely married...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/033003/boo_stacks.shtml
Books
What's not being celebrated

...houseguests with more than a hundred stab wounds, they smeared the word PIGS on the wall in blood. Across the country, Weather Underground bomber Bernadine Dorhn bubbled over with approval: "Dig it! First they killed those pigs and then they ate dinner...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/081309/opi_481306893.shtml
Juneau libraries offers plenty for mystery fans

...quiet brother's intellect. "The Star: A Tarot Card Mystery," by David Skibbins. A former member of the Weather Underground, Warren Ritter, has been trying to fly under the radar for the past 20 years, eking out a living as a tarot...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072007/boo_book2001.shtml
Books
Chill the lawyers

...remained largely unapologetic for her transgressions. Stewart, who over three decades represented members of the Weather Underground and the Black Panthers and who even said she'd represent Osama bin Laden if given the opportunity, spoke out...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072010/opi_678933553.shtml
Opinion
Palin says Obama pals with terrorists

...unacceptable to American voters. Palin's reference was to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, during...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/100508/sta_340549731.shtml
Palin defends terrorist comment against Obama

...association with Bill Ayers, a founder of the radical Weather Underground group during the Vietnam era. Both have served...terrorist acts. Obama was 8 years old at the time the Weather Underground claimed credit for numerous bombings and was blamed...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/100608/sta_340814299.shtml
Palin says God blessed America with oil and gas

...forward the Republican message about Obama's ties college professor William Ayers, who was a member of the violent Weather Underground in the 1960s. "John and Sarah tell you just what they think. And they're not going to blink," Williams crooned...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101708/sta_345353712.shtml

CONTACT US

  • Switchboard: 907-586-3740
  • Circulation and Delivery: 907-523-2295
  • Newsroom Fax: 907-586-3028
  • Business Fax: 907-586-9097
  • Accounts Receivable: 907-523-2270
  • View the Staff Directory
  • or Send feedback

ADVERTISING

SUBSCRIBER SERVICES

SOCIAL NETWORKING