Julia O'Malley

Julia O'Malley writes a general interest column about life and politics in Anchorage and around Alaska. She grew up in Anchorage and has worked at the ADN on and off as a columnist and reporter since 1996. She came back full time as a reporter in 2005.

As a reporter, she covered the court system and wrote extensively about life in Anchorage, including big changes in the city's ethnic and minority communities.

In 2008, she won the Scripps-Howard Foundation's Ernie Pyle award for the best human-interest writing in America. She has also written for the Oregonian, the Juneau Empire and the Anchorage Press.

E-mail her at jomalley@adn.com.

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Until the bridge is for real, leave Government Hill alone - 2/1/2012 7:30 pm

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A crime not as victimless as advertised - 8/27/2011 7:38 pm

So long, folks (At least for a little while) - 8/23/2011 2:53 pm

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What the heck is this?

(Photo by Erik Hill)

UPDATE: It's not a sewage plug or an airplane part. It is, we think, a "snubber." This confirmation from a savvy FB friend:

"I crawled under Brownie (our pickup). It's got snubbers like that on the front end, above the front axle. Is the inside of the hole tapped, like so it would screw onto a bolt? The numbers stamped on the side would be the parts number, so the guy at the dealership can look up the part to sell you a new one, when your old one ended up on someone's lawn."


I found this object in my front yard recently. It's light and made of rubber, like some kind of huge bottle stopper. I have no idea where it came from or what it is. The only clue is a small number etched on the side: 210 23G A170.

Any guesses?

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