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.

 

Before rural teacher's death, a wild, vivid blog - 3/13/2010 10:49 pm

Trucking a bitter road and looking good on TV - 3/12/2010 11:32 pm

STAR: More reports about women getting drugged at bars - 3/10/2010 9:57 pm

For 100 widows, respite in Alaska - 3/5/2010 11:30 pm

Paved paradise - 3/3/2010 4:34 pm

App Attack! - 3/3/2010 10:29 am

There are iPhones everywhere, but Alaska apps are hard to find - 3/1/2010 8:32 pm

In Fairview, police and dealers play cat and mouse - 2/27/2010 9:12 pm

Beneath the apologies, he wept only for himself - 2/17/2010 10:30 pm

Frustration haunts jurors who acquitted Wade in '03 - 2/16/2010 8:15 pm

From readers, love stories long and short - 2/13/2010 9:12 pm

More on JFK City - 2/10/2010 5:03 pm

All you need is.... - 2/10/2010 2:19 pm

It's not perfect, but Karluk Manor deserves a chance - 2/9/2010 9:08 pm

Across Knik Arm, a city that never was - 2/3/2010 9:10 pm

Techno meltdown brings peace of mind - 1/23/2010 8:20 pm

Dear feds: We loathe you. Please send money. - 1/21/2010 11:42 pm

Next time you flush, think about where it goes - 1/16/2010 8:17 pm

Real women wear ankle holsters (even in 1975) - 1/8/2010 10:39 pm

Ringing in the New Year with a taste from years gone by - 12/31/2009 12:30 am

Mother Lawrence is back online and still in the hole - 12/29/2009 4:23 pm

Donations are great, but I deal in stories - 12/29/2009 12:14 pm

Sand Lake beagle found, maybe.

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I got this e-mail this morning from Barbara Carlson, with Friends of the Anchorage Wildlife Refuge, related to my column from a few weeks ago about the a mystery beagle waking residents in Sand Lake.

Hi Julia--I thought folks might like to know that FAR got an anonymous call recently giving us the location of the beagle's owner. The beagle had been spotted loose in the ACWR yet again. Anchorage Animal Care and Control visited the owner who admitted that their beagle was getting out often. Animal Control is working with them to help resolve the problem.

Perhaps there will soon be an end to the yowling in the darkness?

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