Inside Opinion

If you have questions about how the Daily News makes editorial decisions, this blog has the answers. Editorial page editor Matt Zencey and writers Frank Gerjevic and Rosemary Shinohara will discuss what they're working on, answer questions and ask your perspective on issues facing Alaska.


Matt Zencey

Matt Zencey joined the Daily News as an editorial writer in 1985 and was named editorial page editor in May 2007. He has won several. "Best editorial writing" awards from the Alaska Press Club and was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University. He lives on the west side of Anchorage, where he enjoys the best weather in town and easy access to the Coastal Trail. E-mail Matt at mzencey@adn.com

Frank Gerjevic

Frank Gerjevic has worked at the Daily News since 1978, where he's been sports editor, copy editor, reporter and columnist. He's been an editorial writer since 1998. He began his newspaper career with the Anchorage Times in 1975. E-mail Frank at fgerjevic@adn.com

Rosemary Shinohara

Rosemary Shinohara is an editorial writer who has lived most of her life in Alaska. She has spent most of her career as a reporter or editor at the Daily News. She covered construction of the Alaska oil pipeline, the Legislature, schools and urban affairs. She has also been an editor for NPR's All Things Considered, and has written for the Associated Press. E-mail Rosemary at rshinohara.com

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From Rosemary Shinohara:

If you read deep into the Alaska Politics blog elsewhere at adn.com, you discovered an e-mail from Dan Coffey to "friends and associates" that give his endorsements and frank un-endorsements for six Assembly seats. (He calls Allan Tesche "the meanest, nastiest, most rotten assembly member ever.")

Coffey frames the dominant Assembly election issue as a need to elect conservatives to keep control over labor and health care costs and the city budget generally.

The Daily News opinion folk will look at a broader range of issues when we talk about the strengths and weaknesses of various candidates in coming weeks -- development standards for our community, getting enough police on the streets, dealing with homeless people, for example.

And you know, we really don't know who the meanest, nastiest, most rotten assembly member ever is.


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  1     February 29, 2008 - 2:06pm | akgen

Dan Coffey is the meanest, nastiest, most rotten assembly member

EVER.

He also sounds like a loser bully in the referenced e-mail.

Eloquence is not a Coffey trait. Just a nasty bully hoping to get elected, no matter what.

  March 2, 2008 - 1:21pm | desaerica

Coffey, Starr et al

are now suffering from electal dysfunction.