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Kyle Hopkins
Kyle Hopkins writes about Anchorage city government and politics. He covered last year's campaign for governor, and has blogged extensively about Alaska politics for the past year. He grew up in Southeast Alaska and was a reporter at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and Anchorage Press. E-mail Kyle at khopkins@adn.com
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Erika Bolstad covers Alaska issues, including the congressional delegation, from Washington, D.C., for McClatchy Newspapers. Before joining the bureau this summer, she spent seven years as a reporter at the Miami Herald, where she covered politics, government and the state legislature. E-mail Erika at ebolstad@adn.com.
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42 months - 5/8/2008 10:32 am
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'Old Valley' - 5/8/2008 9:07 am
At the courthouse - 5/8/2008 8:39 am
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Legislative director - 5/7/2008 9:15 am
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Posted: May 8, 2008 - 1:14 pm
From Kyle in Anchorage --
While Kohring and his lawyer looked to portray the former Valley legislator as an an everyman and victim railroaded by the government at today’s sentencing, prosecutor Edward Sullivan evoked one of the iconic images from Kohring’s trial:
He described a snapshot of Allen giving Kohring money, and Kohring asking what he could do for Allen.
The tape: Former Alaska legislator Vic Kohring accepts cash from VECO's Bill Allen in this March 2006 secretly recorded video.
“That one act alone says it all about Vic Kohring’s character and his conduct in this case,” Sullivan said.
1 May 8, 2008 - 2:03pm | Stags_Leap
what's up with the retro hair? It is out of control. Is he laying the foundation for an insanity appeal?
May 8, 2008 - 5:32pm | niklake
Looking at Vic in court this morning, I'm not sure Sedwick did the right thing by waiving the standard urinalysis drug testing on Vic. Or is Vic merely high on Ayn Rand and his quaint "feed me and I'll do whatever you want" libertarianism.
Nice set of summations, Kyle.
Phil Munger
Progressive Alaska
May 8, 2008 - 5:39pm | darkdakota
But this thread is too funny.
I saw Vinny the Chin in Greenwich Village years ago. Now that was a character. Guy walked around in his bathrobe acting like the Village Mayor.
When I saw him he was sitting on a flower planter cutting his toenails. Yelling in Italian everytime he "got one".
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2 May 9, 2008 - 11:15am | valleycrabber
Tom Anderson Being Asaulted
There is now a rumor from another convict that Tom Anderson has been suffering assault recently at the Federal Penitentary in Sheridan, Oregon where he is currently serving out his sentence. Apparently, since learning late last month of Mr. Anderson being on the take while promoting private prisons, groups of inmates from the General Population have been repeatedly targeting Tom for asssault. God know what assault means in a Federal Prison. Lesil Mcguire did not return calls for comment.
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