• The biggest non-story story circulating Alaska story of the moment is that U.S Senate candidate Dan Sullivan was considered a Maryland resident from 2006-2008 according to the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation. The HuffingtonPost pointed out that Sullivan filed paperwork with the FCC that he was a resident of Alaska for the past 17 years. KTUU, the Dispatch, the Mudflats and many more outlets are reporting on this; each with their own take on the implications. As many know, Sullivan left the state after 9/11 to work at the White House and the State Department. He took his wife and children with him. A marine, he was called into active duty from 2004-2006. According to the Alaska Division of Elections, you’re “considered an Alaska resident if you reside in the state and intend to remain here or you leave with the intent to return.” But nobody should allow such facts to get in the way of a good attack, and while they’re at it, offend thousands of Alaskan residents who are now or who at one time served outside of the state.

• The Dispatch’s Nat Herz has a good primer on tonight’s Senate debate on fisheries in Kodiak. Senate candidates Sen. Mark Begich and Dan Sullivan square off at 7:00 p.m., Word is that Begich, who knows fisheries much better than Sullivan, is expected to take this one. That debate is followed by Rep. Don Young and Forrest Dunbar. Listen live here.

• The Ketchikan Daily News is sponsoring a governor’s debate starting at 11:30 today. Follow live tweets here. 

• Could the future of the U.S. Senate be determined in the Mat-Su? Yes, if I don’t say so myself, and I do in Politico, where I analyze the current state of the race.

• Am I the only person who has missed that Bill Walker and Byron Mallott are aligned with Gov. Sean Parnell on the EPA’s role on Pebble? Here’s the two talking about it with Dillingham’s KDLG.

• While U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski might be waiting to see to who will receive her coveted endorsement, plenty of other known Alaskan Republicans have already cast their hat firmly into the Walker/Mallott ring.

• The Alaska Commons covered the Anchorage Faith and Action-Congregations Together (AFACT) Anchorage Senate candidates forum for districts I, K, M and N. All candidates attended except Rep. Mia Costello and Sen. Cathy Giessel. That meant that Sen. Keven Meyer was the lone voice for Republicans at the gathering, which was centered around religious harmony.

• US News has an article about the seven U.S. Senate seats that are going to be close. Alaska’s fourth on the list.

• The Juneau Empire has announced that Margo Waring has been appointed to a nationwide redistricting task force.

• Politico has a piece about conservative U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D). Burgess Everett reports that Manchin is being used as a helping hand for Democratic Senators seeking reelection in conservative states (including U.S. Sen. Mark Begich this past winter). The first national volley for a 2016 presidential run?

• In Juneau and crave more tense, candidate forums like Tuesday’s school board forum? The Juneau Empire has the details on two of them tonight: the Juneau Assembly and round two of the Juneau School Board.

• While the NRSC is celebrating the anniversary of ObamaCare’s insurance surprise with an ad featuring U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, The Hill suggests that Democrats should embrace the successes and tout the achievements it has had with Americans and the economy.

• Frontier Airlines has announced they will be halting their Fairbanks summer route starting in 2015. The Fairbanks News Miner reports that this will be a major financial blow to Interior Alaskans as this is “the only low-cost carrier service between the Lower 48 and the Interior.”

• Yesterday’s Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce might have been touted your run-of-the-mill state Senate candidate forum between Alaska Sen. Pete Kelly and Candidate Tamara Kruse Roselius, but Matt Buxton’s article in the Fairbanks News Miner makes it sound more like it was a traditional Lincoln Douglas debate.

• The LA Times has continued in the vein of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and focused on the snowmobile ad wars between U.S. Senator Mark Begich and his challenger, Dan Sullivan. Apparently, there’s a hunger for snowmachine news that never gets old or cold.

• In case you were wondering how important polls are indicating being aligned with and/or having the support of Sen. Lisa Murkowski is to Alaskan candidates, TalkingPointsMemo has an entire article devoted to just this issue.

• APRN’s Alexandra Gutiererez has a more in-depth article regarding her experiences between Gov. Sean Parnell’s administration and her efforts to receive access to public records regarding the Alaska National Guard scandal. Craig Tuten with the Alaska Commons also reports on Gov. Parnell and the AK National Guard, but focuses on Parnell’s guidance from Arizona for National Guard reform.

• The New York Times reports that Democrats are spending more money doing old school GOTV in states like Alaska than ever before.

• AHTNA endorses U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, U.S. Congressman Don Young, and AK gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker.

• Alaska’s water is getting some serious attention in today’s newspapers. The Republic has a piece about the federal fisheries agency expressing concern over the accuracy of studies regarding the Susitna dam project.  Meanwhile Becky Bohrer with the AP reports that 35,000 walrus came ashore near Point Lay with a death count estimate beginning at 50 walruses.  Over at the Dispatch, Megan Edge writes that a NOAA scientist says that last week’s massive jellyfish death spotted near Clam Gulch was normal.

• Alaska made it into Rolling Stone Magazine! Ok, through an article regarding Koch Industries and the closure of our oil refinery, but it’s an article that doesn’t mention Palin once.

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