...snow removal," she said. Alaska Realty Group owner Kathy Chircop brings clients to the diner to talk about deals. Oil field works from the North Slope come by in search of rental property, she said. Chircop picked the airport as her business's...

...fought about it. We didn?t run. We worked it out, and we were compatible,? she said. When Jack retired from oil field work in 1990, they decided to stay in Alaska instead of heading south. ?We found out we were too bushy to move Outside...

...University of Alaska Anchorage in 1982, putting herself through school by using earnings from seafood processor and oil field work. In 1990, Stabenow sold her first book ?Second Star,? bought by Ace Science Fiction. She has since written dozens of books...