[Read: Wasilla ordinance to prohibit disposable plastic shopping bags] The public got to chime in at a town hall and two public hearings. In the week before Monday's meeting, the city clerk ...

Wasilla Mayor Burt Cottle introduced the ordinance last year, and after two public hearings, a town hall and public testimony ... will support a bag ban in the city of Palmer, if a proposal ...

Her supporters say she helped Wasilla evolve from ridiculed backwater to fast-growing suburb. The city limits are filling quickly with big box stores, including a Target that is scheduled to open ...

Examine the issue, literally, in black-and-white. Here is the 2002 "Comprehensive Annual Financial Report of the City of Wasilla, Alaska." It's 134 pages of pretty geeky reading.Some headlines ...