Palins Won't Split Up: Biographer

Family thinking of moving to escape Joe McGinniss

(NEWSER) - The Palin family summer has been spoiled, thanks to author Joe McGinniss moving in next door, and Todd Palin called Kathleen Parker to talk about it. Parker writes in a Washington Post blog that the Palins are considering moving the family elsewhere rather than live with "big brother" watching when they step outdoors. “It’s very creepy," Palin says. "Knowing that someone is going to be writing a hit piece, and he’s 15 feet away from you.” More»

An 'undercurrent of fear' grips Palin's town

(NEWSER) - When Joe McGinniss moved in next door to the Palins on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, "Mama Grizzly" was furious . But, McGinniss claims, the rest of the town welcomed him. He's heading home to Massachusetts today to write his book, and talks to the AP about Palin's politics and the "undercurrent of fear" that grips her hometown. Some highlights:

• On his welcome to Wasilla: The locals "started bringing me blueberry pie," he recalls. "I had many offers of handguns to borrow. I turned them all down."

He loses job after joke gone wrong

(NEWSER) - The editor at Sarah Palin's hometown paper who reminded Joe McGinniss that Alaskans can use "deadly force" to protect their property is now looking for a job. The publisher of the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman sent Tom Mitchell packing after his line set off a media firestorm of its own, reports the Alaska Dispatch . "It certainly caught fire," said Mitchell. "Palin's a spark plug for a lot of things." More»

It's not a crime in Alaska to use deadly force to protect your property

(NEWSER) - In case you were were wondering, some Wasilla locals are amused by the fuss the national news media—from what they call Outside—is making over Todd and Sarah Palin's new fence. The town paper, the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, has gotten breathless calls from news organizations, including the Today show, which broadcast this morning from Joe McGinniss's front porch on the non-Palin side of the fence. "The unanimous consensus of the newsroom is that we don’t really care if the Palins want some privacy from what they worry might be prying eyes," the paper's editors write in an unsigned editorial . More»

Her 'everywoman' image can't take the hit

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin is doomed, warns Gawker , and it's her Wasilla brethren, not the Democrats, who are could take her down. Sure, the fence she built around her home will shield her family from the prying eyes of the "lamestream" media, writes Adrian Chen. But the problem isn't the press—it's Palin herself. Her neighbor rented to Joe McGinniss because she was angry over money owed. "There's no purer form of small-town drama than the stiffed contractor out for non-monetary revenge." More»