# Mike Doogan

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Not to be confused with [Mike Duggan](/source/Mike_Duggan).

**Mike Doogan** is a [Democratic](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) member of the [Alaska House of Representatives](/source/Alaska_House_of_Representatives), representing the 25th District since 2006.

He is also the author of the Nik Kane Alaska mystery series, which includes *Lost Angel, Capitol Offense,* and *Skeleton Lake,* as well as several nonfiction books about Alaska life.

Doogan was an editor of the *[Anchorage Daily News](/source/Anchorage_Daily_News)* from 1985 to 1990, and a columnist for that paper from 1990 to 2004. From 2004 to 2006, he was the Press Secretary, for the Alaska Legislature Democrats. From 2006 to 2012, he was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives.[1]

In March 2009, Doogan exposed the identity of the previously [anonymous blogger](/source/Anonymous_blogger) behind *The Mudflats*, a blog critical of [Alaska Governor](/source/Governor_of_Alaska) [Sarah Palin](/source/Sarah_Palin). Doogan's decision to reveal the blogger's identity received widespread criticism in the [blogosphere](/source/Blogosphere).[2] [3]

## Books published

- *How to Speak Alaskan* (1993)
- *Fashion Means Your Fur Hat Is Dead: A Guide to Good Manners and Social Survival in Alaska* (1996)
- *Our Alaska: Personal Stories about Living in the North* (2001) (editor)
- *Doogan: The Best of the Newspaper Columnist Alaskans Love To Hate* (2003)
- *Lost Angel (A Nik Kane Alaska Mystery Book 1)* (2006)
- *Capitol Offense (A Nik Kane Alaska Mystery Book 2)* (2007)
- *Skeleton Lake (A Nik Kane Alaska Mystery Book)* (2008)

## References

1. ["Mike Doogan's Biography"](https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/68301/mike-doogan). *Vote Smart*. Retrieved 16 December 2020.

1. ["Influential Nobodies"](http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/editorial/04/04/influential-nobodies/), *Staebrook News*, April 4, 2009

1. ["In Exposing the Identity of Mudflats Blogger Jeanne Devon, Rep. Mike Doogan Exposes Himself."](http://www.themudflats.net/2009/03/27/in-exposing-the-identity-of-mudflats-rep-mike-doogan-exposes-himself/), *The Mudflats*, March 27, 2009

## External links

- [Alaska State Legislature – Representative Mike Doogan](https://web.archive.org/web/20110518222229/http://w3.legis.state.ak.us/house/doo.php) **official government website**
- [Project Vote Smart – Representative Mike Doogan (AK)](http://votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=68301) profile
- *Follow the Money* – Mike Doogan - [2006](http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=89719) campaign contributions
- [Alaska's Democratic Caucus – Mike Doogan](http://www.akdemocrats.org/index.php?con_id=28) profile
- [Mike Doogan](http://100years.akleg.gov/bio.php?id=690) at *100 Years of Alaska's Legislature*

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