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Rep. Young on ‘road to recovery’ after positive COVID test

FeaturedNovember 16, 2020

Fresh off his victory over challenger Alyse Galvin, U.S. Rep. Don Young said he is doing well after contracting COVID-19 last week. The 25-time winner of Alaska’s sole seat in the U.S. House issued an update on his health Nov. 16. “There has been much

Fairbanks Schools are methodically undermining traditional values

EducationNovember 15, 2020

The Fairbanks School Board is being pressured to approve the final piece in one of the most controversial curriculum overhauls in the history of the Fairbanks North Star Borough. On Tuesday, Nov. 17, the board will consider the last pillar to a language arts

Palmer progressives want to wield newfound power to mandate masks

FeaturedNovember 14, 2020

Following victories in the recent October election, progressives on the Palmer City Council now enjoy a narrow 4-3 majority, which they will try and use to reshape the historic farming town. This agenda begins in earnest on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 6 p.m.

Petition launched against Anchorage Assembly’s ‘oppressive’ emergency declaration

FeaturedNovember 12, 2020

Fed up with what they view as the “detrimental impacts” of oppressive COVID-19 mandates, Anchorage residents have launched an online petition urging the Assembly to end its perpetual emergency declaration. Having amassed more than 1,200 signatures in five

Proofs of a stolen election

FeaturedNovember 9, 2020

So, let’s see. Have presidential elections been stolen before? The answer might surprise you: without a doubt. A friend of mine, being too generous, recently told me that stealing an election would involve such a tremendous amount of chicanery on a scale so

Unelected Anchorage mayor imposes mask mandate, restricts gatherings increases enforcement

FeaturedNovember 6, 2020

Anchorage’s unelected acting mayor, Austin Quinn-Davidson has decided to wield her newly inherited emergency powers to impose city-wide mask mandates and tighter restrictions on gatherings. She announced her new mandates during a Nov. 6 press conference.

Alaska judges survive judgement day

FeaturedNovember 3, 2020

Despite a grassroots effort to unseat a number of liberal Alaska judges, all 22 appear to have kept their seats on the bench. The most prominent contest involved an organized campaign to remove Alaska Supreme Court Justice Susan Carney. She was accused of

Alaska Senate leaders urge residents to stay civil as vote tallies trickle in

FeaturedNovember 3, 2020

With a high-stakes, high tension election underway today, outgoing Alaska Senate President Cathy Giessel (R) joined Senate Minority Leader Tom Begich (D) in a bi-partisan letter urging Alaskans to respect the election process until all votes are tallied and

Radical socialists aim to usher in a new regime on Nov. 3

CultureNovember 2, 2020

I was reading a prominent American sociologist Charles Murray’s book, “Losing ground: American social policy, 1950–1980,” which is about the terrible failures of the huge federal programs of the mid-1960s through 1980 (last year of Murray’s

Fairbanks continues unconstitutional persecution of Christian camp

FeaturedOctober 31, 2020

I was on the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly for six years and fielded many calls from constituents with some particular issues. I was happy to try and help them out and created many ordinances trying to fix the code that was hamstringing their life.

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