OPINION: Meet the anti-homeschooling Alaska State House candidate
Alaska House District Candidate Brent Johnson has identified homeschooling as a problem to be solved and then issued a vaguely worded promise to move those kids back into public schools as one
OPINION: This anti-PFD vote never happened
Three Alaska GOP lawmakers rebut claim by former State Rep. David Eastman that the entire State Legislature unanimously voted to cut the PFD in
Alaska cuts 1,700 state and federal jobs, adds 800 private sector workers in past year
Alaska has seen a dramatic drop in federal and state jobs over the past year. According to the latest report from the state labor department, there were 1,300 fewer federal employees and 400 fewer state
New Alaska poll: Peltola leads Sen. Sullivan, Kreiss-Tomkins ahead of Wilson in gov. race
A newly released poll by the AARP shows Democrats leading in the U.S. Senate and gubernatorial
Anchorage Superintendent blames lack of ‘trust’ after voters reject school spending measures
Superintendent Bryantt's reflections failed to address many of the main criticisms that are driving students and parents away from the district and into homeschool and private education
University of Alaska gets an F for campus free speech in national ranking
The University of Alaska Anchorage ranks near the very bottom of the pack in a new national survey of campus free
Amid political division, Alaska Federation of Natives ponders political endorsements
While the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) remains Alaska’s largest statewide Native organization, its political endorsements do not uniformly correspond with the more than 140,000 people who are affiliated with the
Concerned Fairbanks parents launch petition to pause LGBTQ History Month in schools
Hundreds of concerned Fairbanks parents and community members have signed a newly launched online petition asking Superintendent Luke Meinert to pause all classroom and school-level implementation of a controversial resolution by the school board, which
Fairbanks School Board abuses consent agenda to impose LGBTQ dogma on students
The Fairbanks School Board didn’t want to hear from its constituents before unanimously voting to approve a resolution that establishes October as LGBTQ History Month throughout the school
OPINION: South Kenai voters mustn’t fall for deceptive tax-and-spend liberal in sheep’s clothing
Kenai voters have a clear choice: The tax-and-spend liberal Brent Johnson, who supports every plank of the Democrat Party, or the solutions-oriented, freedom-defending conservative Sarah
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