ALERT: AK parents must fight bills that eliminate them from mental health care of their kids
Parents and guardians play a vital role in a child’s well-being. Cutting them out of the process, except under narrow conditions, can lead to fragmented care, missed warning signs, and long-term consequences for teens already facing
Alaska Health Dept. recruits LGBTQ and nonbinary teens to help craft youth policies
Alaska’s Department of Health is specifically recruiting LGBTQ-identifying youth, ages 14-21, to fill paid advisory positions to help shape how the state government prioritizes and develops health issues, interventions and public policy affecting young
Public funds aid Alaska groups that push gender-queer ideology to vulnerable youth
The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, which controls hundreds of millions of dollars, has decided to use some of its public resources to help boost nonprofits that push transgender ideology on some of Alaska’s most vulnerable
Alaska Medical Board to discuss bill that would ban trans surgery on minors
At its upcoming March 19 meeting, the Alaska State Medical Board is set to discuss a proposed bill in the State House that would effectively ban puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries on anyone under 18, while enacting strict
Bill threatening Alaska parental rights advances to final House committee
A highly controversial bill, which critics say will undermine fundamental rights of parents, has moved to the Alaska State House Rules Committee, where it could soon be scheduled for a final vote on the
OPINION: Are Alaska’s ‘full-service’ schools a microcosm of looming socialism?
The focus has shifted away from education itself and toward managing the broader needs of the child. In the process, families have become increasingly dependent on government-run schools to handle parts of daily life that once happened primarily at home.
OPINION: Alaskans must oppose the silent genocide in our midst
Manufactured to kill innocent people, this drug cocktail results in a serious medical emergency in one out of nine women who take it. This includes events like sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, ER visits, hospitalizations, transfusions or
Murkowski peddles debunked myth that mosquito bites spread Hep. B
In a high-profile Feb. 25 confirmation hearing for President Trump's Surgeon General nominee, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski falsely asserted that Hepatitis B is being spread via mosquito bites in Alaska
Anchorage looks to give $2M in marijuana tax to school district’s daycare program
Thanks to the city’s booming weed industry, the 5% marijuana tax brings in about $5 million annually, all of which goes to helping parents offset the cost of leaving their kids in daycare or early education
Pro-lifers launch another 40-day vigil outside Alaska’s largest abortion center
As they do each fall and spring, hundreds of Alaskan pro-life advocates plan to participate in the 40-day public prayer vigil near the state’s largest abortion clinic in
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