Powerful climate activists aim to stack Mat-Su, Homer & Chugach electric boards
Well-connected environmental activist organizations across Alaska are proactively working to stack local electric cooperative boards with candidates who are ideologically aligned with pursuing controversial and largely unproven alternatives to fossil
OPINION: Fairbanks schools’ $11.4M surplus undercuts funding ‘crisis’ narrative
The Fairbanks School District quietly built healthy reserves, while publicly pushing a narrative of crisis - closed schools, outsourced custodial services, rising class sizes, and staff reductions. Taxpayers were told more money was the only
Controversial school mental health bill set for final vote in Alaska Senate
The Alaska State Senate is set to vote on a bill that critics warn will empower educational bureaucrats with authority to craft mental health guidelines for impressionable students, thereby opening the door for public schools to push topics like gender
OPINION: Anchorage hands radical libs another election day win, but ….
Despite more efforts being employed by more groups than well...pretty much ever, the Anchorage Assembly and the Anchorage School Board will likely remain as radically liberal as they have been in recent
OPINION: Who will challenge Sen. Giessel – AK’s Dark Queen of Ranked-Choice Voting?
Cathy Giessel is the poster child for Ranked Choice Voting in Alaska. She supported bringing it to our state, she has won elections using it, and she is doing everything she can to save
Pro-abortion senator uses pro-life arguments to oppose effort to save Alaska babies
Ironically, the pro-abortion Sen. Tobin's arguments against baby boxes are some of the exact same issues that pro-life advocates raise when warning about the abuses women endure from
LAST CALL: Anchorage voters have until 8 p.m. tonight to cast ballots
Today, April 7, is the final opportunity for voters to decide the fate of Anchorage Assembly and school board races, along with a slew of bond debt
Mat-Su Mayor ‘compelled’ to tackle mockery of Alaska Grand Jury rights
Mat-Su Borough Mayor and Alaska gubernatorial candidate Edna DeVries recently expressed deep concerns and shared her personal experience regarding the ongoing controversy swirling around the rights and responsibilities of Alaska Grand
Anchorage mayor uses her official email to plug bond-debt propositions
While the mayor of Anchorage is generally prohibited from using official municipal email or other government resources to advocate for or against ballot measures ahead of elections, Mayor Suzanne LaFrance appears to be doing so
OPINION: A gas line can spring Alaska free from the resource trap
If Alaska is serious about escaping the resource trap we created for ourselves, we need to start acting like a state that still knows how to build big things. The Alaska gas line is the clearest test of whether we mean
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