Gov. Dunleavy: Alaska’s traditional public schools are failing too many of our children
At the heart of this conversation is a simple but powerful truth: Alaska’s traditional public education system is failing too many of our children. State assessment data and national rankings reflect this reality. Alaskan parents, both in rural and urban
Alaska Dept. of Law creates process for citizens to request grand jury investigations
After years of controversy surrounding what many view as systemic violations of citizen grand jury rights, the Alaska Dept. of Law (DOL) announced that residents now have a more accessible and transparent process to request that an investigative grand jury
Anchorage Assembly set to vote on plan to criminalize illegal encampments
On July 15, the Anchorage Assembly could vote to approve a proposal to criminalize the growing problem of illegal encampments, which have trashed parks and public properties across the city. The proposed ordinance is on the unfinished business agenda for the
PBS station highlights Anchorage Mayor’s disdain for ICE arrests of illegal aliens
Alaska Public Media, which is a taxpayer-funded PBS affiliate, took time to highlight the fact that Anchorage’s hard-leftist is opposed to the Trump Administration’s efforts to arrest illegal immigrants in Alaska’s largest
July 11 meeting set on plan to impose jail/fines for illegal Anchorage homeless camps
Anchorage residents will have another chance to tell the Anchorage Assembly what they think of a proposed ordinance that would punish unauthorized encampments around the city with up to six months in jail and up to $2,000 in
Myth exposed: IRS acknowledges churches can speak freely about politics
Many churches believed the myth of “separation of church and state” meant silence in the pulpit. But that was never
Clearing the Air: Will Alaska’s Senators serve Alaskans or PBS and NPR?
Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan have until July 18 to vote to cut $1.1 billion in taxpayer money from the left-wing media outlets PBS and
IRS says pastors can openly endorse political candidates without penalty
Pastors in Alaska and across the nation are now free to openly endorse political candidates from the pulpit following a groundbreaking decision by the Internal Revenue Service that vastly expands free speech in houses of
LEAKED: School-choice champ exposes NEA’s radical agenda for public schools
The National Education Association, which includes an estimated 11,000 Alaska educators, has a new radical, anti-Trump, anti-immigration enforcement, anti-parental rights and pro-LGBTQ agenda, which it will be working to advance in Alaska and across the
Taking Back Alaska: State could cut $39M/year in non-essential travel, PR
Alaska’s state agencies continue to operate with pre-COVID levels of travel, outreach, vanity publications and other non-essential expenditures despite tightened fiscal
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