Anchorage mayor warns of ‘fiscal cliff,’ than asks for bigger DEI budget
Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance is warning residents to brace for a “steep fiscal cliff” next year, while simultaneously offering a proposed operating budget that maintains unsustainable spending levels and includes increases for controversial equity and
Leftists on pace to sweep Juneau’s mail-in election, while voters agree to tax hikes
The left’s firm grip on local Juneau politics does not appear to be
Hard leftists dominate Fairbanks Assembly and School Board elections
The Oct. 6 election night returns in Fairbanks show committed leftist candidates winning all three borough assembly seats and each of the three school board seats that were up for grabs. A hard-left candidate also appears to have secured one of two Fairbanks
20 Alaska scholarship groups approved to boost homeschool, private and other school options
To foster school choice options such as homeschooling, private education and other options, Gov. Dunleavy has approved Alaska’s first 20 Scholarship Granting Organizations under Trump’s new federal school choice
AFP-Action backs 6 Alaska House candidates who will ‘get government out of the way’
Endorsements aim to reshape Alaska's Legislature to get government out of the way so the state’s economy can flourish, and hardworking Alaskans can achieve their American
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
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
OPINION: Proposed change to how Fairbanks funds construction would be a disaster for taxpayers
A permanent restructuring of how the borough buys construction, adopted by an outgoing body, effective on the watch of an incoming one, with no fiscal note, no published agreement, and no bid data on the record, is not a close call on process. It does not
Chugiak-Eagle River plan to break from Anchorage aims to harmonize local govt.
Eaglexit, at its best, is not an argument about leaving something behind. It is an invitation to take greater responsibility for what comes next: to ask whether local government can be closer to the people, easier to understand, more accountable for the money
Alaska opens applications for K-12 scholarship groups to help expand school choice
In what is expected to be a major financial boost for private, home and religious schooling across Alaska, Gov. Dunleavy announced that Alaska is now accepting applications from nonprofit groups seeking approval as K–12 Scholarship Granting
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