Anchorage mayor wants to expand DEI budget despite looming ‘fiscal cliff’
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
Mat-Su Club America president invites teens to join movement founded by Charlie Kirk
Mat-Su teens are invited to join the growing local Club America youth movement that was founded by the late Charlie
OPINION: Selective leftism obliterates universal human dignity
There is a clear contrast between humanism's emphasis on equal moral worth and universal rights and the leftist focus on identity politics, neo-Marxism, democratic socialism and structured
Animal activists want Denali Park to harness humans instead of sled dogs
PETA wants Denali National Park to abandon its sled dogs in favor of human-pulled sleds to transport essential supplies across the vast wilderness during extreme winter
OPINION: Why Alaskans must join the resistance to Neo-Marxism
Modern American progressive movements strikingly resemble the utopian socialist and Marxist movements of 19th-century Europe. This is especially so in the controversial rhetoric surrounding "white privilege," "systemic racism," "Black Lives Matter," "BIPOC"
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
OPINION: Before his disgraceful treason, Benedict Arnold’s heroism helped save America
Benedict Arnold was the greatest and most natural military leader on both sides during the War for Independence. We would not have won without
Fairbanks looks to push radical LGBTQ agenda on students throughout October
The Fairbanks School Board, now firmly controlled by hard-leftist members, is set to vote on a resolution that would call on all local schools to officially celebrate and actively promote LGBTQ History Month throughout all of
U.S. weed smoking hits record high – Alaskans are even higher
The number of Americans who smoke marijuana has reached an all-time high, according to a new Gallup poll, with 17% of U.S. residents now lighting up. The surge in weed use represents more than double the 7% who said they smoked marijuana in
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