OPINION: Dunleavy’s $5,000 PFD proposal deserves a fair hearing before it’s too late
Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposal to give all qualified Alaskans a $5,000 Permanent Fund Dividend is not only worthy of consideration but a brilliant idea that needs to come to fruition sooner rather than later – meaning the PFD needs to be
OPINION: Mead Treadwell backs Mike Robbins as the ‘no-drama’ mayor Anchorage needs
Voting is underway for Anchorage mayor and school board members, and by mid-summer Anchorage will have a new mayor. I’m supporting Mike Robbins. Mike knows the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. Too many sideshows have occupied our
It’s time to expose ‘white privilege’ theory for what it really is
Activists on the left claim that WPT or “White Privilege Theory” is a social movement for justice, equal rights and opportunities for people of color who were historically deprived of their rights through systematic discrimination and structural poverty.
How to bring Alaska back from the brink
This past year of forced isolation, caused by an overly oppressive government reaction to COVID, crippled our economy and quashed our spirit of independence. We have become a submissive society, relinquishing our independence to government socialist control.
3.17 > On Recalling Rivera
While Felix Rivera and his ideological allies at the radical-left Anchorage Press might want you to think that his recall efforts are due to homophobia, it is simply not the case. If all it takes to arrive at the conclusion that you are a victim is to find a
42 years after immigrating to the U.S., they consider me ‘white privileged’
I first arrived in America from the former Soviet Union on Feb. 1, 1978. An agent of the Immigration and Naturalization Service greeted me at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. He gave me $8 for travel expenses, a small booklet titled “Introduction to a
The Left does not ‘Follow the Science’
There are three levels of study to determine scientific facts. To follow the science means you first develop a hypothesis, test the theory, and finally reach a conclusion based on conclusive and consistent testing results. We are constantly lectured by
Dunleavy/Reinbold dispute is part of a deeper struggle over legislative supremacy
Regardless of what you think about Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s scathing letter complaining about how State Senator Lora Reinbold has treated his staff or characterized his administration during Senate committee hearings, or Reinbold’s video response decrying
The big picture: Why do Eagle River residents want independence from Anchorage?
Editor’s note: This article is republished with permission by writer Donn Liston. Click here to read more articles by him. Anyone who has lived here any length of time knows the region of the state that includes Eagle River/Chugiak/Peters Creek is a
Alaska’s RINOs and CINOs
Perhaps it is time to be done with the word RINO, and use CINO instead: “Conservative” In Name Only. The Republican Party is in such a mess these days – scattering in a dozen directions – that the term RINO has little meaning anymore. Just what is
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