A conservative’s guide to voting on Alaska judges
Once again, Alaskans are being asked to vote on whether certain judges should be retained or removed from the bench. Yet voters will go to the polls with little to no information about the judicial philosophies or political leanings of these
OPINION: For conservatives to win in November, Alaskans must rank candidates
Ranking candidates on the ballot is not a love letter to them. Nor is it disloyalty to any other candidate. It is a strategic chess move to help preserve a state that you will actually still want to live
OPINION: Not everyone should be allowed to vote
“Universal suffrage” used to mean including women, minorities and the poor being granted the right to vote, but now it is understood to mean something else - and something quite
OPINION: Attack on Amish religious freedom should unsettle us all
It would be hard to imagine such an affront to religious and personal freedom had we not lived through the Covid years. The government trampled all over your freedoms in the name of “pandemic” and flattening the
OPINION: Feds ease up on suppressors, but Alaska still calls them ‘prohibited’ weapons
The suppressor part of our law is particularly hard to defend because Alaska already lets people hunt with them. We have one Alaska law telling you that you can put a suppressor on your rifle and go hunting, while another Alaska law calls that same suppressor
Data centers, vaccines or Murkowski’s ‘facts’: Don’t fall for political propaganda
In the run-up to the November election, every Alaska voter is a target of propagandists. Politicians, social media, and mainstream media are feeding you deceptive information to shape your opinions to support their
OPINION: Conservative Alaskan voters face extra hurdles
Lieutenant Governor Dahlstrom announced last Friday that none of the 11,928 votes Treg Taylor received for governor will count this year. So, if you voted for any other candidate, your vote counted, but if you were one of the conservatives who voted for
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
Tom Begich’s exit from Alaska’s governor race signals the end for ‘moderate’ Democrats
This wasn't Alaska Democrats choosing their most electable candidate. It was organized labor picking its most obedient one, and making sure nobody else could afford to compete. Tom Begich didn't lose an argument. He lost a shakedown, and he knew it well
Why some Alaska GOP candidates should quit if they were not the top Republican in the primary
The problem is that many voters simply do not rank candidates but prefer to choose just one candidate on the ballot. If their choice is eliminated in the first round, then their ballot is tossed out and no longer counted in future
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