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OPINION: What’s next in the ongoing battle to protect girls’ sports in Alaska

EducationMay 8, 2023

The Alaska School Activities Association (ASAA) decided not to take up a vote last week to adopt a bylaw change that would have limited girls’ sports and teams to biological females. Hundreds of Alaskans emailed, signed a petition, and called in to testify

Alaskans aren’t really empowered to call a constitutional convention (Part 4)

FeaturedMay 8, 2023

By J.H. Snider – The Fulcrum Editor’s note: The following is the final column in a four-part series on Alaska’s 2022 Constitutional Convention vote, which included massive amounts of outside spending to convince Alaskans to vote against holding a

Biden’s attack against a Catholic candle sheds light on a much broader threat

CultureMay 6, 2023

The attack against Christianity, so obvious now for any thoughtful Christian, goes straight through the pro-lifers in Evangelical and Catholic Christianity. We have seen where evangelical ministers have dared to defy this zeitgeist, most notably in Canada and

OPINION: Alaska’s standardized test labels can mislead parents on students’ performance

EducationMay 1, 2023

By Sarah Montalbano – Alaska Policy Forum The Alaska System of Academic Readiness (AK STAR) assessment, administered for the first time in the spring of 2022 to Alaskan K-12 students, promises continuity with mid-year assessments and less testing time —

The collective madness of pandering to delusion cannot long endure

CultureApril 30, 2023

History is a science, every bit as much as physics, chemistry, biology and others. And like them, it goes through various interpretations and analyses, which we call “historiography.” The other sciences keep changing their interpretations, too. Take

Part 3: Alaska should be outraged that election laws failed to rein in the anti-Const. Convention ‘cartel’

FeaturedApril 30, 2023

By J.H. Snider – The Fulcrum Editor’s note: The following is part three of four in a series about Alaska’s 2022 Constitutional Convention vote, which included massive amounts of outside spending to convince Alaskans to vote against holding a

OPINION: If Chugach/Eagle River secedes from Anchorage we can strengthen parental rights in education

EducationApril 26, 2023

Editor’s note: EaglExit is a growing grassroots movement of Chugiak/Eagle River residents who are working to formally secede from Anchorage to create a new independent borough. The aim is to create a small government that can better deliver essential

Part II: Shock and awe spending spree aimed to deter future Alaska’s Constitutional Convention efforts

FeaturedApril 26, 2023

By J.H. Snider – The Fulcrum Editor’s note: The following is part two of four in a series about Alaska’s 2022 Constitutional Convention vote, which included massive amounts of outside spending to convince Alaskans to vote against holding a

OPINION: Anti-gun lawmakers introduce bills to roll back 2A rights of Alaskans

FeaturedApril 23, 2023

As we expected, the anti-gun zealots introduced their legislation in Juneau this month. They’re aiming to take away your gun rights through gun-confiscation schemes like so called “Red-Flag” laws and the “Home-Invasion Incentive Act.” Red-flag laws

OPINION: Why aren’t more Alaskans stepping up to defend the parental rights bill?

EducationApril 22, 2023

On March 30, I waited about an hour and a half to testify in support of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s parental rights in education bill (House Bill 105), which would bar public schools from hiding a child’s sexual identity or health records from parents, while

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