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EDITORIAL: Tell Dunleavy you support decision to uphold religious freedom in public square

FaithMarch 7, 2023

Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration is getting orchestrated push back from the mainstream media and radical LGBTQ activists for the recent decision to prohibit the Alaska State Commission on Human Rights from investigating nonprofits and business owners who

OPINION: Alaska’s Hard Left always devours milquetoast Republicans

FeaturedMarch 7, 2023

Let’s not forget those eight Alaska Senate Republicans who abandoned their three most conservative colleagues – Senators Shelley Hughes, Mike Shower and Rob Myers – to form the Democratic controlled bi-partisan majority that is now pushing an extremely

Misplaced priority? Teachers make up just 42% of Alaska school district employees

EducationMarch 4, 2023

By Sarah Montalbano – Alaska Policy Forum Alaska’s teachers are outnumbered by other staff in all but seven school districts. For every four teachers in Alaska, there are five staff members performing functions peripheral to the business of teaching

Founding member of Covenant House AK details how youth shelter deliberately rejected its faith-based morals

FaithMarch 2, 2023

Covenant House Alaska (CHA) was created in early 1987 by the late Anchorage Archbishop Francis T. Hurley of Anchorage and Father Bruce Ritter, a Franciscan priest and President of Covenant House International (CHI). Father Ritter founded Covenant House as a

Is the Anchorage School District breaking the law by offering graphic sex books to kids

CrimeMarch 1, 2023

Under the guise of “free access to information” the Anchorage School District has allowed its school librarians to order and display books for minors which depict or describe graphic scenes of sexual intercourse, masturbation and oral and anal sex. The

OPINION: Vilifying truth-tellers in Alaska and beyond

CultureFebruary 28, 2023

In biblical times, there were Jonah and Jeremiah. In the 19th and 20th century there were John Quincy Adams, Clement Vallandingham, Anthony Comstock, Smedley Butler, Joseph McCarthy and Robert Welch. In more recent years, Joe Scheidler, Randall Terry,

EDITORIAL: Why Alaska Watchman names names

FeaturedFebruary 28, 2023

The Alaska Watchman recently published an article which directly names some of the teachers, principals and librarians who support providing graphic gay sex books to students in the Anchorage School District. There has been some concern over the fact that the

OPINION: Why is Lady Justice’s blindfold slipping in Alaska?

FeaturedFebruary 27, 2023

We all want our judges to be honest, fair, intelligent and experienced persons who uphold the constitution and the law without bias. Although some individual judges in our state meet this description, why are an increasing number of Alaskans concerned about

Research suggests Alaska should not simply advance failing readers to the next grade

EducationFebruary 27, 2023

By Quinn Townsend – Alaska Policy Forum Ten years ago, Mississippi implemented a statewide early literacy policy similar to the Alaska Reads Act enacted here in 2022. One controversial portion of both bills is a retention requirement — in Mississippi, if

EDITORIAL: We cannot win every battle…

AbortionFebruary 24, 2023

There are enumerable battles to fight in today’s culture with so much goodness, truth and beauty now under attack. These struggles play out in our homes, churches, schools and wider communities. We fight for marriage, parental authority, children’s

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