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When will Alaska’s schools return to ‘normal’?

EducationSeptember 9, 2022

By Win Gruening – Alaska Policy Forum If the word “normal” seems overused these days, you aren’t imagining it. Everyone wants to get back to normal. Especially in our local schools. But that’s easier said than done. My perception of normal no

OPINION: Anchorage Assembly should amicably confirm mayor’s pick for city attorney

FeaturedSeptember 8, 2022

Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson has tapped local attorney Mario Bird to serve as city attorney, but he must make it through a Sept. 13 vote in order to officially fill the post. He has been serving in the capacity on an interim basis, awaiting final

OPINION: Conservative Alaskans must be calculating voters to win under RCV

FeaturedSeptember 5, 2022

Alaskan Conservatives are doing what they always do. Less than a week after our eye-popping defeat in the Special Election, Alaskan Conservatives are still squabbling over “Who-is-more-conservative-than-whom?” Instead, they should be strategizing

OPINION: Palin should quit so Alaska can elect a Republican to U.S. House

FeaturedSeptember 4, 2022

With 60% of the voters choosing Republicans (Palin and Begich) in round one of Alaska’s ranked-choice vote election for the U.S. House, it seemed like the final outcome should have been a Republican win. One of the Republicans should have inherited the

ANALYSIS: Alaska must clean its voter rolls to ensure accurate elections

ApologeticsSeptember 1, 2022

By Aubrey Wursten – Alaska Policy Forum The people of Alaska deserve election integrity, and ensuring the accuracy of voter rolls plays an essential part in achieving that goal. Incorrect voter rolls result in ineligible individuals voting – even

OPINION: Palin v. Peltola – who will win today’s ranked vote showdown?

FeaturedAugust 31, 2022

Later today (Aug. 31), Alaskans will finally learn who won the state’s very first ranked-choice voting contest. Will it be hard-leftist, pro-abortion Democrat Mary Peltola, or will Sarah Palin complete her comeback to national politics? It’s been two

Alaska candidate: What’s the point of the new primary system? We all advanced anyway.

FeaturedAugust 24, 2022

I am a candidate for Alaska State House District 25. There were two of us in the recent “primary.” The incumbent won a clear majority, and I assumed I was out of the race, but because the new ranked choice voting (RCV) system automatically advances the

Enough! Alaskans must push back against schools that trample parental rights

EducationAugust 24, 2022

“Teachers and staff cannot willfully hide kids’ mental health information from their parents, especially as some of the decisions children are making at school have potentially life-altering ramifications.” – Alliance Defending Freedom

‘Fixed’ elections – in Alaska and beyond

FeaturedAugust 24, 2022

“Fixing” elections in the classic sense, is illegal. Ballot-box stuffing and voting machine rigging, however, are as American as apple pie – practiced in urban and rural communities alike. Forget Chicago. Right after World War II, there was such a

OPINION: Dark money fooled Alaska once – don’t let it happen again

FeaturedAugust 22, 2022

Union bosses, liberal Democrats and extreme leftist radicals convinced a razor slim majority of Alaskans to back Ballot Measure 2 in 2020 – an election that was flooded with mail-in ballots that did not require witness verification to authenticate the

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