Opinion Pieces from the various perspectives of our contributors.

Why I left the Republican Party

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No political party is perfect. It is a matter of reading the platforms, understanding the issues, learning the ropes and then – literally – picking your poison. All parties have subtle differences within them, but they are also united by common core

The wisdom I gleaned along a Kiev river reverberates today

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Anatoly Mikhailovich Mikisha was a talented and accomplished mathematician in his late 30s. He was a rocket scientist, working in the Moscow Aviation Institute in the 1960s and 1970s – the years I knew and communicated with him. At that time, it was the

What are we to do with Anchorage as it is?

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If election day totals hold, the Anchorage Assembly will remain firmly controlled by the radical leftists who imposed Covid mandates, shut down churches, limited religious liberties and personal freedoms, pushed LGBTQ politics and bungled homelessness.

Why should Alaskans trust them again?

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We live in the sinister shadow of the most preposterous election in American history – the 2020 election that most conservatives believe was stolen. We have had many of the same questions haunting us with our own Alaskan issues and officeholders from

Glen Biegel to Anchorage: Don’t wait -vote NOW!

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It’s voting day because you really can’t vote in person. There are three locations to vote: City Hall (hah!), the Loussac library, and the Town Center in Eagle River. Didn’t know that, or do you plan to stand in a three-plus-hour-long line

Bedlam reigns in Alaska’s lunatic election asylum

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Each day we awake to find that, despite the hopes of turning things around, our culture has become a veritable lunatic asylum. The term “bedlam” means confusion and insanity, but it originated with the name of London’s infamous insane asylum. In the