Homesteading Alaska: Historical necessity & modern enthusiasm
Growing up on a Homestead in Alaska felt normal. Doesn’t everyone have their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins spread out evenly down an old homestead road? A childhood like mine was atypical in the 1980s and 90s in the Mat-Su Valley as homesteading
Prayers are needed and appreciated
Posts will be a little slow in coming over the short-term. Our truly tireless editor-in-chief is currently focused entirely on being primary caretaker to his amazing wife Joy. For those of you who didn’t know and don’t realize, Joel’s wife
OPINION: Texas & Alaska: Unilateral v. Peaceful Secession – Part 2
A state can do anything it wants that is not specifically prohibited. Thus, while the scholars pretend that the Constitution is silent on secession, they want to ignore the very part of the Constitution wherein the right is actually
Alaska Walgreens’ move to sell abortion drug prompts pro-lifers to protest Soldotna store
After initially assuring the state that it would not sell the abortion pill mifepristone in its Alaska stores, Walgreens has since reversed course and is now dispensing the deadly drug to
Once again, Sen. Murkowski sponsors bill to force states into killing unborn babies
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski has once again signed on as a co-sponsor of a controversial bill aimed at forcing every state in the nation to kill unborn babies through
Nick Begich picks up endorsement from Vivek Ramaswamy
Nick Begich, who is challenging Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola in the upcoming November 2024 election, just picked up an endorsement from former U.S. presidential candidate Vivek
Ketchikan woman alleges local officials retaliated against her for challenging library books
Ketchikan resident Deborah Simon has filed a formal complaint with the Alaska Attorney General’s Office against the City of Ketchikan, the Ketchikan Public Library, the Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District and the Ketchikan Gateway Borough School Board
Record low 17% of H.S. grads were eligible for Alaska performance scholarship in 2023
The percentage of Alaska high school graduates who can meet the basic minimum requirements to obtain an Alaska Performance Scholarship hit a new record low in
Fairbanks Assemblywoman says colleagues and school board are skirting Open Meetings Act to raise taxes
Conservative Fairbanks Borough Assemblywoman Barbara Haney is claiming that liberal members of the school board and assembly are using a largely unknown ad hoc education committee to hatch critical and far-reaching legislation outside of the public
OPINION: Texas & Alaska: Unilateral v. Peaceful Secession – Part 1
With the border crisis in Texas and elsewhere, talk of secession has cropped up in serious circles: presidential candidate Nikki Haley had to walk back some statements. Jim Abbott and the support Texas has received from other states to defy the federal
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