TODAY: Alaska to livestream ranked-choice vote count for U.S. Congress
Today at 4 p.m. Alaska’s Division of Elections will livestream its ranked-choice voting tabulation for the special general election to determine who won the contest to replace the late Congressman Don Young. While the race is far from over, hard-left
Mainstream media in decline: Kenai borough aims to nix newspaper ads
With mainstream media in steady decline over the past three decades, legacy news outlets in Kenai may take another financial hit next week. The Kenai Borough Assembly is set to vote on a proposal to repeal the requirement that it post in a local newspaper all
Transgender protocol blindsides Mat-Su School Board & they plan to address it
The Mat-Su School Board was caught off guard when a little-known administrative protocol on transgender students came to light last week. Written in 2015, but essentially buried deep in the school district’s website and completely unknown to several
Abortion survivor to headline fundraiser for Mat-Su pro-life center
Claire Culwell is a living reminder of the tragic impact of abortion. In 2009, she met her birth mother and discovered that she had survived an abortion which took the life of her twin sibling. After surviving the abortion, Culwell was adopted into a loving
Alaska candidate: What’s the point of the new primary system? We all advanced anyway.
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
CDC recommends Alaska ask teens about oral and anal sex practices, gender ID
A year after cancelling its biennial survey in which the State of Alaska gathers detailed information about the sexual practices, drug use, home life and general health of high school teens, the Alaska Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is back. This year the
Enough! Alaskans must push back against schools that trample parental rights
“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
“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
Outside billionaires attempt to sway Alaskans into backing Murkowski
Sen. Lisa Murkowski is benefiting from massive contributions via Lower-48 billionaires who hope to influence Alaskans into voting for the 21-year incumbent this November. Multi-national hedge fund tycoon Ken Griffin is one of several wealthy individuals
Anchorage educators defend reading book about cross-sex drugs, trans-surgery to 4th graders
Editor’s note: The following article details the ongoing two-year bureaucratic saga that an Anchorage family has faced in unsuccessfully imploring the Anchorage School District to stop reading a book about transgenderism to elementary age students. It’s
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