Petition to repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting system has 76% of needed signatures
The effort to repeal Alaska’s controversial ranked-choice voting system has gathered nearly 20,000 of the needed 26,000 signatures to put the question up for a vote in the 2024 general election. That’s 76% of the minimum needed. The organization
OPINION: Alaska Has a Responsible budget
By Quinn Townsend – Alaska Policy Forum The annual state budget has finally been delivered, reviewed, and signed as of mid-June 2023. For the first time since Alaska Policy Forum (APF) began releasing the annual Responsible Alaska Budget (RAB),
CORRECTION: Explicit child sex graffiti sprayed on Anchorage playground at North Star Elementary
Explicit sexual images and messages have now been sprayed on the playground at North Star Elementary School in Anchorage, just a few days after the Mountain View Elementary playground was burned by suspected vandals on July 4. On July 6, the Watchman received
Juneau teaches kids how to weave AK Native-styled ‘Pride Robes’ to promote LGBTQ identity
In what some may consider an inappropriate use of traditional Alaska Native culture to push the LGBTQ agenda, the City and Borough of Juneau is encouraging area children to sign up for a year-long program that teaches them how to weave woolen Native-styled
Radical librarians’ network includes scores of Alaskans
A national library network that encourages librarians to push scandalous books to children without parental knowledge has scores of Alaska librarians within its ranks. Library 2.0 is a massive organization that includes thousands of librarians from across the
America continues to have historically low faith in major institutions
Trust in America’s largest governmental, religious, educational, medical and educational institutions continues to languish at or near historic lows, according to the latest findings from Gallup. “Americans’ confidence in institutions in 2023 represents
Alaska summer camp targeting gender-confused youth is part of growing trend
The number of overnight, summer youth camps that target children who may identify as LGBTQ, non-binary or transgender is expanding – both in Alaska and across the nation. These camps typically place gender-confused youth with members of the opposite sex
Ballot measure seeks to set term limits for Alaska legislators
A ballot measure has been filed to set term limits on all Alaska legislators. The proposal states, “No person having served 12 consecutive years as a member of the legislature shall again be eligible to serve as a member of the legislature until six years
Anchorage Mayor Bronson reflects on 2nd year in office
Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson released a lengthy statement regarding his second year in office. “Thanks to the hard work of our directors and thousands of municipal employees, we have made significant progress over the last year in the areas of public
Nearly 20% of all state legislative censures occurred in 2023
State legislatures seem to be increasingly cracking down on their fellow elected officials according to a new report by Ballotpedia, which shows that six of the 31 state legislative censures over the past 185 years have occurred in the past six months. That