Why is Alaska Catholic Conference silent on the most critical moral issues?
When Alaska legislation concerns the protection of unborn children, the meaning of marriage, parental authority or religious liberty, where is the public voice of the Alaska Catholic Conference? What are the bishops teaching? What guidance is given to
Leftist pollsters admit that 70% of Alaskans want late-term abortionists punished
The vast majority of both Democrats and Republicans in Alaska favor criminalizing late-term abortion, according to a new poll by a left-of-center polling project called “Common Ground in the Battlegrounds.” The Alaska survey was conducted July 22-Aug. 3
A conservative’s guide to voting on Alaska judges
Once again, Alaskans are being asked to vote on whether certain judges should be retained or removed from the bench. Yet voters will go to the polls with little to no information about the judicial philosophies or political leanings of these
Even Alaska’s ranked-choice vote supporters avoid defending it
In attempting to convince Alaskans to keep its divisive ranked-choice voting system, left-wing proponents have gone out of their way to avoid mentioning the controversial voting
Lawsuit targets alleged DEI discrimination by Alaska’s left-leaning judge selection council
In an effort to expose and eliminate suspected unlawful discrimination within the powerful left-leaning group that controls who can become an Alaskan judge, a national law firm has filed suit against the Alaska Judicial Council for failing to produce its
Alaska joins 16 states urging court to back parents in school gender-ID cases
Alaska has signed onto a multistate “friend of the court” brief asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to uphold a lower-court ruling that California public schools cannot hide a student’s gender-identity “change” from
OPINION: For conservatives to win in November, Alaskans must rank candidates
Ranking candidates on the ballot is not a love letter to them. Nor is it disloyalty to any other candidate. It is a strategic chess move to help preserve a state that you will actually still want to live
OPINION: Not everyone should be allowed to vote
“Universal suffrage” used to mean including women, minorities and the poor being granted the right to vote, but now it is understood to mean something else - and something quite
‘We are back on the ballot’ – Treg Taylor is still in the hunt for Alaska governor
After a week of political chaos, Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom announced that the Division of Elections will certify former Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor’s nomination to run for governor in the general
OPINION: Attack on Amish religious freedom should unsettle us all
It would be hard to imagine such an affront to religious and personal freedom had we not lived through the Covid years. The government trampled all over your freedoms in the name of “pandemic” and flattening the
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