Part 1: Eagle River-Chugiak’s 5-decade push to exit Anchorage is a fight for local control
The effort to establish a separate government for Eagle River and Chugiak is sometimes described simply as a movement to leave Anchorage. That's understandable, but incomplete. The deeper history is one of local
Alaska must foot own bill after Trump ends fed funds for child gender manipulation
Alaska will soon be barred from drawing on federal taxpayer dollars to underwrite cross-sex surgeries and hormonal manipulation of
OPINION: Election finance cheating should disqualify Rep. Stutes from state office
Rep. Louise Stutes’s lack of financial intelligence and her willingness to squander our money to fund her policies should disqualify her from running for Alaska
Alaska’s public schools have no business fomenting student political dissent
When school-day political walkouts become recurring instruments of pressure on elected officials, and when those actions arise within an educational environment surrounded by powerful institutional actors advancing the same policy objectives, a dangerous
Days before manning ‘nonpartisan’ booth at AK fair, leftist group bashes Republicans
Hard leftist, anti-Trump activists get permission from Alaska State Fair to engage fairgoers in 'nonpartisan' political
OPINION: With winter looming, Alaska’s gas crisis poses real world threat
Alaska's energy crisis is already here and is about to hit home this winter. Blocking the natural gasline construction brings real-world
‘Anchorage deserves better’ – assemblymen blast majority for refusal to investigate Martinez
The dust hasn't settled on a contentious Aug. 4 Anchorage Assembly Meeting in which the leftist majority flatly refused to authorize an independent investigation into whether Member George Martinez misused taxpayer funds for personal
OPINION: Unlike Louise Stutes, Heath Smith is a thoughtful, principled conservative
Heath Smith is a thoughtful conservative who wants to represent the will of the people in our part of the state and has a plan to do so without showing favoritism to any region in his
Who are Alaska’s ‘royal families’?
Like the Kennedy clan, Alaska has its own political royalty. The legacies of the Begich, Murkowski and Hickel families live on, and to a lesser degree - the
Tom Begich would be Alaska’s most pro-abort, LGBTQ-activist governor ever
It’s been a quarter century since Alaska elected a Democrat as governor. Tom Begich is trying to buck that tide. If successful, he'd be Alaska's most extreme pro-abortion, LGBTQ activist governor
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