Alaska House bans public funding of abortion, but rejects stiff penalties for violations
While the Alaska House once again passed a budget banning Alaska from using state funds to cover the killing of unborn Alaskans through abortion, it rejected an amendment that would have imposed stiff financial penalties on state health commissioners and
Anchorage Assemblyman Weddleton concedes to conservative challenger
John Weddleton, a member of the Anchorage Assembly’s leftist majority for the past six years, has conceded to conservative challenger Randy Sulte. At the last official vote count, on April 8, Sulte was ahead by roughly 450 votes over Weddleton – 7,924 to
ELECTION UPDATE: Anchorage school & facility bonds failing, but key races unchanged
The third day of vote counting in the Anchorage election wrapped April 7 with at least 14,000 ballots still yet to be tallied. So far, there has been no substantial change from election night in key Anchorage Assembly and school board contests. Two bond
Tshibaka calls Murkowski’s vote for Supreme Court pick ‘heartbreaking and offensive’
U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka blasted Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s April 7 vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. Murkowski was one of three Republicans to break ranks with their party and join all 50 Democrats in confirming
Anchorage Election Update: 2nd round of tabulations released
The second day of vote tabulation revealed no substantial changes in key Anchorage Assembly and school board races on April 6. Three of the four hard-left incumbents are still leading comfortably, while fellow liberal John Weddleton continues to trail his
What are we to do with Anchorage as it is?
If election day totals hold, the Anchorage Assembly will remain firmly controlled by the radical leftists who imposed Covid mandates, shut down churches, limited religious liberties and personal freedoms, pushed LGBTQ politics and bungled homelessness.
Early returns show most Anchorage Assembly & school board incumbents leading
Early returns in Anchorage’s April 5 mail-in election show three of the four hard-left incumbents in the lead, while fellow liberal John Weddleton is narrowly trailing his conservative challenger Randy Sulte. The open seat in Eagle River, however, looks
Alaska Native groups join woke activists in supporting Biden’s SCOTUS pick
The heads of 56 Alaska Native tribes along with the leadership of the Alaska Federation of Natives have joined the ranks of extreme environmentalists, militant abortionists and some of the world’s most powerful LGBTQ political activists in throwing their
Why should Alaskans trust them again?
We live in the sinister shadow of the most preposterous election in American history – the 2020 election that most conservatives believe was stolen. We have had many of the same questions haunting us with our own Alaskan issues and officeholders from
ALERT: If you’re voting in Anchorage today, don’t just drop your ballot in a mailbox
For Anchorage residents who have waited until today (April 5) to vote in the citywide election, it is imperative that they do not simply drop their ballot in a post office box. Doing so may negate your vote because your ballot envelope may not get stamped in
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