Ketchikan woman alleges local officials retaliated against her for challenging library books
Ketchikan resident Deborah Simon has filed a formal complaint with the Alaska Attorney General’s Office against the City of Ketchikan, the Ketchikan Public Library, the Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District and the Ketchikan Gateway Borough School Board
Fairbanks Assemblywoman says colleagues and school board are skirting Open Meetings Act to raise taxes
Conservative Fairbanks Borough Assemblywoman Barbara Haney is claiming that liberal members of the school board and assembly are using a largely unknown ad hoc education committee to hatch critical and far-reaching legislation outside of the public
OPINION: Texas & Alaska: Unilateral v. Peaceful Secession – Part 1
With the border crisis in Texas and elsewhere, talk of secession has cropped up in serious circles: presidential candidate Nikki Haley had to walk back some statements. Jim Abbott and the support Texas has received from other states to defy the federal
AK senator derides critics of her plan to grow education budget as ‘white supremacy’ supporters
In a highly partisan and incendiary speech, Alaska State Sen. Löki Tobin (D-Anchorage) suggested that those who oppose massive funding increases for government schools are part of the legacy of white
Mat-Su School Board should cull several highly sexual library books, administration says
Mat-Su Superintendent Randy Trani's administration gave a presentation to the Mat-Su School Board on Feb. 7 in which it recommended that the board vote to remove several highly sexualized and deeply controversial books from the borough’s school
Despite tanking enrollment, Fairbanks wants to raise taxes by $10M to benefit public schools
Sponsored by Borough Mayor Bryce Ward and Assembly members Savannah Fletcher and Brett Rotermund, the ordinance aims to ask borough residents if they would approve an increase to the tax cap so that the borough could tax residents an additional $10 million
Activist Ketchikan librarians don ‘Handmaids’ costumes in defiance of book challenges
Six women wearing long red gowns and Puritan head dresses, then stood silently on the catwalk. For the performance, the women put red tape over their mouths as they solemnly walked down the stage, defiantly threw back their gowns and revealed their varied
10 basic facts to consider as Alaska lawmakers debate how to fund government schools
While left-leaning lawmakers consistently assert that Alaska’s dismal student academic achievement is related to lack of funding, there is amble evidence to suggest that more money is not the golden goose that most left-leaning politicians and educators
Anchorage launches Alaska’s 2nd Moms For Liberty chapter to fight for parental rights
Alaska now has its second Moms For Liberty chapter, which is part of a rapidly growing network of more than 300 groups with 130,000 active members across 48
UPDATE: Effort to repeal Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system in limbo until March
The political action group behind the effort to repeal Alaska’s controversial and confusing ranked-choice voting system says it doesn’t expect to know until March whether voters will get a chance to ditch RCV at the upcoming November general
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