OPINION: Alaska Needs More Workers
By Quinn Townsend – Alaska Policy Forum Governor Dunleavy recently announced that most state jobs will no longer require a four-year college degree due to workforce needs. He said, “Today people can gain knowledge, skills and abilities through
EDITORIAL: Tell Dunleavy you support decision to uphold religious freedom in public square
Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration is getting orchestrated push back from the mainstream media and radical LGBTQ activists for the recent decision to prohibit the Alaska State Commission on Human Rights from investigating nonprofits and business owners who
Alaska Walgreens won’t sell abortion pill due to legal concerns
Walgreens won’t peddle the abortion pill, mifepristone, at any of its Alaska stores. The decision comes after the company received a letter signed by Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor and 19 other attorneys general warning selling the pill via the mail
OPINION: Alaska’s Hard Left always devours milquetoast Republicans
Let’s not forget those eight Alaska Senate Republicans who abandoned their three most conservative colleagues – Senators Shelley Hughes, Mike Shower and Rob Myers – to form the Democratic controlled bi-partisan majority that is now pushing an extremely
Alaska Senate bill would mandate LGBTQ-infused sex classes in all public school
Alaska Senate Bill 43 would require all public schools to teach a whole host of highly controversial sexual topics. Sponsored by hard left Democrat Senators Elvi Gray Jackson, Forrest Dunbar and Loki Tobin, the bill gives schools a way to bypass parental
Misplaced priority? Teachers make up just 42% of Alaska school district employees
By Sarah Montalbano – Alaska Policy Forum Alaska’s teachers are outnumbered by other staff in all but seven school districts. For every four teachers in Alaska, there are five staff members performing functions peripheral to the business of teaching
Court ruling may give Anchorage School Board pause in barring parents from testifying against sex books
In a case that resembles what happened to an Anchorage man who was recently silenced during an Anchorage School Board meeting, a Georgia-based parental rights group has won a federal First Amendment case against a school district that barred parents from
Is the Anchorage School District breaking the law by offering graphic sex books to kids
Under the guise of “free access to information” the Anchorage School District has allowed its school librarians to order and display books for minors which depict or describe graphic scenes of sexual intercourse, masturbation and oral and anal sex. The
OPINION: Vilifying truth-tellers in Alaska and beyond
In biblical times, there were Jonah and Jeremiah. In the 19th and 20th century there were John Quincy Adams, Clement Vallandingham, Anthony Comstock, Smedley Butler, Joseph McCarthy and Robert Welch. In more recent years, Joe Scheidler, Randall Terry,
OPINION: Why is Lady Justice’s blindfold slipping in Alaska?
We all want our judges to be honest, fair, intelligent and experienced persons who uphold the constitution and the law without bias. Although some individual judges in our state meet this description, why are an increasing number of Alaskans concerned about
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