Alaska legislature passes ‘Baby Box’ bill to protect surrendered infants
The Alaska Legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill to establish safety devices - also known as “baby boxes” – that can provide an additional option for struggling parents who want to safely surrender infants in times of
OPINION: When ‘Thank you for your service’ becomes a shallow slogan
Many veterans do not need strangers to perform respect with a slogan. They often prefer real curiosity, human recognition, and informed
OPINION: Closing the Hilcorp ‘loophole’ is really just government extortion
The Hilcorp tax debate reflects the tension between free enterprise and Alaska government’s growing demand for revenue, compounded by the state’s resistance to cut its own spending and produce structural
Alaska’s gubernatorial candidates share how they’d fight judicial overreach
Alaska gubernatorial hopefuls explain how they would exercise their constitutional authority to check or restrain potential violations of the State Constitution by the judicial
OPINION: When lawmakers deter resource developers, Alaskans get squeezed
Alaska’s fiscal stability will not come from squeezing the last drops out of a shrinking sector; it will come from expanding the sector
Alaska’s GOP gubernatorial contenders to square off in unique family-values forum
This coming Thursday, May 21, a number of the most viable GOP contenders will square off in a unique public forum that aims to help voters distinguish between the many candidates who claim to be champions of conservative
U.S. Supreme Court says mail-order abortion pills can continue while court case proceeds
In a deeply troubling decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily allowed the continued mailing of dangerous abortion drugs into pro-life states while litigation
OPINION: Fairbanks voters deserve to see their ballots counted – and keep their money home
A citizen petition now circulating in the Fairbanks North Star Borough asks the Assembly to return to hand-counted paper ballots. The case for it is moral, practical and
OPINION: Why not adjust lawmakers’ salaries each time they adjust our PFD?
I propose that the salary for every legislator be paid at the same percentage as the PFD we receive. If the public gets a full PFD, the legislators get their full
AK House passes bill that could expand chemical abortions via pharmacists
Eleven Republicans in the Alaska State House joined all their Democrat and left-leaning independent colleagues to pass a bill which many pro-lifers see as an abortion expansion
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