TONIGHT: Reps. Eastman and Kurka to host Covid mandate listening session
Alaska State Representatives David Eastman and Christopher Kurka, both of Wasilla, are sponsoring a listening session to hear how their constituents have been impacted by Covid and various mandates and policies. The event runs 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Jan. 6 at 190
Rep. Eastman: Our treatment of the unvaxxed is a ‘national disgrace’
Momentous events in the life of a nation do not arrive because a people are ready for them. By all accounts, Americans weren’t ready when the Cuban Missile Crisis began, when General Santa Anna laid siege to the Alamo, or when Japanese planes first appeared
Jan. 12 event to aid Alaskans in aftermath of violent storm
A group of state legislators has organized a fundraiser to help raise support for Alaskans dealing with property damage in the wake of a violent windstorm that wreaked havoc in communities across Alaska this month. The windstorm, which included gusts of
Dunleavy hails Head Start ruling as progress in fight against vax mandates
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy praised a federal court ruling that blocked yet another Covid mandate from President Joe Biden. This time, a U.S. District Court put a temporary halt to the president’s attempt to require all Head Start teachers, workers and
Troopers find mother of baby abandoned on New Year’s Eve
The Alaska State Troopers have identified and located the juvenile mother of a newborn baby who had been abandoned at a Fairbanks intersection on New Year’s Eve in sub-zero temperatures. A Jan. 4 statement from the Troopers noted that law enforcement
Americans to descend on D.C. to protest Covid mandates, medical censorship
Americans from across the nation are planning to descend on Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, for a peaceful protest march against Covid shot mandates and the systematic censorship and cancellation of those who have declined to take part in the experimental shots.
Your vaccination card is your ‘owners tag’
Editor’s note: The following is a transcript of Brett Wilcox’s Dec. 28, 2021, public comment to the Sitka Assembly. When you realize that lockdowns are an economic and mental health catastrophe, that masks only mitigate mental and physical health, that
The arrival of Russian Old Believers in Alaska (part 2 of 2)
Editor’s note: Click here to read part one of this series. The most orthodox group, recoiling under the threat of cultural erosion resulting from the compromises necessary to co–exist with the host culture, exercised the ultimate strategy of exodus to a
Ridding Anchorage library of transgender child propaganda takes a joint effort
A concerned mom contacted the Alaska Watchman the other day to inform us that the Anchorage Loussac Library was prominently displaying a children’s picture book that promotes transgender fluidity to young kids. The book, “Jack (Not Jackie),” sat atop a
Global migration of Russian Old Believers in Alaska (part 1)
The darkest time of the day is before the sunrise. America is the sunrise for the Russian Old Believers in Alaska. Within a few decades of the Great Schism of the 17th century, many Old Believers escaped Russia to densely wooded areas of Belorussia and
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