Candidate says Anchorage election lacked integrity, suppressed voters
Anchorage Assembly candidate Liz Vazquez asked the Anchorage Assembly to deny certifying the results of the city’s April 5 election due to violations of city election laws and voter suppression. She is one of three conservative Assembly candidates who lost
State warning on Alaska’s STD crisis ignores abstinence & marriage
The Alaska Department of Health & Social Services (DHSS) issued an alert this week, warning residents that Alaska ranks third in the nation for sexually transmitted syphilis and chlamydia cases, and eighth in the nation for gonorrhea cases. In
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
The wisdom I gleaned along a Kiev river reverberates today
Anatoly Mikhailovich Mikisha was a talented and accomplished mathematician in his late 30s. He was a rocket scientist, working in the Moscow Aviation Institute in the 1960s and 1970s – the years I knew and communicated with him. At that time, it was the
U.S. pro-life group vows to fight Murkowski after she backs pro-abort judge
Students for Life, one of the leading pro-life advocacy organizations in the world, has vowed to purchase local television ads in Alaska to help unseat Sen. Lisa Murkowski after she pledged to support President Biden’s pro-abortion pick for the U.S. Supreme
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
Palmer Chamber dumps attempt to impose woke rebrand on historic ‘Colony Days’
Three days after the Palmer Chamber of Commerce announced it had “rebranded” the historic “Colony Days” celebration to “The Braided River Festival” the organization issued a public apology and unanimously reversed course. Not only did the Chamber
Alaska will not verify voter signatures in first-ever statewide mail-in election
Alaska’s Division of Elections will not verify the authenticity of voter signatures on the ballots cast in the upcoming June 11 special statewide primary to replace Rep. Don Young. “There is no statutory authority to verify signatures, but voters will
Untangling questions about Alaska’s upcoming elections
Following the unexpected death of Congressman Don Young on March 18, Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a proclamation on March 23 declaring a vacancy and calling for a special election to choose someone to serve out the remaining months of Young’s term, which
Vote NO on Anchorage school bonds: Focus must be students, not buildings
We all want our kids to have the best chance of success in life. Anchorage’s public schools play a vital role in that outcome. Unfortunately, we are hobbling our kids’ academic opportunities by allocating far too many of our nation-leading
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