Taking Back Alaska: Shrinking govt. with modernization & AI integration
Through targeted administrative downsizing and the integration of AI systems, Alaska can both shrink government and enhance operational performance. Here’s
Taking Back Alaska: Education reform & local control
This proposed program for Alaska remains content-neutral and provider-agnostic. Educational Savings Account funds may be used at any qualifying public, private, religious, charter, tribal, or homeschool program, consistent with recent U.S. Supreme Court
2 Alaska GOP Districts censure Sen. Bjorkman for joining Dems, mocking GOP
Due to his failure to uphold the party platform, voting on bills that oppose GOP values and joining a Democratic-controlled majority that now dominates the Alaska Senate, two GOP Districts have voted unanimously to censure State Senator Jesse Bjorkman
Taking Back Alaska Series: Medicaid & Health Bureaucracy Reform
Alaska’s health care system is broken - not because of a lack of funding, but because of systemic inefficiency, administrative bloat, and policy misalignment.
Final defendant pleads guilty in massive Alaska drug trafficking ring
The final defendant in a large-scale Southeast Alaska drug trafficking conspiracy pleaded guilty on June 17 to conspiring to traffic drugs and launder money connected to a transnational drug trafficking enterprise that includes more than 60 people who have
Taking Back Alaska: Start with targeted cuts to bloated state bureaucracy
Alaska’s core problem is structural. Each year, billions in federal grants arrive attached to administrative strings that grow state government beyond what its own economy can sustain. Entire departments now exist primarily to manage federal
Taking Back Alaska: From chronic bureaucratic dependency to earned liberty
In trying to reduce inequality, we have deepened the divide between state-managed existence and authentic opportunity. And in promising compassion, we have delivered
Taking Back Alaska Series: Reform without state funds even at $40/barrel oil
Alaska must develop a detailed, preemptive regulatory strategy to dismantle its own bureaucratic roadblocks - without increasing state spending—by using existing federal funding programs to unlock private-sector growth through natural resource
CALCULATE: How much have Alaskans lost since lawmakers began taking their PFDs?
Have you ever wondered just how much money the Alaska Legislature has siphoned off from your family’s annual Permanent Fund Dividend payments? A new calculator makes that
Alaskan pleads guilty to cyberstalking, sexually exploiting child
The U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Alaska announced that a Shaktoolik man pleaded guilty on May 6 to cyberstalking and sexually exploiting a child to produce child
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