OPINION: ‘Hot-button’ climate theme shouldn’t deter Academic Decathlon participation
One of Alaska’s most successful Academic Decathlon teams comes out of the IDEA homeschool program. Some people associated with this team expressed concern about this year’s theme, and one Mat-Su mom relayed her criticism in a widely circulated opinion
Defiant Mat-Su Health Foundation rebuffs members’ requests to vote for governing board
The June 10 annual membership meeting of the Mat-Su Health Foundation (MSHF) included impassioned calls for the organization to let its members, once again, vote for who represents them on the organization’s powerful governing board of
U.S. Supreme Court rejects pro-life suit against abortion pill mifepristone
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge of the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to relax restrictions on the dangerous chemical abortion pill
In new Radio Kenai interview RFK flips on late-term abortion, blasts Covid jabs, decries weaponized justice
In new Radio Kenai interview RFK flips on late-term abortion, blasts Covid jabs, decries weaponized
TONIGHT: Amid growing controversy, Mat-Su Health Foundation to hold membership meeting
Facing mounting controversy about the insular way it selects board members and facing questions about how it spends millions of dollars gleaned from the local hospital, the Mat-Su Health Foundation will hold its annual membership meeting on June
Anchorage Public Library’s new campaign pushes LGBTQ ‘Pride’ on children
The Anchorage Public Library has gone all in to promote transgenderism and LGBTQ sexuality on impressionable young
OPINION: The bear vs. squirrel dispute offers insight into today’s cultural wars
But you wasted your time and efforts in trying to convince a stupid squirrel about something that is so obvious to all of us. You cannot rationalize someone who is brainwashed, irrationally stubborn and believe in the squirrel’s narrow-minded
OPINION: Who do you believe in the changing accounts of the Denali National Park flag flap?
Who are you going to believe in the ever-changing story about the construction crewmen in Denali National Park who were told to remove the American flag from their
Mat-Su kicks off 3-day celebration of 1935 arrival of agricultural colonists
The original 1935 Palmer colonists have a special place in the heart of Mat-Su residents, who are celebrating the 89th anniversary of the year when 203 original farming families carved out an agricultural community in
OPINION: ‘Dangerous gender altering drugs and surgeries do not prevent suicide’
"Gender reassignment interventions — cross-sex hormone injections and/or transgender surgeries, abbreviated as “GR” in the report — have “not been shown to reduce even suicidal ideation, and suicidal ideation is not equal to actual suicide
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