Ousted Palmer City Council members rail against recall supporters
The most recent Palmer City Council meeting ended with a long, effusive monologue by outgoing Councilman Brian Daniels, who claimed he was emotionally victimized by poor leadership from the mayor and lack of support from his fellow council members. On April
Judicial Council to hear complaints on judges up for election
The Alaska Judicial Council, a small but extremely powerful group that controls placement of all judges in Alaska – says it wants to hear from rank-and-file Alaskans regarding the suitability of 30 judges up for retention elections this year. After hearing
Candidates begin filing for new Anchorage Assembly seat on May 3
Candidates can begin filing to run for the newly created 12th Anchorage Assembly seat starting at 8 a.m. on May 3. The deadline to file is May 10 at 5 p.m. A special election will be held on June 21 to fill the new seat. Candidate forms are available
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
Mayor Bronson names third director to lead Anchorage libraries
Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson named Robert Hudson as the city’s next library director. This is the third time since taking office that the conservative mayor has attempted to fill the library director post. Bronson’s first two appointments were both
Fairbanks educators want control over students’ moral development
Hard-left administrators presiding over the Fairbanks School District want to use public schools to foster deep philosophical debate over highly controversial issues. Last week, the district asked the school board to approve a policy update that empowers and
Controversial issues spark heated debate at Fairbanks School Board
After a lengthy and heated discussion over whether teachers should be given a mandate to interject controversial issues into Fairbanks classrooms, the Fairbanks School Board unanimously struck down a proposed revision to its policy last week. The conservative
Palmer’s recall election inspires largest voter turnout in years
The successful effort to remove three Palmer City Council members featured the highest voter turnout of any city election for at least the past six years. According to the final vote tally, 877 ballots were counted in the April 19 special election. That’s
Anchorage School District embraces a woke version of systemic racism
We, like many others, suspected this all along, but the Anchorage School District has now made it painfully obvious. All the talk about rooting out systemic racism and ushering in a new age of tolerance and open-mindedness was really just a case of
Defeated conservative candidates look at what’s next for Anchorage & how to turn the tide
With strong leftist majorities still firmly in control of the Anchorage Assembly and School Board following the April 5 Municipal election, the Alaska Watchman reached out to several conservative candidates who lost their elections to find out whether they
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