OPINION: Restoring old pension plan will bankrupt AK without keeping teachers or troopers on the job
We already owe nearly $7 billion in unfunded liabilities from the old pension system - roughly $46,000 per Alaskan. Reopening it would pile billions more on future generations and threaten the Permanent Fund as the inevitable funding
OPINION: Bloated design failures plague Alaska’s public education system
For years, Alaska’s education establishment has perfected the art of crying poverty while sitting atop one of the most bloated bureaucratic structures in the country. The chorus is always the same - “we need more funding” - but the song never changes:
OPINION: New leftist playbook aims to destroy America with promise of ‘more democracy’
Every socialist from Lenin to Obama started with the promise of “more democracy” before seizing power; this report is the 2020s version of the same
Kenai man indicted for sex crimes during time as church leader
On Oct. 30, a Kenai grand jury indicted 45-year-old Aaron “Scott” Merritt on multiple counts, charging him with sexually abusing four girls between the ages of 5 and 14 who were congregants of Kenai’s Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s
A response to Sen. Yundt: ‘Endorsing’ the PFD is easy. Now what’s the plan?
I read State Sen. Rob Yundt’s PFD post with both appreciation and concern. I appreciate his support for a full, statutory dividend; Alaskans are better stewards of those dollars than 60 legislators. That’s consistent with our constitutional design:
40 Days for Life leader to Alaska: ‘Let’s beg God to shut down Anchorage Planned Parenthood’
40 Days for Life is about to begin in over 13,000 locations around the world on Wednesday, September 24 – and Anchorage is one of them! This peaceful, public six-week prayer effort that began in 2007 has seen 181 abortion facilities close
OPINION: Plan to link Alaska’s Permanent Fund accounts is all about growing govt. spending
Changing Alaska's Permanent Fund structure to provide a stable revenue source for the state is a mistake. It hurts the fund, and it hurts the rest of us who don’t depend on government for a
OPINION: Undercover calls show why AK must fight Planned Parenthood’s child ‘transing’ agenda
This past week, Live Action released a troubling undercover report: Planned Parenthood clinics across the country are fast-tracking vulnerable minors into receiving cross-sex hormones, often in a single virtual visit.
Call to Alaskans: ‘Help us defund Planned Parenthood’ on April 2
It is time for all this to end. Please join Alaska Family Council, Students for Life, and Pro-Life Alaska at a rally to defund Planned Parenthood. We will meet in front of Planned Parenthood on Wednesday, April 2nd from 5 p.m. to 6
NO NEED: State denies hospital’s plan to expand emergency care in Anchorage
Alaska’s Department of Health has, once again, denied an application by Alaska Regional Hospital to expand its emergency room department capacity in
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