Homesteading Alaska: Historical necessity & modern enthusiasm
Growing up on a Homestead in Alaska felt normal. Doesn’t everyone have their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins spread out evenly down an old homestead road? A childhood like mine was atypical in the 1980s and 90s in the Mat-Su Valley as homesteading
OPINION: Texas & Alaska: Unilateral v. Peaceful Secession – Part 2
A state can do anything it wants that is not specifically prohibited. Thus, while the scholars pretend that the Constitution is silent on secession, they want to ignore the very part of the Constitution wherein the right is actually
Alaska Walgreens’ move to sell abortion drug prompts pro-lifers to protest Soldotna store
After initially assuring the state that it would not sell the abortion pill mifepristone in its Alaska stores, Walgreens has since reversed course and is now dispensing the deadly drug to
Ketchikan woman alleges local officials retaliated against her for challenging library books
Ketchikan resident Deborah Simon has filed a formal complaint with the Alaska Attorney General’s Office against the City of Ketchikan, the Ketchikan Public Library, the Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District and the Ketchikan Gateway Borough School Board
Fairbanks Assemblywoman says colleagues and school board are skirting Open Meetings Act to raise taxes
Conservative Fairbanks Borough Assemblywoman Barbara Haney is claiming that liberal members of the school board and assembly are using a largely unknown ad hoc education committee to hatch critical and far-reaching legislation outside of the public
WARNING: Anyone can become the victim of a far-left cult
We take comfort in the fact that the influences of cults are far removed from our everyday lives. Nothing could be further from the
Soldotna church to host LGBTQ story time for kids, after library drag show cancelled
After cancelling a planned drag queen performance for kids at the Soldotna Public Library last month, a radical LGBTQ organization has finally found a local church willing to hold its story hour event for area
With shrinking enrollment and $9.6M revenue drop Fairbanks schools look to cut 78 teachers
The Fairbanks School District has lost roughly 1,300 students since 2015, and expects to lose even more next year. Many of these children have moved on to various homeschool programs or private education – both of which have rapidly expanded as the public
OPINION: Will Alaska lawmakers free Grand Juries to investigate OCS’ and human trafficking?
unlawful behavior within the Office of Children Services (OCS) that makes children more vulnerable to human traffickers. Another is the protection that the Department of Law (DOL) and the Alaska Court System provides OCS instead of
OPINION: Alaska GOP’s shopworn ‘resistance’ to abortion is an absurd dead end
The Republican Party has used the prolife vote for decades now, and with the exception of Donald Trump’s judicial appointments, has given very little reason to expect prolife voters to continue to support the GOP. This realization is dawning on many
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