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.
BOB BIRD: A renewal of anti-war conservatives
American history has always been taught from a perspective that centralization and an increase of government power is good. Thus, the maligned Articles of Confederation have long been tossed into the dustbin as short-sighted, inefficient and merely a
SILENCED: Alaska hospital fires clinician for questioning merits of new transgender clinic
A major Alaska hospital that is about to begin facilitating transgender surgeries, puberty blockers and cross-sex drugs for teens and adults, recently fired one of its mental health clinicians for daring to raise
OPINION: Alaska Legislature’s moral collapse is a dereliction of duty
Instead of engaging deeply with the challenges facing their districts, our legislators are rubber-stamping prepackaged bills crafted by lobbyists, political action committees, national nonprofits, and public-sector unions.
Citizens’ anger boils over as Anchorage mayor defends record on homeless crisis
Anchorage's homeless crisis is not new, but it has grown noticeably worse under the hard-leftist management of the Anchorage Assembly – which for many years included now-Mayor Suzanne
Feds investigate Washington State for forcing priests to break the seal of confession
Alaska’s closest U.S. neighbor is under a federal investigation after the State of Washington passed a new law mandating all Catholic priests break the seal of confession by reporting to police what people reveal to them in the confessional
Sen. Hughes weighs in on hated PFD scheme, school funding bill, Alaska’s dire fiscal reality
The following column is excepted from Sen. Shelley Hughes’ (R-Palmer) May 5 email to constituents. It addresses controversial PFD proposals, a less than ideal school funding bill, and the dire fiscal reality that the state now faces after years of
OPINION: Don’t ignore Anchorage’s election – the Left isn’t
If nothing else, it’s important to the Left. The pronoun people love local elections. It’s where they test drive starry-eyed socialists to see if they have the mettle to move up the ladder to statewide offices and beyond; and they know it’s easier to
BOB BIRD: Alaska’s 3 branches of government converge on Road to Anarchy
Let’s play baseball. Get out the rule book. Like most sports, it is packed not only with rules that are macro and fundamental, but also micro and nuanced. Rules change, and are done so by mutual agreement, because experience dictated the necessity. Thus, an
OPINION: What America can learn from the decline of world empires
Elected government officials, policy makers, educators and the society at large must clearly understand that ignorance, irresponsible government mandates and disregard of historic patterns may create irreversible socio–economic
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