
Anchorage’s April election challenged due to ‘disenfranchisement of 36,143 voters’
A group of concerned Anchorage voters filed an official contest challenging legitimacy of the April 4 municipal election, and claiming that tens of thousands of voters were disenfranchised. “We submit this contest due to the disenfranchisement of 36,143


More Alaska teachers who want to hide students’ LGBTQ identities from parents
It’s been a few weeks since these testimonies were delivered to the Alaska Legislature, but we believe it’s important to let Alaskans know exactly which public school teachers oppose parental rights in education. Ever since Gov. Mike Dunleavy introduced


‘Paradigm shift’: Juneau about to make vulnerable mail-in elections the new norm
At the May 8 Juneau Assembly meeting, an ordinance was introduced to make mail-in elections the default practice for all City and Borough elections going forward. Drafted by borough staff at the request of the Assembly, the ordinance acknowledges that it is a


OPINION: What’s next in the ongoing battle to protect girls’ sports in Alaska
The Alaska School Activities Association (ASAA) decided not to take up a vote last week to adopt a bylaw change that would have limited girls’ sports and teams to biological females. Hundreds of Alaskans emailed, signed a petition, and called in to testify


Alaskans aren’t really empowered to call a constitutional convention (Part 4)
By J.H. Snider – The Fulcrum Editor’s note: The following is the final column in a four-part series on Alaska’s 2022 Constitutional Convention vote, which included massive amounts of outside spending to convince Alaskans to vote against holding a


Biden’s attack against a Catholic candle sheds light on a much broader threat
The attack against Christianity, so obvious now for any thoughtful Christian, goes straight through the pro-lifers in Evangelical and Catholic Christianity. We have seen where evangelical ministers have dared to defy this zeitgeist, most notably in Canada and


Alaska continues paying for transgender surgeries and drugs, while other states refuse
While dozens of Republican-led states are moving decisively to restrict or prohibit irreversible transgender surgeries, cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers, Alaska continues to spend public money to underwrite these devastating practices, both for adults


Alaska athletics board won’t bar gender-confused males from girls sports unless compelled by state
The Alaska School Activities Association (ASAA), which oversees high school athletic competitions in Alaska, has refused to bar gender-confused biological males from competing in girls’ sports, unless it is compelled to do so by the state. While many


Anchorage animal shelter uses drag queens to promote pet adoptions
One of Alaska’s oldest animal shelters is wading into the controversial world of drag queens in order to spark interest in pet adoptions. Since 1955 Alaska SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) has operated as a private, nonprofit –


Part 3: Alaska should be outraged that election laws failed to rein in the anti-Const. Convention ‘cartel’
By J.H. Snider – The Fulcrum Editor’s note: The following is part three of four in a series about Alaska’s 2022 Constitutional Convention vote, which included massive amounts of outside spending to convince Alaskans to vote against holding a

