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
Gov. Dunleavy sent 3 names as possible replacements for Hughes in Alaska Senate
The Alaska Republican Party forwarded three names to Gov. Mike Dunleavy as possible replacement for Sen. Shelley Hughes (R-Palmer), who resigned from the State Senate earlier this month to focus on her run for
GOP sends 3 names to Gov. Dunleavy to weigh as he decides Sen. Shower’s replacement
The Alaska Republican Party has forwarded three potential candidates to fill the legislative seat vacated by State Sen. Mike Shower (R-Wasilla), who recently stepped down to campaign for the lieutenant governor’s
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
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:
ACLU decries City of Palmer plan to ban illegal camping on public property
The hard-left ACLU of Alaska is attempting to drum up opposition to a proposed ordinance that would ban illegal camping in parks and other public properties within the City of
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
Anchorage Assembly set to vote on plan to criminalize illegal encampments
On July 15, the Anchorage Assembly could vote to approve a proposal to criminalize the growing problem of illegal encampments, which have trashed parks and public properties across the city. The proposed ordinance is on the unfinished business agenda for the
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