U.S. states back Alaska’s challenge to court-ordered cross-sex surgery for inmate
A coalition of more than 20 states, led by Indiana and Idaho, filed an amicus brief urging the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower district court order requiring the State of Alaska to evaluate a gender-confused man who is demanding a
ALERT: AK parents must fight bills that eliminate them from mental health care of their kids
Parents and guardians play a vital role in a child’s well-being. Cutting them out of the process, except under narrow conditions, can lead to fragmented care, missed warning signs, and long-term consequences for teens already facing
Alaska Health Dept. recruits LGBTQ and nonbinary teens to help craft youth policies
Alaska’s Department of Health is specifically recruiting LGBTQ-identifying youth, ages 14-21, to fill paid advisory positions to help shape how the state government prioritizes and develops health issues, interventions and public policy affecting young
What has each Alaskan lost after a decade of raided PFDs?
The numbers don’t lie. Because lawmakers chose government spending over your dividend, the average eligible Alaskan has lost $32,683 in today’s
UPDATE: Registration now open for newly formed ‘Alaskan Party’
Two former chairmen of the recently disbanded Alaskan Independence Party (AIP) have announced that the re-named “Alaskan Party” is now an officially recognized “political
Do Alaska’s gubernatorial candidates back a statewide sales tax?
What did Alaska's gubernatorial candidates say when asked if they would ever support some form of a statewide sales
OPINION: SB 64 doesn’t save Alaska’s Ranked-Choice Voting – it exposes it
Senate Bill 64 is not a rescue plan for ranked-choice voting, nor does it give anyone extra talking points. It is a cleanup bill for Alaska’s election system, maybe the best we have ever seen.
Gubernatorial candidates on unlocking Alaska’s resources & diversifying revenue
Alaska faces structural deficits due to volatile oil prices and heavy federal reliance. If elected as Alaska’s chief executive, what concrete steps are you willing and able to take to unlock our resources and diversify the state’s revenue
Supreme Court case could quash Alaska policy of letting ballots arrive weeks after Election Day
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on March 23 in Watson v. Republican National Committee, a case that could upend election rules in more than a dozen states, including in Alaska, by determining whether federal law requires ballots to be
FLIP-FLOP: Murkowski decries move to bar men from female sports, then votes for it anyway
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is walking a fine, often contradictory line as she continues to air her grievances with a GOP-backed effort to strengthen election integrity and protect women’s sports from gender-confused
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