The Left is weaponizing ‘justice’
In case you haven’t noticed, receiving justice in an unfair world is a dicey proposition. This is certainly expected in many personal situations outside the domain of law. When we were kids, we likely thought a teacher or parental decision was unfair, and
OPINION: How Fairbanks Christians can vote to defend traditional values
GUEST COLUMN BY JON & RUTH EWIG Whether we have young children or teens in homeschool, private or public school we need to fulfill our duty as American citizens to participate in voting at the local community as well as state and national levels.
Rep. David Eastman: The Left’s push to outlaw loyalty to the Constitution
In a day when professional athletes are encouraged not to stand for the national anthem, and pundits declare that Americans everywhere should feel ashamed of America and her founding, I suppose it is but a small step to next attack the Constitution
Anchorage mayor issues $50K to faith-based women’s shelter that Assembly persecuted
A year after a federal judge said the hard-left Anchorage Assembly could not force a faith-based women’s shelter to admit transgender biological males who claim to be female, conservative Mayor Dave Bronson has issued a $50,000 grant to the shelter. The
REPORT CARD: Alaska ranks poorly on educational freedom
A new report looking at educational freedom in all 50 states found that Alaska is near the bottom of the stack. Published Sept. 9 by the Heritage Foundation, the Education Freedom Report Card serves as a guide for assessing educational freedoms in each state.
Report: Anchorage School District pays teachers not to teach
By Sarah Montalbano – Alaska Policy Forum Should public school teachers be paid not to teach? School districts and other government bodies often pay employees full wages and benefits for performing union work instead of their official duties.
As Anchorage enrollment implodes, school superintendent warns of $68M deficit
The Anchorage School District is shrinking, both in the sheer number of students and the revenue attached to each child it fails to enroll. In FY24 the district expects to face an estimated $68 million budget deficit. This is partly due to the fact that
Anchorage Equal Rights Comm. makes LGBTQ videos, investigates pronoun use on public dime
The 10-member Anchorage Equal Rights Commission (AERC), which employs six people to root out alleged discrimination across the municipality, spent some of its publicly funded resources to promote LGBTQ sexuality in 2021, while also investigating an employer
ANALYSIS: Alaska must clean its voter rolls to ensure accurate elections
By Aubrey Wursten – Alaska Policy Forum The people of Alaska deserve election integrity, and ensuring the accuracy of voter rolls plays an essential part in achieving that goal. Incorrect voter rolls result in ineligible individuals voting – even
Anchorage mayor vetoes over $16M in ‘misdirected’ Covid cash
Mayor Dave Bronson announced line-item vetoes totaling $16.2 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, which the Anchorage Assembly had approved as part of a $51 million allotment of federal Covid recovery funds. Bronson said the vetoes were aimed at
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