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OPINION: Perhaps it’s time to downsize Alaska’s boundaries

FeaturedDecember 13, 2022

FOR SALE: Southeast Alaska, “The Inside Passage” and “The Panhandle.” Assets include tourism, parasitic bureaucracy, commercial fishing, tourism, limited mining operations, rain, woke, liberal, leftist and green politics, tourism, 30-40 beautiful days

Censure of Alaska State Senator may signal the start of a GOP purge … or a mass exodus

FeaturedDecember 4, 2022

The plainly worded and unvarnished rebuke that Mat-Su Republicans in District 27 leveled against State Sen. David Wilson for abandoning a GOP caucus should serve as an example to Republican Districts across Alaska. Wilson is but one of eight Senate

How will you respond to a loved one’s LGBTQ gender identity?

FamilyDecember 1, 2022

Editor’s note: The following column explores a hypothetical conversation about LGBTQ gender identity, which is an issue many families grapple with today. Rebecca, a young American in her late 20s, seemed restless today. She anxiously wandered around the

OPINION: Alaska is in the midst of a great constitutional debate

AbortionNovember 2, 2022

Every 10 years the voters of Alaska have the chance to determine whether to open our state constitution up for changes. Our founders had the foresight to give us this option. “Defend Our Constitution,” the group using substantial amounts of dark

Deceptive ads against Alaska constitutional convention aim to trick conservatives

FeaturedOctober 13, 2022

Have you noticed the avalanche of “Vote No/Defend Our Constitution” commercials? Who’s paying for them? Who’s promoting them? In watching these ads, you see scripted “typical citizens” wearing hard hats. This is a classic visual ploy to reach the

Fairbanks Republicans say borough clerk is denying meaningful access to election observers

FeaturedOctober 7, 2022

Republicans in Fairbanks say the borough clerk has imposed unlawful rules which effectively deny them any meaningful ability to oversee the verification of absentee and questioned ballots. Barbara Tyndall, District 33 chair for the Republican Party, said she

Watchdog group tells Alaska teachers how to quit their union

EducationSeptember 19, 2022

The national project, Opt Out Today, has laid out exactly how Alaskan teachers can leave their local chapter of the National Education Association (NEA) union. Opt Out Today is a project of the Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1991 to

Alaskans join growing ranks in rejecting ‘invasive’ federal survey

FinanceAugust 4, 2022

A growing number of U.S. residents, including those in Alaska, are flat out refusing to participate in the American Community Survey, a federal project which asks specific and personal questions regarding sexual orientation, marital status, fertility history,

OPINION: Cargo Cults & Lisa Murkowski

CultureJuly 25, 2022

During the Pacific battles of World War II, many island nations, including Fiji, the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea experienced radical, life altering changes as the largest war ever fought by technologically advanced superpowers took place literally in

Bronson vetoes ordinance that empowers Assembly to remove him from office

FeaturedJuly 18, 2022

Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson emphatically denounced and vetoed an ordinance which would allow a simple majority of the 12-member Anchorage Assembly to remove any mayor and replace them with a person of their own choosing. “Since its adoption in 1975, the

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