OPINION: To pay a full PFD we must name the cuts & untangle Alaska budgetary knots
If you want a larger PFD without risking the Fund, you must either (a) name the cuts (and the lost federal matches), (b) name the new revenues, or (c) change the rules (and defend the long-term consequences). If you want stable services without shrinking the
OPINION: Alaska’s PFD is not socialism unless dividends make you a comrade
It always amazes me when I hear people claim that the PFD is “socialism.” What’s the ordinary meaning of socialism? Government ownership or control of the means of production across the economy. Alaska doesn’t run oil companies, grocery stores, or
OPINION: Anchorage citizens must resist plot to undermine our community councils
Anchorage residents must resist plot to weakening community councils’
Alaska Supremes affirm the state’s right to cut bureaucratic red tape
Alaska’s executive branch has the authority to cut unnecessary red tape to reduce bureaucratic burdens on Alaskans. This was the opinion of the Alaska Supreme Court in a decision that affirmed the state’s right to repeal outdated
Abortion’s dark history – from pagan sacrifice & Nazi companies to RU-486 pills
Mifepristone, the abortion drug that cuts off progesterone during a pregnancy, thereby blocking nourishment to the growing baby and causing him or her to starve to death, has a very evil
Gov. Dunleavy: Charlie Kirk’s courage, grace & embrace of free speech should challenge us all
He did not choose safe ground or sympathetic audiences. Instead, he visited college campuses where he knew his ideas would be challenged, sometimes shouted down. He believed that truth must be spoken in every place, not just the comfortable
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
BOB BIRD: False compassion leads to greater suffering
We suffer from false compassion - calling unnatural things, natural, and making a pitiable, yet treatable psychosis, into a “new
Anchorage School District seeks to skirt Trump ban on DEI grants by ‘reframing’ content
Anchorage School District officials are coaching potential grant writers to “reframe” all “equity or DEI components” in classes or programs that seek federal grants under the Trump
OPINION: Alaska’s new Grand Jury ‘process’ helps hide government corruption
On August 18, Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor gave a town hall presentation in Soldotna to supposedly “restore public confidence in the system,” and defend his new “process” in which he is the “gatekeeper” to Alaska’s Grand
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