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LOREN LEMAN: Pro-ranked-choice voting ads are shameful, deceptive and illegal
No on 2 campaign is using our active military, retired veterans, firefighters and other first responders, people we love and respect, and invents things about how they are treated that are just not true. It’s hurtful. It’s shameful. It’s also against
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FORUM: Two Fairbanks School Board candidates back radical LGBTQ agenda, explicit sex-ed
Fairbanks has some hard leftists seeking to serve on the local school board – candidates who fully support pushing LGBTQ indoctrination and explicit sex-ed classes on young
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OPINION: Pollock trawling is screwing Alaskans
It is no longer acceptable for the high seas trawl fleet in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea to deplete our King Salmon fisheries. It is time to restrict the so-called bycatch of King Salmon in pollock
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Mat-Su to weigh displaying 10 Commandments, and key documents impacting U.S. founding
Mat-Su to weigh displaying 10 Commandments, other key documents impacting U.S.
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OPINION: Amid dismal statewide academics, charter schools shine
The latest State of Alaska public educational performance reports have now been released, and they tell two very different stories. To properly understand the two tales, we first have to realize that many rural Alaska schools have such poor testing
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Juneau says ‘glitch’ resulted voters recieving multiple mail-in ballots
Multiple ballots for the Juneau municipal election have been mailed to the same individuals due to what the borough calls a “technical
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Juneau clerk reminds voters they don’t need witness verification for local mail-in voting
With the Juneau municipal elections now underway, the borough clerk issued a Sept. 19 reminder, telling voters they no longer need a witness verification signature when casting local ballots in the Oct.1 municipal election. “A witness signature
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With most kids failing core academics, Fairbanks School Board focuses on ‘LGBTQ history’
With most kids failing core academics, Fairbanks School Board focuses on 'LGBTQ
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Alaska Supreme Court rejects Democrats’ attempt to block prisoner from Nov. 5 ballot
On Sept. 12, the Alaska Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling that an incarcerated New Jersey inmate has every right to be on the ballot in the upcoming contest for Alaska’s lone U.S. Congressional seat. The justices voted 4-1, with Justice Susan
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Public outcry prompts Fairbanks to extend comment on hyper-sexualized school health class
After a hearing heated objections to proposed updates to a compulsory high school heath course, which include adding Planned Parenthood produced gay foreplay videos and gender identity training, the Fairbanks School District has decided to reopen the public