Anchorage Assembly demands mayor reinstate leftist ‘equity’ officer
The far-left majority on the Anchorage Assembly is demanding that Mayor Dave Bronson reverse his decision to fire the city’s first ever chief equity officer. Earlier this month Bronson dismissed Clifford Armstrong III. Hired back in April by then acting
Alaska Railroad mandates COVID jabs for all employees
Alaska Railroad Corporation (ARRC) employees must be deemed fully vaccinated by Dec. 8, unless granted a religion or medical exemption. Those who decline the COVID shot “will no longer meet the requirements to continue employment with ARRC.” The mandate
Alaska archbishop threatens ‘Catholic’ identity of Anchorage school
The broader cultural war between traditional and progressive branches of Christianity is now playing out between an Alaska archbishop and a small conservative Catholic school in Anchorage. Archbishop Andrew Bellisario, who oversees the Catholic Church across
Another man dies at Providence after hospital refuses repeated requests for Ivermectin
On Oct. 13, Neil Kitamura, age 78, died a few hours after fellow Anchorage resident William Topel passed away. Both were patients at Providence Alaska Medical Center. Each man asked to receive Ivermectin to treat COVID illnesses, and both were denied.
Fairbanks teachers want 12-year-olds exposed to explicit sex-ed videos
With school board elections now behind them, the left-leaning majority of the Fairbanks North Star School Board heard a request from the school district to approve highly explicit sex education videos and graphic materials for grades 6-12. The Oct. 19 school
Is Soviet-style censorship rearing its head in America?
Many of my friends during my upbringing in the former Soviet Union were students from various educational institutes, striving for knowledge, wisdom, academic curiosity and freedom of intellectual expression. We constantly challenged each other during our
Employee shows Pfizer tried to hide its use of aborted babies in vax program
A new video by Project Veritas features an interview with Pfizer employee Melissa Strickler. She leaked internal emails revealing corporate executives instructing staff to cover up the company’s use of human fetal tissue in laboratory testing of the COVID
Lawmakers fear Alaska pharmacists are pressured to deny Ivermectin to COVID patients
Correspondence between Alaska legislators and the state’s Board of Pharmacy reveal deep concerns over whether local pharmacist are being pressured to withhold Ivermectin from Alaskans struggling with COVID. Justin Ruffridge, chair of the Board of Pharmacy,
Mayor Bronson: Anchorage Assembly continues to break the public’s trust
Editor’s note: On Oct. 13, Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson issued the following statement in response to the Anchorage Assembly’s Oct. 12 vote to pass an emergency mask mandate without public notice or open testimony. MAYOR BRONSON’S STATEMENT We
Anchorage Assembly misleads public, imposes mask mandate under ‘cloak of darkness’
After assuring Anchorage residents they would have another opportunity to continue testifying on a controversial plan to force residents to wear face masks, the Anchorage Assembly quickly introduced and passed an emergency ordinance at 10:35 p.m. on Oct. 12
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