Ballot Measure 1 fails to address the root of our fiscal crisis
Alaskans are voting on important issues to determine our next steps in dealing with the budget, resource allocation, taxes, and citizens’ general welfare. I know where I stand, but nothing can replace hearing directly from you. It’s
Alaska Independence Party convention makes pitch for disaffected voters
Party leaders and candidates from the Alaska Independence Party (AIP) met in Wasilla on Oct. 17 for the organization’s first statewide convention in a decade. The gathering of roughly 20 people at Mat-Su Resort occurred just one day after the release of a
Voter guides identify conservatives in Fairbanks, Mat-Su, Kenai and Sitka elections
Elections that make the biggest impact on daily life are often the ones with the lowest voter turnout. Contests for school board, borough assembly and city council don’t generate the advertising budgets, radio and television ads and roadside signs of
Alaska joins grassroots effort urging senators to back Trump’s Supreme Court pick
The Alaska branch of Americans For Prosperity is urging Sen. Lisa Murkowski to support President Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court – Judge Amy Coney Barrett. AFP Alaska is joining a nationwide campaign asking key senators from a dozen
Ballot Measure 2 replaces fair elections with political trickery
You’ve likely heard the saying that politicians are like diapers: they should be changed often, and for the same reason. All joking aside, if we Alaskans want to change public policy, we have to change the people who control it. Voters of all political
Fairbanks resumes push to radicalize schools with LGBT, anti-Christian courses
Wouldn’t it make sense that if parents objected to the pornography in the proposed Fairbanks North Star Borough School District curriculum that the objection would still stand if they hadn’t removed it? Well, that isn’t how the FNSB School
Alaska’s judge selection is ‘shrouded in secrecy’
The upcoming November elections are among the most consequential in American history. The outcome may well determine whether the American experiment continues or dies. In Alaska, there are state elections that are also of the highest importance for democracy
What controversy? Alaska theater to show ‘Gone with the Wind’
HBO Max may have capitulated to demands that it remove “Gone with the Wind” from the streaming service, but the show will go on in Soldotna. The family owned Orca Theater plans to show the 1939 classic Monday through Thursday, July 24-30, at 4:30 p.m.
Anchorage Assembly hones plan to ban help for kids with unwanted same-sex attraction
The three openly gay Anchorage Assembly members are carefully preparing for the July 28 Assembly meeting in which they will try to pass an ordinance banning professional counseling for minors with unwanted same-sex attraction. On July 16 Assemblyman
Finding offense with the perpetually offended
There is an apt phrase seen on bumper-stickers: “Tolerance has become Intolerable.” The culture of victimization has T-boned its way into our lives. There are endless yammerings about racism, sexism, patriarchy, slavery and newly minted words like
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