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OPINION: Incentivized homeschooling can solve Alaska’s school funding dilemma
With increased homeschooling, fewer schools and fewer teachers would be needed. If the state could shift more students out of public schools, it could give the students an education of their choice and save money at the same
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OPINION: Here’s why left-wing media is dying
Left wing news outlets blame their decline in viewership on Trump’s supporters, as if there is some grand conspiracy to intentionally sabotage their ratings. They just don’t comprehend the
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OPINION: Biden pardons raise legal concerns given his mental decline
Can a sitting president experiencing cognitive decline effectively carry out the responsibilities outlined in Article II, Section 2, which grants the president the authority to issue reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United
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BOB BIRD: It’s time for Alaska to revive the ’90/10’ promise
Because the most sensible argument against Alaskan statehood was our inability to pay for self-government, Congress crafted us a special gift: that oil, gas and coal revenues taken from federal properties would be split, not 50/50 as with the other states,
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Alaska leftists foment ‘conservaphobia’ amid historic red wave
Alaska leftists foment ‘conservaphobia’ amid historic red
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Floundering Peltola waffles on past support of trans athletes in women’s sports
Despite sponsoring and voting with fellow Democrats in support of radical transgender policies during her first term in Congress, U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola is now attempting to walk back her support of male athletes competing as girls. On Oct. 21, Peltola took
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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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OPINION: From whence comes our salvation, amid this 2024 election mess?
The election of 2024 is an accurate reflection of American culture. There are so many cross-currents, so many moments where we yo-yo from hope to despair, and back again, that it is impossible to know what to expect. Donald Trump appears to be actively trying
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OPINION: To accept contraception is to welcome transgenderism
The artificially hollowed-out reproductive organs of the hyper sexed 1990’s are completed, even perfected, in the neutered version of womanhood presented today. Young women in the generations which followed were offered a narrative surrounding sexuality
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Alaska Education Board to meet July 1 to discuss homeschool regs
Alaska State Board of Education will meet to discuss how the state can continue funding correspondence programs for 24,000 students across