OPINION: Dunleavy’s move is needed first step to correcting Alaska’s courts
As everyone knows, there are three co-equal branches to government: legislative, executive and judicial. Except they’re not. As in co-equal. Understanding correct constitutional principles is about as rare as finding an uncut diamond while walking the
ALEXANDER DOLITSKY: Why are some Russians willing to honor Joseph Stalin?
Posthumously, public opinion of Joseph Stalin has changed from “good to evil and then back to good again,” reflecting historic periods and
Who watches the watchers? Alaska legislators are right to challenge media bias
The First Amendment doesn’t just protect journalists; it protects legislators and citizens too. And when a newspaper, local or national, strays from reporting into partisan spin, it is both our right and our responsibility to push
Sitka School Board blocks citizens from mentioning teacher who lauded bloody attack on local conservative
The Sitka School Board shut down a group of upset citizens who showed up to a recent meeting to express their concerns about a local middle school teacher who praised a violent attack that landed a local conservative man in the hospital with a concussion,
BOB BIRD: A renewal of anti-war conservatives
American history has always been taught from a perspective that centralization and an increase of government power is good. Thus, the maligned Articles of Confederation have long been tossed into the dustbin as short-sighted, inefficient and merely a
Duplicate petition to repeal Alaska’s ranked-choice voting is pulled to avoid confusion in round 2 effort
Phil Izon, who spearheaded the effort to give Alaskans a chance to repeal ranked-choice voting in the November 2024 election, has decided to pull his second ballot measure aimed at taking out RCV. Ultimately, RCV survived by less than 1% of the vote. Since
Alaska’s Deep State – A report from the field
The battle against the Deep State didn’t end with Trump’s election; it has only just
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,
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
Alaska Supremes to decide whether they illegally colluded with Dept. of Law
Four decades after drafting the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned that allowing the judiciary to be the ultimate arbitrator of all constitutional questions would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Jefferson, widely considered one
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