
Murkowski will vote to affirm Biden as president
When the joint session of Congress convenes on Jan. 6 to tally up the Electoral College votes, Sen. Lisa Murkowski will vote to affirm Joe Biden as the president elect. Murkowski issued a statement to this effect on Jan. 2. “I swore an oath to support and


Opposition to Felix Rivera is not about his sexual orientation
So, LGBTQ activists have decided to come to the defense of Anchorage Assembly Chair Felix Rivera’s recall effort. Very disappointing they decided to inject themselves into this recall which has absolutely nothing to do with his sexual orientation. It’s


Denied options at statehood continue to haunt Alaska
Editor’s note: This is the final part of a three part series on the history of secession in the United States. Part one is here and part two is here. In 1980 a referendum was placed before Alaskan voters: “Shall the Alaska Statehood Commission be


The history of secession or threats thereof (part 1)
Editor’s note: This is part one of a three part series on the history of secession in the United States. Read part two here. “The Declaration of Independence is the birth certificate of the United States.” Heard that before? Well, it’s wrong. It’s


Palmer mask mandate defeated after overwhelming public outcry
After listening to 20 hours of public testimony from more than 700 Mat-Su residents over a three day period, the Palmer City Council voted down a citywide mask mandate, 4-3, on Dec. 4. Nearly 70% of comments – both in-person and written – opposed the idea


12.3 > Meyer needs to do his JOB
There is perhaps no greater pillar to our Republic than our shared faith in honest elections. It’s how we transfer power. You don’t bolster or restore shaken confidence by sweeping difficult questions under the rug, but instead by bringing everything


State video suggests raising doubts about the election is akin to ‘misinformation’
Three weeks after discovering that Alaska’s Online Voter Registration System was hacked by nefarious outside actors, the Alaska Division of Elections produced and published a video against what it called dangerous “misinformation” being sowed by those


Trump is fighting a bloodless coup d’état … and it’s far from over
In this attempt of a stolen presidential election, Americans are facing something much worse than corruption, they are facing a coup d’état, a French term for an overthrow of the properly constituted governmental authority. [Pronounced as in


Gov. Dunleavy and the shootout at the O.K. Corral
As the story goes, when the wagon train master saw the enemy on the horizon, they circled the wagons, loaded their weapons, and fired inwards while the enemy stood outside and watched their self-destruction. On Dec. 3, 2018, Mike Dunleavy was sworn in as


Alaska’s top politicians split on whether Biden has won election
Gov. Mike Dunleavy and U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan have not jumped on the media bandwagon of prematurely coronating Joe Biden as “president elect.” Dunleavy released a statement praising President Trump and vowing to support the effort to ensure that the

