Watch: Rep. Don Young’s memorial service will be livestreamed
The memorial service for the late Congressman Don Young will be broadcast live from St. Francis Episcopal Church in Great Falls, VA. Young died on March 18 at the age of 88. He was the Dean of the House, having served in Congress for 49 years and 12 days, the
Political lines form in push to recall leftist Palmer City Council members
With early voting in Palmer now underway to recall three far-left city council members, political lines have been drawn in the small Mat-Su town. Many community leaders, on both the left and right, have taken opposing sides on the recall election, which began
With modest push Tshibaka could win Senate without ranked choice run-off rounds
A new poll shows that U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka would defeat Sen. Lisa Murkowski if the election were held today. The survey, conducted by Cygnal for the Tshibaka campaign, uses Alaska’s ranked choice voting system and reveals that Tshibaka would
The real architects behind the woke agenda appearing across Mat-Su
In the wake of the heated controversy over the Palmer Chamber of Commerce’s failed attempt to rebrand the historic Palmer Colony Days celebration into “The Braided River Festival,” the Watchman has discovered one major corporate power behind this push
Bedlam reigns in Alaska’s lunatic election asylum
Each day we awake to find that, despite the hopes of turning things around, our culture has become a veritable lunatic asylum. The term “bedlam” means confusion and insanity, but it originated with the name of London’s infamous insane asylum. In the
Alaskans invited to Anchorage memorial for Rep. Don Young
A public memorial service will be held for Rep. Don Young who died at the age of 88 on March 18. The service will take place Saturday, April 2, at Anchorage Baptist Temple in Anchorage. The service begins at 11 a.m. The event will memorialize Young’s life
Palmer Chamber continues woke ‘rebranding’ of historic Mat-Su celebrations
Months after renaming the annual “Colony Christmas” celebration to “Hometown Holidays,” the Palmer Chamber of Commerce announced that it has now “rebranded” the historic “Colony Days” event to “Braided River Festival.” Beginning this June
Untangling questions about Alaska’s upcoming elections
Following the unexpected death of Congressman Don Young on March 18, Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a proclamation on March 23 declaring a vacancy and calling for a special election to choose someone to serve out the remaining months of Young’s term, which
Anchorage mail-in ballots found in garbage, vacant mailbox, wrong district
Anchorage School Board Candidate Mark Anthony Cox sent a photo to the Alaska Watchman on March 21 showing a municipal mail-in ballot lying in the trash can at the city’s southside U.S. Post Office (see photo to the right). Another resident, Dewey Wells,
Cliff Murray drops campaign to avoid diluting conservative vote
In an effort to avoid diluting the conservative vote, Anchorage School Board candidate Cliff Murray has suspended his campaign in the current mail-in election and thrown his support behind fellow conservative Mark Anthony Cox. Cox is attempting to unseat
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