As Anchorage enrollment implodes, school superintendent warns of $68M deficit
The Anchorage School District is shrinking, both in the sheer number of students and the revenue attached to each child it fails to enroll. In FY24 the district expects to face an estimated $68 million budget deficit. This is partly due to the fact that
AK Medical Freedom summit to feature Frontline docs & national experts on civil liberties
The Alaska Medical Freedom Symposium will feature internationally known medical doctors and others who actively defend Americans’ rights to access early treatment alternatives for Covid, while resisting unconstitutional vaccine mandates or federal
OPINION: Palin should quit so Alaska can elect a Republican to U.S. House
With 60% of the voters choosing Republicans (Palin and Begich) in round one of Alaska’s ranked-choice vote election for the U.S. House, it seemed like the final outcome should have been a Republican win. One of the Republicans should have inherited the
CDC recommends Alaska ask teens about oral and anal sex practices, gender ID
A year after cancelling its biennial survey in which the State of Alaska gathers detailed information about the sexual practices, drug use, home life and general health of high school teens, the Alaska Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is back. This year the
Anchorage educators defend reading book about cross-sex drugs, trans-surgery to 4th graders
Editor’s note: The following article details the ongoing two-year bureaucratic saga that an Anchorage family has faced in unsuccessfully imploring the Anchorage School District to stop reading a book about transgenderism to elementary age students. It’s
Video exposes Murkowski camp’s support of deceptive ranked-choice vote scheme
In a newly released video by Project Veritas, paid staffers with U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s reelection campaign reveal that the leftist Republican lawmaker was quietly supporting passage of ranked choice voting in Alaska back in 2020. Alaskans narrowly
Vandal attacks Soldotna’s conservative, family-owned Ammo-Can Coffee
Ammo-Can Coffee, a wildly popular cultural and social club/coffee shop for conservative-minded, faith-filled Alaskan patriots on the Kenai Peninsula, was vandalized around 1 a.m. on Aug. 8. Owner Jason Floyd posted a notice on social media, saying his family
Anchorage apologetics group to unpack transgenderism
Anchorage-based Wisdom Apologetics is hosting the third and final part of its “Candid Conversations on Gender & Sexuality” series on Wednesday, Aug 10. Organizer Chris Gonzalez said the series has seen a great response in the first two presentations,
Alaska correctional officers forced to take training in LGBTQ activism
Last year, Alaska’s Department of Corrections (DOC) officers were ordered to take a two-hour mandatory course that instructs them on how to aggressively promote and disseminate radical LGBTQ social and political ideals across the DOC system. This past
Dept. of Law: Alaskans can use state homeschool funds to pay for religious school services
Alaska Deputy Attorney General Cori Mills released the Department of Law’s opinion affirming that parents can use funds from public homeschool programs to pay for services provided by private or religious schools when doing so supports their public
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