Tag: Constitutional Convention

OPINION: Alaska Supreme Court must overturn Judge Zeman’s erroneous decision to upend homeschool programs

EducationJune 11, 2024

The Alaska Supreme Court would be wise to quickly overturn Zeman’s decision and let the Legislature decide if they want to change their existing educational policy. That’s the way our Founders wanted it

Part II: Shock and awe spending spree aimed to deter future Alaska’s Constitutional Convention efforts

FeaturedApril 26, 2023

By J.H. Snider – The Fulcrum Editor’s note: The following is part two of four in a series about Alaska’s 2022 Constitutional Convention vote, which included massive amounts of outside spending to convince Alaskans to vote against holding a

Will you help address the Alaska human rights issue of our time?

AbortionOctober 31, 2022

With just one week until the general election, here are a few truths to chew on. — Protecting innocent, unborn children is our top ministry goal. I hope it is yours as well. — The Alaska Supreme Court has made up a “right to

With 29 Alaska judges on the ballot, only one vote matters

AbortionOctober 28, 2022

We’ve been inundated with questions about how to vote on the long list of 29 Alaska judges up for retention this year. Like past elections, there is precious little information about these men and women, and that’s by design. While the Alaska Judicial

OPINION: Dark money fooled Alaska once – don’t let it happen again

FeaturedAugust 22, 2022

Union bosses, liberal Democrats and extreme leftist radicals convinced a razor slim majority of Alaskans to back Ballot Measure 2 in 2020 – an election that was flooded with mail-in ballots that did not require witness verification to authenticate the

OPINION: Why I am supporting Convention Yes

CultureAugust 11, 2022

Since launching the Alaska Watchman almost 3 years ago, I have watched often in astonishment at how corrupt the politics have become in this state. As Senator Shower highlighted while speaking to the School of Government crowd a few weeks ago, our system is

OPINION: Con-Con vote is a chance to exercise ‘Democracy in Alaska’

AbortionJuly 19, 2022

In Alaska, elections don’t matter, not when it comes to abortion. All the legislators who will be elected this year are pro-life, or pro-choice, or something in between, but none of that matters. In Alaska, only the opinion of the Alaska Supreme Court

Constitutional Convention Debate

FeaturedFebruary 5, 2022

On February 1, 2022, Bob Bird and John Coghill squared off in a friendly but fiery debate on the call to action as well as the caution of voting to hold a constitutional convention. At the end of the debate and Q&A, the in-person ballots totaled 62 for,

LISTEN: This is how Alaskans prayed during the Constitutional Convention

CultureOctober 22, 2019

Editor’s note: At a time when the Kenai Borough Assembly endures prayers mockingly offered by Satanists, atheists and Pastafarians, it is interesting to recall how Alaskans prayed at the highest levels of government just 64 years ago. On Nov. 8, 1955,

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