Opinion: What is Louise Stutes trying to hide?
By Greg Sarber This article was originally published in the author’s “Seward’s Folly,” the author’s personal Substack, August 17, 2026.... Read more.
Opinion: One Conservative’s View of the Governor’s Race
By Greg Sarber Originally published in “Seward’s Folly,” the author’s personal Substack, August 10, 2026. Over the weekend, a close friend... Read more.
Opinion: Education, Ideology, and the Duty to Teach Independent Judgment
By Michael Tavoliero In Alaska, public education carries extraordinary power and control. It does more than transmit mathematics, science, history, and language;... Read more.
Opinion: Rep. Louise Stutes Admits to Major APOC Violations, Now She Should Drop Out of Senate Race
By Greg Sarber This article was originally published in “Seward’s Folly,” the author’s personal Substack, on August 7, 2026, under the title... Read more.
Opinion: Eaglexit— A Civic Conversation, Not a Political Campaign
By Michael Tavoliero When Eagle River/Chugiak neighbors begin knocking on doors, attending community events, and asking residents to sign a Local Boundary Commission (LBC) petition,... Read more.
Opinion: Integrity Wins Over Accessibility for America’s and Alaska’s Election System
By Greg Sarber This article was originally published in “Seward’s Folly,” the author’s personal Substack, on 7/17/2026, under the title “Ending... Read more.
Opinion: Understanding NGOs in Alaska
By Greg Sarber This article was originally published in “Seward’s Folly,” the author’s personal Substack, June 30, 2026. NGOs have gotten... Read more.
Opinion: Reacting to Shelley Hughes’ Take on the PFD Debate
This article was originally published in Seward’s Folly, the author’s personal Substack on June 25, 2026, under the title “Shelley Hughes’... Read more.
Opinion: Democrat Legislators Drop Embarrassing Subpoena Attempt After Lt. Governor Threatens to Sue
By Greg Sarber This article was originally published in Seward’s Folly, the author’s personal Substack, on June 23, 2026 under the title “More... Read more.
Opinion: A Quick Look at the Governor’s Race in Mid-June
This article was originally published in “Seward’s Folly,” the author’s personal Substack, on June 15, 2025. By Greg Sarber The June 1st filing... Read more.
Service to My Country: Dr. Michael Hanifen, United States Air Force Veteran
By Dr. Michael Hanifen, B.S., D.C., Ed.D. Dr. Michael Hanifen served more than eight years in the United States Air Force, earned the rank of Staff Sergeant (SSgt),... Read more.
Opinion: Real Peace Necessitates Justice, Not Mere Absence of Conflict
By Glen Biegel “Blessed are the peacemakers.” Few verses are quoted more often, and even fewer are as poorly understood. In public discourse, peace is... Read more.
Opinion: Sealing Pandora’s Box: A Victory for the Alaska Constitution, If You Can Keep It
This article was originally published on davideastman.org on 5/20/2026. By David Eastman At midnight last night, the legislative session in Juneau finally came to... Read more.
Opinion: Nearsighted, Farsighted
By Ryan Sheldon The gas line has become a contentious topic as our legislators enter into their second special session. The vast majority of Alaskans support a gas... Read more.
Opinion: State Attempts Retroactive Income Tax, Characterizes Hilcorp Investment as “Loophole”
By Michael Tavoliero The Hilcorp tax debate reflects the tension between free enterprise and Alaska government’s growing demand for revenue, compounded by the... Read more.
Opinion: Why I Support the JBER Boundary Fence
By Paul A. Bauer, Jr. To Whom It May Concern, I am writing in support of the proposed fence project along the Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson boundary adjacent to... Read more.
Opinion: Gaining Ground in Grand Jury Battle
This article was originally published 5/5/26 in Seward’s Folly, the author’s personal Substack, under the title “Cleaning Up the Alaska Supreme... Read more.
Opinion: Earthquakes, COVID Chaos and Empty Shelves Prove Alaska Can’t Keep Betting on Outside Food
By Barbara Haney, Ph.D. Alaska families learned the hard way— twice in recent memory— just how fast grocery shelves can go bare. When the 2018 magnitude 7.1... Read more.
Opinion: Alaska Needs a Good Doge-ing
By Michael Tavoliero Every state has mechanisms for collecting, allocating, and redistributing public money. In Alaska, the State’s Grants Summary Dashboard... Read more.
Opinion: Who Owns the Permanent Fund Dividend, You or the State?
By Greg Sarber This article was originally published 5/3/2026 in Seward’s Folly, the author’s personal Substack. In a recent article, I used the term... Read more.
Opinion: Making “Thank You for Your Service” More Meaningful
By Paul A. Bauer, Jr. After high school and a few months of college, at 17, I served my country. It is on my driver’s license, on my VA card, when I present... Read more.
Opinion: Is Legislature Using Lower Energy Costs to Bargain Higher Payroll?
By Ben Carpenter House Bill 78 is sitting on the governor’s desk. At the same time, pipeline legislation is being held up by many of the same lawmakers pushing... Read more.
Opinion: Haines Assembly Member’s $10K Offer Draws a Line on Taxpayer Funding
By Brenda Josephson Haines is a small community with a declining population, yet its local government continues to increase the tax burden on those who remain. A... Read more.
Opinion: They Don’t Really Care About Us
By Michael Tavoliero Alaska’s political class keeps treating the Permanent Fund Dividend as a negotiable budget item. It is not. The PFD is the clearest remaining... Read more.
Opinion: Leadership and Unselfishness Evident in Some Candidates for Governor
By Bob Bird Most of us lament that the interminably long list of candidates offered to the Alaskan voter, through RCV, is exhaustive. It makes it impossible... Read more.
Opinion: Why We March for Life
By Jim Minnery, President of Alaska Family Council This story was originally published by Alaska Family Action and adapted for Must Read Alaska. I was asked the... Read more.
Opinion: Alaska GOP Needs Better Political Strategy
By Michael Tavoliero Currently, the Alaska’s 2026 governor’s race fields at least 16 candidates, including a large cluster of Republicans, while... Read more.
Opinion: Taking the Alaska Republican Party from Rebranded to Operational
By Paul A. Bauer Jr. The Illusion of Progress Alaska Republicans are facing a structural problem that can no longer be ignored. Despite electoral wins and a stabilized... Read more.
Shroud Season
By Bob Bird Well, it’s what we lecturers call “Shroud Season” again. There are men and women, amateurs like myself, professional touring caravans, authors... Read more.
Opinion: Three Ways to Lower Alaska’s Alarmingly High Healthcare Costs
By Zack Gottshall Healthcare costs are soaring across the United States and they are especially punishing in Alaska. Healthcare services in Alaska’s largest... Read more.
Opinion: CSSB 64 Makes It Easy to Vote, Hard to Cheat
By State Representative Sarah Vance For nearly a decade, election policy in Alaska has been defined more by debate than results. Over the past ten years, the Legislature... Read more.
Opinion: Who to Believe, Donald Trump or Joe Kent?
By Greg Sarber On March 17, Joe Kent resigned his position as the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), saying, “Iran posed no imminent threat... Read more.
Structural Chokepoints in Alaska K-12 Part 6: Private Education Options and State-Supported Choice Tools
Private education options and state-supported choice tools belong in the same conversation as the three structural chokepoints because they do not sit outside... Read more.
Structural Chokepoints in Alaska K-12 Part 7: The Results
By Michael Tavoliero The three structural chokepoints, state‑designed school‑board terms, the PERA carve‑out for K–12 labor, and APOC’s campaign‑finance... Read more.
Structural Chokepoints in Alaska K-12 Part 5: Legislative History
By Michael Tavoliero Alaska’s K–12 system was not built in a single act of bad faith. Instead, three separate legislative projects—school‑board terms,... Read more.
Opinion: Alaska GOP Convention Costs Silence the Voice of the Everyday Republican
By Zack Gottshall Editor’s note: This op-ed was updated on 3/14/26 to reflect Zack Gottshall’s decision to attend the 2026 Alaska GOP Convention. Zack... Read more.
Structural Chokepoints in Alaska K-12 Part 4: GO Bonds
By Michael Tavoliero In larger cities, the ceiling on reform is reinforced by school general obligation (GO) bond debt. Major school projects are financed with voter‑approved... Read more.
Structural Chokepoints in Alaska K-12 Part 3: Reform Recycling
By Michael Tavoliero The 2009 Alaska Education Plan and the 2018 Alaska Education Challenge look, on paper, like serious efforts to rethink K–12. The Plan billed... Read more.
Structural Chokepoints in Alaska K-12 Part 2: Constitutional Tension
By Michael Tavoliero Alaska’s K–12 system is shaped by legal structures that sharply limit local communities’ ability to change course. On paper, the... Read more.
Structural Chokepoints in Alaska K–12 Part 1: The Myth of School Choice
Part 1: Myth of School Choice By Michael Tavoliero Alaska’s public education debate fixates on budgets, test scores, and ideology. None... Read more.
Understanding Lisa Murkowski
By GREG SARBER Lisa Murkowski continues to oppose the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, despite overwhelming support from the American people and... Read more.
Opinion: Every Baby Has a Right to Life; HB 64 is a Good Start
By Michael Tavoliero Alaska Watchman’s piece on baby boxes confronts a specific horror: a newborn left outside in an Alaska winter. That danger is real. The article... Read more.
Opinion: Will the Chinese Dragon Devour Alaska?
By Greg Sarber The price of precious metals has gyrated wildly this year, and one reason is China’s acquisition of physical gold and silver. They are taking physical... Read more.
Opinion: Creating Political Orphans is Wrong
By Shelley Hughes, former Alaska State Senator and 2026 Candidate for Governor I feel a close connection to many of you. As a former senator, I know how important... Read more.
Opinion: You Can’t Tax Your Way Out of Broken Trust
By Edward Martin, Jr. Alaska is once again being told that the solution to our fiscal problems is a new tax. This time it comes wrapped in careful language:... Read more.
Opinion: Alaska’s 2026 Election and America’s Stability
By Paul A Bauer Jr. My op-ed for Alaskans is framed to inform, not inflame, and to connect national instability to practical decision-making in the 2026 gubernatorial... Read more.
The PFD is Not “Free Money,” a Subsidy, or Welfare
By Edward Martin, Jr. In every serious debate about the Permanent Fund Dividend, a familiar phrase eventually appears: “free money.” It is usually... Read more.
Opinion: SB 92 Ignores Alaska’s Spending Issue; Next Governor Should Say “No” to SB 92
By Edward Martin, Jr. In Alaska, the Constitution does not ask governors to chase revenue. It commands them to faithfully execute the law and protect the people’s... Read more.
Opinion: Lisa Murkowski Has No Good Reason to Be in Denmark
By Greg Sarber Alaska’s Senator Lisa Murkowski is on a trip to Copenhagen along with a group of Congressional Democrats. They are there to reassure the... Read more.
Gatekeeping as the Core Political-Economic Diagnostic: England’s Feudal State vs. Alaska’s Neo-Feudal State
By Michael Tavoliero A useful way to compare very different societies is not by their costumes, slogans, or moral language, but by their structure... Read more.
What “Neo-Feudal” Looks Like in Modern Alaska Politics
By Michael Tavoliero Modern Alaska “neo-feudalism” is not chainmail and castles. It is a thicket of agencies, boards, state corporations,... Read more.
When Energy Becomes Arrogance: A Caution for Alaska’s Next Political Generation
By Paul A. Bauer Jr. Alaska has always depended on its young people. Energy matters. Passion matters. New ideas matter. But so do humility, competence, and respect... Read more.
Greg Sarber: Mismanagement of Alaska’s Public School Funding
By Greg Sarber In the last session, the legislature passed HB 57, which greatly increased funding for public schools in the state. They did so because... Read more.
Clear As a Bell: Alaska Constitution Calls for Transparency in Government
By Edward Martin, Jr. Alaskans are right to be frustrated. We see delays in Medicaid and SNAP, backlogs in permits, secret contracts, and billion-dollar decisions... Read more.
Forward Thinking: How Venezuelan Oil Could Impact Alaska’s North Slope
By Michael Tavoliero Venezuelan oil could re-emerge as a meaningful U.S.-linked supply over the medium to long term. Lower prices pose risk of shifting market... Read more.
A Better Machine: Tavoliero Responds to Sarber’s Op-Ed “How Alaska Elects RINO Traitors and What to Do About It”
By Michael Tavoliero Alaska’s 2026 legislative fights are not going to be won by better insults; they will be won by a better machine: one built... Read more.
Shelley Hughes: RIP AIP…. Where Now? The Resurrection of Alaska’s Birthright
By Former Senator Shelley Hughes, Republican Candidate for Governor Last week, we saw the dissolution of an historic idea in Alaska’s unique political... Read more.
Cowardice Is Not Leadership: Inaction Undermines Accountability and Our Party’s Future
By Zack Gottshall Leadership is not measured by how well conflict is avoided, but by whether responsibility is embraced when it is most uncomfortable. In 2025, the... Read more.
The Civic Architects of Liberty
By Michael Tavoliero Kevin McCabe, in his essay “Pastors, We Need You. Where Is Today’s Black-Robed Regiment?” in the Alaska Watchman, calls the colonial... Read more.
Court Avoidance Erodes Constitutional Integrity
A Follow-Up to “All I Want for Christmas is… Constitutional Fidelity!” by Edward Martin, Jr. and Natalie Spaulding By Edward Martin, Jr. One of... Read more.
All I Want for Christmas is… Constitutional Fidelity!
How Article IX, Section 16 Protects Alaskans’ PFD By Edward Martin, Jr. and Natalie Spaulding There is a temptation in public life to treat the Constitution... Read more.
Alaska’s Permanent Fund: The Great Debate Part XI
The People of Alaska vs. The Legislature Part XI: How Historic Citizen Reliance Constitutes Legal Possession By Michael Tavoliero... Read more.
Alaska’s Permanent Fund: The Great Debate Part X
The People of Alaska vs The Legislature Part X: The People’s Right to the PFD Based on Quiet Title By Michael Tavoliero Quiet title is a legal remedy that... Read more.
Alaska’s Permanent Fund: The Great Debate Part IX
The People of Alaska vs The Legislature Part IX: The Constitutional Trust Relationship: The State as Trustee, The People as Beneficiaries By Michael Tavoliero Alaska’s Constitution establishes a... Read more.
Alaska’s Permanent Fund: The Great Debate Part VIII
The People of Alaska vs. The Legislature Part VIII: The Constitutional Intent of Alaska’s Resource Wealth By Michael Tavoliero Alaska’s Constitution establishes the... Read more.
The Five Principles of Eaglexit
By Michael Tavoliero and Catherine Margolin Eaglexit seeks to incorporate a home-rule borough that restores the proper balance between social power and state power... Read more.
The Hard Truth of Alaska’s 2026 Gubernatorial Election
By Michael Tavoliero Have Alaskans finally learned the hard truth? Do Alaskans understand that it no longer matters who becomes governor if Juneau’s permanent... Read more.
Russians in Alaska: History of Exploration
By Alexander Dolitsky The most important aspect of the high north’s ethnohistory was the exploration and colonization of Siberia and Alaska by Russian empire... Read more.
“No One Is Above the Law”: From the British Beginnings of Liberty to Alaskan’s Right to the Permanent Fund Dividend
By Michael Tavoliero The Alaska Constitution does not pledge loyalty to the State, its bureaucracy, or its capital; it pledges loyalty to the people.... Read more.
The Plan to Avoid Gelding Part 2
By Michael Tavoliero Remember the last two of Alaska’s largest administrations, the State of Alaska and the Municipality of Anchorage, and you will certainly remember... Read more.
The Definition of Insanity and the Gelding of Conservative Leadership Part 1
By Michael Tavoliero We have lived the definition of insanity in Alaska politics. Again and again, conservatives send a governor to Juneau to protect... Read more.
Alaska’s Permanent Fund: The Great Debate Part VII
The People of Alaska vs. The Legislature Part VII: The People’s Constitutional Covenant and the Quieting of Title By Michael Tavoliero The Alaska Constitution... Read more.
Alaska’s Permanent Fund: The Great Debate Part VI
The People of Alaska vs. The Legislature Part VI: The People’s Possession: Alaska’s Ownership of the Permanent Fund Dividend By Michael Tavoliero When Alaska... Read more.
Chris Story: Property Tax – a Quiet Theft
The Ring: A Quiet TakingA Parable by Chris Story Margaret sat in her modest kitchen and wrapped her arms tightly around herself, as if holding her own shoulders... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: The End Run – How Politicians Transformed the PFD Into a Hidden Tax
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Once, Alaska was a place where government served the people. Our constitution promised maximum local self-government, and the Permanent Fund... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Conference Attendees Raise $1,820 for Downtown Anchorage Hope Center
By Linda Boyle At our recent Alaskans 4 Personal Freedom Conference, we had a split-the-pot with half the proceeds going to the Downtown Anchorage Hope Center. ... Read more.
Chris Story – Fair Property Tax: A Duty, Not a Privilege
By Chris Story Originally published on Story Real Estate on 10/28/2025. We often hear that taxpayers have a right to a fair property tax system. But fairness in... Read more.
David Boyle: Is Restorative Justice in Anchorage Schools Leading to a Teacher Exodus?
By DAVID BOYLE There seem to be many teachers who are leaving the profession. The Anchorage Education Association (AEA) says that exodus is due to low salaries and... Read more.
Legislative Fiscal Behavior: A Decade of Drift
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Over the past decade, Alaska’s Legislature has exhibited a pattern of fiscal behavior marked by spending growth, political expedience, and... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: APOC Complaint Against Mayoral Candidate Bill Popp
By ALEX GIMARC Earlier this year, I filed an APOC complaint against Mayor Suzanne LaFrance, which was served to LaFrance on Sept. 24. I have now filed a second... Read more.
Zack Gottshall: Power Grab in Plain Sight: FCC Staff Move to Silence Anchorage’s Neighborhoods
By ZACK GOTTSHALL Something serious is happening inside the Federation of Community Councils (FCC)—and Anchorage’s residents should be paying attention. The... Read more.
The Grand Jury: Constitutionally Based Power Retained by the People
Part I: Is a Constitutional Showdown Coming? By Jon Faulkner, Co-author and Bob Bird, Co-author With regard to the hierarchy of constitutional authority, we all... Read more.
Zack Gottshall: Finding Our Way Back to Courage and Conviction
By ZACK GOTTSHALL When Region 2 Director Ryan Sheldon urged Republicans to “learn the game” after recent local election losses in Fairbanks, Palmer, and Ketchikan,... Read more.
Ryan Sheldon: Republicans Stand Up!
In light of the recent election results in Fairbanks, Palmer and Ketchikan, three Conservative strongholds, in which republicans lost both mayoral and assembly seats... Read more.
Greg Sarber: Will Conservatives Turn Out for Tomorrow’s Local Elections?
By Greg Sarber Scott Pressler, a Republican political activist and specialist in voter outreach, has made an ominous warning about voter apathy in the local and... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: APOC Complaint Against Mayor Suzanne LaFrance
By ALEX GIMARC I filed a campaign finance reporting complaint against Mayor LaFrance a couple weeks ago. It was accepted and served against the Mayor on Sept 24.... Read more.
Glen Biegel: Charlie Kirk Assassinated – A Review of How Things Have Gone Wrong with Debate in America
By GLEN BIEGEL How does society train young men to be safe? How do young men channel their energies to do good and avoid violence? The... Read more.
Greg Sarber: Charlie Kirk – American Martyr
By GREG SARBER It has taken me a couple of days to gather my thoughts on the assassination of Charlie Kirk. After giving it some consideration, I believe that... Read more.
Ben Carpenter: A Turning Point for This Generation – After Charlie Kirk’s Assassination, What Comes Next?
By BEN CARPENTER I remember exactly where I was on the morning of the September 11 attacks. I was in college in Utah, watching the second plane hit the World Trade... Read more.
Foodies and Foragers: Tomatoes Fresh Off the Vine
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON Nothing compares to the burst of flavor from a homegrown tomato, freshly picked from the vine and savored in its pure, raw perfection. This experience... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Pro-Palestine activism is not the cause; it’s a far-left death cult.
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY “Pro-Palestine activism” in the West has turned into an anti-Semitic cult-like witch hunt. Indeed, it is less about social progress and... Read more.
Greg Sarber: There Are Two Sides to Every Story
By GREG SARBER Recent events have reminded me that there are two sides to every story and of an interesting historical parallel. The McDonald’s fast food chain... Read more.
Bob Bird: The Blood of Martyrs
By BOB BIRD The Church’s foundation is built upon the blood of martyrs. So said Tertullian, in the 2nd Century. It converted not only the pagan Roman Empire, but... Read more.
David Eastman: Charlie Kirk Was Assassinated Today
By REP. DAVID EASTMAN Today, I saw a great American, Charlie Kirk, assassinated live on camera while taking questions from students at Utah Valley University. He... Read more.
Dave Donley: Why I Am Running
By DAVE DONLEY I am running for the Anchorage Assembly Midtown District 4 in the April 2026 election. I grew up in Spenard/Midtown and served sixteen years representing... Read more.
Greg Sarber: Alaska’s Untamed Call
By GREG SARBER This fall, my daughter drew a sheep hunting permit in the Tok Management Area (TMA), an area reserved for trophy sheep hunting. In preparation for... Read more.
Bob Bird: False compassion
By BOB BIRD Compassion is good. False compassion enables the perpetuation of what originally summoned the compassion. An obvious example would be to sympathetically... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: The Alaska Permanent Fund is under attack, and so is our future
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Alaskans, beware. Be very aware. The Legislature is maneuvering to dismantle the very protections that have kept our Permanent Fund strong for... Read more.
Kevin McCabe: Trail funding must remain fair and accessible
By KEVIN MCCABE In Alaska, trails are not just for recreation. They are essential for subsistence, transportation, and keeping communities connected. Yet the Division... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau taxpayers pay the price for no-growth mindset
By WIN GRUENING Municipal election ballots will begin arriving in Juneau mailboxes this month and voters will have to make choices. Will they continue to allow a... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Big Pharma moves to crush RFK Jr., as Trump calls out Pfizer’s role in Operation Warp Speed
By LINDA BOYLE The clash between Big Pharma, a fractured CDC, and the mainstream media has reached a boiling point — and President Donald Trump has had enough.... Read more.
Washington state to enact new sales taxes Oct. 1
By CARLEEN JOHNSON | THE CENTER SQUARE A slew of Washington businesses will be subject to new retail sales taxes, which will be passed onto consumers Oct. 1. The... Read more.
Glen Biegel: Jen Psaki says prayer isn’t enough — here’s why she’s wrong
By GLEN BIEGEL “Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Big Pharma plots in secret meeting to oust HHS Sec. Kennedy, as reform threatens profits
By LINDA BOYLE Big Pharma is worried its cash cow is coming to an end. Under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., there will be no more emergency use authorizations,... Read more.
David Boyle: Anchorage School District must revise its transgender guidelines to protect all students
We are all terribly saddened by the recent slaughter of two innocent school children and the other 18 injured students and staff at the Annunciation Catholic School... Read more.
Peggy Ann McConnochie: Juneau’s future needs big thinking, not Portland principles
By PEGGY ANN MCCONNOCHIE When I served on the City and Borough of Juneau Planning Commission, we had to comply with Juneau’s Comprehensive Plan before making decisions... Read more.
Bob Maier: Anchorage needs transparency in tax cap and exemptions to restore public trust
By BOB MAIER As Anchorage navigates our governance it is increasingly evident that the lack of transparency in fiscal matters has eroded the public trust. This... Read more.
Glen Biegel: Alaska’s GOP governor’s race — early polls, big field, and a long road ahead
By GLEN BIEGEL Politically speaking, where a week is an eternity, it’s early, and we have a long Republican Governor’s race ahead. And when... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: From whispers in Kiev to shofar blasts in Juneau, it’s been a journey of faith, freedom
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY The freedoms for people clearly outlined in the First Amendment of the US Constitution — speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition... Read more.
Ousted Sierra Club chief claims racism, not his own behavioral issues, was reason he was fired
By MELISSA O’ROURKE | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION Ben Jealous, the former executive director of the Sierra Club, claimed he was forced out because of racism... Read more.
Tim Barto: From Kansas to Anchorage, schools hide gender transitions from parents
By TIM BARTO The cultural assault to get children to see blurred lines between the sexes, question their own sexuality, and transition to the gender of their choice... Read more.
John Quick: Can someone like homeschooling and public school?
By JOHN QUICK For those who are reading this outside of where I live: To understand life in Nikiski, Alaska, picture this: 5,000 people spread across an area the... Read more.
David Ignell: Conservatives, liberals unite to save Alaska history on Telephone Hill in Juneau
By DAVID IGNELL Legend has it that when Augustus Brown arrived in Juneau in the late 1880s he was on his way to strike it rich in the Klondike gold fields. Perhaps... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Medical establishment in revolt against CDC on Covid jab guidance
By LINDA BOYLE The medical establishment is fracturing. For years, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association marched in lockstep with... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Open the door to freedom by restoring senior citizens’ choice and dignity
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO For America’s over-55 population, nearly one-third of the nation, the tragedy is not that we have aged, but that federal policy has stripped... Read more.
Kevin McCabe: Ranked-choice voting cheats voters, but Alaskans are fighting back
By REP. KEVIN MCCABE A question we get from Ranked Choice Voting advocates on social media, especially when posting signing locations for our new initiative to put... Read more.
Paul Fuhs: Dunleavy dares to ask the unspeakable — should Alaska rethink fish farming?
By PAUL FUHS Gov. Mike Dunleavy is a very brave man. When he asked whether Alaska should consider fish farming, he must have known the world would come crashing... Read more.
Paulette Simpson: Rising waters, rising costs, and a Juneau Assembly obsessed with ranked-choice voting
By PAULETTE SIMPSON In the hierarchy of things that matter, Juneau’s current Assembly seems really confused. What most people want from local government is a safe,... Read more.
David Ignell: How wrongful indictments of Chief Walls opened the door to ‘Alaskagate’
By DAVID IGNELL My previous article of Aug. 16 had two objectives. First, to help gain the attention of US Attorney Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel of the... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Alaska’s path forward needs energy development, real climate science & education reform
By ROBERT SEITZ I continue to follow climate and energy issues that affect Alaska and its economy. My concern this year is the lack of action by government personnel... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Coincidences or conspiracies?
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO The last decade in the United States has been saturated with alleged conspiracies. For some, skepticism has become a default posture; for others,... Read more.
Murray Walsh: Why Alaska voters deserve better than ranked-choice voting
By MURRAY WALSH We are gathering signatures on a petition to repeal Ranked Choice Voting (RCV.) This is not the first time we have tried this. We completed a... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Medical freedom on the line as Alaska medical board decides physician assistant’s fate
By LINDA BOYLE Scott Miller once saved lives in rural Washington with breathing treatments and early Covid care. Today, the physician’s assistant is fighting... Read more.
Bob Bird: Alaska’s GOP must drop the dead weight — or ranked-choice voting and Democrats win
By BOB BIRD The 2026 “open primary” is shaping up to be a very crowded field for Republicans. This will undoubtedly please the Left, who will run only... Read more.
Maxwell to DOJ: Trump always a gentleman, ‘Never inappropriate’
By SARAH RODERICK-FITCH | THE CENTER SQUARE The Department of Justice released the audio and transcript interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell, “in the interest of... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Dr. Pierre Kory and the War on Ivermectin: A life-saving medicine silenced
By LINDA BOYLE Dr. Pierre Kory’s latest book, The War on Ivermectin, discusses the medicine that could have saved millions and ended the pandemic. He... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau seasonal sales tax proposal is a permanent tax increase
By WIN GRUENING As Juneau property taxes and municipal wastewater fees continue to spiral upward, the City and Borough of Juneau Assembly wants to make it even more... Read more.
Ben Carpenter: The people’s power vs. the government’s gatekeepers with grand juries
By BEN CARPENTER For years, I have argued that Alaska’s Department of Law has stood in the way of Alaskans exercising their constitutional right to use the grand... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Pediatric professional group puts profits above patients
By LINDA BOYLE When the nation’s top health agency pulled back its Covid shot recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women this spring, it didn’t... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: The slow surrender of senior independence to government dependence
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO A Historical Perspective For much of American history, old-age independence rested on family, community, and personal savings. Before the mid-20th... Read more.
David Ignell: With Trump gone, the arrival of Bondi and Patel is urgently needed in Alaska
By DAVID IGNELL Yesterday’s historic summit meeting at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson between President Donald Trump and Russia’s president Vladimir Putin had... Read more.
History of the pendulum of Russian-American competition and cooperation
By JEFFREY W. HAHN, PHD and ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Author’s note: My late friend and colleague Jeff W. Hahn, professor of Political Scienc at Villanova University,... Read more.
Jon Faulkner: Putin interview with Tucker Carlson set the table for Trump
By JON FAULKNER On the eve of Trump-Putin talks, what can we glean from Tucker Carlson’s interview with the Russian President? Dismissed by some as self promotion,... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: When we were allies
May 9 was World War II Victory Day in Europe, and one of the decisive factors leading to the victory of the world’s peace-seeking nations was the effective cooperation... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: The West provoked and prolonged the Russia-Ukraine war
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Thirty-five years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev, then president of the Soviet Socialist Republic, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities... Read more.
Dr. Vinay Prasad returns to FDA vindicated
By LINDA BOYLE Dr. Vinay Prasad, a nationally known hematologist-oncologist, took the helm of the FDA’s powerful Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research in... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Why HB 57 missed the mark on education reform
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO The Alaska Legislature’s passage of House Bill 57 reflects a familiar but flawed approach to educational improvement: raise the Base Student... Read more.
Foodies and Foragers: Alaska seafood Caesar salad reigns supreme
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON Freshly caught Alaska seafood with homemade Caesar salad, creates a flavorful, ocean-fresh feast. This combination blends crisp greens with salmon,... Read more.
David Boyle: ASD employees cruise, a $10 million windfall for school district, your PFD sinks
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School Board is heading into the new school year with a sudden windfall — an extra $10 million — after lawmakers in Juneau... Read more.
Linda Boyle: RFK Jr. in Alaska talks tribal sovereignty, Medicaid rules, and a shift on mRNA vaccines
By LINDA BOYLE HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met with the Alaska Native Health Board in Anchorage on Aug. 5, joining Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan... Read more.
Paul Fuhs: What can Alaska gain from Trump and Putin talks next week in our state?
By PAUL FUHS What an honor to have these talks between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin here in Alaska on Aug. 15. More than any other US state, Alaska... Read more.
Kevin McCabe: Alaska’s education crisis demands reform, not just more money
By REP. KEVIN MCCABE This year, the Legislature passed HB 57, which locked in the largest permanent Base Student Allocation (BSA) increase in Alaska’s history,... Read more.
Win Gruening: Sullivan’s actions speak louder than his critics
By WIN GRUENING The number of attack ads targeting Sen. Dan Sullivan over the last year by Democrat-aligned special interest groups is astounding. The 2026 election... Read more.
Kevin McCabe: Why Alaska needs an Agriculture Department — and why the Legislature overstepped
By REP. KEVIN MCCABE Alaska imports $3 billion in food annually through a fragile supply chain that could break down with little warning. Less than five percent... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: The Republican Override Caucus — profiles in cowardice
By ALEX GIMARC On Saturday, the Alaska Legislature met in special session and overrode two of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s vetoes. The first and most important of... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Coolidge’s Code, the ethics lesson some of Alaska’s leaders forgot
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO In 1891, Calvin Coolidge began a four-semester philosophy course taught by Charles E. Garman which all Amherst students were required to take.... Read more.
Bob Bird: The glaring inconsistencies of ‘pro-lifers’
By BOB BIRD “Life begins at conception! Legal protection for the unborn, from Conception until natural death’ Democrats are the party of death! Only a madman... Read more.
David Blackmon: Whales, fishermen heave sighs of relief as Interior Sec. Burgum cancels offshore wind
By DAVID BLACKMON Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, whose department oversees the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the federal offshore leasing program, dealt... Read more.
Pam Melin: Who is turning Alaska purple on purpose?
By PAM MELIN The Republican State Leadership Committee just confirmed everything we’ve been warning about: Alaska is being hijacked from the inside — and... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Alaska’s future under bureaucratic drift — the quiet surrender
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO A decade from now, Alaska may look very different. Not in its natural grandeur, its mountains, waters, and wilderness will endure, but in its... Read more.
Glen Biegel: Real Fed fight boils down to orthodoxy vs. economic growth
By GLEN BIEGEL The surface argument between the Federal Reserve and the president appears to revolve around whether we should keep the current fed rate to reduce demand,... Read more.
Linda Boyle: FDA’s Dr. Vinay Prasad, Big Pharma, politics, and the price of medical integrity
By LINDA BOYLE After just three months, Dr. Vinay Prasad stepped down as the head of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research... Read more.
Details: Bombshell report indicates Clinton, Soros group plotted to ‘demonize’ Trump with Russia smear
By THERESE BOUDREAUX | THE CENTER SQUARE Newly declassified intelligence documents indicate that Hillary Clinton, her 2016 presidential campaign managers, and a... Read more.
Paul Fuhs: Supreme Court ruling limits green Lawsuits, clears path for Alaska projects
By PAUL FUHS The very recent US Supreme Court ruling in the 7 County Infrastructure Coalition vs. Eagle case is especially important for Alaska, but it has received... Read more.
David Boyle: I ‘DOGED’ the Anchorage School District and uncovered savings to fill its budget hole
By DAVID BOYLE After poring through 474 pages of the ASD budget for school year 2025-26, I have come up with some areas where the district can save money and actually... Read more.
Linda Boyle: WHO Without America, and America without globalist health orders
By LINDA BOYLE Within hours of being sworn in, President Trump issued an executive order directing the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization... Read more.
More restrictions than Iran: Nick Begich slams Biden-era assault on Alaska, says it’s time to unlock energy
By AUDREY STREB | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION Republican Alaskan Congressman Nick Begich said his state is a resource giant that can help unlock America’s energy... Read more.
Zack Gottshall: Lisa Murkowski finally admits it — now the GOP must do its job
By ZACK GOTTSHALL Sen. Lisa Murkowski recently declared on national television: “The GOP is more of a MAGA party, and I don’t fit well.” Let’s be honest... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Alaska’s energy dilemma — sitting on riches, but settling for ruin
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Despite being the most resource-rich state in the nation, Alaska faces looming failures, one not born of scarcity, but of inaction, regulatory... Read more.
Win Gruening: Nick Begich III is hitting it out of the ballpark in Congress
By WIN GRUENING Since winning Alaska’s lone US House seat on Nov. 5, 2024, Congressman Nick Begich has astonished even his most ardent fans. With barely 200 days... Read more.
David Ignell: How the Alaska attorney general tried to destroy a cop who fought fentanyl, Part II
By DAVID IGNELL When Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor pursued felony indictments against Ketchikan Police Chief Jeff Walls, his office withheld the most credible... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: We’re drowning in laws as overcriminalization erodes liberty from DC to Anchorage
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO In a nation founded on liberty and limited government, it is staggering that no one, not Congress, not the Department of Justice, not even legal... Read more.
Washington state spending decisions will hit taxpayers hard: Medicaid spending increased five times since 2013
By TJ MARTINELL | THE CENTER SQUARE Washington state’s Medicaid spending has quintupled, or increased five times over, since the 2013-15 biennium, according to... Read more.
Linda Boyle: FDA green lights Spikevax for young children, raising questions on safety, transparency
By LINDA BOYLE During his Senate confirmation, FDA Commissioner Dr. Martin Makary said that no more mRNA Covid boosters would be approved without adequate scientific... Read more.
California may pass law to fine stores up to $650 for the shopping carts that get stolen from premises
By KENNETH SCHRUPP | THE CENTER SQUARE The California Senate and now a key Assembly committee have passed a bill that would allow cities to charge businesses up... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Senate hearing breaks silence on vaccine injuries, takes aim at Big Pharma’s legal shield
By LINDA BOYLE On July 15, the US Senate took on one of the most controversial issues of our time — vaccine injuries and the power of Big Pharma. In a hearing... Read more.
Paul Fuhs: The real agenda behind the attack ads on Sen. Sullivan
By PAUL FUHS I am seeing a barrage of ads on TV addressing our US Sen. Dan Sullivan over the issue of Medicaid. While Medicaid is an important issue, the ads... Read more.
What was really behind the Russia collusion probe? Gabbard points to Obama White House
By DAN MCCALEB Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard wants the US Department of Justice to investigate what she says is a “treasonous conspiracy” by... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Why cross-cultural literacy matters more than ever
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Cross–cultural communication requires a knowledge of how culturally different people groups communicate with each other. Studying other languages... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Alaska’s real education crisis is a broken system, not a broken budget
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Taking Back Alaska Series Alaska’s education system is in crisis. But this is not merely a crisis of funding or staffing. It is a crisis of... Read more.
Border crossings collapse to all-time low as drug seizures climb
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Illegal border crossings dropped to their lowest level in recorded U.S. history in June. Nationwide, 25,228 illegal border... Read more.
David Boyle: The more we spend, the less we get in Alaska’s public schools run by the Education Cartel
By DAVID BOYLE We are being inundated with messages and misinformation stating we need to just spend even more on our K-12 education system to get better student... Read more.
Linda Boyle: EPA launches public hub on contrails, weather manipulation geoengineering
By LINDA BOYLE EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has taken on the challenge of contrails. “Americans have legitimate questions about contrails and geoengineering, and... Read more.
Sen. Dan Sullivan: Beltway Democrats tried to block Alaska’s progress. They failed.
By US SEN. DAN SULLIVAN The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) is one of the most transformative pieces of legislation for Alaska in decades. This comprehensive... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Unifying local governance and education in Alaska
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Alaska’s current education system stands in sharp contrast to the unified, accountable governance envisioned by the Framers of the 1955 Constitutional... Read more.
David Ignell: How Attorney General Treg Taylor ran a decorated police chief out of Ketchikan
By DAVID IGNELL “Something here is really stinky.” Those were the words retired Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Dick Burton chose to begin his email to three... Read more.
Time to say goodbye to ranked-choice voting
By TRENT ENGLAND AND JASON SNEAD | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION Remember the sales pitch for ranked choice voting? Sure, it’s more complicated, excludes voters,... Read more.
Trump announces 30% tariffs on EU and Mexico, citing trade imbalance
By DAN MCCALEB | THE CENTER SQUARE President Donald Trump on Saturday said he will impose 30% tariffs on imported goods from the European Union and Mexico in his... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: World War II altered the American diet, and we grew larger
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Without a doubt, Lend-Lease food proved vital to the maintenance of adequate nutrition levels for Soviets and other Lend-Lease beneficiaries.... Read more.
Kevin McCabe: Anchorage lost 7,000 students. Here’s where they went and why
By REP. KEVIN MCCABE Alaska’s education system is broken, and families know it. Anchorage is losing roughly 1,000 students per year, dropping from 49,243 in 2010... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau leaders lose the plot on affordability, but voters may push back in October
By WIN GRUENING Repeatedly, the City and Borough Assembly has missed opportunities to mitigate the rising costs of living in Juneau. While paying lip service to... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: The silver-lead lie, Alaska’s home rule, and the illusion of local control
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO I remember being eight. Traveling down Silver Mine Road in the heat and humidity of a Brookfield, Connecticut summer. My world was small... Read more.
Linda Boyle: New Covid in town is Nimbus, brought to you through China and Asia
By LINDA BOYLE The newest Covid variant is Nimbus (NB.1.8.1) a mutation of the Omicron variant. While touted as highly infectious, it doesn’t seem to cause hospitalizations... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Sustainable aquaculture in Alaska?
By ALEX GIMARC I received a heads up last week from Craig Medred, announcing a World Bank publication that spoke in glowing terms about the role aquaculture is... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Alaska’s path to true local control in education
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO As a result of my July 2 article on financial literacy, I received a powerful and emotionally charged testimony (if you read the comments, you... Read more.
Wealthy white liberals urge Democrats to ‘be willing to get shot’ opposing Trump: Axios
By IRELAND OWENS | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION Some House Democrats told Axios that their constituents have encouraged them to prepare for violence and “be willing... Read more.
Glen Biegel: Dissecting Medicaid’s work requirement
By GLEN BIEGEL The left has declared war on those who would place work or service requirements on those who receive Medicaid and are able-bodied. ... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Why Alaska must reverse Medicaid expansion
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO The State of Alaska now faces a pivotal decision that will define its financial trajectory and societal integrity for decades. Since the administrative... Read more.
Bob Griffin: One Big Beautiful School Choice
By BOB GRIFFIN One of the impacts of the Great Big Beautiful Bill is the ability of low- and middle-income families to be able to afford private school. ... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: When schools fail to teach about money, they teach dependency
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO In Alaska, our public education system falsely claims to prepare our children for the future. But what is the future in our minds as adults,... Read more.
Linda Boyle: ACIP’s first meeting cuts through the noise on RSV and flu shots
By LINDA BOYLE The new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met for two days to make recommendations on influenza and respiratory syncytial... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: It’s time to stop funding failure
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Alaska’s K–12 education system is collapsing under the weight of a bloated, centralized bureaucracy. Per Bob Griffin’s “Why aren’t... Read more.
Bob Griffin: Why aren’t teachers more upset?
By BOB GRIFFIN Governor Dunleavy was right to propose direct bonus payments to teachers. He understands that most of the money we dedicate to K-12 gets intercepted... Read more.
Willie Keppel: A generational chance to clean House (and Senate) in Juneau
By WILLIE KEPPEL We have a once-in-a-generational opportunity to clean up the Alaska Legislature: The retirement of Lyman Hoffman, after 40 years — with the... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: The Communist Control Act of 1954 and an escape from the Soviet Union
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY When the Soviet Union allowed a few Soviet Jews to emigrate after the 1967 Six-Day War in the Middle East, expectations of freer Jewish... Read more.
Win Gruening: Homeless, not helpless, Part 2
By WIN GRUENING In January, 2017, I penned a Must Read Alaska column defending then-Mayor Koelsch’s sponsorship of an anti-camping ordinance needed to address... Read more.
Cruz: China using Climate activism to undermine US energy independence
By MORGAN SWEENEY China coordinates with the “radical left” and uses climate activism as a cover to undermine American energy independence, Republicans said... Read more.
Muslim Socialist is positioning to take over as mayor of NYC, thanks to ranked-choice voting
By CHRISTEN SMITH | THE CENTER SQUARE Republicans warn that Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s mayoral primary means... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Dr. Robert Malone, former speaker at Alaska Freedom Summit, tapped as national vaccine panel co-chair by RFK Jr.
By LINDA BOYLE In an earlier Must Read Alaska column, I wrote about upcoming changes in membership of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made by Health... Read more.
Robert Seitz: What the governor’s energy conference revealed about Alaska’s energy future
By ROBERT SEITZ I am responding to various reactions to the Governor’s Alaska Sustainability Conference. Some have wondered why there was so much focus on oil... Read more.
Due to ranked-choice voting, New York City may end up with socialist mayor
By IRELAND OWENS | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION Democratic New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a socialist, has the edge over former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew... Read more.
Bob Griffin: Alaska’s schools are rolling in cash, so why aren’t the results better?
By BOB GRIFFIN Alaska was ranked the second most adequately funded school system in the US by a 2024 study from Rutgers University. The rest of the story —... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Warp speed changes in FDA policy
By LINDA BOYLE The era of the Federal Drug Administration just rubberstamping whatever the pharmaceutical companies send in for the next Covid booster jab is over. ... Read more.
Val Van Brocklin: The state shaved her head. The court called it an ‘error.’ It was more than that.
By VAL VANBROCKLIN This is a true story. It’s in a file at the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage. On May 2, 2025 the Alaska Supreme Court issued a decision In... Read more.
Chris Wallace: Mission accomplished, as Juneau protesters successfully prevent rise of imaginary king
By CHRIS WALLACE On June 14, 2025, a group of obviously concerned citizens gathered at the whale statue to sing and chant and demand we not have a king. I never... Read more.
Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill provisions hit buzzkill parliamentarian in Senate
By DAVE PECK | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION Key parts of the Senate budget proposal containing vast swathes of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda are... Read more.
Tim Barto: A peaceful, prayerful gathering for life
By TIM BARTO Seeing the “mostly peaceful” but inevitably violent protests over the past week put many of us in the mood to turn the channel... Read more.
Gavin Newsom loses: Appeals court sides with Trump on use of National Guard
By DAVE MASON | THE CENTER SQUARE Authority on deployment of the National Guard in California by the president was given approval late Thursday by a panel in the... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Goodbye Red Dye No. 3, as food giants begin to detox processed foods
By LINDA BOYLE On April 27, I wrote of the intent of Human and Health Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to remove harmful synthetic dyes from our food. ... Read more.
David Ignell: Do Democrats care about due process rights of Alaska citizens, or is it all political theater?
By DAVID IGNELL My last article about the nationwide obsession over the due process rights of illegal aliens concluded by signaling my intent to contact the politicians... Read more.
Kevin McCabe: Alaska’s constitutional mandate and the Legislature’s capital budget shortfall
By REP. KEVIN MCCABE Article IX, Section 16 of the Alaska Constitution is clear: At least one-third of our state spending must be reserved for capital projects and... Read more.
Power the Future: Environmental extremism threatens Donlin with death by a thousand cuts
By BRETT HUBER | POWER THE FUTURE In Alaska’s remote Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, opportunity is rare, but hope has a name: Donlin Gold. The proposed mine represents... Read more.
Bob Bird: A renewal of anti-war conservatism
By BOB BIRD American History has always been taught from a perspective that centralization and an increase of government power is good. Thus, the maligned Articles... Read more.
Linda Boyle: RFK Jr. overhauls vaccine approval committee due to prevailing conflicts of interest
By LINDA BOYLE While I expected changes in the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the 26th secretary of Health and Human... Read more.
Bob Griffin: Want better schools? Healthy competition is the difference
By BOB GRIFFIN Despite significant disparities in funding and adequacy, Florida dramatically outperforms Alaska in the quality of high school graduates. This is... Read more.
Minnesota House speaker, her husband assassinated by suspect believe to be Gov. Walz appointee
THE CENTER SQUARE | MUST READ ALASKA Two Minnesota state lawmakers who are members of the Democratic-Farm-Labor Party were shot early Saturday by a person posing... Read more.
David Boyle: Anchorage school superintendent melts down over 0.7% budget gap
By DAVID BOYLE Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued his budget vetoes on Thursday and added an $500 to the Base Student Allocation, the school funding formula. He... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau Assembly set to mandate another complicated, cumbersome voting system
By WIN GRUENING In spite of dissatisfaction with the city’s unilateral decision to impose vote-by-mail a few years ago, on June 9th, the Juneau Assembly moved... Read more.
California provided $73.6 million to anti-deportation groups, including rioters
By KENNETH SCHRUPP | THE CENTER SQUARE Government transparency group Open The Books reported the state of California provided anti-deportation groups with $73.6... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: The PFD Doomsday Clock calculator is no gimmick
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Phil Izon, a lifelong Alaskan, didn’t build the PFD Doomsday Clock as a gimmick. He built it because Alaskans deserved to know the truth—not... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: The greens are in control of Chugach Electric, so now what?
By ALEX GIMARC Suzanne Downing’s article on the most recent Board election of the Chugach Electric Association got me thinking, usually a dangerous, painful... Read more.
Paul Fuhs: Sustainable energy conference struck a balance that protesters somehow missed
By PAUL FUHS There have been several editorials lately that call out the Governor’s Sustainable Energy conference as having “left out” information... Read more.
Kevin McCabe: HB 123 is a long-overdue victory for Alaska’s car rental industry and rural economy
By REP. KEVIN MCCABE HB 123 represents a critical reform to Alaska’s vehicle rental tax system, addressing years of confusion, legal disputes, and economic inefficiencies.... Read more.
Robert Seitz: An Alaska energy plan that pulls together all the pieces
By ROBERT SEITZ I was going to continue writing on the topic of climate by responding to an article from Yereth Rosen on the cost of permafrost related damage,... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Annual employee incentive awards night for municipality will be casino-themed this year
By ALEX GIMARC Given the increasingly chummy relationship between the Eklutna Tribe, its casino operation, the Assembly and the Suzanne LaFrance administration,... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: ‘Free Palestine’ is a call to destroy Israel and exterminate Jews
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY People can peacefully protest to express dissatisfaction with policies or actions, to raise awareness about a cause, to connect with like-minded... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: From bureaucratic entrenchment to resource empowerment, Alaska is at a crossroads
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO On June 3, Alaska State Sen. James Kaufman shared an optimistic message on social media: “One of my top priorities is supporting responsible... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Fungus among us, straight from China
By LINDA BOYLE The US Department of Justice has announced charges against two Chinese nationals accused of smuggling a dangerous biological agent into the United... Read more.
Kassie Andrews: Financing the future of sustainable energy
By KASSIE ANDREWS The Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference continued this week with a panel called “Financing the Future of Sustainable Energy.” The affair... Read more.
Nick Begich: Alaska rises as the Last Frontier becomes first in America’s energy comeback
By CONGRESSMAN NICK BEGICH When we talk about Alaska’s energy potential – we are talking about more than molecules in the ground or development projects. We’re... Read more.
Tim Barto: Promoting a conservative social agenda by doing what’s right
By TIM BARTO It often seems like we’re losing the culture war. These are all issues of social concern, and they were all discussed during two Alaska Family Council... Read more.
Kassie Andrews: Day One conference notes
By KASSIE ANDREWS The Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference kicked off with Gov. Mike Dunleavy hosting a powerhouse panel that featured Interior Secretary Doug Burgum,... Read more.
Power the Future: Trump unleashes Alaska’s power, after Biden tried to deep six it
By BRETT HUBER | POWER THE FUTURE Alaska is home to some of the most valuable energy and mineral resources in the world—resources vital not only to the state’s... Read more.
Kassie Andrews: Pre-conference workshop notes
By KASSIE ANDREWS The fourth annual Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference began with a pre-conference workshop led by Dr. Erin Whitney, director of the U.S. Department... Read more.
David Boyle: Anchorage School District wants to promote kids who cannot read
By DAVID BOYLE What should be done with a student who can’t read at grade level? Should that student be retained in the current grade or be promoted... Read more.
Pedro Gonzalez: With HB 57, more funding is less
By PEDRO GONZALEZ It didn’t take long for Alaska superintendents to go from celebrating a proposed school funding increase to insisting that more would still not... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Medical establishment melts down after RFK Jr. limits Covid jab guidance
By LINDA BOYLE It’s been known for some time that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. would be making changes to Covid jab recommendations . When he announced... Read more.
Foodies and foragers: Alaska-grown microgreens are superfoods bursting with flavor
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON Microgreens add a finishing touch to this Spruce-Tipped Salmon Ceviche, providing a burst of flavor and nutrients. Their rich hues and delicate... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau government spending depends on cruise visitors spending
By WIN GRUENING The recent failure of activists in Juneau to gain sufficient signatures to put yet another anti-cruise initiative on the ballot in October is evidence... Read more.
Video: Christian gathering outside Seattle City Hall attract confrontational transgender protesters
By CARLEEN JOHNSON AND DAN MCCALEB | THE CENTER SQUARE More than 500 Christians gathered outside Seattle City Hall Tuesday evening to protest what they say are the... Read more.
Carl Cannon: Globalizing Naziism
By CARL CANNON | REAL CLEAR WIRE It takes severe depravity, not to mention sheer stupidity, to believe that shooting an unarmed couple in the back as they stand... Read more.
Take our survey: Should Trump administration cut federal grants and contracts to Harvard
By SARAH RODERICK-FITCH | THE CENTER SQUARE In another blow to Harvard University, the Trump administration has moved to cancel federal contracts with the Ivy League... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Taking back Alaska means moving from managed dependency to freedom
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Over the past decade, Alaska has become a sobering case study in the systematic digression from freedom to entitlement, where government agencies,... Read more.
Linda Boyle: MAHA report on childhood health crisis in America is a ‘Must Read’
By LINDA BOYLE President Trump’s Executive Order 14212 of Feb. 13 established the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission. Within the first... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Taking back Alaska by restoring the four corners of state sovereignty
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Alaska stands at a crossroads. Decades of bureaucratic expansion, fiscal mismanagement, and policy drift have left the state with underperforming... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Purchasing votes with other people’s money
By ALEX GIMARC In the political world, you can almost always explain past and future actions by simply following the money. Who does this spending benefit? ... Read more.
Foodies and foragers: Have you tried devil’s club?
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON Devil’s club is avoided by hikers due to the sharp spines on its bark and leaves. However, during a brief period in the spring, the tender... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: When incompetence becomes evil
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO There’s an old adage, that evil triumphs when good men do nothing. But in modern politics, especially here in Alaska, evil often triumphs... Read more.
Todd Lindley: Sen. Lora Reinbold was right
By TODD LINDLEY Protecting the interests of constituents has always been a platitude of political campaigns, with candidates weaving messaging in a way to portray... Read more.
Willy Keppel: Defined benefits is a model that punishes families, fails students, protects bureaucrats
By WILLY KEPPEL I know this won’t be a popular take, but I’ve got to disagree with both friends and foes when it comes to the idea of returning to a Defined... Read more.
Linda Boyle: FDA prepares to change Covid requirements and update drug approval processes
By LINDA BOYLE Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leads the US Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Marty Makary heads up the Food and Drug Administration.... Read more.
Pedro Gonzalez: Trump Administration turns to Asia for Alaska LNG project
By PEDRO GONZALEZ A curious ballet around the Alaska LNG Project has been unfolding on the international stage with some of America’s allies in Asia. It’s... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Cold War missed opportunities and misguided policies led US and Russia to the brink
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Updated: Why West provoked and prolongs Russia-Ukraine war? Thirty-five years ago, this spring, Mikhail Gorbachev, then President of the Soviet... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: The Left’s manipulation of auto industry undermines American innovation
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO For more than a century, the American auto industry stood as a beacon of global leadership, technological ingenuity, and economic mobility.... Read more.
Border Patrol applications highest in history under Trump
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Since President Donald Trump took office, U.S. Border Patrol has seen an unprecedented surge in applications from men and... Read more.
David Boyle: Anchorage School District is shortsighted fiscally, ignoring huge budget deficit
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School Board has developed a next year’s budget based on the Legislature increasing the Base Student Allocation by $560, which would... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Operating manual for Alaska’s next governor
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO President Donald J. Trump taught a brutal but necessary lesson to anyone serious about becoming Alaska’s next governor: If you aren’t fully... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau property tax cap initiative, and safeguarding affordability for residents
By WIN GRUENING City and Borough of Juneau (CBJ) residents hear a lot from city leaders about the importance keeping their community affordable. However, far too... Read more.
Tim Barto: Charlie Hustle and Shoeless Joe now eligible for Baseball’s Hall of Fame
By TIM BARTO With an announcement that caused the cell phone of many of us baseball fans to light up, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred made a decision... Read more.
Hayden Ludwig: There are no rigged elections in America … except at the DNC
By HAYDEN LUDWIG Who could’ve seen it coming? Just 101 days into his tenure as the Democratic Party’s youngest vice chair – and the first “Zoomer”... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Yes, 90,000 climate scientists can be wrong
By ROBERT SEITZ In my commentary of April 9, “We don’t need Alaska Climate Change Emergency Response Commission,” I covered that Alaska is not warming at... Read more.
Valerie Van Brocklin: Benediction for the thin blue line
By VALERIE VAN BROCKLIN National Police Week, intended to honor fallen officers and their families, began May 11. Police line of duty deaths were up 25% in 2024.... Read more.
David Blackmon: Chris Wright has a mess to clean up — Biden’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve mess
By DAVID BLACKMON | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION Joe Biden and his appointees took an abundance of costly and damaging policy actions during his four-year term in... Read more.
Foodies and foragers: Mother’s Day dandelions
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON This Mother’s Day, treat Mom to delightful foraged dandelions. With dandelions blooming throughout Alaska, there is a perfect opportunity... Read more.
Bob Bird: A shock for the ages
By BOB BIRD I am 73 years old and have lived under eight different popes. I even recall the news of the 1958 conclave. I was shocked when the first non-Italian pope... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Democrats and their allies are cooking up a showdown with Gov. Dunleavy
By DAN FAGAN Editor’s note: This column was first published on Feb. 23, but is being republished due to its relevance to the last two weeks of the legislative... Read more.
A Pulitzer move? Prize winner New York Times quietly scrubbed ‘China virus’ from its archives
By EMILY KOPP | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION The New York Times quietly edited its early articles on the Covid-19 pandemic to scrub the phrases “China virus”... Read more.
David Boyle: Alaska Legislature shortchanges parents and students
By DAVID BOYLE There has been a virtually endless discussion on increasing the funding of our K-12 schools by increasing the Base Student Allocation. But what... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: HB 57 is shellac on a moose pellet
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO House Bill 57 introduces targeted reforms to Alaska’s public education system, including suggested smaller class sizes, increased vocational... Read more.
Trump signs executive order ending taxpayer funding of NPR, PBS
By MORGAN SWEENEY | THE CENTER SQUARE President Donald Trump signed an executive order terminating government funding of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting... Read more.
Win Gruening: Should food be taxed in Juneau?
By WIN GRUENING Why have Juneau city leaders supported an extensive list of municipal sales tax exemptions over the years, but are unable to seriously consider exempting... Read more.
Bob Griffin: The twisted path of education legislation and a compromise that annoys everyone
By BOB GRIFFIN I’ve been following the twisting path of education legislation this year in Juneau. Education seems to dominate the conversation every year, as... Read more.
State Supreme Court suspends Milwaukee judge charged with helping man evade ICE
By J.D. DAVIDSON | THE CENTER SQUARE The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended a Milwaukee judge facing two federal charges for allegedly trying to help a man illegally... Read more.
David Boyle: What about constitutional right of privacy for high school graduates?
By DAVID BOYLE The state legislature is considering House Bill 57, a bill that raises the Base Student Allocation, restricts cell phone usage in schools, and tracks... Read more.
Linda Boyle: When it comes to toxic dyes in foods, why not follow Europe’s lead?
By LINDA BOYLE On April 22, 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary announced... Read more.
Jim Minnery: LifeWise Academy invites you to a Tuesday night event focusing on turning the tide
By JIM MINNERY “All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their peace.” – Isaiah 54:13 It’s not hard to see what’s happening... Read more.
Perpetual funding racket: Teachers’ union uses public money to demand more public money
By DAVID BOYLE A circular funding mechanism has the National Education Association NEA-AK and its affiliates using public money to lobby the Legislature for even... Read more.
Glen Biegel: Dan Fagan inspired us to be our best selves
By GLEN BIEGEL We fought, we argued, we disagreed, and we were more blessed to know each other than you can imagine. Dan Fagan was a hero of mine. Heroes are funny... Read more.
Bob Bird: How to vote for a pope
By BOB BIRD Time now to discuss “papabili.” Or, Catholic cardinals who might be the next pope. Pronounced, pa-PA-bee-lee. Please do not offend my sensitive... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Alaska’s carbon reality and why we must reject the green fallacy
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Let’s start with a simple but uncomfortable truth: If you believe that carbon dioxide (CO₂) is an existential threat to the planet, Alaska... Read more.
Petroleum-based food dyes must be phased out: RFK Jr.
By THERESE BOUDREAUX | THE CENTER SQUARE Eight petroleum-based synthetic food dyes must be phased out of the American food supply and medications within the next... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: When we were allies
Lessons of the of Alaska–Siberia Air Route By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY One of the decisive factors leading to the victory of the world’s peace-seeking nations in the... Read more.
Bob Bird: Understanding the upcoming papal conclave
By BOB BIRD With the death of the most controversial pope in centuries, perhaps of all time, the entire planet will be focusing on the election of a new supreme... Read more.
Foodies and foragers: Bring on the eggs for Easter
Easter traditions around the world often feature eggs as symbols of resurrection and renewal. Our backyard chickens are perfectly aligned with Holy Week, as the... Read more.
Win Gruening: Alaska voters fight back
By WIN GRUENING The right of the citizenry to directly petition their government is often seen primarily as a way for d groups to air their grievances, potentially... Read more.
State Department shuts down agency that pushed censorship of conservative news sites
The Trump Administration announced the closure of the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office, formerly known as the... Read more.
Randy Ruedrich: Just say ‘no’ to statewide mail-in elections for Alaska, as envisioned by Senate Bill 64
By RANDY RUEDRICH Senate Bill 64 is enabling legislation for future statewide mail-in voting that the Anchorage municipal Democrats have already adopted. This... Read more.
Bob Bird: Holy Week, Holy Shroud
By BOB BIRD In an amazing turnaround from the Biden era, the Trump White House issued Holy Week greetings to the entire country. As a flawed human being, and one... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Alaska’s health services analysis
TAKING BACK ALASKA SERIES By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Alaska’s healthcare system currently faces severe challenges affecting the quality, accessibility, and affordability... Read more.
Bob Griffin: Add charter school authorizers to end the long waiting lists in Alaska
By BOB GRIFFIN Alaska was ranked second in the nation in K-12 education funding adequacy by a recent Rutgers University study with a score of 95 out a... Read more.
Paulette Simpson: RIP Juneau Access
By PAULETTE SIMPSON The latest version of the capital budget reappropriates approximately $37 million from designated Juneau Access funds for use as federal match... Read more.
Lucas Smith: Alaska students and teachers deserve better than the flawed funding patch of HB 69
By LUCAS SMITH House Bill 69 is not the education bill Alaska’s public-school students and teachers deserve. HB 69 does nothing more than increase the Base... Read more.
Foodies and foragers: Fabulous Alaska fava beans, from garden trellis to table
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON Fava beans are cold-weather-tolerant legumes with a sweet, nutty flavor that thrive in some regions of Alaska. They are a nutritious, protein-rich... Read more.
Willy Keppel: Nellie Jimmie has it wrong. The Permanent Fund dividend belongs to all of us
By WILLY KEPPEL Let me just say it straight: Rep. Nellie Jimmie’s vote to cut the PFD was wrong. I don’t doubt her heart is probably in the right place, but... Read more.
Math problems, train track aspirations, and the $64,000 question about House Majority’s budget
BY DAVID BOYLE Because most of us don’t have the time nor the inclination to listen to Legislature’s meetings and press conferences, I’ve compiled... Read more.
Robert Seitz: We don’t need Alaska Climate Change Emergency Response Commission
By ROBERT SEITZ A month ago Sen. Gray-Jackson introduced SB 120 “An act establishing the Alaska Climate Change Emergency Response Commission.” In... Read more.
Trump sends markets soaring with big tariff announcement
By AUDREY STREB | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on tariffs for roughly 75 countries that did not issue retaliatory... Read more.
Tim Barto: Women athletes show courage when they refuse to compete against men
By TIM BARTO As big-time sports go, fencing and disc golf aren’t the typical topics of discussion over beers at the watering hole. Not to disparage the sports,... Read more.
Kassie Andrews: Renewable portfolio standards, round 3
By KASSIE ANDREWS For decades, Alaska’s energy policy has been shaped not by the will of the people but by outside influence. It has been a long, forced march... Read more.
David Boyle: What is the pupil-teacher ratio in your Alaska school?
By DAVID BOYLE We have heard some teachers complain that they have more than 40 students in their classes. This may be true for a few certain required classes. But... Read more.
Barbara Haney: Are Trump tariffs unconstitutional or congressionally authorized? An economist’s view
By BARBARA HANEY I am writing in my capacity as a private citizen and as an economist to respond to some comments from a recent event titled, “Bridge the Divide”... Read more.
Power the Future calls for restocking Strategic Petroleum Reserve with low-cost oil
By DAN McCALEB | THE CENTER SQUARE An energy worker advocacy group is calling on the Trump administration to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve now that oil... Read more.
Texas Senate passes bill prohibiting the changing of sex designation on birth certificates of transgenders
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE The Texas Senate passed a bill to prohibit individuals in Texas from changing their biological sex on their birth certificates... Read more.
Tim Barto: Pro-life Alaskans join nation in calling for defunding of Planned Parenthood
By TIM BARTO A national movement is afoot to defund Planned Parenthood. On Wednesday, while the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Alaska Land Settlement Plan
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Taking Back Alaska Part V I. Introduction Alaska must critically reform and streamline its state agencies to maximize local autonomy and eliminate... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Legislators say, ‘Here, hold my beer’
By ALEX GIMARC The Alaska Legislature, in a faux embrace of small government voted Senate Bill 15, legislation to allow 18-year-olds to sell alcohol. The bill... Read more.
Win Gruening: Borough budget challenges just got bigger — and messier
By WIN GRUENING A recent news story warned residents that Juneau’s landfill will be at capacity in the next decade. Yet a solution could take much longer. This... Read more.
DOGE: How much in taxpayer dollars did Biden spend studying ‘queer farming quality of life’?
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. taxpayers have shelled out tens of thousands of dollars in recent years to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for research... Read more.
David Boyle: The student-teacher ratio battle
By DAVID BOYLE There is a battle brewing over the impact of the teacher-pupil ratio and its effect on students’ learning. The Anchorage Education Association has... Read more.
Tim Barto: The Great Jackie Robinson Caper
By TIM BARTO Fall, 1989: an episode of The Wonder Years just finished. Kevin and his buddy Paul were having friendship troubles, stemming from a baseball... Read more.
Tim Barto: Anchorage elections coming to an end. Have you voted your ballot?
By TIM BARTO | ALASKA FAMILY COUNCIL Is your municipal ballot you received still sitting on the kitchen counter? Municipal elections tend to arouse as much excitement... Read more.
Jon Faulkner: Constitutional power of the president to deport illegal aliens
By JON FAULKNER Last week, invoking his wartime authority under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, President Donald Trump bypassed the courts and deported137 alleged Venezuelan... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Taking back Alaska with education freedom and local control
Part IV of Taking Back Alaska Series By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO On March 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order initiating the dismantling of the US Department... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Assimilation and acculturation take time and understanding
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY I was a presenter at the Juneau–Gastineau Rotary Club in January 2020, speaking on “Several Sanctioned Avenues for Immigration to the United... Read more.
Bob Griffin: Alaska vs. Mississippi show why education reform matters more than money
A recent columnist compared Alaska and Mississippi in the percentage of the state budgets that goes to K-12 education. That simplistic view avoids... Read more.
Kevin McCabe: Taking back town halls and why Republicans must stand firm against disruption
Town halls and public speeches are a cornerstone of American democracy — a direct, unfiltered connection between elected officials and the people they serve. For... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Air Force major being involuntary discharged for refusing flu shot
By LINDA BOYLE Maj. Brennan Schilperoort is a C-130J transport aircraft pilot stationed at Little Rock Air Force Base, a main training base for C-130 pilots. He... Read more.
Larry Elder: Death threats against Musk again show how much the Left values science
By LARRY ELDER In March 2009, the New York Times wrote a lengthy piece about renowned physicist Freeman Dyson, then 85. Four years earlier, Dyson began publicly... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Taking Back Alaska means reforming Alaska’s election manipulation bureaucracy
Taking Back Alaska Part III By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO The greatest threat to Alaska democracy isn’t traditional voter fraud. Instead, it’s state-controlled election... Read more.
Tim Barto: Recap of pro-life and pro- family gathering at Governor’s Mansion in Juneau
By TIM BARTO It’s nice to have allies, especially in today’s political climate, and it’s reassuring to know there are like-minded people who support positive... Read more.
Linda Boyle: More news about Covid vaccine side effects
By LINDA BOYLE A professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University wrote a column for the New York Times entitled “We Were Badly Misled About the... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Alaska’s path to prosperity is not through higher taxes on oil
By ROBERT SEITZ My commentary on Nov. 15, 2024, “Work on sensible legislation this next session — with solutions, not band aids” was obviously not read by... Read more.
Win Gruening: Approval of new cruise dock moves forward
By WIN GRUENING Aak’w Landing, the long-proposed cruise dock development in downtown Juneau is one step closer to reality. During an Assembly Committee of... Read more.
2025 Alaska Food Festival & Conference to be held on March 28 & 29 in Kodiak
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON The Alaska Food Policy Council will host the 2025 Alaska Food Festival and Conference in Kodiak on March 28 and 29, with the opportunity to... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Colonization through regulation and the role of federal overreach in Alaska
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Taking Back Alaska Part II Alaska was admitted to the Union under the promise of self-governance and control over its vast natural resources.... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Educators must return to teaching history, truth, fact, and beauty
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Today, our primary and secondary schools, and society at large, should be discussing essential social concepts that provide a background, foundation,... Read more.
David Boyle: When it comes to education, Margo Bellamy’s actions speak louder than words
By DAVID BOYLE Margo Bellamy is once again running for the Anchorage School Board. She has served on the school board since 2019, some years as president. And... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Taking back Alaska, dismantling the corrupt bureaucracy, Part I
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Alaska’s government no longer serves its people Alaska has always stood for independence, resourcefulness, and self-reliance. But today, Alaskans... Read more.
Kevin McCabe: Why defending the First Amendment means protecting the Second
By KEVIN MCCABE In the pressure cooker of Juneau, the Alaska Legislature is wrestling with two bills that strike at the heart of both U.S. and Alaska constitutional... Read more.
Foodies and foragers: Corned venison
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON Corned venison is a delicious way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day while paying tribute to a preparation style popular among Irish immigrants,... Read more.
Dan Fagan: When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging
By DAN FAGAN As the saying goes, when you find yourself in a hole, quit digging. There’s little doubt Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s plan to expand Alaska state... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Case for overturning Alaska’s tenure statute in favor of home rule authority
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO The teacher tenure system in Alaska, codified under AS 14.20.150, was designed to ensure job security for educators, promote workforce stability,... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Success at school begins at home with parents setting the standards
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Education and knowledge translate into power. Education does not parallel economics or politics, but is the soul of the society, and more fundamental... Read more.
How Trump Cabinet secretary plans to help America climb out of Biden’s energy ‘hole’
By NICK POPE Energy Secretary Chris Wright explained his plans to fortify America’s fragile power grid and a host of other energy policy issues in a Monday interview... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Five-years after first Covid case in Alaska, and still lots of questions
By LINDA BOYLE March 12 marks the five year anniversary of when Covid first entered our state. That case was a cargo jet pilot who was treated locally and then... Read more.
After hours-long debate, Washington House Democrats pass bill requiring gun permits
By CARLEEN JOHNSON | THE CENTER SQUARE After a vigorous hours-long debate that began the night before, Washington State Democrats in the House of Representatives... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: The real path to education reform is empowering parents, not bureaucrats
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO As House Representative Kevin McCabe’s, March 10, 2025, Must Read Alaska opinion, “Is school district consolidation possible in Alaska?”,... Read more.
Must Read Alaska Show, with Moms for Liberty- Kenai chapter, focuses on education this week
By BEN CARPENTER When I sat in the Alaska House of Representatives for six years, I heard the same refrain every budget season: “We’ve got a teacher recruitment... Read more.
David Blackmon: Biden’s dumb LNG pause has rightfully met its end
By DAVID BLACKMON | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum held a joint appearance in south Louisiana Thursday... Read more.
Politico: Democrats think swearing like sailors will endear them to Americans
By HAROLD HUTCHINSON Democratic members of Congress have upped their use of profanity in an effort to be more relatable to Americans, Politico reported Sunday. The... Read more.
Biden White House gave out $128 million in federal grants to gender ideology programs
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE More than $128 million of federal taxpayer money was spent on at least 341 grants to fund gender ideology initiatives under... Read more.
Ben Carpenter: Rep. Sarah Vance on the Must Read Alaska Show talking about the Legislature’s moving bills and its priorities
By BEN CARPENTER If you want to know what really matters to the Alaska State Legislature, don’t listen to the speeches or read the press releases. Watch the bills.... Read more.
Bob Griffin: Equal treatment for correspondence schools could save the state millions
By BOB GRIFFIN The average K-12 student in Alaska costs the state 2.2 times the $5,960 Base Student Allocation after all the multipliers in the funding formula or... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Are we paying attention?
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Alaska’s state government has long operated under the false premise that its fiscal problems stem from inadequate revenue rather than reckless,... Read more.
Fraud, child sex changes, health services for illegals — Dems spent years growing Medicaid beyond recognition
By IRELAND OWENS | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION Democrats’ push to massively expand Medicaid over the past several years has turned the program into something... Read more.
David Boyle: Anchorage School Board uses DEI to disadvantage a top-performing charter school
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School Board decided to repurpose one of its closed schools — Lake Hood Elementary School — and make it into a Alaska Native... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Biden awarded $28 million to a vaccine company that doesn’t have a web page and operates out of post office box
By LINDA BOYLE It’s amazing to discover that various companies were awarded taxpayer dollars just as former President Joe Biden was going out the door. One... Read more.
Win Gruening: Hidden perils of returning to a defined pension plan for public employees
By WIN GRUENING As Alaska faces one of its most difficult fiscal challenges in decades, a bill to radically expand Alaska’s retirement plan for government workers... Read more.
House Rules Committee passes $807 million school funding bill that has no source of funding
By DAVID BOYLE The House Rules Committee passed House Bill 69, which will increase the K-12 budget by more than $250 million this year for a total of $807 million... Read more.
David Boyle: Anchorage School Board activates parent ire and places bets on more state funding
By DAVID BOYLE Over the past six months the Anchorage School Board has wrestled with a large budget deficit—estimated at $107 million. Solutions have ranged... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Who was in that room? Why did they block peace? Is this an actionable offense?
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Two key moments in US-Ukraine relations involving President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have defined American politics and foreign policy. The first,... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Get informed about measles and the use of Vitamin A to reduce mortality
By LINDA BOYLE As we read reports about the measles being an epidemic among the unvaccinated, I thought it would be helpful to present the following data from the... Read more.
Paul Fuhs: Who will stand up for the people of the Arctic?
By PAUL FUHS The Ukraine conflict is front and center in the news these days. Big power confrontations over the big issues of national security. So,... Read more.
Treg Taylor: The media has twisted the facts on services for the disabled. Here’s the truth
By ATTORNEY GENERAL TREG TAYLOR Separation of powers is a foundational principle of this country. We are taught in school that the legislature enacts laws; the... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: The 2025 Ukraine peace sabotage by Democrats. A pattern of US foreign policy failures
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO A defining moment for diplomacy was within reach. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walked into the White House, expected to finalize... Read more.
Reason Foundation disputes Democrats’ claim that a pension will retain state workers
By DAN FAGAN In 2006, Republican Gov. Frank Murkowski signed a law ending the state’s generous pension based retirement plans for state employees. The law... Read more.
Foodies and foragers: Palmer Food Security Workshop
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON Last week’s Palmer Food Security Workshop was a “smashing success,” according to Sen. Shelley Hughes, who said that the event’s... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: What America can learn from the decline and fall of world empires
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY History does not repeat. Yesterday will never be today or tomorrow, but historic patterns do repeat. History shows a pattern of the nations’... Read more.
Trump-Zelenskyy Oval Office meeting goes up in flames after two sides duke it out in front of cameras
By NICOLE SILVERIO | THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance duked it out with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: In defense of Gov. Dunleavy’s fish farming initiative
By ALEX GIMARC Governor Dunleavy rolled out a pair of bills, HB 111 and SB 108, advocating a change in state law currently prohibiting fish farming for fin fish... Read more.
Linda Boyle: 10 fast facts about the bird flu virus
By LINDA BOYLE 1. The bird flu virus has been around since 1878. It was first seen in northern Italy, called at the time “fowl plague,” a contagious... Read more.
Yundt Tax illustrates economic fundamentals: If you want less of something, tax it
By DAN FAGAN Credit freshman Republican State Sen. Rob Yundt on his ability to make a splash in the political world. Here’s what he posted about Must Read... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: What happened to Sen. Rob Yundt?
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO In a recent Facebook comment, newly installed Senator Rob Yundt (R) responded to Suzanne Downing’s Must Read Alaska, “Camel’s nose: Alaska... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Let’s stop playing colony and become the state we were supposed to be
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO The Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) initiative is a strategic effort to modernize federal technology, streamline operations, and... Read more.
White House prepares for ‘maximum elimination’ of federal workers allowed by law
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The White House sent a memo to several federal agencies telling them to prepare to reorganize and fire high quantities of workers.... Read more.
Bob Griffin: Education proficiency grants work
By BOB GRIFFIN Gov. Mike Dunleavy has proposed $450-per-student grants from the state for K-6 students who demonstrate proficiency in reading or improve their reading... Read more.
David Boyle: An unvarnished look at the Anchorage School District’s actual spending increases
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School Board will determine next year’s budget on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at its board meeting. The board wants to spend more than... Read more.
Linda Boyle: New virus reported in Wuhan
By LINDA BOYLE Having just finished five years of hell from the last coronavirus go around, Dr. Zheng-Li Shi, the same Wuhan Institute of Virology bat lady, published... Read more.
Robert Seitz: School districts and teachers need to change to get Alaska back on the right track
By ROBERT SEITZ It is clear that what is taught and how it is taught must change in all school districts of Alaska. With the eroding of discipline, patriotism... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Need for DOGE to rout federal corruption was described by 19th century authors
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY According to historical records, the first states emerged in Mesopotamia, around the area of modern-day Iraq, approximately 6,000 years... Read more.
U.S. Education: DEI is civil rights violation, noncompliant schools may lose funding
By TATE MILLER | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration says that race-based decisions in education – including race-based... Read more.
In committee, Alaska Institute of Justice struggles to explain its role in illegal immigration in Alaska
By PEDRO GONZELEZ As the Trump Administration attempts to ramp up its crackdown on immigration, the president signed an executive order this week aimed at ensuring... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Alaska Education Freedom and Local Control Act would establish parent education accounts and more
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Alaska’s education system is broken. It has failed our children, our parents, and our communities. Despite having one of the highest per-student... Read more.
Education department empowers states, cuts red tape for charter school authorizations
By MORGAN SWEENEY | THE CENTER SQUARE In the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to expand educational opportunity for students and families,... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Covid ‘conspiracy theorists’ vindicated
By LINDA BOYLE Just when you think it can’t get any worse, new information has surfaced on the bad health effects from the Covid-19 jab. Yale University... Read more.
Win Gruening: Alaskans must decide what’s more important — unchecked school funding or improved student achievement
By WIN GRUENING The calls for boosting education funding by increasing Alaska’s Base Student Allocation, while mostly well-intentioned, frequently miss the point.... Read more.
Sen. Hughes hosts food security workshop in Palmer
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON Sen. Shelley Hughes is hosting a food security workshop on Saturday, Feb. 22, from 9 a.m. to noon at Palmer Jr. Middle School.In response to... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: This self-licking ice cream cone tastes like swamp
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO At the state capital, corrupt insiders in the Deep Swamp are actively sabotaging the future of Alaska’s children. These special interest cronies,... Read more.
Tim Barto: This year’s education bills, from soup to nuts
By TIM BARTO As debates over the state’s funding of the Base Student Allocation suck the oxygen out of the education committee rooms, there are a few education-related... Read more.
Robert Seitz: ‘Yundt Tax’ won’t help oil production
By ROBERT SEITZ In my commentary of Dec 22, 2024 in Must Read Alaska I stated, “Now is the time to remove the impediments to progress in oil and gas... Read more.
DOGE: Feds gave POLITICO $44 million since 2017
BY JEREMY PORTNOY | REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS Topline: The White House subscribes to POLITICO Pro, a premium service meant to inform the public what is happening... Read more.
David Boyle: President Trump lifts Covid mandates on children
By DAVID BOYLE A new executive order signed on Valentine’s Day ended mandated Covid jabs for children in K-12 schools, as well as for university students. ... Read more.
DOGE to audit IRS, and Rep. Donalds says it’s about time
By MARIANE ANGELA | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION Republican Florida Rep. Byron Donalds said on Newsmax that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is getting a taste... Read more.
Linda Boyle: DOGE puts stop to the fawning Fauci museum exhibit that taxpayers would have paid for
By LINDA BOYLE By executive order, President Donald Trump established DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, with the goal of slashing government fraud,... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Conception, the Parable of the Talents, and the Alaska church
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Humankind has come to the flash of insight in our understanding that the cellular and molecular evidence proves human life begins at conception.... Read more.
Pedro Gonzalez: This local nonprofit fits the description of what Trump ordered to be defunded
By PEDRO GONZALEZ The Mexican flag is something of a rare sight in Anchorage. But last week, protestors draped in its colors marched along snow-covered streets... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Will the Anchorage public hold the district accountable for failing our students?
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO In what appears to be yet another bait-and-switch ploy, Anchorage School Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt recently informed parents that the... Read more.
Bob Griffin: Alaska charter school parents, even without state support, are getting results
By BOB GRIFFIN Despite having one of the most poorly supported public charter school systems in the country, Alaska charter school parents have managed to create... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Solutions for Alaska’s education? Maybe dismantle our state Department of Education
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Critics of Alaska’s education system argue that its entrenched, top‑down bureaucratic management has created a stagnant structure that not... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Fighting the wrong fight on education?
By ALEX GIMARC There are many solutions to the disastrous performance of Alaska public education. Most of them involve moving control of the money spent per student... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Overview of America’s foreign aid history and how we ended up with USAID
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Historically, the United States has provided foreign aid to other countries since 1812; but on a large scale only during and after World War... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: The best Legislature money can buy
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Do you know what your Alaska state politician is doing this session? As usual, I’m late in reading profound accounts of our legislators’... Read more.
Pedro Gonzalez: Has Alaska hit bottom in education?
By PEDRO GONZALEZ A new study published by Pink Storage on the best and worst states to study in the United States ranked Alaska the fourth-worst for education overall.... Read more.
Many medical providers end practice of child sexual mutilation procedures after Trump executive order
By TJ MARTINELL | THE CENTER SQUARE In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting “transgender” procedures on youth, including puberty... Read more.
David Boyle: Anchorage teachers’ union wants another $100 million. Where will it come from?
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage Education Association and the Anchorage School District have been negotiating a new contract since November. An analysis of the going-in... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Social exchange reciprocity and how it applies to fair trade and tariffs
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Far-left activists are relentlessly opposing the present federal administration for imposing and revising economic and trade tariffs with other... Read more.
Paulette Simpson: Party matters
By PAULETTE SIMPSON Alaska’s Democratic Party is meeting in Juneau this weekend and the Alaska Republican Party will be in town February 22 for their quarterly... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: The self-licking ice cream cone of federal funding and bureaucratic power
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO We, the people of Alaska and the United States, are witnessing a tragic allegory unfold. It’s a narrative where bureaucracy, once envisioned... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Will Fauci face justice?
By LINDA BOYLE Literally, minutes before President Donald Trump was sworn in on Jan. 20, President Joe Biden issued a “preemptive” pardon to Dr. Anthony Fauci... Read more.
Here come the lawsuits: Washington’s AG sues to undo Trump’s ban on child sexual mutilation
By TJ MARTINELL | THE CENTER SQUARE Washington Attorney General Nick Brown on Thursday filed a multi-state lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s executive... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Senator majority leader parrots party line on education funding and no accountability
By ALEX GIMARC I listen (however painfully) to the other side in the political debates of the day, especially if a particular politician has “grown in office”... Read more.
Bob Griffin: The Mississippi education miracle
By BOB GRIFFIN Mississippi has become a national leader in K-12 education student outcomes. Alaskans should be encouraged that we could do the same, if we embrace... Read more.
Tim Barto: Saving girls’ and women’s sports took common sense and courage
By TIM BARTO Wednesday was National Girls and Women in Sports Day, a day to celebrate female athletes and tout the success of Title IX, the 1972 federal civil rights... Read more.
Wayne Heimer: The ‘Ugly American’ and USAID grants that promote counter-cultural colonialism
By WAYNE HEIMER As an observer of some antiquity, today’s fuss over the Trump Administration’s effort to corral the U.S. Agency for International Development... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Cook Inlet energy, one more time
By ROBERT SEITZ As we get started with the year 2025, we have a new federal administration, which has a different perspective on climate and energy than we’ve... Read more.
Win Gruening: Make Juneau affordable again by growing the economy
By WIN GRUENING Based on the deluge of comments on social media, recent proposals by the City and Borough of Juneau to dramatically escalate debt and utility rates,... Read more.
Kassie Andrews: Sustainable development’s hidden costs in Alaska
By KASSIE ANDREWS When Alaska, a state synonymous with rugged independence and self-reliance, began aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals... Read more.
Linda Boyle: There is still time to tell Sen. Murkowski to vote yes and confirm RFK Jr.
By LINDA BOYLE Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was grilled for two days by the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension... Read more.
Cheryl Markwood: Homeowners required to obtain energy ratings before listing homes for sale? It’s government overreach that must be stopped
By CHERYL MARKWOOD Starting next year, homeowners in Alaska will be required to obtain an energy rating before listing their home for sale. Not only will you be... Read more.
John Stossel: A libertarian president shows America how it’s done
By JOHN STOSSEL | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION Finally, a real libertarian is president. That’s in Argentina, where last year, Javier Milei surprised pundits... Read more.
Foodies and Foragers: Delta Junction barley farming has growing role in state’s food security safety net
TRY THIS DELICIOUS ALASKA BARLEY-MUSHROOM-COUSCOUS RECIPE By BRENDA JOSEPHSON Alaska-grown, harvested, processed, and packed, America’s northernmost commercial... Read more.
David Boyle: Gov. Dunleavy believes good policy precedes funding for education industry
By DAVID BOYLE This week, Gov. Mike Dunleavy provided legislation, HB76 and SB82, to improve Alaska’s education system with accountability for results. He believes... Read more.
David Boyle: Calling BS on BSA and the fiction that flat funding and inflation caused Alaska schools to fail
By DAVID BOYLE The Alaska Legislature is again wrestling with increasing the funding of our K-12 education system. The mantra of “flat funding for decades” has... Read more.
Cruz: Democrats ‘freaking out’ after unable to land a single blow on Kash Patel for FBI director
By MARIANE ANGELA | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said Thursday on Fox News that the Democrats are now “terrified” and “freaking... Read more.
David Boyle: President Trump executive order helps military families improve K-12 choices
By DAVID BOYLE On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order enabling military families to choose the best education fit for their children. This... Read more.
RFK Jr. supporters say they’re part of unstoppable movement to Make America Healthy Again’
By ADAM PACK | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION Most cabinet nominees invite their families and key supporters to attend their confirmation hearing. Yet, Robert F. Kennedy... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Education reform must happen first, before any increase in school funding
By ROBERT SEITZ Recent news from Juneau has Rep. Rebecca Himshoot of Sitka introducing legislation, which if passed, would increase Alaska’s public school funding... Read more.
Bob Bird: Of birthright citizenship, natural-born citizenship, and the intent of the 14th Amendment
By BOB BIRD Not everything is spelled out specifically in the U.S. Constitution. When it was written, there were certain understandings in common law already in... Read more.
Wayne Heimer: McKinley, a rose by any other name
By WAYNE E. HEIMER Our newly inaugurated President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to change the name of North America’s highest mountain back... Read more.
Pedro Gonzalez: Anchorage Homeless Industrial Complex grows despite massive taxpayer dollars
By PEDRO GONZALEZ Between 2020 and 2024, Anchorage appropriated nearly $190 million toward fighting homelessness, according to a document published by... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Republicans will again attempt to get 8,400 Covid-unvaxed military members reinstated
By LINDA BOYLE In 2023, both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate attempted to pass a law to reinstate the 8,400 military members who were discharged from... Read more.
Injured by Covid shot? Journalist is looking for Alaskans to interview
By LINDA BOYLE The Alaskans 4 Personal Freedom (AK4PF.org) was contacted by a journalist writing a story about vaccine injured Alaskans. She is specifically interested... Read more.
David Boyle: Military families sacrifice more than you know, even their children’s educational quality
By DAVID BOYLE Many parents have voiced their emotional attachment to Anchorage neighborhood schools during the proposed school closures. But changing schools and... Read more.
GOP lawmakers urge Coast Guard to defend U.S. ports where certain ‘Chinese military company’ operates
By PHILIP LENCZYCKI | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION Republican lawmakers urged the U.S. Coast Guard this week to take “decisive action” against a Chinese military... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Lessons gleaned on the journey from being a political refugee to an American
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY PART 1 In 1972, as a student of history at the Kiev Pedagogical Institute, I participated in the archaeological excavation in Trans-Carpathia,... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Will Sen. Murkowski vote against Making America Healthy Again?
By LINDA BOYLE President Donald Trump has chosen Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to run the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. RFK Jr. strongly believes we... Read more.
Win Gruening: Community affordability takes back seat to Juneau Assembly’s spend-a-thon
By WIN GRUENING Less than four months ago, Juneau voters approved a $10 million bond for wastewater facility upgrades and a $12.75 million public safety communications... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Trump is throwing elbows at Lisa by restoring the name of Mount McKinley
By ALEX GIMARC If you play sports long enough, you eventually play against (or with) someone who is viewed as a dirty player. In basketball, this is generally... Read more.
Newt Gingrich: The People vs. the bureaucrats
By NEWT GINGRICH | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION A recent survey of senior government employees revealed that 42 percent of them plan to work against the incoming... Read more.
Day One: What Trump might do first
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE President-elect Donald Trump, who is set to take office Monday, has made a series of promises of major executive actions on “day... Read more.
Pedro Gonzalez: Doug Burgum is a fit for Interior
By PEDRO GONZALEZ Interior Secretary nominee Doug Burgum told a Senate panel on Thursday that he aims for energy dominance and cast concern on the viability of renewable... Read more.
Tim Barto: A doff of the cap to Mr. Baseball
By TIM BARTO Baseball is a game of characters, and no one had more character than Bob Uecker, who passed away Thursday at the age of 90. He was a favorite of generations... Read more.
John Teichert: Greenland is a strategic goldmine
By JOHN TEICHERT | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION President-elect Donald Trump recently snapped the gaze of the national security establishment to an often-overlooked... Read more.
Tim Murtaugh: Zuckerberg would censor Trump all over again, if he thought it would help him or Meta
By TIM MURTAUGH | TOWNHALL Under Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership, Meta Platforms – what most people think of as Facebook – has demonstrated a pattern of actions... Read more.
Biden commutation of sentence pending for former IRS worker who stole and leaked Trump’s and others’ tax records
By PAUL SPERRY | REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS The Biden administration is formally considering commuting the sentence of the convicted felon who stole and leaked incoming... Read more.
Raw deal: Medicare out-of-pocket costs have soared under Inflation Reduction Act
By ANDY MANGIONE | AMAC America’s seniors won’t be fooled. The Biden Administration and its congressional allies passed the ironically named Inflation Reduction... Read more.
David Boyle: Legislators pre-file education bills, including CPR, civics, and ironically, financial literacy
By DAVID BOYLE Several legislators have gotten a jump start on filing bills that will affect the K-12 education system. The first batch includes subjects ranging... Read more.
Pedro Gonzalez: Questions linger about AK-LNG
By PEDRO GONZALEZ The Alaska LNG Project moved closer toward becoming a reality this week. It’s a big step for Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who has just two years left... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Inflation-proofing the Permanent Fund, and the sinister guile of Senator Giessel
By ALEX GIMARC One of the personally unpleasant tasks I undertake is to watch the political left, listen to what they say, try to understand what they want, and... Read more.
L.A. on fire: Hydrants stolen, mayor cut fire service budget, and left for Ghana on taxpayer dime
By KENNETH SCHRUPP | THE CENTER SQUARE and MUST READ ALASKA Hundreds of fire hydrants were stolen from the ground for scrap metal in advance of the... Read more.
L.A. Fire Dept emphasized equity and now city burns under first female-LGBTQ command
By NICK POPE | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) committed significant resources to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives... Read more.
Win Gruening: Report shows how Eaglecrest Ski Area can be self-supporting
By WIN GRUENING A recently released report by the City and Borough of Juneau provides insight into efforts to increase summertime revenues at Juneau’s city-owned... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Proof positive that life experience is an author’s greatest asset
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY I believe it was a prominent Russian playwright and short-story writer Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) who once observed, “Every man’s life,... Read more.
Biden rule curbing bank overdraft penalties will end up punishing low-income Americans
By OWEN KLINSKY | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION The lame duck Biden administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a rule in December to curb... Read more.
David Boyle: Bye-bye, PFD. The schools ‘need’ them
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School District is working with Anchorage State Sen. Loki Tobin to steal your Permanent Fund dividend and give it to the school districts.... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: The original Fritz Pettyjohn of the 82nd Airborne, and my first summer in Alaska
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN In 1917 Frederick Smith Pettyjohn II was born in a sod house on the White River, just north of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. His... Read more.
Trump will face federal union pushback as he tries to lower government footprint in Americans’ lives
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to drastically cut government and clean out inefficiencies, but he faces an entrenched... Read more.
Texas governor orders state to safeguard infrastructure from Chinese threats, espionage
By BETH BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Ahead of the state legislature convening in January, Gov. Greg Abbott issued four executive orders to safeguard Texas from espionage... Read more.
Foodies and foragers: New Year’s bacon-wrapped wild-caught appetizers
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON New Year’s celebrations include a variety of traditional meals, each having its own meaning and cultural significance. Whether you’re... Read more.
Biden used ‘indigenous knowledge’ to cut Alaska oil and gas. Some tribal leaders are ready for Trump
By NICK POPE | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION The Biden administration justified major crackdowns on fossil fuel and mineral development in Alaska by playing up its... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Biden’s presidential pardons bring his mental competency into question
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Our country has witnessed the highest number of presidential pardons in the history of our nation. As of Dec. 12, 2024, President Joe Biden... Read more.
A Christmas miracle during the Battle of the Bulge
By WILLIAM HAUPT III “For a day, the God of goodwill was once more master of this corner of the earth when He united opposing men of different honors to share... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Military brass sat on data that showed warriors had herd immunity from Covid
By LINDA BOYLE The U.S. Department of Defense hid data, and military members suffered and lost their careers. The Defense Department knew that the military had... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Energy, education, and environment in Alaska
By ROBERT SEITZ Reading the news and commentaries as we close out 2024 is interesting, especially when one reads the comments from readers. My column, “What’s... Read more.
Inflation report: Groceries went up more than 22% over four years of Bidenomics
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE President Joe Biden is only a few weeks away from the end of his time in office, and one key part of his legacy is undeniable:... Read more.
Foodies and foragers: Christmas Cranberry Orange Cake
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON Cranberries and oranges have long been classic staples on our holiday tables, providing color and flavor to Christmas celebrations. The scent... Read more.
Tim Murtaugh: ProPublica’s attempted hit piece on Pete Hegseth shows drive-by media are still at it
By TIM MURTAUGH Rush Limbaugh used to call them the “drive-by media.” That’s how the legendary talk show host used to describe journalists who blast out reckless... Read more.
Paul Fuhs: Is renewable energy a threat to oil and gas production in Alaska?
By PAUL FUHS In a polarized world, some proponents of fossil fuels would say renewable energy poses a threat to oil and gas. On the other side, there are those... Read more.
David Boyle: Round 4 of Anchorage school closures
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School Board finally decided to close only two of the originally seven proposed schools. If the board had more time, it may have... Read more.
40% of students are behind grade level in one or more subjects: Report
By BRENDAN CLAREY | THE CENTER SQUARE According to a federal survey of school leaders, 40% of students in the nation’s public schools were behind grade level in... Read more.
War on woke: Eliminating race- and gender-identity politics from U.S. military is Hegseth’s mandate
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, though not yet confirmed, has pledged to root out “woke”... Read more.
David Boyle: Round three of Anchorage school ‘closures’
Final decision on which schools will closed will be made at Dec. 17 school board meeting By DAVID BOYLE It was only two years ago when the Anchorage School Board... Read more.
Natural gas in Cook Inlet could provide energy for 200 years
By PEDRO GONZALEZ John Hendrix was on the go when we connected over the phone. He listed off several stops that he had to make in short order. Not rushed, more like... Read more.
Foodies and foragers: Frosted Holiday Mix with Twigs
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON This season, add a festive touch to your holiday gatherings with a slightly sweet mix of cranberries, pecans, and dark chocolate topped with... Read more.
Bill King: What does the House report on Covid origins and official response tell us?
By BILL KING The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic recently issued its final After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic. It is an exhaustive... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Happy birthday, Big Pharma
By LINDA BOYLE This week marked the four-year anniversary of the federal government’s Emergency Use Authorization for Pfizer’s Covid shot series. Then-... Read more.
Sen. Shower: Alaska’s dark money fight is every state’s fight
By SEN. MIKE SHOWER “A canary in a coal mine?” I spent 24 years wearing our nation’s uniform as a fighter pilot in the US Air Force. I hold tightly to the... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Who’s ready to join the greatest economic boom in history?
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO For several decades, Alaskans have been told that the state faces a fiscal crisis requiring a long-term solution. Time and again, we hear claims... Read more.
FBI had sources on ground, but no actual agents embedded in Jan. 6 crowd at Capitol: Report
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE The FBI had 26 confidential sources at the Jan. 6, 2021, surge at the U.S. Capitol, but no undercover FBI agents were on the... Read more.
Win Gruening: What does it mean to be part of a community?
By WIN GRUENING “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” ~ Coretta Scott King The glacier outburst... Read more.
Tim Barto: Heroes and killers of New York City
By TIM BARTO Two stories coming out of New York City over the past week say much about how strange – and divergent – our society views news stories. A jury found... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: A deeper look at RCA’s Eklutna opinion
By ALEX GIMARC Suzanne Downing wrote an article on the Regulatory Commission of Alaska’s ruling a month ago, in which it rejected the Anchorage Assembly’s... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: Our new congressman was elected on merit to serve in an exciting time
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN It’s better to be lucky than good. It’s best to be both. Our new congressman got elected on merit, and he’s lucky to be a member... Read more.
Paul Fuhs: New verses for the Alaska Flag Song?
By PAUL FUHS I recently wrote an additional version of Alaska’s Flag song, in consideration of the recently failed legislative attempt to add an additional verse... Read more.
Jamie Allard: Pearl Harbor Gold Star families, we will never forget you
By REP. JAMIE ALLARD Dec. 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy, the United States of America was thrust into World War II following the attack at Pearl Harbor. ... Read more.
Nick Begich: Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day is a time to reflect and rededicate ourselves as Americans to strong national defense
By CONGRESSMAN-ELECT NICK BEGICH III Today we remember the attack Pearl Harbor, a moment when America realized that global conflict could and would... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: DeSantis for Defense?
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN Ron DeSantis would, I’m sure, be an outstanding secretary of Defense. He’d be a better president. I don’t think he can be both.... Read more.
Todd Lindley: Promises of the past and doing the little things with big love and faith
By TODD LINDLEY We are living in a time of great turmoil. There is the ongoing Ukrainian proxy war with Russia, a Middle East conflict resurfacing with Israel and... Read more.
Sen. Cruz appeals to Supreme Court to deny Mexico’s lawsuit against U.S. gunmakers
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is leading a bicameral appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court requesting it to uphold American sovereignty... Read more.
Supreme Court weighs Tennessee’s state ban on chemo, surgical gender jerry-rigging of kids’ bodies
By KIM JARRETT | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday began weighing its role in determining whether a Tennessee law banning medication to treat... Read more.
Data shows Biden-Harris Administration opened floodgates for taxpayer-funded sex changes on kids
By MEGAN BLOCK | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION The Biden-Harris administration opened the door for a massive increase of taxpayer-funded transgender interventions,... Read more.
Terrence Shanigan: Ranked-choice voting is a deceptive scheme
By TERRENCE SHANIGAN Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is one of the most deceptive systems ever imposed on Alaskans. This system is unconstitutional on multiple grounds... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: The definition of insanity and ranked-choice voting repeal II
By ALEX GIMARC “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” – Often misattributed to Albert Einstein.... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: The great red wave and Article V convention on term limits
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN The inflection point, the moment things really started to turn around, was in October of 2013. That’s when Obamacare was introduced to the... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: Kash Patel is just the one to lead FBI
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN The FBI went rogue a very long time ago. Director J. Edgar Hoover was a law unto himself, and everyone in political life was a potential victim.... Read more.
Terrence Shanigan: Alaska’s election disenfranchisement scheme
By TERRENCE SHANIGAN This is the third in a three-part series on Alaska’s election integrity. In recent weeks, Alaskans have called for greater transparency... Read more.
Pedro Gonzalez: A moment of national reflection for Democrats, and it’s better late than never
By PEDRO GONZALEZ Democrats are doing some serious soul-searching in the aftermath of the presidential election. Well, some are anyway. One of the most common... Read more.
Wayne Heimer: The American Experiment — shall we continue?
By WAYNE E. HEIMER Ever since George Washington coined the phrase, it has been fashionable to refer to government in the United States of America as The American... Read more.
Riley Gaines: Speaker Mike Johnson fights back against radical gender ideology
By RILEY GAINES I traveled around the country as an elite swimmer for more than a decade, and I could never have imagined a world where men would be welcomed into... Read more.
Bob Bird: Religion, the arts, and politics
By BOB BIRD I have three fantastic children, which would not have been possible without a wife that I did not deserve. These three, now in early middle age, are... Read more.
Ohio governor signs bill protecting girls’ changing rooms in schools
By THE CENTER SQUARE As of Wednesday, schools in Ohio are required to have single-sex bathrooms and locker rooms after Gov. Mike DeWine signed the state’s bathroom... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Science fiction of yesterday is quickly becoming reality
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction, which normally deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts, such as advanced science... Read more.
David Boyle: Round 2 of Anchorage school closures
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School District knows that it has too many schools for too few students. And the future is bleak for increased numbers of students... Read more.
Terrence Shanigan: Under the hood of Alaska election data
By TERRENCE SHANIGAN This is the second article in a three-part series on Alaskan election integrity. Part 1 is below. Alaskans are frustrated with the state’s... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Sen. Murkowski is caught in her own web of hype, hypocrisy, and hatred
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s long-standing position as Alaska’s senior senator should, by now, have made her an unshakable advocate for her state’s... Read more.
Paul Fuhs: Report from United Nations Climate Change conference in Azerbaijan
By PAUL FUHS On behalf of the Northern Forum, a trans-Arctic association of Arctic states and regional governments, I attended COP29 (29th Conference of the Parties... Read more.
Robert Seitz: What’s known about gas levels in Cook Inlet warrants immediate action
By ROBERT SEITZ I am mystified by the lack of proactive and energetic response to provide support to the one Cook Inlet Natural Gas provider who is ready to increase... Read more.
Paulette Simpson: Stronger tripod in D.C. bodes well for Alaska
By PAULETTE SIMPSON In politics, as in sports, bench strength matters. As players come and go, teams can shift from championship to obscurity in one season, or... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: Let’s stop harping on the slow ballot count
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN Thanks to the extended time to count all the ballots, Republican David Nelson beat the incumbent Democrat by 23 votes in House District 18, (Government... Read more.
Foodies and Foragers: Thanksgiving roasted pumpkin, cranberries, and pecans
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON Let’s give a nod to RFK Jr.’s nomination as the HHS Secretary and his mission to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) by embracing a healthier... Read more.
Brian Hove: Fairbanks local news matters, but not to Gray Television, evidently
By BRIAN HOVE Gray Television’s recent move to yank the plug on KTVF’s local news broadcast brings an untimely and regrettable end to decades of award-winning... Read more.
Paul Fuhs: Tulsi Gabbard is a friend of Alaska
By PAUL FUHS It has been interesting to see the objections to the appointment of Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence. These really are the objections... Read more.
Win Gruening: Mired in bureaucracy, Juneau’s long-term flood fix advances at glacial pace
By WIN GRUENING During meetings in Juneau last week, United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) officials said it will likely take a decade or more to research... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Explaining socialism vs. social programs
BY ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Explaining Socialism vs. Social Programs Nikita Khrushchev was first secretary of the Communist Party (Politburo) of the Soviet Union from... Read more.
Bob Bird: The unchecked Alaska judiciary says ‘Obey our rules, even though we don’t obey your rules’
By BOB BIRD The Judiciary to the People: “Obey OUR Rules, Even Though We Don’t Obey Yours.” This is the attitude of the Alaskan judiciary, and unfortunately... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: Congratulations, Nick Begich!
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN Alaska has always been dependent on the federal government, so we like our congressional delegation to build up seniority, and power. It’s... Read more.
Linda Boyle: The truth keeps dripping out about Covid
By LINDA BOYLE Is it just me or am I a little too cynical? It makes me go “hmmm” when I see that between “2006 and 2019, nine out of 10 FDA commissioners went from their... Read more.
FEMA director grilled about policy to avoid homes with Trump signs
By CASEY HARPER The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Deanne Criswell, told lawmakers that she personally approved the firing of an employee who directed... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Time to overturn NLRB v Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp.
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Now is the time for the US Department of Justice under the leadership of Attorney General-nominee Matt Gaetz to overturn NLRB v Jones &... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Three sources of Marxism and its far-left outgrowth
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY In 1982, I went with a group of graduate students from Brown University to a lecture by the prominent archaeologist Richard Leakey. Dr. Leakey... Read more.
Trump picks for Energy, Interior signal a return to energy dominance for America
By CASEY HARPER With his latest cabinet nominations, President-elect Donald Trump promised to bring down the cost Americans pay for energy by expanding oil and gas... Read more.
Alaska Attorney General Taylor joins request to have appeals court dismiss Trump charges by Biden DoJ
By BETHANY BLANKLEY Multiple state attorneys general, including Alaska’s Attorney General Treg Taylor, have requested the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to... Read more.
Trump Administration may stop planned removal of hydropower dams on Snake River
By CARLEEN JOHNSON | THE CENTER SQUARE Proponents of breaching the four lower Snake River dams that provide hydropower in the Columbia Basin concede that plan is... Read more.
Foodies and Foragers: Try this Alaska version of French onion soup, with wild mushrooms and moose
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON When the cold weather arrives and the days get shorter, soup season has officially begun. On chilly days, there is nothing more pleasing than... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Explaining classical Marxism and American neo-Marxism
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY In the early 1980s, I attended a graduate school at Brown University, where only two Soviet-born and raised students attended the time. I was... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Murkowski was not a serious nomination, so she has no room to talk about Gaetz
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO It’s a tale as old as time—or at least as old as sibling squabbles and playground spats. When we see and hear a child with chocolate-stained... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Work on sensible legislation this next session — with solutions, not bandaids
By ROBERT SEITZ My intent was to cover the things Alaska should focus on as the legislators prioritize the topics of interest for Alaska with the new federal administration. ... Read more.
DOGE: Examples of federal spending that could be on the chopping block
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will take over a new effort to make the government more efficient. President-elect... Read more.
Dave Donley: Anchorage School Board rejects recognizing patriotic holidays, National Anthem
By DAVE DONLEY Under a new “Patriotic Activities” policy adopted by the Anchorage School Board, no patriotic activities of any kind are mandated to occur in... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: The beginning of four years of fearless leadership
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN Lisa Murkowski is itching to vote against Republican firebrand Rep. Matt Gaetz as U.S. Attorney General. She may not get the chance. If the... Read more.
Tim Barto: Oilers’ withdraw from 2025 season in Alaska Baseball League
By TIM BARTO Last Thursday, the Peninsula Oilers announced they will take a year to yearlong pause and not field a team in 2025. The Oilers... Read more.
Tim Barto: A veteran’s baseball experience retold
By TIM BARTO “Boys, if we don’t get the bats going, we’re in deep kimchee.” Coach Bob Grover’s favorite saying didn’t make much sense to a group of teenage... Read more.
Republicans inch closer to securing U.S. House majority
By DAN McCALEB Republicans this weekend moved closer to securing a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, which would give the GOP a trifecta in the federal... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Is it time for Dahlstrom to retire?
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Florida, with a population of 20 million, called it a night just four hours after polls closed, while Alaska, a state that could fit its entire... Read more.
Pedro Gonzalez: Lessons from hospital bond vote
By PEDRO GONZALEZ In October, voters struck down a $38.5 million bond proposition for South Peninsula Hospital. It was not even close: 64% cast their ballots in... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: Reagan shut down the Cold War, and Trump can learn a lesson regarding Iran
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN “We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarantor of only our own.” Thomas Jefferson. When I was in the Alaska Legislature... Read more.
Bob Bird: The election, ANWR, the budget, PFD, and the 90/10
By BOB BIRD Let’s get some priorities straight. Alaska cannot squander this moment. It is going to take leadership and courage to turn things around. Amazingly,... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Expect extreme opposition to Donald Trump to continue
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Indeed, it was a very pleasant surprise to me and to other commonsense Americans to see how tremendously wide and strong the voter support... Read more.
Jim Minnery: We won the World Series! And other observations about the 2024 election
By JIM MINNERY As with you likely, I’ve been doing a fair share of digesting what just transpired Tuesday. Here are a few post-election thoughts to add to... Read more.
Win Gruening: Let’s consider tightening cell phone restrictions in schools
By WIN GRUENING A recent uptick in student fights on and off campus in Juneau schools has administration officials looking for answers. It also has raised... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Biden extends middle finger to Alaska over ANWR leases on his way out the door
By RICK WHITBECK On Wednesday, the Biden Administration Bureau of Land Management announced the terms of its upcoming lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife... Read more.
Foodies and foragers of the north: Comfort food for post-election celebration … or solace
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON On Tuesday, our nation brings the 2024 election cycle to a close. People have poured their hearts into campaigns and candidates, ballot initiatives,... Read more.
Alaska State Board of Education passes resolution: Cell phones in class interfere with learning
By DAVID BOYLE The Alaska State Board of Education passed a resolution last month on the use of cell phones in school classrooms. The board stated that cell phones... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Covid-19 ‘vaccines’ won’t be given by this Idaho county public health agency
By LINDA BOYLE Dr. Joel Wallskog, cofounder of React19 and recent speaker at the “Alaskans 4 Personal Freedom” event, has been fighting the good fight. ... Read more.
Robert Seitz: ‘No on 2’ is based on lies. Vote ‘Yes on 2’ to support more truthful elections
By ROBERT SEITZ The advertising and postings of the Vote No on 2 group are extremely dishonest and very misleading. There is no freedom that would be denied when... Read more.
Leftist company tied to Pennsylvania voter registration scheme goes dark, pulls website down
By CHRISTEN SMITH | THE CENTER SQUARE The media and consulting firm linked to fraudulent voter registration forms in Pennsylvania earlier this week has gone dark... Read more.
Electric vehicles: Tale of woe in absence of a legitimate market process
By TIMOTHY G. NASH, JASON HAYES, TOM RASTIN Introduction You don’t need a government agent to tell you what you want or when you want it. Milton Friedman explained... Read more.
How Trump kept Biden’s ‘garbage’ gaffe alive
By SUSAN CRABTREE | REAL CLEAR WIRE As the White House tried to clean up President Biden’s mess, Donald Trump waited – you couldn’t say patiently. “Just... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: How do you explain Judge Zeman?
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN How do you explain a judge like Superior Court Judge Adolf Zeman? How can he justify a decision to overturn the elected representatives of the... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: A third abortion option that doesn’t involve chair-throwing
By ALEX GIMARC There was an interesting trifecta of articles concerning Rep. David Eastman earlier this week in Must Read Alaska. The first by Jim Minnery went... Read more.
Theresa Obermeyer: Don’t retain judges
By THERESA NANGLE OBERMEYER Please read the Missouri Court Plan in the Missouri Constitution, Article V 25(c)(1), which states” “… Each judge appointed …... Read more.
Kristen Walker: We need policy pragmatism rather than climate obsession
By KRISTEN WALKER We are continually being told that climate change is getting worse and natural disasters are becoming more frequent and intense. Neither is true.... Read more.
Steve Goreham: If green energy is the future, bring a fire extinguisher
By STEVE GOREHAM Alternative energy is exploding─literally. Lithium battery fires are breaking out on highways and in factories, home garages, and storage rooms.... Read more.
Medicare premiums and prescription drug costs surge under Inflation Reduction Act
By SHIRLEEN GUERRA | THE CENTER SQUARE Medicare premiums and senior citizens’ prescription drug costs have surged since passage of the Inflation Reduction... Read more.
Bob Bird: It’s the Alaska Family Council that needs to be retired, not David Eastman
By BOB BIRD Jim Minnery has just penned an essay saying that it is time for Rep. David Eastman to be retired … because he is too much of a constitutionalist. He... Read more.
Jim Minnery: Time for David Eastman to retire and for Jubilee Underwood to represent District 27
By JIM MINNERY It’s time for Wasilla Rep. David Eastman to find a new job. His commitment to conservative values is admirable but his actions have done very... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Alaska Covid Alliance has new name & expanded mission for fighting fear and censorship
By LINDA BOYLE The Alaska Covid Alliance unveiled its new name, new logo, and new web site this weekend to those who attended our “Alaskans 4 Personal Freedom”... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Cook Inlet gas producers are in the position to help, but they can’t do it alone
By ROBERT SEITZ The Alaska Industrial Export and Development Authority is considering a loan to HEX/Furie to support 5 years of drilling. HEX ha stated it needs... Read more.
Republican election observer escorted out of election center for not wearing a face mask
By CARLEEN JOHNSON | THE CENTER SQUARE An Island County elections observer was escorted out of the Auditor’s Office on Monday for refusing to wear a face mask.... Read more.
Pedro Gonzalez: You can’t protect kids forever, but you can prepare them with a moral compass
By PEDRO GONZALEZ The Mat-Su Borough School District recently moved to pluck certain books from libraries after parents and community members complained about... Read more.
John Stossel: Do we need laws that allow for free-range kids?
By JOHN STOSSEL What does it take for a parent to get arrested? Surprisingly little. Scott and Heather Wallace of Hewitt, Texas, encourage their three boys... Read more.
Glen Biegel: A conservative’s voting guide
By GLEN BIEGEL I have been involved in politics for a long while here in Alaska. Over the years, I have interacted with you in various ways, and year... Read more.
Election roundup: Voted ballots burned in Arizona, court rules illegals allowed to vote in Virginia
As early voting is under way across the country, issues are popping up in several states. Here are some snapshots from various news sources around the country on... Read more.
Tim Barto: Owning a Biblical worldview
By TIM BARTO We all have a lens through which we see the world; this is known as our worldview. There is something remarkable going on in the United States: The... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: Which Alaska voters will cast a ballot for Trump and then also vote for Peltola?
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN The best way to see how the political winds are blowing is at Election Betting Odds.com. Every 20 minutes it averages the odds from six different... Read more.
Tom Boutin: Peltola’s food stamps and fentanyl economy just isn’t cutting it
By TOM BOUTIN What follows is something I sent to newspapers in Alaska some time ago, and one or more have published it. I would guess that almost none of... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: In a troubled world, a touch of humor is welcome cure
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY There are studies linking laughter and humor to positive changes in people’s lives. Indeed, laughter and humor are strong medicine; they... Read more.
GOP report: Biden-Harris admin spent $900 million pushing faulty Covid messaging
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee released a report Wednesday saying that the Biden-Harris Administration... Read more.
Win Gruening: An opportunity to say ‘yes’ to something — Ballot Measure 2
By WIN GRUENING Every few years, moderate and conservative voters seem to find themselves in the position of voting against propositions generated by left of center... Read more.
Stock up? Ammo in short supply for civilians, due to China curtailing key ingredients, report says
Ammunition is in short supply, according to Ammoland, a website dedicated to news about firearms and ammunition. “In the wake of mounting global tensions and... Read more.
Tuckerman Babcock: Transformation of Giessel from Republican to political weasel
By TUCKERMAN BABCOCK No transformation has been more profound than that of Sen. Cathy Giessel of south Anchorage. Once upon a time, she was pro-life, pro-resource... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: A parable, the true story of Plymouth Colony, and failed utopian ideals
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO This was a parable told to me when I examined our choices in this upcoming election. “In a distant valley, there stood a towering tree, its... Read more.
Over $12 million is being spent so Democrats can keep ranked-choice voting in Alaska. Will it work?
Alaskans are tired of the failed ranked-choice voting scheme. But with over $12 million in out-of-state funding from “progressive” donors, the road to repeal... Read more.
Borough clerk fired in Haines
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON The Haines Borough Assembly unanimously terminated Kristine Kennedy from her position as Borough Clerk after just 11 weeks of employment. Her... Read more.
Linda Boyle: A major win for workers who refused to take the Covid shot
By LINDA BOYLE I don’t know how many times I have heard people say that something needs to be done for those who lost their jobs for failing to take the experimental... Read more.
David Boyle: Voting records speak louder than words
By DAVID BOYLE There sure is a lot of election noise on the radio, TV, and in our mailboxes and inboxes. How do you separate the truth from misinformation and disinformation?... Read more.
Tim Barto: Mail-order abortions come with great risk
By TIM BARTO For those of us expecting – or at least hoping – that the 2022 Dobbs decision, which stated there is no constitutional right to kill an unborn child,... Read more.
Toth and Mackowiak: CBS refusal to release 60 Minutes’ Harris transcript is indefensible
By MICHAEL TOTH and MATT MACKOWIAK President Trump’s criticism of the CBS “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris has triggered the predictable legacy... Read more.
Peltola campaign on notice as Texas AG says a trail of suspicious donations follows ActBlue
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE A nearly year-long investigation into ActBlue, a Democratic Party online donation platform, alleges a large number of suspicious... Read more.
Confusion, clarity about Dominion voting machines in Kenai Borough
By PEDRO GONZALEZ Last year, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough held its first election under Ordinance 22-119, which requires that votes be counted by hand in view... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: With two weeks to go, will Alaskans choose a bright energy future?
By RICK WHITBECK Part of Power The Future’s mission is to expose the outright lunacy of the eco-left. As early voting gets underway across Alaska, it is important... Read more.
Craig Campbell: Ranked-choice was a card-up-the-sleeve trick on Alaskans. It’s time to end it
By CRAIG CAMPBELL In just two weeks we have the opportunity to repeal Ranked Choice Voting, known as RCV. In 2020, RCV proponents employed a magician’s... Read more.
Laura Antonsen: False nonpartisanship in partisan politics undermines voter trust
By LAURA ANTONSEN In the realm of political campaigns, particularly those in Alaska, the concept of nonpartisanship is often scrutinized. Candidates who claim to... Read more.
Bob Bird: Vote Ben Carpenter for State Senate
By BOB BIRD The voters in the conservative Kenai Peninsula will have a clear choice for the state senate, and it is Ben Carpenter, currently a 2-term representative.... Read more.
Brian Hove: Quick question — have you voted? There’s a good reason to bank your ballot early
By BRIAN HOVE We loved Election Day. After casting our ballots, my wife and I always made sure our “I Voted” stickers were on full display as we left the... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: A dunce cap for the Outside PAC supporting Denny Wells
By ALEX GIMARC I received the latest Denny Wells mailer midweek. This one was a big, glossy, 8.5 x 11” color mailer on card stock. The front was adorned... Read more.
PeggyAnn McConnochie: Make housing affordable again
By: PEGGYANN MCCONNOCHIE It is safe to say I am passionate about real estate and helping Alaskans achieve their dreams to own a home. After 42 years in real... Read more.
Stealth Edit: FBI quietly revises false crime stats that were being used as Democrat talking points
By JOHN LOTT | REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS When the FBI originally released the “final” crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s... Read more.
Seth Church: Alaska Motor Inn demolition is major win for Fairbanks
By SETH CHURCH The Alaska Motor Inn, once a symbol of disrepair and mischief in downtown Fairbanks, has finally been torn down after a successful, community-driven... Read more.
Foodies and Foragers of the North: Kelp can help round out a meal
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON Alaska’s abundance of seafood allows us to anchor our cuisine around salmon, halibut, crab, and shellfish caught in our pristine waters.... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Vaccine Injury Awareness Month coincides with Alaska’s health freedom conference
By LINDA BOYLE Vaccine Injury Awareness Month brings an increased focus on the fact that all vaccines come with possible side effects — some of which are deadly. ... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Gov. Dunleavy’s Eklutna decision was reasonable
By ALEX GIMARC Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued his final Eklutna Fish and Wildlife program this month. Documents supporting the decision can be found at the Eklutna... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Is Alaska’s legislature really representing the people?
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO At times, the question “Do we have the best state legislature money can buy?” echoes loudly across Alaska’s political landscape,... Read more.
Report: Secret Service failed mission when rank amateur killed one man, nearly killed Trump at rally
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE An independent review panel called for leadership changes and refocusing the U.S. Secret Service on its core mission after multiple... Read more.
Randy Daly: Ballot Measure 1 is a bad idea. Here’s why
By RANDY DALY Ballot Measure Number 1, an act increasing the minimum wage in Alaska, does not get much discussion, which may lead to it passing, and that would... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Ranked-choice voting took away a freedom few Alaskans have fully understood
By ALEX GIMARC While there have been some infuriating ads run by the defenders of ranked-choice voting during the last couple months, they are ending their campaign... Read more.
David Boyle: Anchorage superintendent’s contract may be extended again
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School Board majority wants to extend Superintendent Jarrett Bryantt’s contract for the second time in less than a year. The first... Read more.
The best of Art Chance: Ranked-choice, mail-in, and the election system that’s long been ripe for fraud
By ART CHANCE My earliest memories of things political in Alaska were the controversies surrounding Jay Hammond’s defeat of the legendary Bill Egan for governor... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Denny Wells, the Trojan Horse candidate in District 15
By ALEX GIMARC Here in South Anchorage, District 15, we are treated to three candidates. Two of them are Democrats. There’s perennial candidate Dustin Dardin and another... Read more.
Open Secrets: 2024 election spending projected to exceed previous record set in 2020
By SARAH BRYNER AND BRENDAN GLAVIN | OPEN SECRETS With three weeks left until Election Day, OpenSecrets predicts that 2024’s federal election cycle is on track... Read more.
Poll: Most voters oppose transgender procedures on kids
By TJ MARTINELL Most registered voters, 59%, support a federal ban on transgender procedures such as puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgeries for minors,... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: What does Democrat-coalition member Merrick mean when she says, ‘I have an extremely conservative record’?
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO On Oct. 10, the Chugiak Eagle River Chamber of Commerce held a State Senate Candidate Forum during lunch. I couldn’t attend due to another... Read more.
Dunleavy and 24 other governors request Biden-Harris reveal number of illegals sent to each state
By BETH BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Twenty-five Republican governors, including Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, want to know how many illegal foreign nationals have... Read more.
Tim Barto: Eagle River’s Senate race has a trick-or-treachery twist
By TIM BARTO Thursday’s Chugiak-Eagle River Chamber of Commerce candidate forum was intended to be a chance for statewide legislative candidates to tell voters... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Israel has been homeland of Jewish people for over 3,500 years
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY What happened on Oct 7, 2023 was not just a massive attack on innocent people inside Israel, it was the equivalent to about 36,000 Americans... Read more.
Win Gruening: Elections are over, flood recovery work goes on, and the threat continues
By WIN GRUENING With the municipal election in the rear-view mirror, city leaders can now direct their time and energy to the threat Mendenhall Valley homeowners... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Governor heroes and zeroes
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE There are clear ideological differences between Alaska’s and Minnesota’s governors. Michael J. Dunleavy of Alaska is a conservative... Read more.
Haines election results finalized: Stickler, Smith, Clement win, as incumbents are let go by voters
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON Haines Borough canvassed 27 questioned and absentee ballots on Oct. 8, with final results confirming voters’ preference for more centrist... Read more.
Tim Barto: Leftist intolerance on repeat, this time attacking supporters of Ballot Measure 2
By TIM BARTO A campaign sign in Eagle River that promotes “Yes on Ballot Measure 2” was vandalized over the weekend, while a nearby sign for candidate... Read more.
David Boyle: Conference speaker Dr. James Lindsay will tackle Marxism-transgender ideology
By DAVID BOYLE How did transgenderism and gender identity seem to suddenly overnight become incorporated into our K12 schools and culture? Would you believe... Read more.
Sen. Mike Shower: Another sneak attack on Alaska through Ballot Measure 1
By SEN. MIKE SHOWER What is Ballot Measure 1? Every two years or so it seems Alaska is at the mercy of another group of Lower 48 billionaires and left-wing groups... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Peltola’s Ponzi scheme problem of her own making, crypto style
By ALEX GIMARC Jim Lottsfeldt’s Vote Alaska Before Party PAC trotted out one of its latest in a set of attack ads on Nick Begich a week ago. They worked so... Read more.
Linda Boyle: UN and WHO working overtime to create globalist health authority
By LINDA BOYLE I hate these whack-a-mole moments. Just when you think it’s over, it pops up again. Same script, slightly different language, seeking same result: the... Read more.
Mark Somerville: Do you remember when? A view from Glennallen on ranked-choice voting
By MARK SOMERVILLE Recently, I attended a candidate forum for District 36 and Senate Seat R candidates in Glennallen. The forum was hosted by Copper Valley Chamber... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Acculturation and assimilation in America, the land of achievable dreams
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY According to prominent American sociologist Joseph Elton, “Acculturation is the adoption of cultural traits, norms and customs by one society... Read more.
Randy Daly: Nick Begich III knows how to build businesses
By RANDY DALY Nick Begich built a business in Alaska, that’s a good thing. It brings significant benefits to our state, including tax revenue, employment, infrastructure,... Read more.
Foodies and foragers of the north: Fungus among us
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON This time of the year Alaskans become focused on gathering food, fishing, and hunting in preparation for winter. Now that autumn has fully arrived,... Read more.
Sen. Mike Shower: Lies told about veterans by the ‘No on 2’ coven should fire up Alaskans to vote ‘Yes’
By SEN. MIKE SHOWER I wore our nation’s uniform for 24 years. I voted in many elections, while active duty and since retiring. Most were as an Alaska resident,... Read more.
Haines tacks back to the center in local election
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON Haines Borough voters supported change to more centrist leadership in the Oct. 1 municipal election, as well as a doubling the senior and disabled... Read more.
Tim Barto: Saying farewell to Pete Rose
By TIM BARTO I was on a conference call yesterday when my cell phone lit up. It was Frankie, a baseball buddy; a guy I coached when he was in Little League and I... Read more.
Why is the FCC fast-tracking George Soros’ purchase of radio stations across America?
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. House Oversight Committee is investigating why the Federal Communications Commission fast-tracked a deal that allowed... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Hey, Chuck Kopp, fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO What a surprise — Chuck Kopp is running for the Alaska State Legislature again, this time challenging conservative incumbent Rep. Craig... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: State bureaucracy grows, while Alaskans watch their dividends shrink
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO According to the chart below, fully eligible Alaskans are owed $14,619 in Permanent Fund dividend remittances. For a family of four, that’s... Read more.
Craig Compeau: Lifelong Alaskan shares story of character revealed in Fairbanks North Star Borough mayor’s race
By CRAIG COMPEAU I was born here in 1960, and have worked at our 79-year-old family business full time since 1978. I have lived through the 1967 flood, the pipeline,... Read more.
Senate report blasts Secret Service’s ‘stunning failure’
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE A bipartisan Senate report released Wednesday blasts the U.S. Secret Service for several significant failures that led to the... Read more.
1,200 people with suspected foreign identification registered to vote in Oregon
By TOM JOYCE | THE CENTER SQUARE The Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division and the Oregon Secretary of State found possibly ineligible voters with... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Meet the military doctor who stood up for our warriors and against mandatory Covid shots
By LINDA BOYLE Everybody has a life story—some more challenging than others. Dr. Theresa Long is one of those people. As a homeless teenager on welfare, she... Read more.
Did Bureau of Labor Statistics fake the job numbers?
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Lawmakers are launching an inquiry into the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics after it significantly overestimated... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau local elections offer necessary change options
By WIN GRUENING The Oct. 1 Juneau municipal election is shaping up as a referendum on changing the status quo. In the case of the school board, it’s about change... Read more.
Poll: Most Americans think there will be another attempt on Trump’s life before Election Day
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Most Americans expect another assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump before Election Day, according to a... Read more.
Trump assassin suspect had more than 100 arrests
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE The man accused of trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach golf course had been arrested... Read more.
Feds indict New York City Mayor Eric Adams
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE Federal prosecutors indicted Mayor Eric Adams after a corruption investigation, marking the first time a sitting mayor has been... Read more.
Candidate spotlight: Sen. James Kaufman, leading the charge for stability, security, innovation
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON James Kaufman served a term in the State House before winning election in 2022 to represent Anchorage District F as a Senator. When he arrived... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Administrative state controls nearly every aspect of our lives
Some readers might be wondering, why I have even brought up NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp in previous columns? The case was decided back in 1937. But since... Read more.
David Boyle: Alaska schools still struggle with reading and math scores, but one school shines
By DAVID BOYLE The Department of Education & Early Development recently posted the scores of every Alaska public K-12 school which showed little progress for... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Even 10 billion dead crab is not evidence of human-caused global warming
By ROBERT SEITZ There has been a lot of press on the decline of the crab fishery in the Bering Sea. Most of the articles and presentations about this blame... Read more.
Linda Boyle: The tale of two states’ approaches to Covid shots and treatment this year
By LINDA BOYLE Alaska and Florida have taken different approaches to the Covid-19 shot. Although the State of Alaska Department of Health has erased Covid-19 information... Read more.
Arizona outrage: Ranked-choice ballot measure lacks valid signatures, but can be on Nov. 5 ballot
Liberals gaming the system in Arizona to get ranked-choice voting established have won a key victory. Although about 99% of the challenged signatures collected to... Read more.
Bob Bird: Miracles still happen
By BOB BIRD This election, if it was honest, should be akin to 1980 and ‘84, when Ronald Reagan blew out the Democrats’ candles. In two elections that had the... Read more.
Bob Griffin: Rightsizing the Anchorage School District is essential
By BOB GRIFFIN There will be 3,000 fewer kids in Anchorage School District facilities in 2029 than there were 50 years earlier in 1979. For the sake of our kids... Read more.
Passings: Alaskan Kyle Parker, law partner at Holland & Hart, and avid fisherman
Anchorage resident Kyle Parker, partner of Holland & Hart, died Thursday after an intense battle with cancer. He was 59. Parker joined Holland & Hart in... Read more.
Poll: 28% of Democrats say America would have been better off if Trump had been assassinated
By NAPOLITAN NEWS SERVICE The desensitization of some Americans following the second assassination attempt of former President Trump is alarming. Seventeen percent... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: The desperate lie being told about how military voters must have ranked-choice voting
By ALEX GIMARC Polling for repeal of the open primary-ranked-choice voting must be going in favor of repeal, as the anti-repeal side cranked up the rhetoric a couple... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Relentless ranked-choice voting ads are increasingly filled with bald-faced lies
By ALEX GIMARC A new round of pro-ranked choice voting ads have been running for at least a week. The ads exhort the listener to vote against the repeal in... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Why was early treatment of Covid given such a bad rap?
By LINDA BOYLE First, let me be clear, I am not talking about the horse dewormer version of Ivermectin. But some people who could not get the human version of Ivermectin used... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Subjective interpretation of Constitution, introduces ambiguity, inconsistency
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO The case of Marbury v. Madison (1803) introduced the doctrine of judicial review, a concept crafted by the Marshall Court to assess the constitutionality... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Hear from courageous doctors at next Alaska health freedom conference
By LINDA BOYLE It’s that time of year again, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pushing that new Covid jab into your arm and into everyone’s... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau voters weigh three big ballot propositions
By WIN GRUENING As the Juneau Assembly addresses several looming economic issues, voters will decide three significant ballot propositions in their upcoming Oct.... Read more.
Chris Wright: Not all public safety employees want defined-benefit pensions
By CHRIS WRIGHT You may have read recent commentaries that have made claims about what it means to support public safety. All too often, what gets lost in the discussion... Read more.
Kevin McCabe: Dividend, now buried in the operating budget, frustrates and fatigues Alaskans
By KEVIN MCCABE A sign has appeared in the middle of Big Lake with a red arrow pointing to my campaign sign. This sign reads “PFD THIEF” and includes a disclaimer... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Marc Chagall’s ‘Pinch of Snuff’ is a symbol of peace and mutual healing
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY The two most important Jewish holidays are Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), which are considered... Read more.
Tim Barto: A doff of the hat to James Earl Jones as he heads off to the cornfield
By TIM BARTO Certain movie scenes become indelible memories. For many of us baseball diehards, it is James Earl Jones giving his sermon in “Field of Dreams”,... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: How the Supreme Court paved the way for unchecked expansion of government
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO For more than 80 years, the rulings in NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp (1937) and Wickard v. Filburn (1942) have cast a dark shadow... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Wherever ranked-choice voting is used, Democrats dominate. Here’s why
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Ranked-choice voting (RCV) is an electoral system where voters rank candidates by preference instead of choosing just one. While choice... Read more.
Bob Bird: Reshuffling the American and Alaskan deck
By BOB BIRD The proud American union is a union by force — as was feared with Patrick Henry’s warning in 1788, and later proved by President Abraham Lincoln... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Those ranked-choice voting ads are all bought and delivered by Outside dark money
The second round of pro-ranked choice voting ads rolled out last week. The ads exhort the listener to vote against the repeal or ranked-choice voting in November. ... Read more.
Walz subpoenaed for oversight of $250M fraud scheme
By ALAN WOOTEN | THE CENTER SQUARE Reputation associated with his military record already shattered, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz now faces a reckoning tied to a signature... Read more.
Brenda Josephson: Candidate spotlight on Rep. Julie Coulombe, champion for everyday Alaskans
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON During the last legislative session, the conservative Alaska House Majority delivered numerous victories for Alaskans. The 33rd Alaska Legislature... Read more.
Northern border sector breaks records in apprehensions, getaways
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE The busiest U.S. Customs and Border Protection sector at the northern border continues to break records in apprehensions... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: A woke professor declares a dead language to be undead, and other follies of false history
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Ethnic minorities, religious refugees, and other groups segregated by a dominant society have developed and implemented strategies and... Read more.
Ric Smith: Time for Chugiak and Eagle River to forge a new path, including one for education
By RIC SMITH For nearly five decades, the residents of Eagle River and Chugiak have contributed a significant portion of their tax dollars to the Municipality of... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Legislative action still needed to get Cook Inlet gas production increased
By ROBERT SEITZ I have in the past expressed hope the Alaska Legislature would encourage production of Cook Inlet gas. I was, however, very disappointed when a legislator... Read more.
Chase Spears: Walz lied about his military service record. This makes him unfit for office.
By CHASE SPEARS | REAL CLEAR WIRE There is a saying among veterans that we’re hard on one another, but that we’ll circle the wagons when civilian outsiders attack.... Read more.
Democrats in charge of ballot access won’t let RFK Jr. off the November ballots, even though it’s August
By ELYSE APEL | THE CENTER SQUARE and MUST READ ALASKA The North Carolina State Board of Elections narrowly voted against a request to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr.... Read more.
Win Gruening: Amid Juneau disaster recovery, attention turns to mitigation of future floods
By WIN GRUENING By now, most Alaskans have heard of a jökulhlaup, a phenomenon where unstable lakes are formed from retreating glaciers that can result in a glacial... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Ranked-choice voting is a dog’s breakfast
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO The repeal of ranked-choice voting will be a question on the November ballot in Alaska. Ranked-choice voting fundamentally contradicts conservative... Read more.
California legislature passes 0 down, 0 payment home ‘loans’ for illegal immigrants
By KENNETH SCHRUPP | THE CENTER SQUARE The California Senate passed a contentious bill to allow for undocumented immigrants to use the state’s zero-down, zero-interest... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: The Conservative Majority Fund is selling ranked-choice fantasies to Alaskans
By ALEX GIMARC Suzanne (as usual) did our work for us uncovering the group behind the latest effort defending Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), the Conservative Majority... Read more.
Linda Boyle: The art of medicine lost over time to cash-incentivized treatment
By LINDA BOYLE Sir William Osler, the Father of Modern Medicine, said, “The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the... Read more.
Tax city: Seattle, Tacoma have nation’s highest combined sales tax
By BRETT DAVIS | THE CENTER SQUARE Seattle and Tacoma took the top two spots in the Tax Foundation’s latest publication on the highest combined state and local... Read more.
Trump at border: Violent crime committed by foreign nationals is ‘nation-wrecking border invasion’
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Former President Donald Trump accused Vice President Kamala Harris of overseeing an invasion at the southern border during... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Our ‘betters’ in D.C. do not always know what is best for Alaska
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO At our recent Alaska Republican Party state convention, I brought attention to a reality transcending party lines: Alaska operates more like... Read more.
David Boyle: Anchorage schools, how low can you set your goals and still claim victory?
By DAVID BOYLE At its recent mid-June retreat, the Anchorage School Board worked hard to set low goals for teaching students how to read and do math. Watch the... Read more.
Craig Campbell: How Jared Goecker will win Eagle River/Chugiak Senate District L
By CRAIG CAMPBELL Elections have consequences. Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) created an election process designed to reduce political party influence, but it also... Read more.
Scenes from protests during DNC Day One in Chicago
By GREG BISHOP | THE CENTER SQUARE Protesters clashed with police on Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention Monday with more demonstrations expected. During... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Why I’m against open primaries and ranked-choice voting for Alaska conservatives
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO While the Jesse Sumner’s Must Read Alaska column presents a case for open primaries and ranked choice voting (RCV) as beneficial to Alaska... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: The Democrats abortion fear campaign aimed at AWFL voters
By ALEX GIMARC Following the Supreme Court opinion on Dobbs in 2022, Democrats decided to run on abortion every single election. The technique is to terrify... Read more.
Margaret Nelson: Buying or selling a home? The commission you pay is changing
By MARGARET NELSON For decades real estate agents across the country, and here in Alaska, have been splitting a commission fee paid by the seller of 5 to 7%. Not... Read more.
Bob Griffin: Gov. Tim Walz proves there’s no such thing as a free lunch with his education ruination
By BOB GRIFFIN Vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz is praised by the Left for providing breakfasts and lunches for Minnesota school children, regardless of... Read more.
Dan Fagan: How Dahlstrom worked the playbook for climbing the political ladder
By DAN FAGAN Here’s the playbook for many legislators: Once out of office, score a job with a fat paycheck, one dependent on government bloat, largess, and wasteful... Read more.
Brenda Josephson: Dunleavy signs property tax assessment reform into law
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON This week saw the fruition of a grassroots effort to improve Alaska’s property tax assessment process by establishing guardrails to protect... Read more.
Shortages ahead? Critics blast Kamala Harris’ price control plan
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is taking fire for her new “price-gouging”... Read more.
Mike Shower: It’s time to repeal automatic voter registration and fix election loopholes
By SEN. MIKE SHOWER As a state senator, I have been working on election reform legislation for many years. While I have never taken the position that election fraud... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau’s flood is wake-up call and government must act now to prevent repeat
By WIN GRUENING Last week’s sudden catastrophic flooding of the Mendenhall River is one of the worst disasters in Juneau’s history. The 1917 Treadwell Mine... Read more.
Robert Seitz: A record high in Deadhorse does not portend human-caused global warming
By ROBERT SEITZ On Aug. 6, the highest ever temperature was recorded for Deadhorse, Alaska. The event was described to bake Deadhorse. A story in the Alaska... Read more.
The Best of Art Chance: What’s in that State of Alaska election investigation report and why can’t the public see it?
By ART CHANCE (Editor’s note: Art Chance wrote opinion, theater reviews, and political analysis for Must Read Alaska for many years. He passed peacefully in his... Read more.
Bob Bird: How does one define a coward?
By BOB BIRD How does one define a coward? Or if we don’t want to judge their character, perhaps their actions, which we would call “cowardly”? And what is... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: A Supreme Court decision that amended the U.S. Constitution without ratification by states
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO NLRB v Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp (1937) established pristine and fabricated legal doctrines through case law. It marked one of the early... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Walz’ climate record should sound alarms for American energy security
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE If mad scientists went to a secret lab to create a climate clone of Kamala Harris on energy policy, they’d be thrilled if the... Read more.
Tim Barto: Why does Alaska score so low on religious liberty ranking?
By TIM BARTO | ALASKA FAMILY COUNCIL Alaska is ranked 49th in the nation for religious freedom, actually below California, which earned a 48th placement. This... Read more.
The Best of Art Chance: The problem with Kelly Merrick
By ART CHANCE (Editor’s note: Art Chance wrote opinion, theater reviews, and political analysis for Must Read Alaska for many years. He passed peacefully in... Read more.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee compares his electric vehicle rebate to Declaration of Independence
By T.J. MARTINELL Gov. Jay Inslee this week announced the launch of a first-in-the-country electric vehicle rebate program funded through the state Department... Read more.
Bidenomics spirals, Dow drops 99
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. stock market took a major dive Monday as Japan saw its worst stock market day since 1987, raising recessing fears and... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Power transition is more complicated in Alaska than many realize
By ROBERT SEITZ I’m still evaluating climate and weather issues around Alaska, but I’m going pass on that topic this week and return to energy and electrical... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Time to overturn the court decision that established excessive federal regulation
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Overturning Roe v. Wade was an undeniable imperative. The repeal ended what was the most malevolent federal government intrusion into our lives.... Read more.
Tim Barto: What happened to the Olympics?
By TIM BARTO When our children were young and the Olympics were happening, my wife and I temporarily disbanded our draconian limits on television viewing. The new... Read more.
Biden ‘Trans Rules for Schools’ blocked in four more states as law goes into effect today that harms girls
By BRENDAN CLAREY | THE CENTER SQUARE A federal appeals court has ruled that the Biden administration can’t implement its Title IX rules in an additional four... Read more.
Win Gruening: Elections, like sports, are healthier with robust competition
By WIN GRUENING The City and Borough of Juneau Election Toolkit provides insightful encouragement to prospective candidates for its local elections: “Whatever... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: History and evolution of Alaska-Russia relations, through an interpreter’s lens
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Translators and interpreters use their knowledge of two or more languages and cultural meanings to translate or interpret texts and conversations... Read more.
Biden Trans Rules for Schools in effect Thursday, but court ruling means some states exempt
By BRENDAN CLAREY | CHALKBOARD NEWS The U.S. Department of Education has released guidance to school districts around the country regarding implementing its Title... Read more.
National Institutes of Health is not only sunsetting its Covid treatment guidelines, it’s making them disappear altogether
By LINDA BOYLE Four years ago, at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, the National Institutes of Health gathered a group of experts to provide Covid-19 recommendations... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: It’s time for battle space preparation as Anchorage Assembly aims to remove Eklutna dam
By ALEX GIMARC One of the things those of us with military experience consider before the exchanging unpleasantries with the “other side” is choosing... Read more.
Fact check: Border crossings are not down to Trump-era levels, as Joe Biden claims repeatedly
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE During President Joe Biden’s address to the American public Wednesday night, he said his administration secured the border.... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: Will Kamala pardon Biden Crime Syndicate?
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN As soon as he became President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed as President. President Kamala Harris could... Read more.
Tim Barto: Times are interesting, and getting interestinger by the day
By TIM BARTO The 2024 presidential election was already interesting but, let’s face it, it is now the most interesting of our lifetimes. The incumbent, a mind-wandering... Read more.
Murray Walsh: Ranked-choice voting serves the obedient Democrats, hurts Republicans
By MURRAY WALSH I usually ignore Juneau columnist Rich Moniak’s excursions into misdirection, although most are written well enough to seem logically convincing... Read more.
As predicted: Washington state’s push for all-electric leads to higher power bills in Seattle
By SPENCER PAULEY | THE CENTER SQUARE The City of Seattle is expecting rates for City Light customers to rise 5.4% next year due to increasing demand, extreme weather,... Read more.
Greg Sarber: Dahlstrom’s dilemma
By GREG SARBER Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom has a tough choice to make. She must choose between being a possible congresswoman or likely governor. As reported... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: If you were in charge for a day, how would you help Alaska’s energy economy?
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE This past week, I appeared on the Amy Demboski Show to talk all things energy. I took a call from someone named Bruce, who... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: First-person account of the first United Nations conference of 1945
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY As I write this article, I find myself wondering if anyone’s successes and accomplishments ever result solely from their own efforts and... Read more.
Kelly Tshibaka: The attempt on Trump’s life through a biblical lens
By KELLY TSHIBAKA The attempted assassination on President Donald J. Trump last Saturday was clearly part of a plan to get him out of the presidential race. People... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: If extremist Anchorage leadership has its way, the Eklutna Dam will be removed
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE I’’ve written before about the Anchorage Assembly’s fascination with threatening the infrastructure that allows for... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau’s high cost of living persists, so let’s just connect the dots
By WIN GRUENING Alaska’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOL) released its annual Cost of Living survey this month. Contained in the July issue... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Maybe we don’t have much climate change happening after all
By ROBERT SEITZ As an engineer, when I start a project, I confirm that the information I have to work with is correct, and that my objective is understandable and... Read more.
Secret Service has explaining to do after Trump assassination attempt
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. Secret Service is facing an array of tough questions, calls for accountability, firings and investigations this... Read more.
Case dismissed: Classified documents case against Trump thrown out by judge
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE A federal judge in Florida dismissed the classified documents-related criminal case against former President Donald Trump on... Read more.
Niki Tshibaka: One-quarter inch of destiny
By NIKI TSHIBAKA One-quarter inch. That is how close we came this weekend to an unfathomable future. One-quarter inch. That was the distance separating two antipodal... Read more.
Trump calls for unity, vows to move forward morning after attempted assassination
By DAN MCCALEB | THE CENTER SQUARE Former President Donald Trump said Sunday morning that it was “God alone who prevented” his death after he survived... Read more.
Biden slips further as Trump lead grows in new poll released Friday
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Former President Donald Trump holds a lead over President Joe Biden in the aftermath of a disastrous debate performance that... Read more.
John Maxwell Hamilton: Take away the car keys
By JOHN MAXWELL HAMILTON One of the saddest moments of my life was the day I felt compelled to tell my father that he should give up his car and stop driving. He... Read more.
Wayne Heimer: Clydesdales need to pull together for Alaska sovereignty after landmark ‘Chevron Deference’ reversal
By WAYNE HEIMER When it comes to federal regulatory overreach, it has been reasonable to define my friends and me as one-trick ponies. We’ve been arguing... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Yes, I actually am qualified to discuss climate and energy issues
By ROBERT SEITZ I read through the 25 comments from my recent commentary “Time to fight the assault on energy,” and the 24 comments on my previous... Read more.
Don’t ask about Parkinson’s disease, White House tells press corps
By DAN McCALEB | THE CENTER SQUARE White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre clashed with reporters during Monday’s press briefing while dodging questions... Read more.
Media was in on it: Reporters turned on president only when the lie became impossible to sustain
By TIM MURTAUGH The former executive editor of The New York Times gave away the game: The media were in on it. They helped cover up President Biden’s... Read more.
Win Gruening: Let’s honor what’s good about our country
By WIN GRUENING On July 4, 1776, a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, steeple bells rang throughout Philadelphia. John Hancock, President... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: The stars are aligning for return to a republic, ‘if you can keep it’
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN Fellow conservatives, our decades of patience and hard work are finally being rewarded. For 60 years we’ve been waiting for the courts... Read more.
First elected Democrat calls for Biden to drop
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE House Democrat Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas publicly called on President Joe Biden to “withdraw” from the race Tuesday,... Read more.
Fentanyl, illegal Ozempic, fake e-cigs, and weapons being seen more frequently at northern border towns
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Federal agents working at ports of entry in northern U.S. cities and in small towns along the U.S.-Canadian border are continuing... Read more.
Rep. Chip Roy files resolution calling for invoking 25th Amendment of Constitution to remove Biden
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, filed a resolution Friday calling for the 25th Amendment of the Constitution to be invoked to... Read more.
Nate Silver predicts: Trump favored over Biden
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE Statistician Nate Silver said Wednesday that the 2024 presidential election wasn’t a toss up, but rather the contest favored... Read more.
James Clapper was Obama’s ‘October Surprise’ just before debate between Clinton and Trump in 2016
By PAUL SPERRY | REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS Just before Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton faced off in their second presidential debate, then-National Intelligence Director... Read more.
Carbon credits auction prices are dramatically down
By BRETT DAVIS | THE CENTER SQUARE A choice available to Washington state voters on the November ballot could already be saving them money at the pump. This November,... Read more.
Unseating Peltola: Nick Begich talks about his congressional run on the STAND podcast
By KELLY TSHIBAKA Following Rep Mary’s Peltola’s election in 2022, Alaskans have awaited the 2024 election for the opportunity to remove her from office.... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: Time for term limits in Congress
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN There are three things that large majorities of Alaskans, and Americans, right, left and center, can agree on. One is the need to stop the reckless... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Doctors seek restitution from medical boards that maligned them during Covid pandemic
By LINDA BOYLE The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Educational Foundation (AAPS) has filed a lawsuit against the American Board of Internal Medicine,... Read more.
Sen. Joni Ernst takes on Eco Health Alliance — again
By LINDA BOYLE Readers may remember Rep. Dr. Rich McCormick, the Georgia Republican who served on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, when... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Time to fight the assault on energy
By ROBERT SEITZ In my column in Must Read Alaska, on May 31, I shared my review of temperature data from that claims that Alaska is warming two- to four-times faster... Read more.
Poll: Nearly half of Americans are struggling because of higher prices
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Nearly half of Americans report that the recent spike in inflation is making it harder to make ends meet, according to a... Read more.
Tim Barto: Alaska baseball exceeds expectations for this talented Air Force cadet
By TIM BARTO Bowen Brantingham is a righthanded pitcher for the Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks this summer, but his season is being cut short, as he has to complete... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Lawsuits are gunning for Pfizer for misrepresenting Covid shot and intimidating critics
By LINDA BOYLE Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Pfizer’s Covid shot in November for “unlawfully misrepresenting the effectiveness of... Read more.
Win Gruening: A strong, independent community hospital is important to Juneau
By WIN GRUENING Juneau’s city-owned Bartlett Regional Hospital is in the news, presenting the community with yet another challenging situation. According to hospital... Read more.
Greg Sarber: Who benefits from Alaska’s minimum wage initiative?
By GREG SARBER Alaskans will vote on a ballot initiative this November proposing to raise the minimum wage to $13 an hour next year, which then would jump to $15... Read more.
Tim Barto: So long to the Say Hey Kid
By TIM BARTO “It was Willie, Mickey and the Duke, Say hey, say hey, say hey” ~ “Talkin’ Baseball,” a song by Terry Cashman One of the all-time great baseball... Read more.
Tim Barto: Bible study during school hours? Why, yes.
By TIM BARTO In this age of public school wokeism, with all its pronoun preferences, revisionist history, and gender bending promotions, the last thing one might... Read more.
Frank Miele: How Trump wins the debate
By FRANK MIELE | REALCLEARPOLITICS It’s the demeanor, stupid. The public already overwhelmingly supports Donald Trump on the issues. But what many of them worry... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: The lifeline for our national debt crisis is a Convention of States
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN Our growing national debt is beginning to impact every American. The inflation caused by federal overspending is hurting us all. The interest... Read more.
As families break apart, reports detail America’s fatherhood crisis
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Reports indicate that America has a fatherhood crisis, which has created a culture of “floundering” young men. ... Read more.
Texas Gov. Abbott books first win in lawsuit against Biden’s new trans definition of female in Title IX
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE A federal court on Tuesday handed Texas its first win in a lawsuit filed against the Biden administration over a mandate... Read more.
Texas, Montana sue Biden over rule requiring states to pay for ‘gender transition’
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Texas and Montana have sued the Biden administration over another federal rule change it implemented, this time over one... Read more.
Appeals court rules against student wearing ‘There are only two genders’ shirt to school
By BRENDAN CLAREY | CHALKBOARD NEWS A federal appeals court has affirmed the decision of a lower court ruling on a Massachusetts school which told a student he could... Read more.
Small business, big anxiety this year
By CASEY HARPER Small businesses are citing the highest levels of uncertainty since the Covid-19 pandemic, a concerning economic indicator. The National Federation... Read more.
Wayne Heimer: National Park Service functionaries impose ‘park values’ they make up as they go along
By WAYNE HEIMER I haven’t made the kerfuffle about the U.S. flag flapping in Denali National Park the focus of my life. I know what’s been reported, what I’ve... Read more.
Border experts: Biden plan will bring another 2 million into country a year
By BETH BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Former Border security leaders serving under multiple presidents and whose careers span decades in law enforcement say President... Read more.
San Francisco opens first free food store
By KENNETH SCHRUPP | THE CENTER SQUARE San Francisco opened its first $5.5 million free food “market”, where approved residents can show a benefits eligibility... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Ninth Circuit Appeals Court rules the Covid-19 shot is not actually a vaccine
By LINDA BOYLE Every day, more truth emerges concerning Covid-19 and “vaccines.” For years there have been debates and arguments whether or not the... Read more.
National poll finds Trump just as likely to win now as he was before conviction
By BRETT ROWLAND A new poll found that former President Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felonies in New York hasn’t dented his support with... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: The bear and ground squirrel argue over the color of grass
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY In 1983, I was a participant in the archaeological expedition at Karluk Village, located approximately 75 air miles southwest of the... Read more.
Robert Seitz: More on climate, politics, energy in Alaska
By ROBERT SEITZ My last column in Must Read Alaska resulted in a number of comments to which I am compelled to respond. In my attempt to disprove that Alaska is... Read more.
Park Service asks judge to throw out lawsuit over no-cash policy at park entrances
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE The National Park Service on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its NPS Cashless policy. The... Read more.
What’s up with the Walden Bros? Trent & Trevor talk about when U.S. Sen. Sullivan visited their store
By JOHN QUICK In this episode of the Must Read Alaska Show, host John Quick sits down with Trent and Trevor, the dynamic duo behind Walden Bros, a custom clothing... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: Let the good times roll — again
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN When I got to Alaska in 1969, the smell of money was in the air. Prudhoe Bay’s oil had just been discovered. People didn’t know how big... Read more.
Biden threatens veto of veterans funding as he launches culture war over LGBTQI+ and taxpayer-funded abortion
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. House Republicans passed legislation Wednesday to fund the Department of Veterans Affairs and military construction, but... Read more.
Win Gruening: Ignoring the consequences of ship-free Saturdays?
By WIN GRUENING Backers of a cruise initiative to block large cruise ships from docking in Juneau on Saturdays and the 4th of July say they have sufficient... Read more.
Lawfare: One person filed 5,590 civil rights complaints with Department of Education in 2023
By BRENDAN CLAREY | CHALKBOARD NEWS Over two-thirds of all Title IX complaints came from one individual to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights,... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Follow the money on the next ‘vaccine’
By LINDA BOYLE “It is the love of money that has the potential to exterminate – to render extinct – the entire human race.” ~ Michael Rupert... Read more.
Elite universities under scrutiny as Congress probes federal funds for antisemitic indoctrination, terrorism
By ALAN WOOTEN | THE CENTER SQUARE Congress’ probe into rising antisemitism on college campuses includes letters to the leaders of 10 prominent universities, with... Read more.
Greg Sarber: With Trump conviction, Democrats have destroyed the social compact
By GREG SARBER I’ve taken a few days to think about the Donald Trump conviction and what it means. My initial reaction was one of surprise that the jury in New... Read more.
Tim Barto: Play ball!!! But without Fairbanks … again
By TIM BARTO Opening Day for the Alaska Baseball League is this Wednesday, June 5, as the Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks host the defending champion Anchorage Glacier... Read more.
Investigation: The rise of the Censorship Industrial Complex is real
By BEN WEINGARTEN | REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS This summer the Supreme Court will rule on a case involving what a district court called perhaps “the most massive... Read more.
Scott Kendall at the mic on the Must Read Alaska Show, talking about ranked-choice voting
By JOHN QUICK On the Must Read Alaska Show, host John Quick interviews Scott Kendall, a prominent litigator, strategic consultant, and lightning rod figure in campaign... Read more.
Barbara Richters of National Literacy Institute, talks about declining literacy in America on this don’t-miss episode of STAND podcast
By KELLY TSHIBAKA According to the National Literacy Institute, approximately 40% of American students cannot read at a basic level. Alaska has felt this decline... Read more.
Ken Koelsch: Close, but no cigar
By KEN KOELSCH Before beginning my teaching career in Juneau in 1968, one of my favorite summer jobs was supervising the many food and game booths at the largest... Read more.
Joe Biden’s dangerous natural gas game
By TRISTAN ABBEY | REAL CLEAR ENERGY If the devil is in the details, bureaucracy is hell on earth. Though terrain familiar to the Biden administration, Republicans... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Climate, politics, and energy in Alaska
By ROBERT SEITZ The article printed in the Anchorage Daily News on May 23, “For Alaska politicians, renewable energy is about the economy not the environment,”... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: More Arabella dark money slithers into Alaska with ‘New Energy Alaska’
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE The name seems innocent enough: New Energy Alaska. Launching earlier this year, the group claims to exist to help Alaska... Read more.
Soviet-style: Judge tells Trump jury each can pick which crimes they think he committed, but must be unanimous he’s guilty of something
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE The judge overseeing the hush money trial of former President Donald Trump spent an hour telling the jury how to apply the law... Read more.
STAND podcast: Let the boycotts begin, and the Veebs app developed by Chris Rhodes is here to help
By KELLY TSHIBAKA | STAND PODCAST We’ve watched the Left grow exponentially in its use of modern day warfare to achieve its goals. It frequently uses the law,... Read more.
California Senate passes ban on parental notification for children’s gender switching
By KENNETH SCHRUPP | THE CENTER SQUARE The California Senate passed a bill that would ban parental notification for gender changes in public TK-12 and provide more... Read more.
Tim Barto: Why the Alaska House vote to save girls’ sports matters
By TIM BARTO At the very end of the 2024 Alaska legislative session, the House brought HB183 to a floor vote. This bill, introduced by Rep. Jamie Allard of Eagle... Read more.
Win Gruening: Smearing Juneau school board members and superintendent is vindictive
By WIN GRUENING A school consolidation plan announced by the Juneau School District (JSD) has drawn fire from a dissident group calling themselves Community Advocates... Read more.
Meet Mark Frohnmayer on Must Read Alaska Show as he talks up a new voting system called STAR
By JOHN QUICK In this episode of the Must Read Alaska Show, host John Quick sits down with Mark Frohnmayer, who is a software and electric vehicle entrepreneur,... Read more.
Biden rule allows union reps to inspect job sites
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Business groups are pushing back against a new Biden administration rule that would allow third-parties, including union representatives,... Read more.
Illinois set to change the term ‘offender’ to ‘justice impacted individual’
By CATRINA PETERSEN | THE CENTER SQUARE Illinois legislators are working to change the term “offender” to “justice impacted individual” in... Read more.
David Eastman: Thoughts from a homeschool dad in the Legislature
To those encouraging the legislature to pass good homeschool laws in Juneau, I would say this: you are going into battle against a formidable enemy, and on ground... Read more.
David Boyle: Real reason NEA attacked homeschool families in Alaska was union power and control
By DAVID BOYLE The lawsuit filed by the NEA-AK against homeschool parents, to be heard by the Alaska Supreme Court on June 27, has awakened the lion. The... Read more.
Will Congress pull funding from liberally biased Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation?
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Lawmakers have threatened to revoke the appropriations for a federally-funded scholarship program that an audit found favors... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Energy bills of the 33rd Legislature didn’t address long-term plan for Railbelt
By ROBERT SEITZ I was excited the Alaska Legislature engaged in efforts to encourage production of Cook Inlet gas. I was, however, very disappointed when a legislator... Read more.
History of Russian-American relations: Competition and cooperation
By JEFFREY W. HAHN with ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Editor’s note from Alexander Dolitsky: My late friend and colleague Jeff W. Hahn initially published this insightful... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Fauci played fast and loose with the facts on gain-of-function research at Wuhan
By LINDA BOYLE Almost three years to the day that Dr. Anthony Fauci vehemently responded to Sen. Rand Paul and said there was no gain-of-function research at the... Read more.
Greg Adler: With passage of SB 179, a call for an end to weaponization of property assessments
By GREG ADLER The “money grab” by the City and Borough of Juneau’s Assessor’s Office is over with passage of Senate Bill 179 this legislative session.... Read more.
Foodies and foragers of the North: Arctic beekeepers keep the honey flowing
By LAUREN DI SCIPIO and BRENDA JOSEPHSON The honey bee is a subtle, ageless navigator from antiquity who continues to serve a vital role in our modern, twenty-first-century... Read more.
Greg Sarber: We should stand firm, like August Landmesser did in Nazi Germany
By GREG SARBER There has been a recent outbreak of antisemitism around the world in reaction to Israel’s attacks on the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza. People... Read more.
A big achievement for Alaska: Property tax and assessment reform bill passes
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON In the final days of the legislative session, SB179, an act relating to municipal property tax, received overwhelming support in both chambers... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: If Biden wants to thwart Chinese EVs, he should should look to domestic mining
By RICK WHITBECK | REAL CLEAR ENERGY The Biden administration’s decision to raise tariffs on Chinese-manufactured electric vehicles, steel, computer chips and... Read more.
Tim Murtaugh, who went from jail to Air Force One with Trump, makes his ’24 prediction on the Must Read Alaska Show
By JOHN QUICK In this episode of the Must Read Alaska Show, host John Quick sits down with Tim Murtaugh, the former communications director for the 2020 Trump reelection... Read more.
Greg Sarber: Kristi Noem did something urban Americans just don’t understand
By GREG SARBER The news that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem shot a vicious dog that she owned when she was younger was greeted with outrage by animal lovers and has... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: In Israel-Palestine conflict, historic patterns repeat
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Historic patterns repeat themselves. In his My Turn column, “Israel-Palestinian conflict explodes at our door,” in the Sept. 26, 2001 Juneau... Read more.
National Parks Service asks for more time to respond to suit over cashless parks
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE The National Park Service will get more time to respond to a federal lawsuit after three visitors sued alleging refusal... Read more.
Scott Walter: The rise of left-wing nonprofit journalism
By SCOTT WALTER | CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER The decline of traditional metropolitan “objective” media outlets has affected the news landscape dramatically. Those... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Cook Inlet gas impediments include new taxes
By ROBERT SEITZ We still do not have a clear path forward to enable new drilling to allow increase in production of Cook Inlet gas. After years of our... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Power of the governor to enforce Alaska’s Constitution
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Article VII, Section 1 of the Alaska State Constitution states, “Schools and institutions so established shall be free from sectarian... Read more.
Tim Murtaugh: News media that botched huge stories appoint themselves arbiters of truth again
By TIM MURTAUGH We are less than six months away from the presidential election, which means that certain members of the news media will soon appoint themselves... Read more.
America’s Arctic focus must also turn to Antarctica
By MEAD TREADWELL | REALCLEARWIRE America’s attention to Arctic security has intensified in recent years. Our force structure has grown deliberately, a word that... Read more.
Senate proposal strips Hamas-sympathizing students of federal aid
By ALAN WOOTEN | THE CENTER SQUARE Legislation to “cut off federal aid for grown adults who are breaking our laws, spewing antisemitism, and openly embracing... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau Assembly ignores voters, ramps up spending and taxes
By WIN GRUENING Capital City citizens and businesses have endured double-digit increases in property taxes over the last several years, yet the Juneau Assembly is... Read more.
Harold Hollis: Don’t be fooled by the incumbents on the ballot in Chugach Electric Association’s election
By HAROLD HOLLIS It is election time of year for all Chugach Electric Association members to elect directors to represent you on the Chugach Electric Association... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Truth is coming out about Covid origins
By LINDA BOYLE It’s amazing to see all the articles suddenly being written about the origin of Covid-19 and how it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. ... Read more.
David Boyle: There is no equity for more than 17% of Alaska’s students — the ones who are home schooled
By DAVID BOYLE Superior Court Judge Adolf Zeman has kicked a hornet’s nest and those hornets, home school parents, are mad as hell. With his decision, Judge... Read more.
Pam Bondi on the STAND podcast with Tshibaka covers why the Trump trial is ridiculous
By KELLY TSHIBAKA Several of the country’s top legal minds have come out against the newest lawsuit against Trump, labeling it everything from “ridiculous”... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: NEA’s grip on politics and classrooms is what’s in the way of a high-quality education in Alaska
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO National Education Association-Alaska, the Alaska education industry’s union, stands as the foremost advocate for its members’ rights... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Legislative shenanigan alert! Sen. Wielechowski plays games with Alaska’s future
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE While Alaskans are enjoying the late-arriving spring, with longer days and warmer weather, state Sen. Bill Wielechowski is spending... Read more.
Meet Fox News contributor Guy Benson on the Must Read Alaska Show
By JOHN QUICK In this episode of The Must Read Alaska Show, host John Quick sits down with Guy Benson to delve into the impact of Joe Biden’s economic and... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Alternate energy sources for the Railbelt
By ALEX GIMARC Given the ongoing discussion about renewables forced by the Alaska Center (for the Environment) and Renewable Energy Alaska Project (REAP), I thought... Read more.
Scott Ogan: Groundhog Day, another good election bill stripped by a Democrat in committee
By SCOTT OGAN You remember the movie “Groundhog Day,” where the main character wakes up to the same daily routine over and over. Welcome to Groundhog... Read more.
Bob Bird: Alaska’s judicial branch needs to be put back in its box
By BOB BIRD Alaska is no different than the other states in one regard: We have constitutional dolts running our governments, on the state and federal level. They... Read more.
NYPD says protesters had weapons, gas masks and ‘Death to America!’ pamphlets
By TOM GANTERT | THE CENTER SQUARE A high-ranking official with the New York Police Department said protesters had weapons including knives and hammers as well as... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Vote for common sense in the Chugach Electric Association board elections
By ALEX GIMARC There is another election going on today, the annual Chugach Election. Given the strength of renewable energy grifters these days, this election... Read more.
Ashley Hayek on STAND podcast: America First Patriots are a force more powerful than any elite few
By KELLY TSHIBAKA The Joe Biden Administration has unabashedly waged an all-out war on America-first values by decreasing energy independence, increasing the national... Read more.
This bud’s for you: Biden easing restrictions on cannabis by reclassifying drug
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE President Joe Biden’s administration plans to ease federal restrictions on cannabis by reclassifying the drug for... Read more.
Biden rule allows people to sue doctors for not giving them transgender drugs, surgeries
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The Biden administration has issued yet another rule redefining “sex” to fit progressive gender ideology politics, this time... Read more.
Wacky in Washington II: Copper thieves undermine state’s electric car goals
By TJ MARTINELL | THE CENTER SQUARE Washington state aims to have fast-charging electric vehicle ports every 50 miles across the entire span of its 2,633-mile road... Read more.
Wacky in Washington: Inslee buying electric vehicles for ‘low-income’ residents, paid for by taxpayers
By TJ MARTINELL | THE CENTER SQUARE One strategy for state officials looking to transition Washington’s transportation sector to electric vehicles is by subsidizing... Read more.
Will non-compete clause stand up in court? FTC rules it unlawful, Chamber of Commerce threatens suit
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE The Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule Tuesday to ban noncompete contracts that prevent employees from joining rival... Read more.
David Boyle: Education industry tries an end run around the courts
By DAVID BOYLE The Alaska education industry is trying to avoid changing the Alaska Constitution that would give parents more choices for their children. It also... Read more.
Hayden Ludwig: Automatic voter registration exists to keep Democrats in power. Why aren’t Republicans fighting it?
By HAYDEN LUDWIG | THE FEDERALIST Election integrity hawks — myself among them — have spilled gallons of ink since 2020 exposing ballot drop boxes, “Zuckbucks,”... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Biden destroying Alaska economy for sake of reelection
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE From the frequency of the attacks, one would think President Joe Biden has a personal vendetta against Alaska. In reality, he’s... Read more.
Win Gruening: Huna Totem dock project inches forward, Assembly decisions await
By WIN GRUENING When I last wrote about Huna Totem Corporation’s cruise ship dock project in November, over four years had passed since the Juneau subport property... Read more.
Jubilee Underwood, candidate for Alaska House, on the Must Read Alaska Show
In this episode of the Must Read Alaska Show, host John Quick welcomes Jubilee Underwood, a dedicated Matanuska-Susitna Valley resident and school board president,... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Railbelt utility, electricity, gas, and how we move forward
By ROBERT SEITZ There is nothing more important that to secure increased natural gas production in Cook Inlet in order to give Alaska the time to work out what the... Read more.
Invasion 2024: Illegal immigrants in first half of fiscal year equal more than twice the population of Alaska
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE More than 1.7 million foreign nationals have illegally entered the U.S. in the first six months of fiscal 2024, the greatest... Read more.
Tim Barto: SB 240 excludes parents further, as government takes full control of kids, per Sen. Giessel rewrite
By TIM BARTO The assault on parental rights continues, this time from Sen. Cathy Giessel, a registered Republican and someone who just a few years ago presented... Read more.
Ukraine vote tests Johnson’s strength
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. Senate is expected to ratify $95 billion in foreign aid after the House over the weekend passed major funding for Ukraine,... Read more.
Zak Kirkpatrick, fourth-generation Alaskan, singer-songwriter, tells his story on the Must Read Alaska Show
By JOHN QUICK Join host John Quick as he delves into the life and music of Zak Kirkpatrick, a fourth-generation Alaskan, whose journey from boat deckhand to licensed... Read more.
Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor and 24 others sue to block Biden Administration emission rules
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor and attorneys general from 24 other states are suing to block a Biden administration... Read more.
Biden kills women’s sports with final rule
In a late Friday news dump, the Biden Administration finalized a rule President Joe Biden initially proposed on the 50th anniversary of Title IX. His scheme expands... Read more.
David Boyle: A jubilant teachers’ union wields power and control over K-12 education
By DAVID BOYLE The recent court decision dissolving the correspondence school system by Superior Court Judge Adolf Zeman has given the National Education Association-Alaska... Read more.
Johnson sets up Ukraine showdown vote
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. House is expected to vote on funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan this weekend, a controversial climax to months of... Read more.
Danika Baldwin rocks the Alaska explorer life as a travel guru on the Must Read Alaska Show
By JOHN QUICK Join host John Quick on an episode of The Must Read Alaska Show, featuring Danika Baldwin, who left a desk job to become a full-time Alaska explorer... Read more.
Dr. Alveda King: ‘How can the dream survive if we take the lives of our own children?’
By KELLY TSHIBAKA The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had one of the largest impacts on civil rights activism and racial equality ever seen in America. His iconic I... Read more.
Tim Barto: Cautionary tales of gender transitioning heard in House Judiciary Committee
By TIM BARTO Hats off to House Judiciary Committee Chairwoman Sarah Vance and Vice Chairwoman Jamie Allard, who held hearings on three bills on Monday: 1) HB386,... Read more.
Campbell, Treadwell: Mike Robbins is Alaska Republican Party’s most qualified for chair
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Randy Ruedrich: Alaska must elect the most qualified candidate for Congress. What does that mean?
By RANDY RUEDRICH The United States House of Representatives (Congress) consists of two teams of elected members. The majority team runs the show. The minority... Read more.
Biden eased sanctions on Iran, giving terror-sponsors access to billions in frozen assets
By DAN McCALEB | THE CENTER SQUARE President Joe Biden is taking heat from Republicans for easing sanctions on Iran – including giving the terrorist-sponsoring... Read more.
Compare and contrast: Alaska Senate pension bill peters out, Illinois has worst unfunded pension in U.S.
MUST READ ALASKA | THE CENTER SQUARE The Alaska Senate passed Senate Bill 88, legislation that would revive a pension plan that was retired by the Legislature in... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Soviet Socialist realism is coming to America
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY My good friend in Kiev (former Soviet Union), Slava Pilman, was a promising and struggling artist of visual art. In the early 1970s, he admired... Read more.
Puget Sound Energy warns it faces significant shortage of power by end of decade
By TJ MARTINELL | THE CENTER SQUARE Puget Sound Energy, the state’s largest utility provider, is facing a significant energy shortage by the end of the decade... Read more.
Jury selection begins Monday in first-ever criminal trial of a former president
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE Jury selection is set to begin Monday in the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president. Former President Donald... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Four years after Covid, the words of warning from Ronald Reagan ring truer than ever
By LINDA BOYLE Years ago, the late President Ronald Reagan famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: LaFrance and the big union label
By ALEX GIMARC Former Assembly Chair Suzanne LaFrance is in a runoff with Mayor Dave Bronson. This is the Assembly’s second attempt to defeat Bronson. They were... Read more.
Joe Geldhof: Attempt to recall current school board members is misdirected
By JOE GELDHOF The long-postponed and necessary closure and consolidation of Juneau schools had to happen. There is no question given the huge deficit faced by the... Read more.
David Boyle: Who pays for students and agitators to testify against public school choice?
By DAVID BOYLE Do you ever wonder who paid for the many students, young children, and adults to trek to Juneau and agitate against public school choice? Who... Read more.
Win Gruening: Twisted logic of Juneau School Board recall petition
By WIN GRUENING The ink was hardly dry on the Juneau School District FY 2025 budget passed last month before a local group filed petitions to recall the school... Read more.
Democrats mobilize ‘charities’ to get out the vote, using legal loopholes at taxpayers’ expense
By BEN WEINGARTEN | REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS Progressives are using legal loopholes and the power of the federal government to maximize Democrat votes in the 2024... Read more.
Report: Chronic truancy at 28%, now a national crisis in public schools
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE It’s not just Alaska students skipping class, egged on by union representatives of the education industry. A record... Read more.
States file suit to block Biden student debt forgiveness plan
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE A coalition of states has filed a legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s latest executive effort to forgive a portion of... Read more.
Task & Purpose report: Alaska Air National Guard may fall short in manpower under new plan
Under a new manpower plan that will cover the state Guards in all 50 states and 4 territories, Brig. Gen. Brian Kile has explained to Task & Purpose that he... Read more.
Tim Barto: It’s a gender imperative — NASA must intercept, destroy the binary plaque on Pioneer 10
By TIM BARTO | SATIRE In 1972, NASA launched the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, and a year later, it launched Pioneer 11. These were the first manmade objects sent to explore... Read more.
NAIA rules transgenders can’t compete in women’s sports in sanctioned events
By TOM GANTERT | THE CENTER SQUARE The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics said Monday that transgender women may not participate in women sports in... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: The feds give Alaska the money, and the feds get to call the tune
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Have you ever wondered what Alaska gets for the total tax contribution its citizens give the federal government? Alaska, a Russian-owned 665,384-square-mile... Read more.
Bob Bird: The RFK interview on ‘Talk of the Kenai’
By BOB BIRD Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was a guest on KSRM’s The Talk of the Kenai on April 4. I will characterize the interview here, but... Read more.
STAND podcast: The Junior Aumavae story, from school suspensions to NFL stadiums
By KELLY TSHIBAKA The rags-to-riches American story never ceases to inspire, and Alaska’s own Junior Aumavae’s story is no exception. On the most recent episode... Read more.
Trump outlines IVF, abortion stance after court rulings: On the side of ‘miracle of life’
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Former President Donald Trump laid out his stance on abortion and in vitro fertilization (IVF) Monday after recent major court... Read more.
School districts across country facing layoffs as federal funding windfalls wind down
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE School districts across the country are laying off teachers, citing high inflationary costs, budget deficits, and federal... Read more.
Tim Barto: Social issue bills to watch in Juneau
By TIM BARTO | ALASKA FAMILY COUNCIL It’s late in the game for the 33rd Alaska Legislature, and when it comes to social agenda items, the outcome is still to be... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Plagiarism vs. fabrication
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Plagiarism is the representation of another person’s language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one’s own original work. Indeed, it is... Read more.
Maine Democrats push through bill to end Electoral College presidential election method
By CHRISTIAN WADE | THE CENTER SQUARE Maine lawmakers are moving toward joining a Democratic-led multi-state compact that calls for scrapping the Electoral College... Read more.
David Boyle: Alaska responds to federal overreach in education K-12 funding
By DAVID BOYLE Alaska’s Education Commissioner Deena Bishop has strongly pushed back against the U.S. Department of Education’s attempt to manage the... Read more.
Meet Jason Palmer, who secured three Democrat delegates for DNC convention, on Must Read Alaska Show
Join host John Quick in a thoughtful conversation with Democratic presidential candidate Jason Palmer on the latest episode of the Must Read Alaska Show. As a Republican,... Read more.
Robert Seitz: Let’s keep Cook Inlet gas flowing
By ROBERT SEITZ I continue my effort to encourage all Alaska government personnel, legislative personnel and business leaders and private citizens to support whatever... Read more.
Biden under fire for waiving Iran sanctions despite militant attacks
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE President Joe Biden is under fire for waiving more sanction requirements for Iran even as Iranian-backed militant terrorist groups... Read more.
Wuhan-linked coronavirus researcher to testify before Congress
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Lawmakers plan to interrogate the head of Eco Health Alliance, the group accused of conducting dangerous coronavirus research... Read more.
Win Gruening: Tax revolt over property assessments
By WIN GRUENING While we all have different ideas on how our tax money should be spent, it’s important to put aside those differences to ensure that property tax... Read more.
Chinese illegals swarm border in record numbers since Biden sworn in as president
By BETH BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE The number of Chinese nationals illegally entering the U.S. – primarily single, military age men – has skyrocketed under... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Covid-19 anniversary invokes good memories for the Climate Cult
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE As the world marks the four-year anniversary of the Covid-19 lockdowns, most people look back on those scary times with trepidation... Read more.
Three sue National Park Service for refusing to accept cash for park entrance fees
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE Three people have filed a lawsuit against the National Park Service for refusing to take cash for park entrance fees alleging... Read more.
Happy Easter!
This is what it’s all about: Jesus vs. the ultimate lockdown. From the Book of Matthew: 28 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary... Read more.
David Boyle: Federal government uses 4,000-mile screwdriver to dictate to Alaska on Covid relief funds
By DAVID BOYLE The U.S. Department of Education is accusing the State of Alaska of mismanaging its Covid-19 relief funds by not allocating enough to our urban school... Read more.
Win Gruening: Giving credit where credit is due
By WIN GRUENING It’s been a long time since Juneau’s economy has been bolstered by a single significant federal appropriation. It was 25 years ago when Sen.... Read more.
Poll: Parents want schools focused on basics, not critical race theory
By BRENDAN CLAREY | THE CENTER SQUARE The vast majority of people think schools should focus on traditional subjects like math, reading and science, and a majority... Read more.
Prior to bridge collision, pilots sent out ‘mayday,’ which may have saved lives
By SARAH RODERICK-FITCH Intentionality is not believed the cause of a Singapore company’s cargo ship hitting Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Top 10 Covid disclosures of the past year
By LINDA BOYLE There are many to choose from, but here are the top 10 disclosures learned in 2023 concerning Covid decisions, which I’ve gleaned from various... Read more.
Greg Sarber: Local autonomy in education is one of Eaglexit’s strongest arguments for detachment
By GREG SARBER Within the Eagle River, Chugiak neighborhoods — communities that make up Anchorage Assembly District 2 — a growing number of residents... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Court says FDA must take down its ‘You are not a horse’ ad campaign against Ivermectin
By LINDA BOYLE Do you remember in 2021 how crazy and hostile the FDA and CDC were over Americans turning to Ivermectin to treat Covid? People who could not get... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Must Read Alaska story from 2022 shows what’s really going on in Alaska schools
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO As a staunch advocate for constitutional rights and individual freedoms, I hold a libertarian perspective when it comes to our government’s... Read more.
Riley Gaines shares her journey on the Must Read Alaska Show
By JOHN QUICK In this new episode of the Must Read Alaska Show, host John Quick welcomes Riley Gaines, a 12-time All-American swimmer and now a nationally known... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Mike Robbins for Alaska GOP chair
By ALEX GIMARC Must Read Alaska reported Mike Robbins’ candidacy for Republican Party chairman. Robbins is a long-time party activist and local businessman,... Read more.
Pro-abortion to pro-life: Tshibakas and Marjorie Dannenfelser of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America on the STAND podcast
By KELLY TSHIBAKA The controversy surrounding abortion reached a fever pitch after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson, which determined that abortions... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: It’s pretty simple — Hamas must surrender, get out of the tunnels, return hostages
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY This column is a response to Kirsa Hughes-Skandijs’ letter, “Black-and-white view of Gaza goes too far,” published in the Juneau... Read more.
CBO reports grim long-term outlook for federal government
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday released a bleak outlook for the federal government with new projections that show... Read more.
Robert Seitz: All of Alaska depends on Railbelt energy
By ROBERT SEITZ With my first commentary published in Must Read Alaska (Feb 7), I had hoped to find practical and knowledgeable readers, who understand that we (Alaska)... Read more.
Supreme Court: In blow to Biden, Texas may arrest and deport illegal border crossers
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Texas law enforcement can begin charging illegal border crossers with a state crime after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a... Read more.
STAND podcast: Mike Matthys discusses internet censorship, artificial intelligence
By KELLY TSHIBAKA In the ‘80s and ‘90s, movies like the Terminator series, space-age technology, and the dot com boom gave rise to some science fiction technophobe... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau Assembly holds firm on Telephone Hill redevelopment
By WIN GRUENING In a rare moment of near unanimity during a special Juneau Assembly meeting last month, members voted to move forward to develop Telephone Hill. ... Read more.
Bob Griffin: Rutgers study that finds Alaska schools are second-most adequately funded
By BOB GRIFFIN Gov. Mike Dunleavy mentioned a recent Rutgers study that found that Alaska has the second most adequately funded school system in the US during... Read more.
David Boyle: A look at the Alaska school districts that are awash in unspent funds
By DAVID BOYLE We have heard all the uproar from the education industry about how they are in financial straits and need the Base Student Allocation raised to offset... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: A year later, the Willow ‘victory’ still rings hollow, with 15.8 million acres locked up
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE Growing up and playing athletics, there were two coach-speak terms that I absolutely hated. A “tough-luck loss” implied things... Read more.
Newt Gingrich: Why is Biden helping Hamas?
By NEWT GINGRICH | REAL CLEAR WIRE President Joe Biden’s recent foreign policy moves are baffling. By any rational standard, they are undermining Israel and helping... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: History doesn’t repeat but it often rhymes
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes,” Mark Twain reportedly said. In my various articles published in Must Read Alaska... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Wuhan lab, a manufactured virus, and the hapless bats and pangolins that got a bad rap
By LINDA BOYLE In a recent Wall Street Journal article, a former science editor for the newspaper states the Covid-19 virus was created in the lab. Author Nicholas... Read more.
Biden budget seeks to spend hundreds of millions to train school teachers in radical gender ideology
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE President Joe Biden’s budget proposal seeks to set aside billions of dollars to push progressive gender, sexuality and... Read more.
Robert Hur defends report on Biden’s memory, handling of classified documents
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE Special Counsel Robert Hur told the GOP-led House Committee on the Judiciary that his report was fair in both its assessments... Read more.
FBI director: Smuggling organizations connected to ISIS coming through US border
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday confirmed that a smuggling organization working with the terrorist organization ISIS... Read more.
Tim Barto: Like it or not, it’s presidential season and it’s going to be all about Trump
By TIM BARTO And so it begins in earnest. Super Tuesday’s results, expected though they may have been, bring us the 2024 presidential campaign, and it looks like... Read more.
David Boyle: Education industry is control freak when it comes to charter schools
By DAVID BOYLE One of the most contentious pieces of legislation this year has been Senate Bill 140, a bill chock full of changes in K12 education. The battle... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau school board veers off course
By WIN GRUENING Last week’s Juneau School District Board of Education meeting, expected to be perfunctory, was far from routine. The Thursday, March 7 special... Read more.
Biden budget packed with tax hikes, increases national debt
By CASEY HARPER |THE CENTER SQUARE President Joe Biden on Monday released his $7.3 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2025 with $5.5 trillion in tax increases... Read more.
Kelly Tshibaka: Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker of courage, resilience on STAND podcast
By KELLY TSHIBAKA Cancellation. Threats. Fear. What do these things have in common? Put simply, they’re the time-tested and true intimidation tactics the Left... Read more.
Jon Faulkner: Freedom is humanity’s most equalizing concept
By JON FAULKNER Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s threatened veto of the current education bill,, SB 140 is precisely the response Alaska needs to awaken a Legislature that... Read more.
Kelly Tshibaka on the Must Read Alaska Show talks about the role of podcaster and the Trump campaign
By JOHN QUICK Kelly Tshibaka, born and raised in Alaska, is reshaping Alaska’s political scene. Her new podcast, Kelly for Alaska is the topic of Must... Read more.
Jim Crawford: How much of your dividend does the Legislature need?
By JIM CRAWFORD The worst-idea-of-the-year award goes to legislators who want to do away with the Permanent Fund dividend so even more money can be squirreled away... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: REAP has infiltrated the Chugach Electric Association board. What could possibly go wrong?
By ALEX GIMARC This is an update on the Renewable Energy Alaska Project (REAP) attempt to access individual energy use data for Chugach Electric Association and... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Setting the record straight on Israel’s history with Palestinians
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY “Palestinian residents are helpless victims in attacks made by leaders,” written by Dixie Belcher and published in the Juneau Empire on... Read more.
Larry Behrens: The Pocketing Podestas influenced Biden’s LNG embargo. Congress must investigate.
By LARRY BEHRENS | POWER THE FUTURE Ever since 2016, talk to a liberal and there’s a good chance that they will blame “Russia” for something. Election interference,... Read more.
Linda Boyle: CDC implies ‘curve’ is flattened, while experts admit new guidance follows social norms
By LINDA BOYLE Has the curve finally been flattened? Not exactly. After four years of warning Americans to stay away from work and public places, and gradually decreasing... Read more.
Bob Griffin: Anchorage schools need to right-size facilities to put the resources into classrooms
By BOB GRIFFIN The Anchorage School District could solve much of its chronic budget problems by right-sizing its facilities – especially in excess elementary school... Read more.
Daniel Turner: Climate cultists will do anything to save the planet, except stay home
By DANIEL TURNER | POWER THE FUTURE Under President Joe Biden, the U.S. has spent more money than ever before in fighting so-called “climate change.” But climate... Read more.
Biden refers to illegal immigrants as ‘newcomers,’ as he and Trump have dueling events at border
President Joe Biden is now referring to illegal immigrants as “newcomers.” In a White House memo to Congress in which the president urged passage of a border... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Government education industry has led to mediocrity and bondage of our progeny
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO The Alaska education industry influenced the Alaska State Legislature to increase the Base Student Allocation by $680 per student. Fortunately... Read more.
David Boyle: Anchorage School District says it can make do with $110 Base Student Allocation increase
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School Board admitted this week that it can get through the next school year with a very small increase in the Base Student Allocation,... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Energy was front and center at CPAC
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE Last week, I traveled to Washington D.C. to attend the annual CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) event. Founded... Read more.
Kelly Tshibaka: On the STAND podcast, basketball, civil rights, and the transformation of a league, a told by Pete Babcock, who was part of its history
By KELLY TSHIBAKA As we close out Black History Month, I was reflecting on how America’s black history is present in many aspects of our lives, even in areas... Read more.
Tim Barto: Dennis Prager visits Fairbanks, clarifies leftist ideology
By TIM BARTO Dennis Prager, conservative radio host, prolific author, and founder of Prager U, gave two public presentations in Fairbanks on Saturday, and he was... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau School District edges closer to a balanced budget, but what’s next?
By WIN GRUENING After a marathon public hearing last week, the Juneau School District Board of Education voted 5-2 to combine and close several schools. The preliminary... Read more.
Greg Adler: Property tax fairness bill is needed to prevent wacky property assessments
By GREG ADLER It is time to voice support for property tax fairness by encouraging passage of Senate Bill 242, a bill introduced by Sen. Jesse Kiehl. This bill... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: A subsistence opportunity gift from Deb Haaland
By ALEX GIMARC The latest iteration of the race-baiting Dementia Hitler administration attempt to foment a subsistence race war here in Alaska comes courtesy of... Read more.
Scott Ogan: Rural sexual assault and the politics of good intentions
By SCOTT OGAN There are those who posture and talk about societal ills, and then there are those who do something about them. When it comes to rural physical... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Your tax dollars get spent in ways unaligned with your values
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Taxes being redistributed contrary to taxpayer intent is a concern within the context of environmental funding. While taxpayers may expect their... Read more.
Kelly Tshibaka: Hear Dennis Prager on STAND podcast and catch him in Fairbanks on Saturday
By KELLY TSHIBAKA In a recent episode of Kelly Tshibaka’s STAND podcast, Dennis Prager, the visionary and founder of PragerU, discussed the remarkable ways America... Read more.
Tune in: Rob Yundt on the Must Read Alaska Show
By JOHN QUICK In the latest episode of the Must Read Alaska Show, host John Quick engages with Mat-Su Assemblyman Rob Yundt, an Alaska Senate candidate, who embodies... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: It’s all a conspiracy? A look at the underlying narratives
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO What if there was a plan, conceived in the incredibly productive times of the 1950s and 1960s, to reshape the world order as we knew it? ... Read more.
Ranked-choice voting proves a lightning rod issue in several states
By KIM JARRETT | THE CENTER SQUARE Bills to ban ranked-choice voting are causing passionate debate over a method to cast ballots that some say is fairer and some... Read more.
Linda Boyle: California, Oregon quietly drop CDC guidance on Covid isolation, but Alaska?
By LINDA BOYLE In California, the Covid isolation requirements have dramatically changed recently. Are you positive for Covid and no symptoms? No... Read more.
Bob Griffin: While funding is adequate for Alaska schools, results are still disappointing
By BOB GRIFFIN We’ve seen a huge battle erupt in Juneau over school funding this year — when our energy should be focused on how we re-allocate our education... Read more.
Tim Barto: Allard bill holds physicians liable for mutilating children’s bodies
By TIM BARTO Rep. Jamie Allard of Eagle River is taking a courageous stance by introducing a bill to protect minors who had gender transition procedures done to... Read more.
Kelly Tshibaka: Beyond politics to post-partisan solutions with Seneca Scott
By KELLY TSHIBAKA This Black History Month, we reflect on how polarized America has become, whether racially, politically, religiously, or otherwise divided. In... Read more.
Kevin McCabe: Good legislation deserves honest dialogue, not rhetoric
By REP. KEVIN MCCABE Primum non nocere, originally a medical maxim, translates to “first, do no harm.” This principle of ethics is the medical establishment’s... Read more.
Tim Barto: Sad state of the Biden presidency could be avenue of victory for Trump
By TIM BARTO Honoring Presidents Day the past few years has become a challenging task, to say the least. The current White House resident is, aside from being an... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Intermittent renewables alone cannot sustain Alaska’s energy needs
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO As I gaze out my window at the tranquil morning blue February sky, I’m struck by the contrast between my modern comforts and the challenges... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: The 907 Initiative is campaigning against the mayor of Anchorage
By ALEX GIMARC I always appreciate it when the Left tells us what they think is important. This month’s example comes out of the Democrat, dark money-funded,... Read more.
Jon Faulkner: Alaska’s property tax assessment processes have failed the public trust
By JON FAULKNER In 2023, Haines residents uncovered actions they perceived as unjust methods for assessing private property. As these actions came to light at a... Read more.
Listen to Nick Begich as he talks about electing the right team: Must Read Alaska Show
By JOHN QUICK Join host John Quick on the Must Read Alaska Show for this new episode with Nick Begich, a determined candidate aiming for Alaska’s sole congressional... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau wrestles with funding for schools as enrollment continues to fall
By WIN GRUENING During a Juneau City and Borough Assembly Finance Committee meeting on Feb. 7, opinions about how to handle a sizable deficit in the Juneau School... Read more.
Teacher retention: Fact or fake news?
By DAVID BOYLE The Education Industry has overwhelmed the Alaska Legislature with its opinion on the teacher shortage in Alaska. Is this a true shortage or is it... Read more.
World’s toughest snowmobile race: Iron Dog set for 40th year of squeezing the throttle to Nome
By MUST READ ALASKA The world’s longest, toughest snowmobile race starts Saturday, Feb. 17. It’s the 40th running of the Iron Dog Race, with as many... Read more.
Senate passes nearly $100 billion in aid for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, but carves out border funding
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. Senate passed a $95 billion foreign aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan after days of delay from Republicans who... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Thanks to fossil fuels, Anchorage averted a crisis this winter
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE A recent joint hearing of the House and Senate Resources committee I attended in Juneau laid bare the importance of natural gas... Read more.
Alaska AG Treg Taylor and coalition side with Gov. Abbott on border security in Texas
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE A coalition of state attorneys general sent a letter Monday to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas backing... Read more.
Niki Tshibaka: Frederick Douglass, America’s Moses
By NIKI TSHIBAKA In the early 1800s, a modern-day Moses was born to Antebellum America. Like Moses, he was born into slavery and would find freedom by way of a river;... Read more.
Rep. Andrew Gray on Must Read Alaska Show: Alaska’s poor need full PFD
By JOHN QUICK State Rep. Andrew Gray says Alaskans who are poor need the full Permanent Fund dividend, and that’s a big reason why he supports it, rather than... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Economic development, traditional uses can coexist in Alaska
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY In the mid-1980s, I was employed as a social scientist by the Forestry Sciences Laboratory, a research division of the United States Forest... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Are mask mandates a First Amendment issue?
By LINDA BOYLE Recently, a federal appeals court in New Jersey shot down plaintiffs’ refusal to wear a mask during a school board meeting in 2022. New... Read more.
Anchorage superintendent contract is extended, after school board tries sneak approval tactic
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School Board on Tuesday approved a one-year contract extension of Superintendent Jarrett Bryantt. The item was initially put on the... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Suzanne LaFrance is the Assembly’s favorite candidate for mayor
By ALEX GIMARC We are about five weeks from the Municipal Clerk (who works for the Assembly) mailing out ballots for the Anchorage Municipal Election in 2024. Voters... Read more.
Must Read Alaska Show: Sen. Jesse Kiehl of Juneau
By JOHN QUICK Sen. Jesse Kiehl complimented Gov. Mike Dunleavy on his teachers’ bonus bill and thinks it is doable, if Dunleavy was open to a couple of tweaks.... Read more.
Scott Ogan: Our freedoms and liberties hinge on election integrity
By SCOTT OGAN For our republic to survive, it must be sustained by free and fair elections. This means our elections must be transparent and verifiable—auditable... Read more.
Paulette Simpson: Saying ‘no’ to growth in Juneau has consequences, as chickens come home to roost at the Juneau School District
By PAULETTE SIMPSON Earlier this year, I zoomed in to the Juneau School Board work session about our local school district’s recently announced $10 million budget... Read more.
Nevada voters to pick GOP presidential candidate with both a primary and a caucus this week
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Nevada voters will head to the polls this week for their state’s Republican presidential primary, and in an unusual twist,... Read more.
Must Read Alaska Show: From piano to pageants and back again with the talented Alissa Musto
Immerse yourself in the inspiring journey of Alissa Musto on this episode of The Must Read Alaska Show, hosted by John Quick. Discover how Alissa, initially guided... Read more.
Hayden Ludwig: Alaskans take note that Georgia has seen the light on ranked-choice voting
By HAYDEN LUDWIG Credit Georgia Republicans for seeing the light: Ranked-choice voting is a trojan horse for flipping red states blue and must be banned immediately.... Read more.
Deena Bishop reports how and why Alaska spends $2.7 billion on K-12 education
By DAVID BOYLE Commissioner Deena Bishop of the Department of Education and Early Development briefed the House Education Committee that Alaska will spend $2,696,944,300... Read more.
Republican governors join Abbott at Texas border
“If we put up resistance, we show we can secure the border.” – Gov. Greg Abbott By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Thirteen Republican governors joined... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Anyone can become a victim of a far-left cult
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Most people believe cult members are mentally unbalanced or are misfits who live in remote places, like the doomed devotees of Jim Jones and... Read more.
Bob Griffin: The claims that Alaska public education needs more money does not hold up to scrutiny
By BOB GRIFFIN A recent major university study on adequacy in K-12 public education spending finds that Alaska not only has one of the most adequately funded K-12... Read more.
Bob Bird: The faux Republican resistance to abortion
By BOB BIRD The Republican Party has used the pro-life vote for decades now, and with the exception of President Donald Trump’s judicial appointments, has given... Read more.
Tim Barto: Dennis Prager makes clear the relationship between leftism, anti-semitism
By TIM BARTO | SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR Immediately following the Oct. 7 slaughter of Israeli innocents by Hamas terrorists, the prominent initial reaction was condemnation... Read more.
Palmetto bug: Democrats kick off their primary season in South Carolina after blowing off New Hampshire’s primary in January
THE CENTER SQUARE and MUST READ ALASKA Call it the Palmetto Bug — a feature of the Democrats’ presidential nominating process, which starts Saturday.... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau School District’s financial challenges require deliberate, thoughtful response
By WIN GRUENING As the extent of the financial difficulties facing the Juneau School District unfolds, it’s clear that their situation did not develop overnight.... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: In a church in Rome, an angel appeared and conveyed a message of peace
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY One day in the spring of 1977, shortly after my departure from the former Soviet Union as a political refugee to the West, I was browsing in... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Red states should run far, far away from Renewable Portfolio Standards
By RICK WHITBECK | REAL CLEAR ENERGY Think of something politicians could impose that is blatantly anti-free-market, would nearly guarantee increased rates for consumers... Read more.
Three reasons why the moratorium on LNG projects is Joe Biden’s latest energy misstep
By TED GARRISH | REAL CLEAR WIRE The Biden administration is putting a moratorium on permitting for future liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects seeking approval,... Read more.
Terrorists increasingly use northern border for infiltration into U.S.
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE In fiscal 2023, 736 known or suspected terrorists were apprehended at the northern and southwest borders, The Center Square... Read more.
Wayne Heimer: Eagle Pass, Texas, and how it relates to Alaska lands issues and federal overreach
By WAYNE HEIMER The federal government owns lots of Alaska land. It is in Federal Conservation System Units, also known as FCU lands. Management of these FCU lands... Read more.
Georgia Senate passes bill to ban ranked-choice voting
By T.A. DeFEO The Georgia Senate passed a bill Friday to bar ranked-choice voting in the state. The chamber passed Senate Bill 355 by a 31-19 margin. “We... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Should U.S. surrender its sovereignty?
By LINDA BOYLE The global elitists finished their annual World Economic Forum event in Davos last week. More than 60 heads of state and governments, along with some... Read more.
Lawmakers blast lack of transparency at HHS over handling of Covid
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE A group of lawmakers is calling out U.S. Health and Human Services, arguing the federal agency is bucking congressional oversight,... Read more.
Car dealers push back on Biden EV mandates
By LAUREN JESSOP | THE CENTER SQUARE Concern among the nation’s car dealerships about electric vehicle oversupply spawned a second letter to the Biden administration... Read more.
Todd Lindley: Alaskans vs. the carbon communists
By TODD LINDLEY All too often, our elected leaders are democratically elected but then abandon the people either in pursuit of greater power, or–rather than... Read more.
Tim Barto: School choice annual event promotes education freedom, parental rights
By TIM BARTO | ALASKA FAMILY COUNCIL A few years ago, Leigh Sloan was busily homeschooling her three children, but like many homeschool moms she wanted to provide... Read more.
David Boyle: Colorado shows how to close schools
By DAVID BOYLE Closing schools due to a lack of students can be very difficult for parents, students, teachers, and the community. But it is necessary to ensure... Read more.
Haley says the race is ‘far from over’
By T.A. DEFEO | THE CENTER SQUARE Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, defeated by former President Donald Trump in New Hampshire on Tuesday, has vowed to continue... Read more.
Scott Ogan: A statesman means doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons
By SCOTT OGAN What single thing can legislators do to make everything better for the citizens of Alaska? Practice statesmanship. Webster defines a statesman... Read more.
David Boyle: Anchorage schools push parents to back of the bus on transgender transparency
By DAVID BOYLE At a recent Anchorage School District Governance Committee meeting, ASD School Board member Dave Donley proposed a new and more transparent policy... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Get ready for mysterious Disease X, because the World Economic Forum is preparing
By LINDA BOYLE This past July, the National Institutes of Health stopped funding any research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The United States taxpayers had... Read more.
Bob Maier: Eklutna water, hydro power, and what the Anchorage Assembly is not telling ratepayers
By BOB MAIER An issue left undiscussed in the conversation concerning the water which Eklutna Lake provides addresses the authority which the Regulatory Commission... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Israel-Gaza war would be over if Hamas surrendered, returned hostages. So why don’t they?
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY It is imperative to clarify some facts in the Craig Wilson’s letter to the editor, “Israel violating international law with its response... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Alaska Railroad, a feral corporation with a feral board of directors
By ALEX GIMARC My December AKRR column made the case that the Alaska Railroad Corporation was an intentional bad actor, a predatory neighbor to property owners... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Dr. Fauci confesses the six-foot distancing rule ‘just appeared’ without science
By LINDA BOYLE This week Dr. Anthony Fauci, aka Dr. Science, was answering questions in a meeting with the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.... Read more.
Jon Faulkner: Implosion of the ivory tower
By JON FAULKNER Last week’s resignation of Harvard University President Claudine Gay was a watershed event in the history of America. Her fall symbolizes a... Read more.
From transgender surgeries to drag shows: House committee to hold hearing on ‘woke ideologies’ influencing the military
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. lawmakers will hold a hearing Thursday on “woke ideologies” influencing the military and how that may be negatively... Read more.
Leigh Sloan: School choice is here to stay
By LEIGH SLOAN In the year 2024 we are facing huge shifts in the landscape of education for our future generations. When schooling became widespread back in the... Read more.
Can the Eklutna Dam be removed?
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE The Eklutna Dam currently provides the least expensive energy to Southcentral Alaska’s residents and businesses, but that might... Read more.
Joe Buccino: Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin must resign
By JOE BUCCINO | REAL CLEAR WIRE The news that the U.S. Department of Defense failed to inform the American public that its Secretary of Defense was hospitalized... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Is the mea culpa by former NIH director on government Covid policies good enough?
By LINDA BOYLE Dr. Francis Collins, who managed the National Institute of Health from 2009 to 2021, recently admitted public health officials (like him) made a big... Read more.
Biden kicks off campaign comparing Trump to Hitler
By ANTHONY HENNEN | THE CENTER SQUARE At a community college in suburban Philadelphia, President Joe Biden kicked off his reelection campaign by decrying Donald... Read more.
David Boyle: Anchorage School District looks to the Legislature to backfill its budget hole
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School District has issued a proforma budget for its fiscal year 2025 (school year 2024-2025) to get out of its self-inflicted financial... Read more.
Biden asks high court to allow Border Patrol to cut Texas’ razor wire installed on border by state’s Operation Lone Star
By BETHANY BLANKLEY The Biden administration appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in one of its border lawsuits with Texas, one of several expected to... Read more.
Grand juries, a constitutional safeguard against public corruption
By JON FAULKNER Last April, a Kenai Grand Jury indicted Judge Margaret Murphy on felony perjury charges. Few Alaskan know the status of the indictment, how it came... Read more.
Scott Ogan: Top 10 ‘left fork-in-the-road’ policy proposals
By SCOTT OGAN It has become painfully self-evident to many Americans that the press and digital media have been weaponized by people on both sides of the aisle.... Read more.
Biden’s sweeping rule changes could wipe out women’s sports
By BRENDAN CLAREY | THE CENTER SQUARE The Biden administration has proposed sweeping changes to expand the nation’s law prohibiting sex discrimination in the nation’s... Read more.
Disgraced: Harvard president resigns, claims victimhood
By SARAH RODERICK-FITCH | THE CENTER SQUARE Harvard President Claudine Gay announced her resignation Tuesday following new allegations of plagiarism and scrutiny... Read more.
Todd Lindley: Storage to shortage — The Cook Inlet natural gas crisis
By TODD LINDLEY The old adage that to create a hero, one needs a villain is a useful context. If one wants to “solve” a problem, one need only to create... Read more.
Old-timers head back to workforce: Report
A study released by the Pew Research Center shows that more Americans over the age of 65 are heading back to work. The reason? They need the money. Twice as many... Read more.
Chaos? Ballot battles, impeachment inquiry, indictments disrupt election cycle
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The Republican primary’s Iowa caucuses are scheduled for Jan. 15, the first chance for voters to determine who they want to... Read more.
Bob Bird: Recon and the 14th Amendment
By BOB BIRD Most amateur history buffs ignore what happened after the misnamed “American Civil War”. Churchill said, “War is rattling good history, but peace... Read more.
Commerce clause: New California law mandates sizes of pig pens in other states
By KEVIN BESSLER | THE CENTER SQUARE A new law going into effect in California Jan. 1 that mandates space requirements for pigs, cows and chickens has some livestock... Read more.
Known and suspected terrorists are probing the U.S. northern border at record pace
By BETH BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE An Iranian with terrorist ties was caught after illegally entering the U.S. near Niagara Falls, New York, as a record number... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Israel and United States are close friends
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY I would like to provide a factual data related to Israeli/Arab/Palestinian coexistence in the Middle East, and the United States’ historic... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Why Dubai’s COP28 should be called ‘Council Of The Pointless’
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE Unless you’re a climate warrior or an energy wonk, you probably weren’t aware of the recent 28th edition of the “Council... Read more.
Hispanics say inflation is top concern
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Hispanic Americans cite inflation as a key concern for elected officials to address heading into the 2024 election year, according... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Removing the Eklutna Dam
By ALEX GIMARC Must Read Alaska reported a few weeks ago that the Anchorage Assembly asked the legislature to approve removal of the Eklutna dam, ostensibly to rebuild... Read more.
Top Republicans demand White House provide communications between Joe, Hunter Biden
By COREY WALKER | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan are investigating allegations... Read more.
Trump returns to Colorado ballot after GOP appeal to U.S. Supreme Court
By JOE MUELLER | THE CENTER SQUARE The Colorado Republican Party is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case where the state Supreme Court ruled... Read more.
Maine Secretary of State removes Trump from ballot
By TOM GANTERT | THE CENTER SQUARE The state of Maine removed Donald Trump from its 2024 presidential primary ballot because its secretary of state said he engaged... Read more.
Range anxiety: Test shows EVs don’t meet EPA estimates
By BRETT ROWLAND |THE CENTER SQUARE New testing shows that some popular electric vehicles fall short of their government-estimated driving ranges, underscoring anxiety... Read more.
EVs have possible security vulnerabilities
By LAUREN JESSOP | THE CENTER SQUARE The nation’s transition to electric vehicles must not only overcome power and charging station shortcomings, but novel security... Read more.
California law mandating gender-neutral toy aisles goes into effect Jan. 1
By KENNETH SCHRUPP | THE CENTER SQUARE California’s law requiring stores to include gender-neutral toy aisles goes into effect Jan. 1, with noncompliant stores... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Why everyone should want a lump of coal in their Christmas stocking
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE When many of us were young, the worst possible Christmas threat was a lump of coal in your stocking. Santa only brought... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Israel, Gaza and the historic, religious, ethnic issues of global terrorism
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Far-left media notoriously make various historical and statistical errors that lead the public to a divisive conclusion on Israel-Gaza/Hamas wars.... Read more.
Officials say border crisis has led to break-ins orchestrated by Columbians, Chileans
By BETH BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE The border crisis has hit several milestones, with an estimated 10 million illegal entries since January 2021, increased reports of... Read more.
Dave Donley continues one-man battle on Anchorage School Board
By TIM BARTO Dave Donley is in an unenviable position, and Tuesday’s Board meeting exemplified that. As the only conservative member on the seven-member Anchorage... Read more.
Pentagon falls short on recruitment goals
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE The Defense Department’s senior officials testified last week about shortfalls in Army, Navy and Air Force recruiting... Read more.
Washington group turns in signatures to repeal anti-police law preventing cops from pursuing suspects
By TJ MARTINELL | THE CENTER SQUARE Voter advocacy group Let’s Go Washington announced it has collected enough signatures to put Initiative 2113 on... Read more.
Alien psych: New study calls for humans to prepare for extraterrestrial encounters
A new study out of Germany is calling for humanity to get ready for an encounter with extraterrestrial life. The study comes at a time when Congress last week passed... Read more.
Mead Treadwell: Arctic horizons primer and critical questions on extending U.S. territory in Arctic Ocean
By MEAD TREADWELL For many years now, the five Arctic Coastal states have conducted bathymetric and geologic work in the Arctic Ocean region toward what some observers... Read more.
Colorado Supreme Court kicks Trump off ballot
By JOE MUELLER | THE CENTER SQUARE The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled former President Donald Trump should not appear on the state’s 2024 presidential... Read more.
Tim Barto: Where have all the travel manners gone?
By TIM BARTO On Good Friday, 1966, my Mom and three siblings and I boarded an airplane out of Chicago to fly to California, where Dad had gone to set us up for a... Read more.
Texas Gov. Abbott enacts law making illegal entry into Texas a state crime
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Gov. Greg Abbott signed historic border security bills into law on Monday, including making illegal entry from a foreign... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: The Left has scalped Alaskans’ PFDs since 2016, but can Dunleavy fix it?
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO In the 2018 Alaska gubernatorial race, Michael Dunleavy emerged as the guardian, vowing to shield Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend from encroaching... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Alaska Railroad acts like Chinese Communist Party on rights-of-way matters
By ALEX GIMARC I put together a 5-part series in Alaska Politics and Elections Online (APEOnline) summer 2021 exploring the ongoing war between the Alaska Railroad... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: A discussion on Elon Musk’s observation of ‘looking good, while doing evil’
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Elon Musk’s remark, “What I see all over the place is people who care about looking good, while doing evil,” delves into the... Read more.
Kelly Tshibaka: Fighting for justice at the Justice Department
By KELLY TSHIBAKA The trust of the nation rests in the hands of the people who compose the Department of Justice. It is a complex institution with intricate mechanisms... Read more.
Election integrity analyst says Alaska voter rolls are least accurate in the nation
By GREG SARBER Election integrity expert Douglas Frank is touring Alaska, where he made recent stops in Fairbanks, Kenai, and Homer. Frank toured Alaska at... Read more.
‘Decolonization of science’: Federal agency releases records about developing policy about indigenous knowledge and ‘helicopter science’
By HANS BADER The National Science Foundation released another monthly installment of records about federal policy toward indigenous knowledge, which reveal... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Israel, homeland of the Jewish people for over 3,500 years
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Pro-Palestinian and anti-Semitic protests in our country are shocking. But it also has been predictable: The same protests have been occurring... Read more.
Scott Ogan: Rule 21 rules the House
By SCOTT OGAN | CAPITOL INSIDER I served eight years in the House of Representatives and had the privilege to serve with Speaker Ramona Barnes. Ramona was tough,... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Is it time to move to partisan municipal elections?
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO One of the more difficult topics to capture the public’s interest in is how certain political taboos originated. I’m writing about... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Thinking past the sale on the big plan for decarbonization of Alaska’s energy
By ALEX GIMARC “Thinking past the sale” is a powerful persuasion technique that moves your attention from whether or not something ought to be done to... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Alaska Democrats’ party platform going against all fossil fuel?
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE As first reported by Suzanne Downing in Must Read Alaska, the Alaska Democratic Party is saying the quiet part out loud in... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau Assembly decision to reduce cruise ships risks sending taxes higher
By WIN GRUENING During a Nov. 6 Committee of the Whole meeting, Juneau Assembly members voted informally on whether the city should pursue cruise passenger reductions.... Read more.
‘Disgraceful’: Sen. Mike Lee blasts FBI monitoring of U.S. citizens without a warrant
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, blasted FBI Director Christopher Wray during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday over the... Read more.
Your share of national debt: $100,000
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The rapidly growing debt of the U.S. federal government has hit another milestone, topping more than $100,000 per person. While... Read more.
Culture war on America: Coalition of Democrat attorneys general sue Idaho over gender-separate school bathrooms, school sports
By BRETT DAVIS | THE CENTER SQUARE A coalition of 21 Democratic attorneys general, led by Washington state’s Bob Ferguson and New York’s Letitia James, have... Read more.
How deep is hole in Anchorage School District’s budget? A look in the seat cushions
By DAVID BOYLE We have heard that the Anchorage School District is suffering from a huge budget hole of $95 million brought on mostly by using one-time federal funds... Read more.
Steve Goreham: Get ready for another pointless United Nations climate conference
By STEVE GOREHAM The United Nations Climate Conference begins Nov. 30 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). More than 70,000 delegates are expected to attend from... Read more.
Biden Justice Dept. says HIV is a disability, so sex workers who carry it can’t face extra charges
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE Tennessee’s enforcement of its aggravated prostitution law against people living with HIV violates the Americans... Read more.
Kelly Tshibaka: Bold insights from Larry Elder
By KELLY TSHIBAKA Larry Elder, a prominent conservative commentator and political figure, has been vocal about his views on various issues affecting the black community... Read more.
Bethany Marcum: A Supreme Court case that could be the next Janus for labor unions
By BETHANY MARCUM AND STEVE DELIE What good is a right if you don’t know you have it? What if you know about your right but are blocked from exercising it? That’s... Read more.
Brian Hove: Truth and consequences for Germany, Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin’s search for a legacy
By BRIAN HOVE Can an action be considered inadvertent if the consequences of such action were predictable, inevitable and avoidable? Kelly Tshibaka’s most... Read more.
Ken Koelsch: Juneau Assembly needs to retreat
By KEN KOELSCH We might not be privy to what the Assembly’s agenda is, but we need to begin with the premise that it wants to do the right thing. It is our job... Read more.
Jon Faulkner: The Silicon Valley conservative
By JONATHAN FAULKNER Silicon Valley tech-giant, Marc Andreessen, recently published “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” which documents the belief system of our... Read more.
EPA action over air quality could cost Fairbanks transportation funds
By KIM JARRETT | THE CENTER SQUARE Despite federal assurances that the change would have no significant impact, the Fairbanks-North Star Borough could lose state... Read more.
David Boyle: Anchorage School District digs deeper budget hole with dishonest Inlet View Elementary School bond strategy
By DAVID BOYLE At its most recent board meeting, the Anchorage School Board decided to ask voters to build a brand-new Inlet View Elementary School at a cost of... Read more.
Steve Goreham: California mandates electric trucks, but 19 states sue to block
By STEVE GOREHAM | MASTER RESOURCE Earlier this year, California passed regulations that would turn the trucking industry upside down. New mandates for zero emissions... Read more.
Seattle church to 9th Circuit: Don’t let Washington State force us to pay for employee abortions
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE A Seattle-area church filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit this week after a lower court ruled that the church... Read more.
Scott Ogan: People to watch in the Alaska Senate
By SCOTT OGAN | CAPITOL INSIDER Senators Bert Stedman, Click Bishop, and Cathy Giessel — I’ll call them the “Three Amigos” — run the... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau Assembly should heed economic warning bells in latest report
By WIN GRUENING The economic indicators report published last month by the Juneau Economic Development Council is a wake-up call for our community. The findings... Read more.
Hayden Ludwig: Fentanyl election letters reveal how partisan journalists operate
By HAYDEN LUDWIG | REAL CLEAR WIRE The true danger to American democracy comes from the radical left. Just don’t expect to hear it from the mainstream media. On... Read more.
Tim Barto: Riley Gaines rocks it in Alaska in support of keeping girls’ sports for girls
By TIM BARTO All-American swimmer Riley Gaines made her first visit to Alaska over the weekend, speaking to enthusiastic crowds who cheered her courage in standing... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Renewable energy goals and that rarest substance of ‘unobtanium’
By ALEX GIMARC This is the final in my series on Chugach Electric Association’s new dalliance with renewable energy. The second piece discussed solar energy... Read more.
Brenda Josephson: Haines cancels property tax assessor’s contract, but work remains to ‘make it right’
By BRENDA JOSEPHSON The Haines Borough Assembly voted unanimously to not renew an agreement for services with the community’s property tax assessor. The Assembly’s... Read more.
Alaska Attorney General, 25 others, call on Congress to pass bill allowing states to enforce immigration — if federal government won’t
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE A coalition of 26 state attorneys general, including Alaska’s Treg Taylor, is calling on the new U.S. Speaker of the... Read more.
Alaska, Florida recruiting Chicago police, offering large bonuses, no state income tax
By GREG BISHOP | THE CENTER SQUARE Efforts to recruit police officers from Illinois to other states continue. While Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently approved a measure allowing... Read more.
IRS tax brackets change for 2024
The IRS must be calculating inflation differently than the Social Security Administration. The IRS increased its tax brackets by about 5.4% for tax filers for 2024,... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Solid Alaska projects, like Manh Choh, Ambler, and AKLNG, balance stewardship, responsible development
By RICK WHITBECK Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Alaska must cease its resource development opportunities because we are destroying the planet in the process.... Read more.
Census Bureau adds progressive gender ideology questions
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. Census Bureau is under fire for embracing progressive ideology around gender and sexuality and pushing for taxpayer... Read more.
Tim Barto: Happy Birthday, U.S. Marines
God Bless Ronald Reagan and Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill By TIM BARTO The United States Marine Corps celebrates its 248th birthday on Nov. 10, and this is... Read more.
Washington elections offices closed and ballot counting stopped after fentanyl shows up in mailed-in envelopes
By RANDY BRACHT | THE CENTER SQUARE Elections offices in four Washington counties were closed as a precaution Wednesday after they received envelopes containing... Read more.
Since Covid revealed much to Alaska parents, families flocked to home schooling, correspondence
By DAVID BOYLE If there was one good thing that came out of the Covid “pandemic,” it was that parents became aware of what their children were being taught in... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau Assembly’s 2023 election report shows Vote by Mail deficiencies
By WIN GRUENING The City Clerk’s office transmitted its final report on the 2023 Juneau municipal election for review during the Assembly’s reorganizational... Read more.
Jewish man killed by Palestinian protester in LA
By KENNETH SCHRUPP | THE CENTER SQUARE An autopsy performed by the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s office determined the death of a pro-Israeli Jewish man protesting... Read more.
Poll: Americans want cuts in government, but the cuts they want would not make dent in national debt
By BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE American voters would rather see lawmakers cut government spending than increase taxes, but new poll results show the cuts voters... Read more.
Hayden Ludwig: Companies outraged over George Floyd death are silent on Hamas terrorism. Why?
In 2020, America’s biggest corporations poured millions of dollars into Black Lives Matter while lecturing the country on its “systemic racism.” Now those... Read more.
Report: Another UFO over the Arctic last February?
A report from NewsNation.com says that just three days before a Chinese spy balloon appeared over the U.S., and before four other unidentified objects were intercepted... Read more.
Downing: Bezos saw the graffiti on the wall in Seattle, and he’s heading for a better tax climate
By SUZANNE DOWNING Jeff Bezos, the titan of e-commerce and one of the wealthiest individuals on the planet, says he is moving from Seattle to Florida. He explains... Read more.
Tim Barto: Calling evil for what it is
By TIM BARTO Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Why is Alaska pushing Covid vaccine instead of focusing on vitamin D?
By LINDA BOYLE It doesn’t seem to matter that even the Centers for Disease Control has stated the new Covid vaccine isn’t effective except for 3% of the current... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Wind energy in the Railbelt — does it make sense?
By ALEX GIMARC (This is the third in a series on Chugach Electric Association’s new dalliance with renewable energy. The second column discussed solar energy... Read more.
Alaska liberty group sues Biden Administration to get access to secret communications on oil shutdowns
By KIM JARRETT | THE CENTER SQUARE The Americans for Prosperity Foundation filed a court action Tuesday against the Biden administration, claiming they have failed... Read more.
GOP governors lean on NCAA to keep biological men out of women’s sports
By PHILIP WEGMANN | REAL CLEAR WIRE Republican governors are quietly leaning on one of their former colleagues while pressing the NCAA to bar biological men and... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: In Alaska, with friends like Biden, who needs enemies?
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE Not all attention is good attention, and when it comes to Joe Biden and Alaska, the attention we get is anything but good. The... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Miss the Alaska Covid Alliance event? Videos are now posted
By LINDA BOYLE When we held the Alaska Covid Alliance event on Oct. 13-14, many who were unable to attend asked if videos would be available. The answer is “Yes”,... Read more.
Tim Barto: Art Chance’s fond farewell
By TIM BARTO Funeral services were held for Art Chance on Oct. 25 for a collection of family, friends, and admirers. It included some great stories and even a violin... Read more.
Win Gruening: After the election, where do we go from here, Juneau?
By WIN GRUENING The dust has finally settled on Juneau’s recent municipal election and there’s an expectation that the Assembly will start conducting its business... Read more.
Defense sends squadron of F-16s to conflict zone in Middle East after a dozen drone attacks on U.S. forces
The Pentagon announced Tuesday that a squadron of F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft has arrived in the U.S. Central Command “area of responsibility.” The... Read more.
Emmer is nominee for Speaker
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., is the latest to emerge as Republicans’ nominee to be the next House speaker, after... Read more.
Terrorism watch: New Hampshire governor sets up own patrols of border with Canada
By SARAH RODERICK-FITCH | THE CENTER SQUARE Citing inaction from the Biden Administration on the New Hampshire border with Canada, the governor of the Granite State... Read more.
Highest number of known, suspected terrorists apprehended at U.S. borders
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE There were 736 known or suspected terrorists (KSTs) apprehended at the northern and southern borders in fiscal 2023. The... Read more.
Beyond Burisma: Joe Biden was paid $200K from a brother who was sent $200K from Americore on same day
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. House Oversight Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., released bank records Friday that he says show a $200,000 direct payment... Read more.
Covid censorship on trial, as U.S. Supreme Court will hear case against federal agencies
By STEVE WILSON | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a free speech case involving the federal government and social media censorship during the Covid-19... Read more.
Federal judge strikes down California ban on so-called ‘assault weapons’
By KENNETH SCHRUPP | THE CENTER SQUARE Federal judge Roger Benitez overturned California’s ban on semi-automatic rifles, pistols or shotguns with certain cosmetic... Read more.
In Los Angeles, Jews are arming themselves, in response to Hamas orders to kill
By STEPHEN GUTOWSKI | THE RELOAD “There’s another order coming from Hamas to kill the Jews. I happen to be Jewish, and I don’t want to be killed.” That’s... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Lessons learned from Covid conference and beyond
By LINDA BOYLE The Alaska Covid Alliance hit it out of the park this past weekend with its “Covid and Beyond Conference: The Establishment and You. Many of... Read more.
Defense Dept. report: China now has more than 500 nuclear warheads
The Department of Defense briefed reporters on the 2023 China Military Power Report that DOD delivered to Congress this week. In it, the Pentagon says that China... Read more.
Steve Goreham: Green hydrogen needs vast taxpayer subsidies
By STEVE GOREHAM World leaders tout “green hydrogen” as an essential fuel in the renewable energy transition. Today, heavy industries use huge amounts of coal... Read more.
Jon Faulkner: Time to put PFD where it belongs — in our constitution
By JON FAULKNER It is time to put Alaskans first and fix the PFD formula in our Alaska Constitution. We hear many objections why this is not workable, but none... Read more.
King County wants more money from homeowners for a climate initiative
By SPENCER PAULEY | THE CENTER SQUARE King County voters may see a new climate levy lid lift on their ballots next year as county officials begin discussions... Read more.
Win Gruening: Election alternative for Juneau — more transparency, choice
By WIN GRUENING While the City Clerk’s office has done a creditable job conducting Juneau’s recent municipal election, many residents are expressing dissatisfaction... Read more.
Law passes Congress unwinding funding penalties for schools that have archery and shooting sports
By JOE MUELLER | THE CENTER SQUARE More than a million students in 49 states will be able to participate in school archery programs using “dangerous weapons”... Read more.
Tim Barto: Stemming the tide of radical ideology
By TIM BARTO The fight for common sense and decency has a victory in Alaska. Actions taken by the Board of Education in late August and by the Alaska School Activities... Read more.
Linda Boyle: What have we done to ourselves?
By LINDA BOYLE I am one of the many who took the first two jabs, believing what I was told by my government, looking at the body counts in New York City, and... Read more.
Border bad guys: Known terrorists crossing at record pace
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE More known or suspected terrorists have been apprehended at the northern and southwest borders in fiscal 2023 than any other... Read more.
RFK Jr. won’t be beholden to DNC, announces run as independent
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Monday he would run for president in 2024 as an independent. RFK Jr., who was previously running... Read more.
Tim Barto: Overheard somewhere in a Washington, D.C. basement
By TIM BARTO The U.S. Marine sentry didn’t even turn his head to look at the last of the very important people to arrive at the room. “Good evening, Sir,”... Read more.
Biden administration released billions to Iran weeks before Israeli attack
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The Iranian-backed terrorist group Hamas killed hundreds of Israelis and injured hundreds more in a barrage of surprise attacks... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Officials seem at a loss for how to regain the public’s trust
By LINDA BOYLE “They lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe... Read more.
Tim Barto: Trevor Bauer takes on his accusers, the media, and the Dodgers
By TIM BARTO Trevor Bauer is unique, difficult, and outspoken. The 32-year-old American pitcher is currently playing in the Japanese big leagues because he was suspended... Read more.
Bidenomics: Inflation rose 9.2% in 2022, after rising 12.9% in 2021
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Newly released inflation data breaks down how much prices have increased in each state. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis... Read more.
Report: King County spent $70 million to house 803 people in 2022
By SPENCER PAULEY | THE CENTER SQUARE An annual report reveals that King County, Washington’s program to house people through 15 sites used more than $70 million... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Solar energy in the Railbelt
By ALEX GIMARC Last month, I wrote about Chugach Electric Association’s new dalliance with renewable energy, pursuing a pair of projects, a 122 MW wind farm west... Read more.
Kevin McCarthy ousted as speaker
CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The House of Representatives voted 216-210 Tuesday to vacate the Speakership, leaving the position open and likely kicking off a... Read more.
Daniel Smith: The 2023 Anchorage election timeline and the illusion of municipal transparency
By DANIEL SMITH Several members of Anchorage Assembly and the Municipal Clerk practice what can best be called the “illusion of transparency and accountability.” Now... Read more.
Jim Crawford: The people and the Permanent Fund
By JIM CRAWFORD Who is forgotten in the management of Alaska’s Permanent Fund? The People of Alaska. Let’s look at the current crisis of the... Read more.
Linda Boyle: You might be over Covid, but it’s not over you
By LINDA BOYLE In preparing for our Alaska Covid Alliance Conference on Oct. 13-14, I’ve heard a few people say they are “so over Covid.” Oh, if it... Read more.
Beijing Biden? House committee kicks off first impeachment inquiry hearing
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. House Republicans launched the first impeachment inquiry Thursday into President Joe Biden, who faces an array of allegations... Read more.
Win Gruening: Does vote-by-mail work? It’s time for another look
By WIN GRUENING Voting last week in Juneau’s “rolling” municipal election seemed more like a chore that needed to get done instead of the patriotic civic-minded... Read more.
Tim Barto: Rest in peace, Brooks Robinson, human vacuum cleaner
By TIM BARTO Brooks Robinson was the best-fielding third baseman of all time. That statement will be argued, as all such statements about baseball are, but there... Read more.
David Boyle: Will Fairbanks become another Anchorage this October?
By DAVID BOYLE Fairbanks, if you believe Anchorage is on the right track with its runaway taxes, increasing homelessness, and radical leftist policies, then vote... Read more.
Bob Bell: Is ‘get Trump’ the only goal for the swamp that runs government?
By BOB BELL It is disheartening to watch the political spectacle of “Get Trump at any cost “going on in this country right now. His opponents, mostly Democrats,... Read more.
Steve Goreham: AI revolution is bad news for net zero globalists
By STEVE GOREHAM Artificial intelligence is taking the world by storm. New AI applications are announced daily. Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and many... Read more.
Democrat governor of New York tells illegals ‘go somewhere else’ rather than New York
By CHRISTIAN WADE | THE CENTER SQUARE New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is telling migrants to “go somewhere else” as she tries to dissuade more asylum-seekers... Read more.
Southern border surge sets new record in August, up 27% over July
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 232,972 total encounters along the southwest border in August. The data includes... Read more.
WaPo doesn’t believe its own poll showing Trump up by 10
By MICHAEL MACHERA | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION The Washington Post cast doubt on its own poll with ABC that showed former President Trump up by 10 points over... Read more.
Mayor of Dallas changes parties to Republican after losing tax-hike battle with city council
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Two days after failing to convince the Dallas City Council to cut spending and taxes in its new budget, the Democratic mayor... Read more.
David Ignell: Juneau city officials usher in new era of voter misinformation
By DAVID IGNELL I want to thank the League of Women Voters for co-sponsoring last week’s election forum with KTOO, KINY and the Juneau Empire. Their mission... Read more.
Little Red Classroom: House Republicans investigate school program with ties to communist China
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE House lawmakers held a hearing to investigate the Chinese Communist Party’s alleged efforts to influence American classrooms.... Read more.
Tim Barto: Parents turn out full force at Anchorage School Board meeting
By TIM BARTO Parents across the country are showing up at their local school board meetings to reclaim their parent advocacy rights, and last night Alaska joined... Read more.
Biden impeachment committee proceedings to start Sept. 28
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The Republican-led House Oversight Committee announced its first impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is scheduled for... Read more.
California legislature passes call for national Constitutional Convention to strip gun rights
By KENNETH SCHRUPP | THE CENTER SQUARE The California State Legislature passed Governor Gavin Newsom’s call for a national Constitutional Convention to limit gun... Read more.
Paulette Simpson: It’s Groundhog Day on a vote for a new Juneau City Hall
By PAULETTE SIMPSON On Sept. 13, 2022, the Juneau Empire published the following opinion piece about building a new city hall in Juneau. One year later, Juneau... Read more.
David Boyle: Leftists attempt to take over Fairbanks School Board
By DAVID BOYLE The Oct. 3 Fairbanks school board election is critical for keeping parents in charge of their children. If the leftists win, Fairbanks will be getting... Read more.
Texas Senate acquits state attorney general on all impeachment charges
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE The Texas Senate acquitted Attorney General Ken Paxton Saturday of all charges levied against him by the House in an impeachment... Read more.
New Mexico’s governor backs down on gun ban, limits it to playgrounds and parks
By DAVID MASTIO | THE CENTER SQUARE At a Friday press conference, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that she is amending her controversial gun ban... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Latest Covid ‘vaccine’ is here, but is Emergency Use Authorization still valid?
By LINDA BOYLE The Centers for Disease Control has recommended another jab for anyone over the age of 6 months. CDC no longer wants to call it a “booster,”... Read more.
Oregon Attorney General sues Fox Corp. over election news coverage
By TOM JOYCE | THE CENTER SQUARE Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum filed a stockholder derivative lawsuit against the board of directors of Fox Corporation... Read more.
Win Gruening: New City Hall for Juneau comes down to dollars, sense
By WIN GRUENING Soon, Juneau voters will be receiving ballots in their mailboxes for the 2023 regular municipal election scheduled for October 3, 2023. This election... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Biden betrays Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE When Congress in 2017 approved exploration and development opportunities in Alaska’s Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife... Read more.
Document: Biden plans mass release of illegals into country, as processing centers fill to capacity
By BETH BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody on Tuesday published an internal Border Patrol email her office obtained that provides... Read more.
‘I do not make this decision lightly,’ Speaker Kevin McCarthy says, opening formal Biden impeachment inquiry
THE CENTER SQUARE | MUST READ ALASKA House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has officially opened a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. McCarthy... Read more.
David Boyle: Anchorage School Board wants to run the MatSu School Board?
By DAVID BOYLE Even though the Anchorage School Board doesn’t do a good job running its own schools, it seems to want to tell the MatSu School Board how to structure... Read more.
Inflation drives it home: Georgia governor declares state of emergency, suspends gas tax for a month
THE CENTER SQUARE and MUST READ ALASKA Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has declared a state of emergency and has suspended the state’s excise tax on motor and locomotive... Read more.
Washington state needs 3 million more EV charging ports to meet goal
By T.J. MARTINELL | THE CENTER SQUARE The state of Washington has a goal of ending the sale of new gasoline vehicles by 2035. It also has created a Transportation... Read more.
Tim Barto: Riley Gaines’ objective is to save girls’ sports, but that’s not how it is being reported
By TIM BARTO Evidently, many of us got it wrong when we celebrated saving girls’ sports for girls last week. What the State Board of Education did, according... Read more.
National battle brews over parents’ right to know gender choice of their children at school
By TOM GANTERT | THE CENTER SQUARE A battle over parental rights is brewing across the country and at the forefront is the gender choice of children while enrolled... Read more.
Fifth Circuit Appeals Court overrules lower court on government’s bad advice against Ivermectin for Covid
Last week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s ruling that had said sovereign immunity protects the Food and Drug Administration from any... Read more.
Police state: New Mexico’s Democrat governor bans all guns in Albuquerque, except for police
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced on Friday an order that temporarily outlaws firearms, both openly and concealed, in Albuquerque and throughout Bernalillo County... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Chugach Electric board starts its move to renewables
By ALEX GIMARC The August issue of the Chugach Outlet notified the Chugach Electric Association membership that studies are under way for renewable energy projects. ... Read more.
Press leftward: Nonprofits pledge $500 million to save regime media
By JASON COHEN | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION A coalition of 22 groups, including prominent left-wing organizations, have pledged more than $500 million to fund... Read more.
Meth transit: Washington state buses, trains show 100% detectible meth, up to 46% surface traces of fentanyl
By SPENCER PAULEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Western Washington transit agencies promised to take steps to improve safety following a University of Washington report that... Read more.
Democrats take stand, vote against a ban on federal mask mandates
By J.D. DAVIDSON | THE CENTER SQUARE Democrats objected Thursday afternoon to unanimous passage of Sen. J.D. Vance’s proposed legislation that would ban federal... Read more.
Sen. J.D. Vance plans to force vote on congressional ban on mask mandates
By J.D. DAVIDSON | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance says he plans to ask for unanimous passage today of his bill banning federal mask mandates until the end... Read more.
‘Hotels could become akin to homeless shelters’ if Los Angeles measure passes
By KENNETH SCHRUPP | THE CENTER SQUARE In March 2024, California primary voters will decide whether or not they wish to require hotels to shelter unhoused individuals... Read more.
Federal agency may withhold records from Hunter Biden investigators
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., pushed forward the investigation into President Joe Biden and his son,... Read more.
New education bills would block CRT, back parents
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE A new trio of House education bills would push back on Critical Race Theory and federal rules in local public schools, the latest... Read more.
Report: States with weak marijuana laws see more impaired driving
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE A new report found that states with less restrictive marijuana policies have higher incidents of residents driving while high.... Read more.
The Left quickly attacks Board of Education decision to save girls sports
By DAVID BOYLE The Alaska State Board of Education voted unanimously to save girls’ sports for biological girls. The student advisor, Felix Myers, voted against... Read more.
State Board of Education votes to save girls’ sports for girls
By TIM BARTO Alaska took a big step towards becoming the 23rd state to protect girls’ sports for girls when the State Board of Education voted overwhelmingly... Read more.
Win Gruening: Misconceptions about cruise industry need clarification
By WIN GRUENING Recently, Juneau resident Jennifer Pemberton penned an Anchorage Daily News op-ed in which she described a cruise that she took in August when... Read more.
Tim Barto: Alaska Baseball Commissioner Chip Dill has the feel for saving our summer league
By TIM BARTO The Alaska Baseball League is in a sort of baseball purgatory. The summer college league used to garner the attention of big league scouts, local baseball... Read more.
Linda Boyle: It’s back! Covid insanity is a chronic condition
By LINDA BOYLE I feel like we are living in a version of the “Ground Hog Day” movie. I frequently hear in my head the Broadway show tune, “Stop the world,... Read more.
State Board of Education to meet Thursday on transgender athletics
By DAVID BOYLE The Alaska Board of Education will hold a meeting on Thursday, Aug. 31 to discuss a proposed regulation that deals with transgenders competing in... Read more.
David Boyle: Who really controls local schools?
By DAVID BOYLE Those in the education industry, many local governments, and school boards tell us our schools are under “local control.” This implies that... Read more.
IRS can’t account for millions of taxpayer records, lawmakers say
THE CENTER SQUARE The Internal Revenue Service lost millions of taxpayer records and federal employees don’t know where they have gone. Lawmakers want answers... Read more.
Murray Walsh: With a new city hall, what’s love got to do with it?
By MURRAY WALSH I voted for the new Juneau city hall bond issue last year. I know a lot about the city’s office situation. I worked there for 12 years... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Death by government in Maui are lessons for Alaska
By ALEX GIMARC Now that we are a couple of weeks past the devastating wildfire that roared through Lahaina on Aug. 8, we have a clearer picture of what happened,... Read more.
Linda Boyle: Parents, take time to learn whether kids need Covid shots
By LINDA BOYLE The big push is on: Parents are being told to get their children vaccinated for Covid. While not opposed to vaccinations, I believe every... Read more.
Poll: DeSantis, Trump tied in theoretical matchup with Biden
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron Desantis are virtually tied with President Joe Biden in theoretical head-to-head... Read more.
A blow to education: Family Partnership principal resigns after school district breaks faith
By DAVID BOYLE After being misled by Anchorage School Superintendent Jarrett Bryantt about the future of the most successful school in the district, Dr. Jessica... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: New Alaska group says ending oil and gas is the goal
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE Sun Tzu once said, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you... Read more.
Barto: Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks continue changing players’ lives
By TIM BARTO Fourteen wins and 25 losses does not make the type of record the Chinooks wanted to post in the Alaska Baseball League this past summer, nor is it the... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Greens should follow the science on Pebble
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE Certain dates are forever etched in Alaska history: March 30, 1867, when we were purchased from Russia. Jan. 3, 1959, when we... Read more.
Comer says Biden family, associates took $20 million from foreign entities
CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., released financial documents he says backs up allegations that the Biden family... Read more.
Rep. Mark Green: Fed’s move centralize financial transactions are a threat to individual liberty
By REP. MARK GREEN The Federal Reserve ’s launch of FedNow, a system to centralize financial transactions, is a significant threat to individual... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Sen. Lisa Murkowski beclowns herself on Trump
By ALEX GIMARC Alaska’s senior U.S. senator took to Twitter (X) midweek in full-throated support of the four newest indictments of former President Donald Trump. Blowback... Read more.
Trump pleads not guilty to all charges relating to 2020 election results
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday afternoon to all charges related to his role in protesting the 2020... Read more.
Win Gruening: Telephone Hill is opportunity to redevelop right
By WIN GRUENING In August 2022, the City and Borough of Juneau Assembly passed Resolution 2999 accepting the donation of the Telephone Hill property from... Read more.
Steve Goreham: The great wind and solar land grab
By STEVE GOREHAM | THE WESTERN JOURNAL Which is more environmentally friendly, an energy source that uses one unit of land to produce one unit of electricity, or... Read more.
House votes against measure to reinstate pilots fired for refusing Covid vaccine
By BETH BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Eighty-three House Republicans voted against a measure that would have required commercial airlines receiving federal money... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Magical thinking of Sen. Loki Tobin regarding electric vehicles
By ALEX GIMARC I was the unfortunate recipient of a copy of comments sent by Sen. Loki Tobin to Curtis Thayer of the Alaska Energy Authority on July 17. It was... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Deb Haaland is being rebranded as centrist, but facts speak louder than words
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE It must be re-election time if the Biden administration is attempting a centrist re-brand. Take the recent puff piece on Interior... Read more.
Grassley closing in on corruption: Joe and Hunter Biden ‘coerced’ millions in bribes from Ukraine power company
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE President Joe Biden and his son Hunter “coerced” a several-million-dollar bribe from Burisma Holdings to protect... Read more.
Hayden Ludwig: Dark money bought ranked-choice voting in Alaska. Will dark money keep it in 2024?
By HAYDEN LUDWIG | RESTORATION of AMERICA Alaska may be a red state, but it won’t be for long if leftists get their way. In recent years the state has become one... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau Assembly’s Transparency Deficit Disorder
By WIN GRUENING Controversies surrounding Juneau Assembly actions regarding property tax assessments and millage rates, efforts to build expensive public buildings... Read more.
Federal government now borrows $5.1 billion per day
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Budget groups continue to release dire forecasts for the explosive growth of the U.S. national debt. The U.S. Treasury reported a... Read more.
Video: Senators say Biden has created largest child-trafficking ring in history
By BETHANY BLANKLEY U.S. Senate Republicans launched a video claiming that President Joe Biden has “created the largest child trafficking ring in U.S. history.”... Read more.
Secret Services closes investigation with no answers on cocaine found in West Wing
By BRETT ROWLAND Congressional oRepublicans raised questions about the security of the White House on Thursday after a U.S. Secret Service probe failed to find out... Read more.
David Boyle: Sen. Tobin likens protection of girls to burning a cross on someone’s lawn
By DAVID BOYLE Now’s the time to protect girls’ sports for biological girls. The State Board of Education has issued a proposed regulation to prohibit transgender... Read more.
Spokane spent millions on vagrant problem, but it just grew
By TIMOTHY SCHUMANN | THE CENTER SQUARE Spokane County commissioners asked the hard questions and came up with few answers about the efficacy of millions of dollars... Read more.
House Oversight Committee sets hearing on Biden’s gas stove regs
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing next week to dig into the Department of Energy’s proposed gas stove regulations,... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau Assembly attempts ‘end run’ around voters
By WIN GRUENING “Information is one thing, but weighing in on an election is another.” ~ Juneau Assemblymember Michelle Bonnet Hale, Aug. 1, 2022 During... Read more.
As Air Force obsesses over diversity, equity, it’s hurting recruitment
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. Air Force has become increasingly focused on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts, and critics say it is hurting... Read more.
Refresher course: Declaration of Independence
In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one... Read more.
Daniel Turner: Radical eco-left funds groups like Alaska Center to attack American energy independence
By DANIEL TURNER | POWER THE FUTURE Although America’s energy producers are already under daily attack from the Biden administration, the eco-left is not content... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: The Long Trail is like raw onion on a hamburger — it keeps coming back up
By ALEX GIMARC The Long Trail is a decades long dream of hikers, cyclists, and other outdoor recreation enthusiasts. The project envisions a 500-mile-long,... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: An inventory of the damage Biden has done to Alaska
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE Even before Joe Biden took up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in January 2021, there was clear writing on the wall for... Read more.
Art Chance: The six-pack license and a submersible that was doomed
By ART CHANCE Anyone who has read or watched Tom Clancy’s “The Hunt For Red October” knows that the U.S. Navy knew of the catastrophic failure of the “Titan’s”... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau’s 4th of July celebrates what’s good about America
By WIN GRUENING Growing up in Juneau, and later when raising our own children, our family attended countless Fourth of July parades, patriotic celebrations, and... Read more.
Ben Carpenter: Legislature still needs to settle on long-term fiscal solution
By REP. BEN CARPENTER Yesterday, the governor announced the vetoes he made to the FY24 budget. The governor’s vetoes amount to a substantial $202 million in reductions,... Read more.
David Boyle: Mississippi shows Alaska that all kids can read
By DAVID BOYLE For years, Mississippi was near the bottom when it came to teaching its children how to read. The other southern states would say, “Thank God for... Read more.
Analysis: Legislature could not muster the numbers to defend children
By TIM BARTO The first session of the 33rd Alaska Legislature passed the third lowest number of bills in its history, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.... Read more.
David Ignell: A mentor for Democrats who care about justice
By DAVID IGNELL My last column referenced two bills seeking to reform Alaska’s judiciary, currently pending in the Senate State Affairs and House Judiciary Committees. ... Read more.
Fairbanks parents win one for the kids
By DAVID BOYLE The Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board voted down a controversial “supplement” to its new health curriculum while approving a new health... Read more.
In Soldotna, public turns out to support girls’ sports at State Board of Education meeting
By TIM BARTO Saving girls’ sports dominated public discussion at Thursday’s meeting of the Alaska State Board of Education and Early Development. The meeting... Read more.
Mat-Su School Board votes in favor of parents’ rights in pronoun usage, sex education, counseling sideboards
By DAVID BOYLE Parents still have rights in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. The Mat-Su School Board voted strongly in favor of supporting parents’ rights in educating... Read more.
Win Gruening: Change in capital city leadership brings opportunity
By WIN GRUENING With current and projected turnover in city leadership, Juneau citizens might consider new ways to meet the challenges facing their community. Understanding... Read more.
The eco-extremists keep guessing, and keep getting it wrong
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE It’s almost become comical. A Washington Post story this week bemoaned the end of permanent ice in the Arctic’s... Read more.
Bob Bird reviews ‘What is a woman?’
By BOB BIRD After a full year of suppression and semi-obscurity, writer and speaker Matt Walsh’s iconic documentary has gone viral — on steroids. Latest... Read more.
David Ignell: To reform Alaska OCS, we must first reform the judiciary
By DAVID IGNELL My previous articles in Must Read Alaska about the Office of Children’s Services have generated several positive meetings with legislators... Read more.
Cats on treadmills? America has sent over $1.3 billion to Russia, China for bizarre projects
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. sent over $1.3 billion to China and Russia since 2017, according to a new analysis that details a string of problematic... Read more.
Rubio leads fight against social scoring programs in education
BY CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The legislative fight against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs in education is picking up steam nationwide. U.S. Sen.... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Here’s another horrible tax conceived in the swamp
By RICK WHITBECK Despite yearslong pushback from small businesses, manufacturers, and consumers, Congress is once again considering “carbon border adjustment... Read more.
Art Chance: Sometimes I hate to be right
By ART CHANCE In 2018 the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, hereinafter... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: High-density living comes to Anchorage?
By ALEX GIMARC One of my correspondents sent out a blast e-mail last week, warning about AO 2023-66, a change in Anchorage municipal code relating to zoning of... Read more.
Arlington National Cemetery running out of room
By SARAH RODERICK-FITCH | THE CENTER SQUARE Virginia’s Arlington National Cemetery, one of America’s most notable symbolic memorials to freedom, will soon run... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Alaska’s utilities are increasingly run by eco-extremists
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE Many Alaskans know the tale of the Trojan Horse as a metaphor for deception masked as a gift with dangerous or deadly consequences.... Read more.
Coast Guard retired admiral speaks out against vaccine mandates
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Even after the Coast Guard rescinded its Covid-19 vaccine mandate in January, service members remain in limbo. The nonprofit... Read more.
Tim Barto: The passion of the transgender movement
By TIM BARTO Transgenderism is now at the forefront of the nation’s consciousness, or at least it’s in the forefront of the nation’s news cycle. Perhaps more... Read more.
Tim Barto: Bible study lesson from a gay rights pioneer
By TIM BARTO Thirty-six years ago I attended a young adult Bible study group at my former church in San Jose, Calif. Arriving 15 minutes late was Doug (a pseudonym... Read more.
Bob Bird: Tribute to an unselfish man, Kenai’s Dan Gensel
By BOB BIRD This column is not a “local” column for only the Kenai Peninsula, because Dan Gensel was known statewide, especially for anyone who loved their high... Read more.
Alaska’s AG Taylor joins letter asking court to dismiss Mexico’s lawsuit against American firearms makers
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE A Mexican government lawsuit blaming American firearm manufacturers for cartel violence is bogus, 20 Republican attorneys... Read more.
Illegal crossings over southern border in first four months of 2023 is more than population of Alaska
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE The number of people illegally entering the U.S. solely through the southern border in the first four months of this year... Read more.
FBI whistleblower: Agency manipulated Jan. 6 data to shape narrative
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE A former FBI agent testified before Congress Thursday saying that the FBI manipulated data to make domestic terrorism linked... Read more.
Did Anchorage’s superintendent break promise to Family Partnership Charter School community?
By DAVID BOYLE At the April 3 Anchorage School Board meeting, District Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt told the public that the Family Partnership Charter School... Read more.
Texas border counties declare disasters as thousands of migrants seek entry
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Several South Texas counties issued disaster declarations as the public health authority Title 42 came to close. The... Read more.
Win Gruening: Connecting the dots on Alaska’s higher cost of living
By WIN GRUENING It’s no secret that Alaska continues to be among the most expensive states in the country in which to live. Our state legislature,... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: On gerrymandering, the North Carolina decision changes everything
By ALEX GIMARC The Alaska Supreme Court has been mucking around in the redistricting wars for over 40 years. This year was no exception, as the justices issued... Read more.
Linda Boyle: What will you do when the next ‘pandemic’ comes?
By LINDA BOYLE, MSN, DM, ALASKA COVID ALLIANCE During the three-year “pandemic,” our First Amendment rights were terribly violated. The government used fear... Read more.
Tim Barto: Who is Alaska Baseball League’s new commissioner?
By TIM BARTO The Alaska Baseball League is looking to save itself. For the past several seasons, save one, the league has been filling the responsibilities of league... Read more.
Gallup poll: Americans say crime is out of control
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE A rise in crime, looting, and unhindered theft around the U.S. has helped fuel Americans’ rising concerns about crime.... Read more.
Tim Barto: Time to draw the line for fairness for girls
By TIM BARTO There comes a time with almost every major social movement when a line must be drawn; a line that says, “Enough is enough. If we don’t put an end... Read more.
New federal rule charges higher fees to home buyers with better credit
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE A new federal rule that would charge higher fees to home buyers with good credit to help subsidize those with poor credit goes... Read more.
Border security: Biden administration to expand entry to U.S. ahead of Title 42 expiring
By BETH BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE The Department of Homeland Security and Department of State announced unprecedented policies to expand entry to the United States... Read more.
Jim Minnery: Politics is weird, but Alaska gender politics is a whole new level of weird
By JIM MINNERY | ALASKA FAMILY COUNCIL Republicans are good at getting elected to majorities in the State House and Senate. As far as organizing around common goals... Read more.
Win Gruening: Admiral Richard J. Knapp, RIP
By WIN GRUENING On Jan. 2, 2023, Admiral Richard J. Knapp, 93, crossed the bar in Haines, Alaska. Our nation and our state lost a loyal servant and a true patriot. ... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Senate Bill 114 is reactionary, anti-energy, and anti-Alaska economy
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE Same song, different day. Alaska’s legislators are about to overhaul the state’s oil tax laws based on the worst government... Read more.
Analysis: House, Senate wrestle with education funding
By DAVID BOYLE One of the most controversial issues facing the Alaska Legislature is whether K-12 education funding should be increased, and by how much. The... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Pebble bounced back to Alaska Division for further review
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE Late Tuesday, without much fanfare, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Pacific Division ruled that its Alaska Division erred... Read more.
HB105 has parents awakened to support their rights in education
By DAVID BOYLE There has been unparalleled testimony on HB105, the Alaskan Parents Rights in Education Act, to the House Education Committee. Supporters... Read more.
Art Chance: Alaska at the brink of helter-skelter
By ART CHANCE The next step in the helter-skelter scenario begins. The Left has demonstrated that it can win pretty much any consequential election in Alaska, especially... Read more.
Linda Boyle: The Covid cult continues
By LINDA BOYLE, DM, MSN The World Health Organization recently announced that healthy kids and teenagers probably don’t need to get a Covid-19 vaccination. Yet... Read more.
David Ignell: AK Mom goes to court to try to get her children back, but it’s David against a systemic Goliath
By DAVID IGNELL For readers following the tragic “AK Mom” story, I’m sad to report that George’s 16th birthday and third consecutive Easter... Read more.
‘Legalized kidnapping’ bill heads to Inslee’s desk for signature
By T.J. MARTINELL | THE CENTER SQUARE A Washington bill that would allow youth shelters, host homes, and state agencies to not report runaway youths... Read more.
David Boyle: How Alaska’s Base Student Allocation formula is calculated
By DAVID BOYLE The battle lines have been drawn in the State Legislature over education funding. On one side is the special interest group, the education industry. On... Read more.
Craig Campbell: Legislature must pass HB 61, ‘An act relating to restrictions on firearms and other weapons’
By CRAIG CAMPBELL The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states that we Americans have “the right to keep and bear arms.” It is a constitutional... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau spending up, taxes up, population flat
By WIN GRUENING Last week, during a scheduled Juneau City and Borough Assembly Finance Committee meeting, City and Borough of Juneau staff introduced the FY2024... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Vote, because if Chugach Electric board goes woke, we go broke
By RICK WHITBECK Don’t look now, but everyone’s favorite group of left-wing (nut) warriors is trying to shove radical candidates onto the Chugach Electric Board... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: What just happened in the municipal election?
By ALEX GIMARC As of this writing, just about all the ballots have arrived at the Municipal Clerk’s Office and a few are still being counted. The election will... Read more.
Study: Nearly half of Gen Z is atheistic or agnostic, as mental health declines
By KATE ANDERSON | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION Nearly half of Generation Z does not identify as religious, according to a new study, and religious leaders that... Read more.
Federal agency: No such thing as female, male connectors
By CASEY HARPER The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a federal and science technology office, has made race and gender speech codes for its scientists... Read more.
David Ignell: OCS pre-empts a child’s family time for sex education, without parental consent
By DAVID IGNELL My last two articles about AK Mom’s family have focused primarily on George, her second oldest son with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and autism, who... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau Assembly — will they ever draw the line?
By WIN GRUENING Watching local Assembly meetings can be depressing when, without a demonstrated need, significant action is taken that completely bypasses public... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Get out and vote out the Assembly clown car
By ALEX GIMARC As reported by Must Read Alaska, the Anchorage Municipal election is approaching its last full weekend of voting, and the turnout so far has been... Read more.
And now, the rest of the Family Partnership Charter School story
By DAVID BOYLE As the legendary radio newsman Paul Harvey used to say, “And now the rest of the story.” More information has been gathered regarding the change... Read more.
Sen. Rubio blasts Pentagon for moving away from national security interests and fulfilling wishes of ‘left-wing crazies to hollow out our military’
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio blasted the Pentagon’s increasingly leftward bent as it struggles to keep up with national security interests.... Read more.
Pentagon struggles to fill military requests for Ukraine, as funding goes to diversity critical race theory
By CASEY HARPER The Pentagon is increasingly struggling to fill the weapons and equipment requests for the war in Ukraine. At the same time, taxpayer funds are going... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: How a governor proves himself a leader
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO I’ve heard it said that Alaska’s Constitution provides for the strongest governor of any state in the nation. While I don’t know if this... Read more.
Art Chance: Helter Skelter coming to a city near you
By ART CHANCE Helter: Undo haste and confusion. Skelter: To move about hurriedly. Neither word means much itself, but the phrase “helter skelter” means... Read more.
Jim Crawford: Dedicated funds, Alaska style
By JIM CRAWFORD The Alaska constitution states Ҥ 7. Dedicated Funds. The proceeds of any state tax or license shall not be dedicated to any special purpose,... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Putting Alaskans First wants to keep the clown car running the Assembly
By ALEX GIMARC What does it say about the state of Big Labor in Anchorage when one of the most well-funded political committees, Putting Alaskans First, is running... Read more.
Parents overwhelm Anchorage School Board to oppose takeover of Family Partnership Charter School
By DAVID BOYLE Editor’s note: This story has been corrected. Although the Anchorage School Board is not set to vote until April 3 on the school superintendent’s... Read more.
Anchorage School District wants to hike property taxes by 2.65% with Proposition 1
By DAVID BOYLE Last year the Anchorage School District asked voters to approve a $111 million bond which included rebuilding Inlet View school. Voters said no... Read more.
Can lawmakers in D.C. move domestic drilling ahead? HR 1 is the bill that rolls back the red tape and taxes
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Oil and gas companies from around the nation are rallying to support a Republican effort to lower elevated energy costs and free... Read more.
Alaska Humanities Forum promoting drag queens for kids because it will make the ‘world a better, safer place’
By DAN FAGAN What children need today is more exposure to drag queens is the subject of an upcoming event put on by the taxpayer-funded Alaska Humanities Forum. ... Read more.
Anchorage superintendent recommending ending Family Partnership Charter School’s charter
By DAVID BOYLE Anchorage School Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt is recommending the termination of the Family Partnership Charter School’s charter. ... Read more.
Ballot Proposition 14 will raise property taxes and subsequently rents on Anchorage residents
By DAN FAGAN Anchorage homeowners pay a heavy price for living in Alaska’s largest city. Proposition 14, currently on the April 4 ballot, will hurt property owner’s... Read more.
Biden requests billions to advance ‘Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex community’ globally
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE President Joe Biden’s 2024 budget proposal requests billions of dollars to advance his gender and sexuality agenda around the... Read more.
Governor Dunleavy joins coalition of anti-ESG governors
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is leading a coalition of governors from 18 states who’ve pledged to fight the Biden administration’s... Read more.
UAA course: ‘Pronouns Matter’ because ‘gender is a social construct’
By DAN FAGAN The University of Alaska, Anchorage is offering a course on the proper use of pronouns. The class doesn’t focus on how to properly use pronouns grammatically.... Read more.
Win Gruening: When is a road considered a trail?
By WIN GRUENING The latest debate over a commercial use permit in Juneau to use city land for a bike tour seems overblown. The permit request is for a locally... Read more.
Tim Barto: Nice guys don’t have to finish last
By TIM BARTO Leo Durocher was a fiercely competitive baseball lifer whose autobiography was titled, Nice Guys Finish Last. Despite being dubbed... Read more.
Anchorage Assembly majority wants to spend $13 million on midtown building and make it a homeless shelter
By DAN FAGAN The Anchorage Assembly is swelling its lavish spending spree to make life easier for street people in Anchorage. The Assembly wants to spend $13... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Parental rights come to Alaska
By ALEX GIMARC Gov. Mike Dunleavy proposed two pieces of legislation aimed at improving Alaska schools. The first was aimed at recruiting and retaining teachers... Read more.
Under pressure, Treasury agrees to hand over Hunter Biden files
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The House Oversight Committee said Tuesday that the U.S. Treasury Department is providing the investigatory committee with access... Read more.
‘Misgendering a trans person is an act of violence,’ and other lessons gleaned from UAF’s gender diversity campaign
By DAN FAGAN According to a “Gender Inclusion 101” training video produced recently for students and facility at the University of Alaska Fairbanks,... Read more.
Lawmakers push back on Biden’s attack on religious freedom
By DAN FAGAN Congressional Republicans are drawing a line in the sand on what appears to be another audacious attack on the religious freedom of Americans by President... Read more.
Are you ready for ‘Spring ahead’? Daylight Saving Time heralds longer days to come
By DAN FAGAN Ask Alaskans which is worse during the long winter: The cold or the dark? Most would say it’s the seemingly never-ending darkness. Daylight Saving... Read more.
Anchorage School Board won’t cut even $8,600 from a $960 million budget
By DAVID BOYLE In a recent school board meeting, Anchorage School Board member Dave Donley offered six amendments to the preliminary financial plan (budget) for... Read more.
Three more Republican-led states leave ERIC, the leftist election organization with ties to Pew Charitable, Soros
By DAN FAGAN Three Republican-led states on Monday announced they’re cutting ties with an election information organization that has history with liberal groups... Read more.
A call for courage: Dr. Li-Meng Yan in Anchorage, and the Covid truths the mainstream media would not report
By LINDA BOYLE, DM, MSN In October 2021, the Alaska Covid Alliance held an Early Covid Treatment Medical Summit in Anchorage, during which early treatment options... Read more.
Dolitsky: Will the past predict the future relations between the United States and Russia?
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Part VI: The Lend-Lease Agreement of World War II was a time before the Cold War when the U.S. and U.S.S.R. cooperated to defeat Nazi aggression.... Read more.
David Ignell: George is still at peril due to Office of Children’s Services
By DAVID IGNELL Dear Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Tammie Wilson: What have you been doing these past two weeks that you think is more important than saving the life of... Read more.
Tim Barto: Encouraging someone to lie to get into the military is unethical, at the very least
By TIM BARTO Recent on-record remarks by a member of the Alaska House of Representatives regarding marijuana use contained statements that were factually, legally,... Read more.
Win Gruening: Legislature dives into perilous waters with state workforce, retirement issues
By WIN GRUENING The Alaska Legislature’s Senate Finance Committee met on February 23 to begin examining issues around state retirement systems and workforce recruiting... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Rep. ‘GoFundMe Gray’ has a wild idea
By RICK WHITBECK | POWER THE FUTURE We’ve seen many proposals from the eco-left over the years that had us scratching our heads and pondering how anyone could... Read more.
Supreme Court seems skeptical of Biden’s student loan forgiveness powers
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel hundreds of... Read more.
Interest payments on national debt will soon exceed defense spending, Congressional Budget Office says
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The cost of interest payments on the national debt will continue to grow as a financial burden for the U.S. over the next decade,... Read more.
Tim Barto: The details that separate men from women
By TIM BARTO Men can menstruate, give birth, and win NCAA women’s swimming championships, but the true test that differentiates between the sexes is in the details... Read more.
Bob Bird: Of treaties and the U.S. Constitution
By BOB BIRD “This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in... Read more.
Treg Taylor and 32 AGs urge Supreme Court to protect whistleblowers in pharmacy fraud lawsuits
By CHRISTIAN WADE | THE CENTER SQUARE Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is leading 33 states attorneys general, including Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor,... Read more.
Study shows vaccine mandates did not stop spread of Covid in nine cities that ordered the jab for workers
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Researchers analyzed nine U.S. cities that implemented vaccine mandates during the pandemic and found that those mandates had... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: A return to defined benefits
By ALEX GIMARC One of the remarkably ugly proposals happily making its way through the Alaska Legislature is a return to defined benefit pensions for state employees. The... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Eaglexit, two years later and the paperwork is about to be submitted
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO A bunch of my friends and I got together in the beginning of 2019 and formed Eaglexit. Eaglexit is an organization founded to educate the citizens... Read more.
Dolitsky: Thanks, no thanks, as WWII Lend-Lease suffers from miscommunications
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY PART V: Alaskans worked with Soviets, but later Soviet historians painted the aid program as an effort to expand American imperialism and use... Read more.
Friday marks one year since Russia invasion of Ukraine, and U.S. taxpayers have been charged $113 billion
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Friday marks the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, resulting in well over $100 billion in American taxpayer... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Carbon capture 101 (Alaska style)
By ALEX GIMARC Gov. Mike Dunleavy made a proposal during his State of the State address to get Alaska into the carbon capture and sequestration business. There... Read more.
Anchorage School District has secret committee that screens porn-for-students books
By DAVID BOYLE Anchorage School District has a committee that secretly meets to decide if certain pornographic books, which may be thinly disguised as “educational,”... Read more.
David Ignell: A human tragedy caused by OCS
By DAVID IGNELL Back in December, I wrote an article outlining how Alaska’s unelected judges and attorney generals have repeatedly highjacked grand jury investigations... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Johnson Amendment and the restrictions on political speech
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO In 1954, an amendment to the newly revised Internal Revenue Tax code was added: The Johnson Amendment. This amendment restricted the political... Read more.
Win Gruening: Escalating landfill rates are a wake-up call for Juneau
By WIN GRUENING Capitol Disposal Landfill (CDL), a subsidiary of Waste Management (WM), is a private company that owns and operates Juneau’s only landfill. Their recent... Read more.
Art Chance: History of the value of a college degree
By ART CHANCE We and the English have developed an elaborate mythology and vocabulary about our schools. My generation refers to our schools as “alma mater,”... Read more.
Chinese flooding the southern border under Biden administration
By BETH BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE The number of Chinese nationals illegally entering the U.S. has significantly increased under the Biden administration, beginning... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: In the uneasy alliance of U.S.-Soviet Lend-Lease agreement, America sent food to Russia
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Part IV: Trust but verify In four years of World War II, the United States supplied 14,798 combat aircraft to the Soviet Union. More than half... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: A need for a constitutional amendment to reform Congress’ runaway spending
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN When the framers drafted the Constitution in 1787, they knew their work would be imperfect, and would require amendment. So Congress was empowered... Read more.
Anchorage School Board shuts down parent reading a passage from a sexting-porn manual in schools’ libraries
By DAVID BOYLE On Tuesday, a parent of an Anchorage School District student read aloud from one of the how-to sex books that are accessible to children in Anchorage... Read more.
Anchorage school district lost 5,455 students, but the budget balloons by $54 million
By DAVID BOYLE In the just-released preliminary budget for the next school year, the Anchorage School District wants to increase its current budget by a whopping... Read more.
Dolitsky: Memories of the Soviet pilots stationed in Alaska
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Part III: The first Soviet envoys arrive in Nome in 1942; eventually up to 600 were stationed in Alaska On Aug. 26, 1942, the first Soviet... Read more.
Banning book reading at school board meetings?
By DAVID BOYLE It is paradoxical that Anchorage students can read books from the school libraries, yet their parents are stopped from reading them out loud in a... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Roosevelt’s choice with Soviets — to help or not to help?
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Part II: Roosevelt’s approach to aiding the Soviets was cautious but intuitively optimistic To help the Western Allies fight the Nazi war... Read more.
Alaska Attorney General, 19 others warn Walgreens, CVS, about reported plan to mail abortion pills
By THE CENTER SQUARE Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and 19 other attorneys general are warning Walgreens and CVS pharmacies that any plans to... Read more.
Win Gruening: Education funding is complicated, political
By WIN GRUENING At a recent Alaska State Senate Education Committee hearing at the Capitol, there seemed to be general agreement that state school funding was lagging... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: U.S. Lend-Lease aid to Soviet Union during World War II
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY “The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation…it must be a peace which rests on the cooperative... Read more.
Alaska education industry wants your PFD, but will our graduates even be able to read their diplomas?
By DAVID BOYLE We knew this was coming—the coordinated assault by various special interest groups to increase education funding, and using your PFD to pay for... Read more.
Senate bill would repeal Biden $600 IRS reporting threshold
By KIM JARRETT | THE CENTER SQUARE Eight Republican senators have signed onto a bill that would repeal the tax threshold for reporting third-party payments. Under... Read more.
Cake baker who refused to bake ‘gender transition cake’ ruled against in Colorado appeals court again
By KATE ANDERSON | THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION A Colorado Court of Appeals judge ruled against Christian baker Jack Phillips Thursday after he appealed an earlier... Read more.
Art Chance: School principal’s experience with Troopers shows how fragile our civil rights really are
Visualize yourself sitting comfortably in your home just before noon on a Wednesday. You have a family member as a guest. Since you’re a Christian conservative,... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Grooming of children continues in our schools, and officials seem unconcerned
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO My column, “The crime and tragedy of passive grooming and indoctrination,” highlights the growing practice of sexual grooming and the loss... Read more.
Power the future: Biden would veto House bill that will protect oil reserves
By POWER THE FUTURE The Biden/Harris Administration’s careless tapping into the country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve has made our emergency reserves dangerously... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: The lying liars who lied on Ballot Measure 2
By ALEX GIMARC Our friends from Alaskans for Better Elections, sensing a disturbance in the Force, have started an ad campaign on local radio in defense of Ballot... Read more.
Linda Boyle: The battle for back pay continues for warriors who refused the Covid shots
Shortly after I wrote a column for Must Read Alaska that discussed the relationship between Covid, vaccinations, and myocarditis, I had a disturbing phone call from... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau Assembly review of dock proposal raises questions of conflict
By WIN GRUENING At a Dec. 19 Committee of the Whole work session, Juneau City Manager Rorie Watt requested the Assembly approve an appropriation for $200,000 (subsequently... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: Liberals and conservatives and the great beer-white wine divide
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN The division of the human family into its two distinct branches, liberals and conservatives, occurred some 20,000 years ago. Until then all... Read more.
Leigh Sloan: As the schools go, so goes the nation
By LEIGH SLOAN As a nation educates its children, so goes the nation. Do you want to see what our nation will look like in 10, 20, 50 or 100 years? Look no further... Read more.
Linda Boyle: CDC is not shooting straight on vaccine advice
By LINDA BOYLE The Centers for Disease Control cannot get its stories straight. First, it said masks did not work. Then it told us to mask up and even double... Read more.
Whose children are they? The government and its schools have the idea they are not yours
By DAVID BOYLE Alaska is not immune to the underlying agenda being pushed nationwide to separate parents from their children. To protest will label you as anti-LBGTQ.... Read more.
Daniel Smith: Politicians, like pilots, should check their egos at the door
By DANIEL SMITH In the race for Anchorage Assembly Seat 6 scheduled to end this April 4, 2023, there appear to be two Republican candidates now: Rachel Ries and... Read more.
Art Chance: I loved every minute of the House struggle over who would get the gavel
By ART CHANCE My days of driving my enemies before me are behind me, but I do still enjoy hearing the lamentations of their bubble-headed bleach blondes and pencil-necked... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: 40 years of judicial activism on the Alaska Supreme Court, but Dunleavy can just say ‘no’
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN Forty years ago I was in my political prime. I was a 37-year-old lawyer with a beautiful wife and three fine looking little boys. For services... Read more.
Gov. Abbott serves Biden letter during El Paso trip: ‘even the city you visit has been sanitized of migrant camps’
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday urged President Joe Biden to implement five policies to help secure the U.S. southern border,... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau’s Ironman doesn’t cross finish line
By WIN GRUENING “Anything is Possible” is a registered trademark of the Ironman Triathlon competition, capturing the challenge of one of the most difficult single-day... Read more.
Glen Biegel: Dan Fagan, larger-than-life legacy
By GLEN BIEGEL Dan Fagan. What can I say? What would you like to know about my many years with Dan as a part of my life? A couple of housekeeping items before we... Read more.
EPA prepares to undo Trump-era part of Clean Water Act, add back road ditches to federal wetland oversight
By COLE LAUTERBACH The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing rules for how it will implement a controversial part of the Clean Water Act. The waters of... Read more.
Biden flies to St. Croix and signs $1.7 trillion omnibus spending, with controversial climate change initiatives
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE President Joe Biden signed a $1.7 trillion omnibus bill Thursday night, but that legislation has come under fire from critics... Read more.
Resources for military families: Purple Star schools
By DAVID BOYLE During the recent town halls that the Anchorage School District held regarding the closing of six schools, parents voiced several concerns: They said... Read more.
MRAK podcast: ‘Kill Zone’ Pastor Ben McBride asks, ‘What are people standing for at the end of the day?’
By JOHN QUICK | MUST READ ALASKA Inspirational CEO and pastor Ben McBride appeared on the Must Read Alaska Show this month to discuss his ongoing community-building... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau Christmas, past and present
By WIN GRUENING Growing up in Juneau in the 50’s and 60’s was a real treat, especially around Christmas. The weather seemed more predictable (even if mail delivery... Read more.
Anchorage School District whittles budget deficit, but will likely look to your PFD to make up the difference
By DAVID BOYLE And just like that, the Anchorage School District was able to reduce the former $68 million deficit by $20 million. Now the deficit for the next year’s... Read more.
Alaska attorney general joins 36 others asking feds to protect airlines customers after flight cancellations
By JOE MUELLER | THE CENTER SQUARE A bipartisan coalition of 37 attorneys general, including Alaska AG Treg Taylor, are requesting the U.S. Department of Transportation... Read more.
Dunleavy and 24 governors sign letter to Biden: End the Covid public health emergency
By KIM JARRETT | THE CENTER SQUARE Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy joined 24 other governors in sending a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to end the federal public... Read more.
House Republicans will investigate origins of Covid-19
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE House Republicans have made it clear they plan to use their newfound majority to investigate the origins of COVID-19. House Committee... Read more.
House GOP pledges investigation of Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal that left 13 American service members dead
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE House Oversight Republicans pledged to use their newfound majority to hold President Joe Biden “accountable” for the withdrawal... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: There is Marxism, and then there’s American Neo-Marxism
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY In the early 1980s, I attended graduate school at Brown University. Then, only two Soviet-born and raised students were at Brown. I... Read more.
Win Gruening: Rising freight cost stifle Southeast economy
By WIN GRUENING It’s no secret that Alaska’s geography makes our state especially susceptible to rising transportation costs. Many communities have only one... Read more.
Supreme Court hears case relating to court election interference in states
By CASEY HARPER The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Moore v. Harper, a case that could have major implications on state legislatures’... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Voter suppression and missed opportunities
By ALEX GIMARC The biggest question out of the Nov. 8, 2022 election here in Alaska concerns the drop in voters this time around compared with 2018. As election... Read more.
Craig Campbell: Republican Party change comes through action
By CRAIG CAMPBELL | ALASKA REPUBLICAN PARTY NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN This past Saturday the Alaska Republican Party State Central Committee met for our regular quarterly... Read more.
Anchorage Baptist Temple Pastor Ron Hoffman’s one big, hairy, audacious goal
By JOHN QUICK It’s the biggest church, in the biggest city of the biggest state in America, and Pastor Ron Hoffman has one big goal for it: to reach everyone... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Conversation with a progressive activist on the matter of gender identity
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Rebecca, a young American in her late 20s, seemed restless; she anxiously wandered around the room in all directions of the compass. Then, she... Read more.
Art Chance: The barbarians have been inside the gates before in Alaska, and they’re back
By ART CHANCE In August of 1974, I put Atlanta’s violence and racial strife in my rearview mirrors and struck out “North to the Future” with wife, 3 year-old... Read more.
Pressure builds on Apple’s ‘speech control’ policies, and its relationship with China
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is pressing Apple CEO Tim Cook about his relationship with China and Apple’s “speech control”... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Repeal Ballot Measure 2 and ditch ranked choice voting, jungle primary
By ALEX GIMARC Job One with the new Legislature is the total repeal of Ballot Measure 2, the rewrite of Alaska election law in 2020. As it has been two years... Read more.
Anchorage School District closures: District and parents should take a close look at the test scores
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School District is trying to fill its self-inflicted $68 million budget hole by “closing” six neighborhood schools. But only... Read more.
Anchorage birth rate drops dramatically, but school district is finding a way to get more money: Add Pre-kindergarten
By DAVID BOYLE Readers have been led to believe the Anchorage School District was preparing to close schools due to major budget shortfalls. Instead, two out of... Read more.
Groups argue ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ is unconstitutional
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Several groups argue the Respect for Marriage Act (ROMA) currently before the U.S. Senate is unconstitutional, and if enacted,... Read more.
Win Gruening: Aak’w Landing, Juneau’s most promising project
By WIN GRUENING The announcement last August by Norwegian Cruise Lines that it would donate the waterfront land it owned in downtown Juneau to Huna Totem Corporation... Read more.
House Republicans, with a six-member majority, to investigate Hunter and Joe Biden criminal connections
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE House Republican lawmakers are doubling down on investigations into the Biden family’s foreign business dealings and how President... Read more.
School board president wants no dissent from Donley, who calls for accountability in spending and curriculum
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School District is nearly $68 million in the hole for next year’s budget, mostly due to the board approving the use of one-time federal... Read more.
Conservatives celebrate: Republicans take control of U.S. House
By TOM GANTERT | THE CENTER SQUARE California saved the day for Republicans, who took a majority of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives after media outlets... Read more.
Tim Barto: In the matter of Peter Edward Rose
By TIM BARTO This past weekend, Pete Rose wrote a letter to the Commissioner of Baseball, asking for a dispensation that would end his suspension and allow him to... Read more.
Alaska, other states win $391 million settlement from Google over location tracking, privacy practices
By JON STYF | THE CENTER SQUARE Alaska and 39 other states won a combined $391.5 million settlement with Google over location tracking practices. The group of... Read more.
Art Chance: Election fraud is a piece of cake in Alaska
The most charitable view of the election process in most of the U.S. is that it is embarrassing. A more realistic if heretical view is that it is criminal. I lean... Read more.
Mayor Dan: One fight too many for Trump
By DAN SULLIVAN For many of us who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, there was no more compelling figure than Muhammad Ali. Arguably the greatest boxer of all time,... Read more.
Anchorage school district bails out Teamster pension plan
By DAVID BOYLES The Anchorage School Board last week unanimously voted to accept the Teamsters Local 959 (bus drivers/attendants) contract demands. Part... Read more.
Win Gruening: Judging our judges, balancing the judicial selection process
By WIN GRUENING Based on preliminary election results, it appears Alaskan voters will once again reject holding a state constitutional convention. That doesn’t... Read more.
U.S. House and Senate races that are too close to call
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Two days after Election Day, several races are still too close to call, leaving the fate of the U.S. House and Senate hanging... Read more.
DeSantis surges, while Trump candidates are mixed in midterms
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ sweeping win in Florida on Tuesday has propelled his stature in the Republican Party just as candidates backed by former President Donald... Read more.
Art Chance: Sarah Palin is no Kari Lake
By ART CHANCE I’ve had a nodding acquaintance with Sarah Palin since her days as mayor of Wasilla. I worked in the Frank Murkowski Administration with her... Read more.
Dolitsky: World at war — lessons from Siberian Yup’ik
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY The world’s political leaders, including main actors such as Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, European Union, United Kingdom, United States and... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Reject Murkowski, just as she has rejected Alaska’s best interests
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Ernest Gruening wrote in “Colonialism in Alaska,” “Alaska is the oldest of the dependent areas of the United States … Ours is the colony;... Read more.
Border Patrol agents, assaulted by illegal immigrants, beg nation to vote out Biden ‘enablers’ and defend rule of law
NATION CAN’T TAKE TWO MORE YEARS OF MAYHEM AT BORDER By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE After another clash with foreign nationals illegally entering... Read more.
Tim Barto: Dad and I, and memories of the World Series
By TIM BARTO In October 1953, my Dad was hanging out with his Army buddies in New York City. They had just returned from their turn occupying Germany. Truth be told,... Read more.
Biden threatens crude oil ‘windfall profit’ tax
By BETH BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE President Joe Biden’s pledge to impose a crude oil windfall profits tax on U.S. oil and natural gas companies if they... Read more.
Poor sleep caused by racism? Feds pay to investigate
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The National Institutes of Health has issued more than a million dollars via taxpayer-funded medical research grants to find... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Murkowski, queen of lies, promised to repeal Obamacare, then pulled a fast one on voters
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Historically, voters may want to reflect on Murkowski’s actions and not the words of her current or earlier campaign rhetoric. Let’s... Read more.
How much are taxpayers paying for youth transgender procedures? Federal policies under scrutiny
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. Health and Human Services’ transgender policies toward children are under scrutiny, the latest federal agency to face... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Matt Claman is sneaky, but smart, while Costello is smart and reasonable
By ALEX GIMARC Representative Matt Claman is running for State Senate. He was redistricted into a new area with incumbent Republican Sen. Mia Costello. Claman... Read more.
Daniel Smith: There is an old-fashioned carpetbagger running for office in District 16 — Jennie Armstrong
By DANIEL SMITH In West Anchorage House District 16, voters have filed a lawsuit against the State of Alaska Division of Elections and Gail Fenumiai for allowing... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Reject Murkowski’s path to colonialism
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO, PATRICK MARTIN, AND RICHARD ‘CLAYTON’ TROTTER At the Alaska Republican Party State Central Committee meeting on March 13, 2021,... Read more.
Win Gruening: School boards must learn to adapt to changing demographics
By WIN GRUENING Parents and teachers throughout Alaska are reminded frequently of the need to adapt to new ways of teaching and ever-changing curricula. Mostly,... Read more.
Report: Alaska’s fiscal health emerged best in country from pandemic
By MERRILEE GASSER | THE CENTER SQUARE Alaska exited the Covid-19 pandemic with a financial surplus of $96,800 per taxpayer, snagging first place in an analysis of... Read more.
Open letter to Mitch McConnell: Stay out of Alaska election
By CRAIG CAMPBELL | ALASKA REPUBLICAN PARTY NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN An open letter to Senator Mitch McConnell, Minority Leader, U.S. Senate October 25, 2022 Dear Senator... Read more.
Anchorage School District manipulates data on school capacity, shrinking student population
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School District has put itself in a real financial bind. Over the years, the district has lost students while maintaining the same... Read more.
Vaccine mandate vs. religious freedom battles ramp up with federal contractors, Coast Guard
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE While President Joe Biden has publicly stated that the Covid-19 pandemic is over, the battle over federal vaccine mandates is... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: What is freedom?
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Recently, I had a conversation with an American in her late 20s about current events in our country. Let’s call her Rebecca in order to protect... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Peltola campaign ads aren’t about freedom, they are about abortion without limits
By ALEX GIMARC Rep. Mary Peltola has been running an ad on airwaves of Anchorage telling voters the actual things that matter to her. The first half of the ad is... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau muni elections outcome should give the Assembly pause about new City Hall
By WIN GRUENING Leading up to Juneau’s Oct. 4 municipal election, arguments for and against several ballot propositions dominated social media, Juneau Empire pages,... Read more.
Bob Bird: ‘Vote No’ on constitutional convention group is targeting conservatives
By BOB BIRD Have you been wondering about these avalanche of “Vote No/Defend Our Constitution” commercials? Who are the people paying for them? Who are the people... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: If you don’t like dark money from the Sixteen Thirty Fund meddling in our elections, vote yes on Ballot Measure 1
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN Ballot Measure 1 isn’t just about calling a constitutional convention to propose amendments to the Alaska Constitution. It’s also about the... Read more.
Quick: Zuby, a man with a message, is not your typical rapper
By JOHN QUICK During a recent episode of the Must Read Alaska Show, host John Quick interviewed a man known for his creative spirit and fearless political commentary:... Read more.
Leigh Sloan: When it comes to constitutional convention, conservatives are more progressive than progressives
By LEIGH SLOAN People like Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman (the late Father of School Choice) are known as prominent conservative thinkers. However, both of them... Read more.
State Department plan: Taxpayers to pay for gender drugs and mutilation of U.S. diplomats’ children?
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. State Department’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Strategic Plan has sparked controversy... Read more.
Jim Crawford: Sorting the good guys out from the bad guys and getting it right on the PFD this election
By JIM CRAWFORD Let’s get it right this time in dealing with the Alaska Permanent Fund and its Dividend. First, the calculation that worked for over 30 years was... Read more.
Texas GOP declares invasion at border, calls on governor to declare invasion, defend state
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE The executive leadership of the Republican Party of Texas has formally declared an invasion at the Texas southern border.... Read more.
NEA pushes transgender-identity agenda in Alaska
By DAVID BOYLE A major movement afoot to completely change our culture is being systematically pushed across America through our schools. This includes the movement... Read more.
Tim Barto: Former Anchorage Glacier Pilot Aaron Judge is new single-season home-run champ
By TIM BARTO In 2011, Aaron Judge, coming off his freshman year at Fresno State University, played a summer of baseball for the Anchorage Glacier Pilots. He hit... Read more.
Major business groups beg Biden to ‘remove impediments to greater domestic energy production’
By VICTOR SKINNER | THE CENTER SQUARE Business leaders across the country have joined together to call on the Biden administration to boost domestic energy... Read more.
Price of gas going up again: OPEC, including Russia, agree to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Gas prices have continued to rise over the past two weeks, and now OPEC has announced a major decision that will likely drive... Read more.
John Quick: From NFL to community leader, Junior Aumavae sets the bar high for other pro athletes
By JOHN QUICK Junior Aumavae’s journey took him from the National Football League back to his home state of Alaska to light the beacon of hope for students.... Read more.
Dolitsky: Is America losing its mind? A perspective from someone raised in Kiev, Ukraine
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY When I arrived to the United States in February of 1978 as a political refugee from a socialist country, I never thought that America would... Read more.
Anchorage School Board dug deep $68 million fiscal hole using the Covid one-time funds
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School Board has kicked the can down the road on its budget for the past few years. Consequently, it is facing a $68 million budget... Read more.
Win Gruening: Hard times, hard choices
By WIN GRUENING A recent front-page article in the Juneau Empire caught my attention. It was titled “Southeast Alaska Food Bank asks for help in the... Read more.
New record: Two million illegals cross U.S. southern border in one year, an all-time high
TOM JOYCE | THE CENTER SQUARE More than two million migrant encounters have occurred along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2022 as of August. This is... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: In support of a constitutional convention
By ALEX GIMARC It’s that time again. Our once-a-decade opportunity as Alaskans to hold a constitutional convention is on the November ballot as Ballot Measure... Read more.
Poll: 63% of Americans falling behind in cost of living
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE Newly released polling data shows that the majority of Americans report they are falling behind the cost of living. NBC News... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: PFD rallies set for Tuesday across state
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN Your $3,268 dividend to be direct-deposited in your bank account next week, the largest in history, was a close-run thing. Since 2016, the... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau’s hard municipal election choices — no, yes, no, yes
By WIN GRUENING Normally, municipal elections are half-hearted affairs with little to quibble about. Not so this time. Ignoring Juneau’s stagnant population and... Read more.
Savage: Gov. DeSantis flies illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, and Gov. Abbott sends some to Kamala’s house
By BETH BLANKLEY The State of Florida has begun flying foreign nationals who entered the U.S. illegally at the southern border – and were transported by the Biden... Read more.
‘Woke investing’ draws ire of conservative lawmakers
By TOM GANTERT AND BRETT ROWLAND | THE CENTER SQUARE BlackRock Inc., the self-proclaimed world’s largest investment manager, announced this year... Read more.
California sets end date for gas-powered cars, then tells electric car owners to not charge up due to lack of power
Californians were asked to set their thermostats at 78 or higher over the weekend, and also to not charge up their electric cars. All this on the heels of a state... Read more.
Rents and home prices up, especially in Anchorage
By KIM JARRETT | THE CENTER SQUARE Rent increases, fewer available rentals, and average single-family home prices up nearly 17% demonstrate Alaska’s tight housing... Read more.
Study: In 10 years, student loan debt will be high as ever
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE It will take less than a decade for student loan debt to return to the level it was at before President Joe Biden canceled nearly... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Voters sent a message to Sarah
By ALEX GIMARC The results for Alaska’s first rank choice election were announced on Aug. 31, with Mary Peltola being the first Democrat elected to represent Alaska... Read more.
Tim Barto: Ichiro and El Hombre had work ethic, practice discipline that kept them at top of their game for decades
By TIM BARTO Ichiro Suzuki was the best baseball player in the Japanese big leagues when he signed a multi-million dollar contract with the Seattle Mariners in 2001... Read more.
D.C. dark money pours into effort to block an Alaska Constitutional Convention
By HAYDEN LUDWIG | CAPITAL RESEARCH GROUP As the country prepares to head to the polls this November, Alaskans will also be asked if they want to hold a constitutional... Read more.
Win Gruening: Chasing ‘free money’ for electric buses
By WIN GRUENING The country is awash in “free” money. Two of the fastest growing job positions nationally are grant writers and grant administrators.... Read more.
Did parents know what the sex-ed curriculum really was teaching when they signed the consent form?
By DAVID BOYLE Anchorage schools have not only taken over sex education for parents, they are teaching wokeism, gender neutrality, “pick your pronoun,”... Read more.
Americans expect beefed up IRS to target political opponents, audit lower and middle class workers
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE More Americans believe the latest legislation to hire 87,000 Internal Revenue Service agents is part of a plan to audit middle... Read more.
More evidence that the Trevor Project, active in Anchorage municipal counseling laws, is grooming children in its chat room with sex talk about fetishes, hiding from parents
By LAUREL DUGGAN, THE DAILY CALLER | & MUST READ ALASKA A mother seeking resources for her formerly transgender child unearthed explicit sexual conversations... Read more.
Art Chance: Embrace the suck
By ART CHANCE The military has long, probably always, had its own vernacular. Those who have been in the military and those of us especially of ‘Boomer age... Read more.
Ninety-four Republicans in Congress call on Pelosi, Biden to come clean on real price of student loan debt transfer
By BETHANY BLANKLEY |THE CENTER SQUARE Nearly 100 Republican members of Congress have called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to hold accountable President Joe Biden... Read more.
Americans are suspicious of FBI raid on Mar A Lago
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The Federal Bureau of Investigation raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence has led to a drop in trust for... Read more.
What does it mean to ‘pop a cherry?’ Anchorage School District is teaching that to high school students
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School District’s policy states parents may opt their child out of sex education and that the curriculum is to be sent out to you... Read more.
Audacious Project: Dark money pushing vote by mail
By HAYDEN LUDWIG | CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER The states have declared war on “Zuck bucks.” As of this writing, at least 24 states and four counties have banned... Read more.
Jim Crawford: Case for a constitutional convention
By JIM CRAWFORD Last Saturday I spent in Wasilla talking to forty or so pretty die-hard seniors about the the next Alaska constitutional convention. Many were... Read more.
Tim Barto: There are still good guys in sports
By TIM BARTO Sports stories today, especially at the professional level, seem full of bad behavior. A 39 million-dollar-a-year-quarterback awaits suspension... Read more.
Win Gruening: When will schools return to normal?
By WIN GRUENING If the word “normal” seems overused these days, you aren’t imagining it. Everyone wants to get back to normal. Especially in our... Read more.
Republicans call for end of forced Covid vaccinations on children in D.C. schools
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE A coalition of leading Republicans called on Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to end the district’s “unreasonable and... Read more.
One year later, Biden publicly silent on Afghanistan withdrawal, but internal memo defends decision
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE On the one-year anniversary of the chaotic and deadly withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban is in control of... Read more.
Art Chance: IRS, armed to the hilt, comes knocking to ‘protect our democracy’
By ART CHANCE It is with ignorance and cynicism that Left has adopted the phrase, “protect our democracy.” The very last thing the Left wants to protect... Read more.
Taxes and more taxes: Inflation Reduction Act weaponizing IRS to punish workers, American businesses
MUST READ ALASKA | THE CENTER SQUARE The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 will increase taxes on nearly every American who actually pays taxes, despite... Read more.
Parents must review three different policies to opt their students out of sex ed in Anchorage schools
By DAVID BOYLE In Anchorage, students will be back in school on Aug. 18. Did you want to opt your child out of sex education classes in school? The state law,... Read more.
Win Gruening: What Alaska and America need now
By WIN GRUENING The recent passing of Rep. Don Young, our state’s longest-serving member of Congress, was a gut-punch to all Alaskans. His seniority... Read more.
Biden signs order: Feds will pay for travel for abortion
By RICHIE MALOUF | THE CENTER SQUARE President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to help cover travel expenses for women seeking an abortion. In a meeting... Read more.
Biden appoints FEMA monkeypox czar, as New York, Illinois, and California declare emergencies
By RICHIE MALOUF | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday appointed two federal officials as the administration’s monkeypox coordinators. Biden... Read more.
Juneau forum: Peltola hopeful about ranked choice voting while Palin and Begich give it low marks
By MURRAY R. WALSH The finalists seeking to take the late Rep. Don Young’s seat in Congress met in person at the Juneau Radio Center on Monday to participate in... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Understanding anti-Semitism and anti-Semites in America
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Recently, one of the active members of the Juneau Jewish Community, let’s call her Rebecca to protect her anonymity, wrote a private e-mail... Read more.
Craig Medred: Unhappy fishermen in Cook Inlet
By CRAIG MEDRED KENAI – Friday found the beaches at the mouth of Alaska’s most fought-over river woefully short of dipnetters willing to help stop the... Read more.
Tribal compact for schools signed into law, and Alaska officially recognizes 229 tribes
By KIM JARRETT | THE CENTER SQUARE A new law will allow up to five state-tribal compact schools in Alaska. Sen. Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, sponsored Senate Bill 34,... Read more.
Jim Crawford: Who to vote for? Those who will protect our Permanent Fund dividends
By JIM CRAWFORD Given the passage of Ballot Measure 2 last year, which gave us the insanity of rank choice voting, the safe world that Alaska voters knew, exploded. ... Read more.
Although Biden tries to redefine it, recession is here
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. gross domestic product decreased by 0.9% in the second quarter of 2022, according to new data from Bureau of Economic Analysis,... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Palin created the Walker monster, and they created a bloated budget Dunleavy is too feckless to tackle
By DAN FAGAN Apologists for feckless Gov. Mike Dunleavy often blame the Alaska legislature for the governor’s inability to stand up to Alaska’s big government... Read more.
Glen Biegel: The seven politically deadly sins of Lisa Murkowski
By GLEN BIEGEL I know many who desperately want to support Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Over 20 years, Murkowski has made personal connections to many people I know. They... Read more.
Win Gruening: Should Juneau’s Assembly take sides in a municipal election?
By WIN GRUENING Juneau’s upcoming Oct. 4 municipal election will feature a longer than usual ballot. Besides the three assembly seats and two school board seats... Read more.
Dunleavy signs involuntary commitment bill, as civil liberties concerns linger about forced psychotropic meds
By MERRILEE GASSER | THE CENTER SQUARE A bill that authorizes the creation of facilities where people deemed to be in a behavioral health crisis can be involuntarily... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Palin made a false accusation against me. I’m setting the record straight — there was no crush
By DAN FAGAN Sarah Palin claims she once had to “rebuff” me over a crush I had on her. She also says I “turned on her” as a result. Here’s what Palin... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau Assembly kicks can down road
By WIN GRUENING One might think with local outcries over the steep increase in commercial and residential property taxes this past two years, coupled with Juneau’s... Read more.
Abortion tourism: King County sends $500,000 of taxpayer funds to group to underwrite abortions, travel, and lodging for out-of-staters coming to Seattle to discharge fetuses
By SPENCER PAULEY | THE CENTER SQUARE King County Council in Washington state passed an emergency ordinance Tuesday to send $500,000 to the Northwest Abortion Access... Read more.
Texas judges to issue emergency ‘declarations of invasion’ as Biden abandons southern border crisis
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Judges from multiple Texas counties are planning to announce they’re issuing declarations of an invasion beginning on Tuesday... Read more.
California now restricts state-paid travel to 18 states due to disagreement with their transgender policies
By TOM JOYCE | THE CENTER SQUARE California is restricting state-funded travel to several states because its politicians disagree with political policies enacted... Read more.
Supreme Court remands ‘Remain in Mexico’ to lower court
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday overruled a circuit court’s decision in a case brought by Texas and Missouri over... Read more.
Art Chance: Uncle Clarence
By ART CHANCE United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas and I were born about a year and 100 miles apart in a rural Georgia that had ceased to... Read more.
Report: States that legalized marijuana are seeing a rise in teen mental health disorders
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE States that have legalized marijuana have seen increasingly strong THC products and a rise in mental health issues among teenagers,... Read more.
Economy shrinks in 2022, as Americans’ savings deplete and disposable income vanishes to inflation
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE U.S. Gross Domestic Product decreased by 1.6% in the first three months of 2022, the latest federal economic data released... Read more.
Win Gruening: Dennis Egan, a true citizen legislator
By WIN GRUENING “The single most important ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” Theodore Roosevelt One of... Read more.
10 states make abortion illegal, with exceptions
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE So far, 10 state attorneys general have announced that abortion is now effectively illegal in their states after the Supreme... Read more.
Anchorage School District skips rules in superintendent choice, ignoring required certification
By DAVID BOYLE Most large organizations have basic requirements for positions within that organization. When you apply for a position, you must meet those minimum... Read more.
Democrats revert to lynching chatter as some call for assassination of Justice Clarence Thomas after ruling
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Individuals have been calling on social media for the assassination of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, shown... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Murkowski is wrong senator for Alaska
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last Friday afternoon, giving back to the individual states, the origins of our constitutional... Read more.
Bob Bird: Morphing of the pro-life movement
By BOB BIRD “We are in a real war, with real blood being shed, real lives being lost, a true genocide in our midst.” “This is a war, a bloody war, for the... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: The politics of abortion in 2022
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN Sensible men, who value domestic tranquility, defer to their wives on abortion. Men like Ronald Reagan and Ron DeSantis look to the mother of... Read more.
Historic ruling: Roe v. Wade overturned, abortion laws sent back to the states
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that prevented states from banning abortion. The court... Read more.
Win Gruening: Confusion over ranked-choice voting persists
By WIN GRUENING Most Alaska voters have had an opportunity to consider the modifications to Alaska’s election system since Ballot Measure 2 was enacted in November... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Vote yes on constitutional convention
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO From 1955 to 1956, during Alaska’s constitutional convention, our state constitution was crafted by a majority of New Deal Democrats. They... Read more.
It’s a red flag for Republicans: Majority polled fear abuse of red flag laws
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE The majority of Republican and Independent voters think “red flag” gun laws that allow judges to confiscate... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Anchorage Assembly’s kindergarten tyranny traces its roots to unification in 1975
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO In 2013, then-Mayor Dan Sullivan and the Anchorage Assembly passed AO37 into law. It was deemed the “Responsible Labor Law.” It provided... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Dunleavy appoints Alice Rogoff’s daughter to Alaska Permanent Fund Board of Trustees
By DAN FAGAN There’s no single individual alive today who has hurt the financial bottom line of Alaskans more than former Anchorage Daily News publisher and owner... Read more.
Art Chance: Red flag laws return for the working class
By ART CHANCE Into the 1960s and ‘70s if a couple of your neighbors or relatives didn’t like you or wanted something you had, they could have the county sheriff... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Alaska needs a constitutional convention
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Are you voting for the Constitution Convention? Or have you been swayed by the fear-mongering of the so-called “Defend our Constitution”... Read more.
Alaska Reads Act is a big step toward helping students succeed
By DAVID BOYLE After many years, the Alaska Legislature has passed the “Alaska Reads Act,” which should improve reading outcomes for Alaska children. The passage... Read more.
Dept. of Law has ‘serious concerns’ about timing of special congressional election lawsuit
By KIM JARRETT | THE CENTER SQUARE Officials with the Alaska Law Department say they have “serious concerns” about the timing of a lawsuit challenging... Read more.
Gas and groceries spike again as soaring inflation eats away at Americans’ paychecks
By DAN MCCALEB | THE CENTER SQUARE The price of food, gas and other consumer goods spiked again in May, as inflation is forcing Americans to make tough decisions... Read more.
Win Gruening: Give our kids a sporting chance
By WIN GRUENING This week, over the strident protests of some trail users, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee wisely approved a temporary pitch-and-putt... Read more.
Art Chance: The Danger Zone
By ART CHANCE I go to see a movie at the theater every couple of years; they’re overpriced, the service sucks, and the audience is usually a bunch of punks who... Read more.
Alaska AG Taylor joins case with other states to ban ‘sanctuary cities,’ after Miami judge calls the ban racist
By BETHANY BLANKLEY | THE CENTER SQUARE Seventeen Republican attorneys general, including Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor, have filed an amicus brief with... Read more.
Bethany Marcum: Best and worst of 2022 legislative session
By BETHANY MARCUM As is often the case, there was no shortage of bills introduced to the 32nd Legislature (which comprises 2021 and 2022). Not counting resolutions,... Read more.
Gas prices jump 5 cents overnight, reaching another all-time high
CASEY HARPER / THE CENTER SQUARE Gas prices increased another 5 cents overnight to reach yet another record high, marking another week where costs rose every day... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Anchorage Assembly morphs into local parliament, controlling executive branch of government
By ALEX GIMARC Public anger at the Anchorage Assembly metastasized this week with pubic testimony on Assemblyman Chris Constant and Assembly attorney Bill Falsey’s... Read more.
Daniel Smith: This is what an Anchorage Assembly that is drunk with power looks like
By DANIEL SMITH The majority of the Anchorage Assembly is drunk with power. Like a chronic inebriate panhandling on the corner any given major Anchorage midtown... Read more.
Column: Major swath of country in danger of summer rolling blackouts due to Biden ‘green energy transition’
By POWER THE FUTURE Not only have gas prices broken records for the past several weeks, a good portion of the country is being told they should expect rolling blackouts,... Read more.
New Biden rule ties LGBT to education funding: Boys can use girls’ bathrooms, or schools will suffer federal cuts
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE An upcoming Biden administration rule change will tie billions of dollars in federal education funding to an array of LGBT policies,... Read more.
Sustainable Energy Conference got Alaska talking about potential of geothermal, wind, solar, and ‘all of the above’
Anchorage’s downtown looked again like the civic hub of the state this week, with the Den’aina Center hosting a large-scale energy conference, the first... Read more.
Texas Public Safety director: Uvalde chief of police was ‘wrong’ not to confront school shooter sooner
By DAN MCCALEB | THE CENTER SQUARE The commander in charge of the police response to Tuesday’s mass shooting at an Uvalde elementary school made the “wrong... Read more.
Win Gruening: Momentum builds to put mandatory real estate disclosure on October ballot in Juneau
By WIN GRUENING In October 2020, the Juneau Assembly voted to require mandatory disclosure of property sales prices. The ordinance requires buyers of property in... Read more.
Alaska parents have legal right to opt children out of sex ed
By DAVID BOYLE The Alaska Legislature in 2016 passed House Bill 156, legislation empowering parents to direct the education of their children. Former Rep. Wes Keller... Read more.
Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ put on hold due to controversy
By CASEY HARPER, THE CENTER SQUARE President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security “Disinformation Governance Board” has been put on hold... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Education must create citizens
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO I would like to offer a thought or two regarding Jodi Taylor’s May 16, 2022, Must Read Alaska column. First and foremost. Thank you, Jodi. ... Read more.
House subcommittee UFO hearing was first in 50 years on ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’
By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE A House subcommittee hearing drew national attention Tuesday for its unusual focus: UFOs. The House Intelligence Counterterrorism,... Read more.
Art Chance: Dirty deeds, done expensively, hiding labor agreements in the operating budget
By ART CHANCE As I was researching my column on the AFL-CIO’s war on Alaskans’ Permanent Fund dividend, I discovered something nobody has been talking about:... Read more.
Art Chance: The AFL-CIO is trying to rob its members of the biggest pay raise they have ever seen — a full PFD
By ART CHANCE “We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results... Read more.
Jim Crawford: Legislators should listen to the people, not the special interests, and pay the dividend for a change
By JIM CRAWFORD “The most irresponsible budget in Alaska History” is the way organized labor blasts the budget currently under consideration by the House. It... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau’s budget balancing act is actually not that hard to do
By WIN GRUENING For those of you tired of reading about Juneau’s municipal budget, my column this week will not provide any relief. But for those interested... Read more.
As biological males begin to enroll in girls’ divisions in Alaska, SB 140 awaits action in Senate
By DAVID BOYLE A biological male student who identifies as a female has enrolled in the girls track and field competition at a local Anchorage middle school, Must... Read more.
Dave Donley: Pandemic increased the burden on public schools already overwhelmed by mission drift
By DAVE DONLEY America’s founding fathers knew that our nation’s democratic-republic form of government requires educated citizens to be successful. I... Read more.
Jim Crawford: Legislature nears end of session, and Alaskans still getting crumbs from the Permanent Fund
By JIM CRAWFORD For another session, the Alaska Legislature has failed to write a fiscal plan for the State of Alaska. Time and time again, the two houses disagree... Read more.
Rep. Kevin McCabe: The right to personhood has science and logic that applies from conception forward
By KEVIN MCCABE “The right of the people to privacy is recognized and shall not be infringed. The legislature shall implement this section.” —... Read more.
Anchorage school superintendent doesn’t meet basic qualifications
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School Board’s selection for the new superintendent doesn’t meet the minimum criteria. The State of Alaska requires a superintendent... Read more.
Murray Walsh: Palin’s political felonies
By MURRAY WALSH It may not matter to you that Sarah Palin has not been loyal to the State of Alaska or the Alaska Republican Party, but it should. Palin has not... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Russian Old Believers in Alaska have lives reminiscent of 18th, 19th century Siberian peasants
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY The household of Russian Old Believers in Alaska in many ways is similar to those of the 18th-and 19th-century Siberian peasants of Russian... Read more.
Art Chance: The return of the undead public pension system that is unaffordable everywhere
By ART CHANCE Suzanne’s two stories on HB 55 gave a good 10,000-foot view of Sen. Josh Revak’s legerdemain to bring another bill restoring defined benefit retirement... Read more.
Win Gruening: Constitutional convention would open up a can of worms
By WIN GRUENING In 1972 and four times since, Alaska voters were presented with the question “Shall there be a Constitutional Convention?” Each time,... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: Sarah Palin, Trump, and Alaska lands
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN Alaska is fortunate in having Sarah Palin running for Congress. Because she has had a long and close association with Donald Trump, she has his... Read more.
Art Chance: Anchorage elections were a disaster for sane people, because mail-in voting favors the Left
By ART CHANCE The sane people in Anchorage can take comfort in the failure of the avaricious bond measures thrown out by the Peoples’ Committee for Education,... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: If I used Twitter, here’s what I’d say
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN I don’t tweet. I’d wager few Must Read Alaska readers do. Twitter is for the politically correct, and if you stray off the leftist... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: The Dnieper River, Kiev, Zebra
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Anatoly Mikhailovich Mikisha was a talented and accomplished mathematician in his late 30s. He was a rocket scientist, working in the Moscow... Read more.
Anchorage School District sued by two construction trade groups over policy that creates forced unionization
By DAVID BOYLE At the same times voters in Anchorage denied the Anchorage School Board its $111 million bond request, the two largest construction trade associations... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Education and the public purpose
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO The Alaska State Board of Education and Early Development submitted its annual report to the Alaska Legislature in February. The report contained... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Ranked choice voting is a team sport
By ALEX GIMARC I had an extended and moderately contentious discussion regarding the new election system with radio host Dan Fagan on his KENI morning show on Monday.... Read more.
Art Chance: Palin is finishing what she started, as every Democrat’s favorite Republican
By ART CHANCE Sarah Palin has been at war with all-things-Republican since the turn of the century beginning with attempts, mostly by proxy, to wrest control of... Read more.
Tim Barto: Theater of the absurd at the Oscars
By TIM BARTO It’s taken me a week to do so publicly, but I must confess that I watched the Academy Awards show last Sunday night. The nominated movies were a mystery... Read more.
Critical Race Theory bill hearing is Monday in Senate
By DAVID BOYLE Alaskans have a chance to ensure their children are not indoctrinated in Critical Race Theory and Marxist ideology in Alaska’s public schools. Senate... Read more.
Win Gruening: A poetic moment in Alaska history, with Don Young and Nick Begich III
By WIN GRUENING “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.” — Mark Twain This quotation is usually attributed to Mark Twain although its origin... Read more.
Art Chance: Unions making policy is nothing new
By ART CHANCE Many readers have noted the extent to which the teachers’ unions idea of “science” has dictated federal, state and local governments’ policies... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Government education is a failure
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Do you remember the third idea of the American education theory, as stated by Albert Jay Nock in 1931? (See Must Read Alaska, March 11, Socialism... Read more.
John Quick: Companies can give back without going ‘woke’
By JOHN QUICK Being woke is moronic. Being a good person is epic. As the world changes and becomes more and more complex, so does the role of businesses in it. With... Read more.
School boards of Alaska plead with Legislature for more money
By DAVID BOYLE Alaska school boards were invited to provide testimony to the House Education Committee on the status of their schools this week. All of them testified... Read more.
Free lunch money from feds comes with a price: No cupcake ‘incursions’ in the classroom
By DAVID BOYLE Anchorage School Board member Kelly Lessens has introduced a revised policy on school breakfast and lunch programs, a policy she says will... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: If walls could talk — remembrances of our red-brick house in Kiev, Ukraine
By ALEXANDER DOLISTSKY Vladimir Lenin characterized the New Economic Policy in 1922 as an economic system that would include “a free market and capitalism, both... Read more.
Win Gruening: Thinking outside the box on Juneau’s economy
By WIN GRUENING “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – George S. Patton. This recent news item caught... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Time for Don Young to retire
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Don Young, a professional politician, represents Alaska as our only congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives. But who does he really... Read more.
Daniel Smith: Convoluted election observer process designed to keep the public away
By DANIEL SMITH Anchorage Municipal Clerk Barbara Jones created and oversees a new and incredibly convoluted election observer qualification process. The winding... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Socialism has taken down our educational system
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO We all as parents share a common, yet strikingly dominant and emotional, sentiment. It is one of our most true imperatives. Through the centuries... Read more.
Anchorage School Board votes for construction monopoly by labor unions
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School Board voted to create a construction monopoly controlled by labor unions, limiting competition on construction projects over... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Decades later, education reform in Alaska has gotten nowhere
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Part 1: A look back at the Alaska 2000 education task force findings “Let’s stop blaming each other. The problems in public education... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Old Russian saying is ‘Beat your friends to make your enemies afraid of you’
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY “Beat your own so that strangers are afraid of you.” This is a common Russian expression, which literally means, “beat your friends,... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Feckless Don Young and Lisa Murkowski won’t take on Biden’s war on America’s energy independence
By ALEX GIMARC As the price of gasoline here in Anchorage spikes over $4 a gallon, having more than doubled in the last 14 months, Alaskans increasingly are asking... Read more.
Win Gruening: Can Eaglecrest support itself with gondola?
By WIN GRUENING To maximize the economic potential of Juneau’s municipally owned ski area, the City and Borough Assembly this week conditionally approved a $2... Read more.
Art Chance: Diving under the desk to avoid nuclear bomb
By ART CHANCE The hydrogen bomb and I were born in the same year, 1949. I grew up surrounded by major military bases including a strategic air command base–... Read more.
Craig Campbell: This is our city, so let’s vote like we’re saving its life
By CRAIG CAMPBELL On July 1, 2021, Dave Bronson was sworn in as our Anchorage mayor. He brought with him a vision of smaller government, budget discipline, revitalizing... Read more.
Anchorage School District’s fiscal cliff grows ever closer
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School District is headed off the fiscal cliff, led by the majority of the school board. At the Feb. 22 board meeting, the board... Read more.
Daniel Smith: Time to choose both these military veterans — Mark Anthony Cox and Rachel Ries — for school board
By DANIEL SMITH With the upcoming election on the horizon, it time to make some choices. Two Anchorage School Board seats are up for election. Allow me share what... Read more.
Tim Barto: Throwing the baseball out with the bathwater
By TIM BARTO It’s February, a time when pitchers and catchers should be reporting to sunny southern climes for spring training, a benchmark that signals the baseball... Read more.
Art Chance: Any reason, no reason, but not an illegal reason
By ART CHANCE As I predicted shortly after it happened, the State paid off the two psychiatrists that the Dunleavy Administration fired from the Alaska Psychiatric... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: To understand Russia, take a moment to read some Russian poetry, the soul of its culture
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY History teaches us that nations, in some ways, are like people. While having many things in common, each is unique. As with people, a nation’s... Read more.
Bob Bird: Attack on Eastman is a direct attack on freedom of speech
By BOB BIRD In the recent debate with former Alaska State Sen. John Coghill, a true gentleman if ever there was one, I could not broach all of the flaws that exist... Read more.
Dan Fagan: The days of standing on the sidelines are over
By DAN FAGAN It’s all happening so fast. Our freedoms are disappearing. We’re engulfed in a whirlwind of unprecedented lies. Good is called evil and evil is... Read more.
Art Chance: They don’t have to win the vote, they just have to win the count
By ART CHANCE My earliest memories of things political in Alaska were the controversies surrounding Jay Hammond’s defeat of the legendary Bill Egan for governor... Read more.
Anchorage Superintendent Bishop to remove masks from kids starting Feb. 28; will school board allow it?
By DAVID BOYLE Recently, Anchorage School Board President Margo Bellamy led the board in overriding Superintendent Deena Bishop’s effort to allow students to be... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau Assembly takes on food tax
By WIN GRUENING During the City and Borough of Juneau Finance Committee meeting on Feb. 3, Assembly members agreed to re-consider removing the city’s sales tax... Read more.
Anchorage school lottery is now open
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School District is holding a lottery for its charter and alternative schools, and now is a chance for parents to help their children... Read more.
Report: Anchorage students making little progress in math
BY DAVID BOYLE Superintendent Deena Bishop tried to put a happy face on her report this week when she briefed the Anchorage School Board on math proficiency... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: Russia, Ukraine and the high price of anti-Trump fanaticism
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN Alaska has something in common with the world’s worst tyrannies in the world – the Saudi royal family, the mullahs of Iran and Putin’s Russia:... Read more.
Sean Murphy: ‘Eagle River Exit’ is about popular sovereignty, republicanism, and federalism
By SEAN MURPHY Two years ago this month, I joined Eaglexit after reading an article on how large our municipality had become. It explained how representation in... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Language, education, schooling of the Russian Old Believers in Alaska
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Russian Old Believer language and stories reflect their life in the North, the picturesque landscapes, and their economic contacts with non-Russian... Read more.
Win Gruening: Pride cometh before the fall with new City Hall in Juneau
When the idea of a new city hall in Juneau surfaced several years ago, the idea fell flat. State budget tightening had impacted city finances and the... Read more.
Shocking: Reading scores in Anchorage dropped between fall and winter of 2021
By DAVID BOYLE Anchorage School District leaders presented an update on reading proficiency in grades K-2. The results are disappointing and unsettling.... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: U.S. and Russia relations, and the role of Ukraine
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Who was responsible for post-war tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.? Were they primarily a result of the Soviets’ mistrust of a... Read more.
Anchorage superintendent tells Senate Finance that ‘universal pre-K’ spending will improve Alaska’s low reading scores
By DAVID BOYLE The Alaska Senate is hearing a bill, SB 111, that is touted as being able to increase student achievement in reading. The legislation also includes... Read more.
Dan Smith: Anchorage school district should rescind mandatory vaccine-or-test for volunteers and coaches
By DAN SMITH The Anchorage School District should officially rescind its mandatory vaccine-or-test policy for volunteers and coaches. In the fall, the school district... Read more.
Anchorage searches for superintendent who believes the school district is a racist institution
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School District is in the process of selecting a new superintendent to replace retiring Superintendent Deena Bishop. The selection... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Marriage, marital residence, kinship, divorce in Old Believers
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Part 2 of 4 on traditions of Old Believers in Alaska Marriage among Alaskan and Siberian Old Believers does not have a unified procedure or... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau can’t plow the streets, but plows ahead with cultural arts center extravagant spending
By WIN GRUENING One would think that after voters nixed a 2019 proposal to give $4.5 million to the Juneau Arts & Humanities Council to subsidize a new cultural... Read more.
Niki Tshibaka: Assemblyman Chris Constant pursues racial division as political weapon
By NIKI TSHIBAKA This weekend, my heart swelled with gratitude for the life Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. helped make possible for me and my family. His work paved... Read more.
Art Chance: In an election year, the ADN is on the hunt for its next ‘National Guard scandal’
By ART CHANCE“Walking Alaska’s Toughest Beat” is the motto of the Alaska Correctional Officers’ Association, the union that represents the uniformed security... Read more.
Bob Bell: Biden’s 2021 was a train wreck
2021 had a lot significant events. Most of them bad. The big headline for 2021 was the Covid virus. There are so many negative aspects to this issue it is difficult... Read more.
Mark Hamilton: Could the Pebble Mine project have been done better? Here’s how
By MARK HAMILTON There is no question the Pebble Project mine could have had a better beginning, and maybe a different outcome. I can’t tell you I would have done... Read more.
School industry will again ask for more money for ever-failing schools, and will not hold itself accountable for poor outcomes
By DAVID BOYLE Alaskans know that our public schools are failing our students in the basics of reading, writing, and mathematics. According to the National Assessment... Read more.
Tom Boutin: Murkowski is the best we can do in 2022
By TOM BOUTIN I grew up at a time and place in which the Catholic Church seemed to have a larger footprint and more power than local, state and federal government... Read more.
Art Chance: It’s ‘for the children’ of Chicago
By ART CHANCE Those of us with a bawdy sense of humor are familiar with an old joke about the three greatest lies; I’ll add a fourth lie to the list: “It’s... Read more.
Win Gruening: Alaska should make it easy to vote, hard to cheat
By WIN GRUENING After Alaska’s Online Voter Registration System was breached last year, along with 2020’s contentious election, and what is shaping up to be... Read more.
Your voice matters: Public input opportunity in search for Anchorage school superintendent
By DAVID BOYLE As the Anchorage School District searches for a new superintendent to replace retiring Superintendent Deena Bishop, it is asking for community input,... Read more.
Dan Smith: Deena Bishop sends weak message about possible closure of schools
On Dec. 21, Dr. Leana Wen, CNN Medical Analyst stated, “Don’t wear a cloth mask. Cloth masks are little more than facial decoration. There is no place... Read more.
Craig Campbell: With transgender legal preference, the glass ceiling may be getting harder for women to break through
By CRAIG CAMPBELL Women have long struggled to be equal members of society with men. For over 100 years, American women advocated for, and successfully... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: Lisa Murkowski and the Supreme Court’s decisions on vaccine mandates, concealed carry, and abortion
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN On Jan. 7 the Supreme Court will hear challenges to two vaccine mandates ordered by the Biden administration. It looks as though the court is... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Worldwide migration of Old Believers in Alaska
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY The darkest time of the day is before the sunrise. America is the sunrise for the Russian Old Believers in Alaska. Within a few decades of... Read more.
Daniel Smith: Predictions for 2022
By DANIEL SMITH This is the time of year when one is inclined to reflect on the events of the past 12 months or more. From those reflections, it is possible to... Read more.
Parents could use the help: Covid made the case for the state education tax credit program
By DAVID BOYLE Many parents in Alaska’s public schools have removed their children due to the shutting down of the schools, masking of the students, and the teaching... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: The politicians at the Anchorage Daily News
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN Gov. Mike Dunleavy is the latest in a long line of conservative Alaska politicians who have found themselves on the hit list of the Anchorage... Read more.
Art Chance: Change comes at a price
By ART CHANCE I’ve never really understood the antipathy towards Alaska’s Legislature. I’ve been around long enough to remember when everything that didn’t... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Time to move legislative sessions to Southcentral Alaska
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO A recent Juneau rental ad boasted a two-bedroom, one-bath apartment with high-end furnishing for $3,200 a month starting Jan. 1, 2022, through... Read more.
Tim Barto: The nuts of Christmas past
By TIM BARTO There are three things my Dad said you can never have too much of: Extension cords, fireworks on the Fourth of July, and lights at Christmas time. The... Read more.
Win Gruening: The Grinch who stole Christmas
By WIN GRUENING “I must stop Christmas from coming… but how? I mean – in what way?” How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie – 2000... Read more.
Dan Smith: School board majority gets ‘F’
On Dec. 16, 2021, Anchorage School Superintendent Deena Bishop announced, “I am confident that ASD is able to transition to parent-informed masking when we return... Read more.
Jim Crawford: Who owns Alaska? Alaskans, and that’s why we need a Constitutional Convention
By JIM CRAWFORD Every 10 years, Alaskan voters are presented with a simple but critical question. Article 13, Sections 3 and 4 of the Alaska Constitution requires... Read more.
Covid math: Pandemic policy led to decline in algebra completion in Anchorage schools
By DAVID BOYLE The Anchorage School District has been wrestling with the math program for decades. Under former School Superintendent Carol Comeau, the district... Read more.
Fritz Pettyjohn: What are we going to do with all that money?
By FRITZ PETTYJOHN In 1969, when Alaskans realized how much oil was in Prudhoe Bay, people quickly understood the implications. A formerly cash starved state was... Read more.
Mark Hamilton: Don’t let Alaska get ‘Pebbled’ again
By MARK HAMILTON Something happened. I’m not going to speculate exactly what happened. Representing Pebble mine for three years, I spent far too much time dealing... Read more.
Governor’s budget gives school bond debt relief to property taxpayers, but will school districts just build and bond for more?
By DAVID BOYLE Gov. Mike Dunleavy released his 2023 budget with few changes in K-12 education funding. The education industry and its special interest cohorts... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Enough with the ADN
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO It is time to boycott, divest and sanction the Anchorage Daily News, its owners, employees, advertisers and supporters. Enough of these Marxists... Read more.
Anchorage Assembly building on track record of trashing transparency
By SCOTT LEVESQUE While left-leaning Anchorage Assembly members call for more transparency from the Bronson Administration, critics are left wondering when they’ll... Read more.
Bob Bird: Fear-mongering about constitutional convention comes out of Left field
By BOB BIRD Alaska’s “model” Constitution is truly a model in some ways, like a preening beauty from the cover of Glamor magazine. It was crafted using a... Read more.
Art Chance: Election year ahead, and labor agreements expire in June, 2022
By ART CHANCE The State’s Labor Relations Section’s website only goes back to the mid-2000s with archived labor agreements. Few, if any, of those exist as bound... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau Assembly underserves and overspends
By WIN GRUENING Among the more important obligations of a modern municipal government are providing for public infrastructure and promoting economic growth and... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Our entire delegation needs to go
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Our Alaska congressional delegation — Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young — are DC sell-outs and should... Read more.
A year seems so long ago: ANWR anticipation turns to angst
By RICK WHITBECK / POWER THE FUTURE It was one year ago that the Bureau of Land Management published its intent to offer the first lease sale for lands within... Read more.
Tom Boutin: Candidates should make a pledge to not support an income tax
By TOM BOUTIN Most of my working life has been spent in the private sector but I did work three or four stints in Alaska state government. Very early in the... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: The life of Yuriy Sokolov, the Siberian gulag, and the dangers of the government mandates of atheism
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Siberian gulag in the life of Yuriy Sokolov Soon after my graduation from the high school in Kiev, Ukraine, at the age of 17, I was employed... Read more.
Jim Crawford: Count all the income of the Alaska Permanent Fund
By JIM CRAWFORD In Fiscal Year 2020, the net income of the Alaska Permanent Fund was $1.6 billion while the Percentage of Market Value draw was $3.0 billion, a loss... Read more.
Dan Smith: Where are the goal posts on mask mandate in our schools?
By DANIEL SMITH Where are the goal posts? How and when will the children of Anchorage be able to breathe freely again in school? The Anchorage School District Board... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: History does not repeat, but there are lessons to be learned from Old Believers and the Great Schism in Russia
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY History does not repeat. Yesterday will never be today or tomorrow, but historic patterns do repeat. History shows a pattern of the nations’... Read more.
Win Gruening: Peeling the onion on Thanksgiving
By WIN GRUENING “Peeling the onion” is an expression often used as a metaphor for digging deeper into an issue or not accepting something at face value. There... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Anchorage schools’ experiment with gay porn
By ALEX GIMARC Must Read Alaska ran a couple stories about investigation and removal of a book from one public school library. The book, “Gender... Read more.
Art Chance: A Civil War Thanksgiving and the faint glimmer of better days
By ART CHANCE Perhaps the darkest days the United States have ever seen were the fall of 1863. The war between the United States and the Confederate States that... Read more.
Art Chance: Covid fear rhetoric has taken us back to the Dark Ages
By ART CHANCE I was raised in Baptist confinement; the “God said it, I believe it, and that settles it” variety. There were three kinds of Baptists in the... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: The crime and tragedy of passive grooming and indoctrination
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO “In the course of human events there have always been those who deny or reject human freedom, but Americans will never falter in defending... Read more.
Alex Gimarc: Infrastructure bill and the Alaska delegation
By ALEX GIMARC President Biden signed the infrastructure bill on Tuesday, surrounded by gleeful Congress critters, including Alaska’s very own Congressman Don... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Fables of how Swan found happiness, and Sun and Moon quarreled
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY These two literary fables, “How Swan Found Happiness” and “The Quarrel between Sun and Moon,” are incorporating the style and motifs... Read more.
Pebbled: Climate change and predictions for the future that were wildly wrong
By MARK HAMILTON Climate change is an anti-developer’s dream. It’s a topic everyone is familiar with and it can assign dire warnings to virtually anything,... Read more.
Win Gruening: Juneau’s vote-by-mail belly-flops, so what happens next?
By WIN GRUENING With every passing day, the justification for Juneau switching to universal vote-by-mail becomes murkier, more problematic, and less convincing.... Read more.
Tim Barto: Remembering the storied 442nd and some family history on Veterans Day
By TIM BARTO A couple decades ago, my wife and I took our children to Hawaii to attend a wedding on my wife’s side of the family. Born and raised on Oahu, my wife... Read more.
Ben Carpenter: On Veterans Day, a call to march to the sound of the guns
By BEN CARPENTER This Veterans Day I’d like us to consider what it means to “march to the sound of the guns.” That military aphorism may have its roots... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: American leftism is the picture of true hypocrisy
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY When I arrived to the United States on February of 1978 as a political refugee from a socialist country, I never thought that America would... Read more.
Art Chance: A brave new Alaska of Permanent Fund and trust fund babies
By ART CHANCE Unless President Joe Biden adds crashing the stock markets to his astounding list of failures, sometime in the next months the Alaska Permanent Fund... Read more.
Daniel Smith: The engine light is on, and the election system needs fixing now
By DANIEL SMITH There has been too much tinkering with our election systems over the last few years. “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.” For those... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Eaglexit is only way to break Marxist control of Anchorage
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Assembly Member Jamie Allard’s Must Read Alaska column on Oct. 29 nails the challenge we face in today’s Marxist control of our cities in... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: My encounter with Vladimir Vysotsky, ‘subversive’ singer who pioneered freedom in the Soviet Union
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY I first arrived in America on February 1, 1978. An agent of the Immigration and Naturalization Services greeted me at the John F. Kennedy Airport... Read more.
Win Gruening: Vote-by-mail doesn’t deliver, but does the Juneau Assembly care?
The City and Borough of Juneau seems to be exempt from the fundamental principle that “measurement improves performance,” because, by any objective metric, their... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Now is the time for Eagle River to exit
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO There’s a great story about a Christmas roast that I think about whenever I have a challenge with the status quo. It goes like... Read more.
Mark Hamilton: You can go fishing in a modern tailings pond
By MARK HAMILTON / PEBBLED SERIES Hopefully, in reading this series, your understanding of the mining process will allow you to be aware of the predictable fear... Read more.
Jim Crawford: Legislature is hiding money and then asking for more
By JIM CRAWFORD The fourth Special Session of the Legislature sputters on. There are no discussions of the new facts, only repetitions of the hardened positions... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Smuggled typewriters and the parallels between Soviet socialist regime and America in 2021
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Many of my friends during my upbringing in the former Soviet Union were students from various academic institutes, striving for knowledge,... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Alaska Day remembrance of Russia’s expansion into Siberia and Alaska
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Russia, Alaska’s nearest neighbor, is the largest country on Earth, occupying a considerable portion of Eurasia, including almost all natural–extratropical... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Time to repeal the POMV, and go back to original statutory formula
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Our Alaska government has a scotoma, a blind spot. It can’t see the forest for the trees. The scotoma I’m speaking about is the Percentage... Read more.
Win Gruening: Vote-by-mail voter’s remorse, buyer’s remorse, or perhaps both
By WIN GRUENING A curious thing happened leading up to the recent Juneau vote-by-mail municipal election. City Clerk Beth McEwen reported that many people who... Read more.
Art Chance: Don’t blame the judge
By ART CHANCE My book, “Red on Blue,” sells for $9.99 at Amazon. Those ten bucks would have saved the State of Alaska a lot of money and the Dunleavy Administration... Read more.
Dan Smith: AO 2021-91 is a step toward communism
By DANIEL SMITH Anchorage Ordinance 2021-91 is an overreaching expansion of government. Invariably, as government expands, liberty contracts. Our previous pants-free... Read more.
Tim Barto: 1975 World Series game seven
By TIM BARTO Tuesday, Oct. 21, 1975 – World Series game six. Arguably the greatest game ever played. In the bottom of the 12th, after the clocks passed midnight... Read more.
Mark Hamilton: The Fraser Report shows the importance of ‘policy perception’
Part 11 of a series on the Pebble Project. By MARK HAMILTON The Fraser Institute Annual Survey of mining companies looked at 2,700 exploration, development, and other... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Beware of activists who manipulate history, truth for ulterior motives
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Today, many radical school teachers believe themselves to be teaching the “truthful” history of the world, including American History.... Read more.
Daniel Smith: Open letter to Anchorage School Board to unmask our children
By DANIEL SMITH Dear Anchorage School Board Members and Superintendent Bishop, First let me thank you for the Sept. 15, 2021 recognition of your internal data that... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: ‘White privilege’ is a troubling perspective undermined by facts
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY What is WPT or “white privilege” theory? Progressive activists claim it is a social construct and social movement for justice, equal... Read more.
Daniel Smith: An optimist hopes Anchorage Assembly will vote down mask decree
By DANIEL SMITH I like to think I am an optimist. Based on the overwhelming testimony I have heard against the proposed Anchorage Assembly ordinance AO 2021-91,... Read more.
Win Gruening: What will it take to get a reliable, efficient ferry system?
By WIN GRUENING The Alaska Marine Highway System continues to struggle with declining ridership, reliability, and reduced funding. There is no shortage of opinions... Read more.
Murray Walsh: How to save the planet without going nuts, with emission-free energy system
By MURRAY WALSH We have developed most of the features needed for creating and distributing electricity with no emissions and we have one form of emission free transportation... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: The case of the ‘delicious salad,’ and the keys to cross-cultural communication
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Cross–cultural communication requires a knowledge of how culturally different people groups communicate with each other. Studying other languages... Read more.
Pebbled: Mining 101, how we get our metals
By MARK HAMILTON / PEBBLED SERIES Mining is actually a simple process made voluminous by the very low density of the sought-after minerals. A mine with one gram of... Read more.
Craig Campbell: Why can’t we all get along?
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL Over the past year I had the pleasure of writing opinion pieces for Must Read Alaska, expressing a strong conservative viewpoint on government. Since... Read more.
Jim Crawford: Legislature has proven it will not create a fiscal plan
By JIM CRAWFORD I keep hearing that Republicans must compromise to gain a fiscal plan for the State of Alaska. Compromise is a virtue in the politically correct... Read more.
Tim Barto: Twenty years later, and we’ve come to demonize first responders?
By TIM BARTO Twenty years ago, first responders were the toast of the nation. Firefighters, healthcare workers, and police officers were hailed as heroes for their... Read more.
Mark Hamilton: Here we go again, with EPA doubling down on power grabbing
By MARK HAMILTON Part 10 of a series on the Pebble Project. Here we go again with another power grab by a corrupted federal agency. We learned a lot during Act I... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Assimilation and acculturation takes time, and understanding
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY I was a presenter at the Juneau–Gastineau Rotary Club in January, 2020, speaking on “Several sanctioned avenues for immigration to the... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: We need a constitutional convention in Alaska in 2022
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO We need a constitutional convention in Alaska. November, 2022 may provide another angle before stepping in that direction with a better... Read more.
Art Chance: September 11, the busiest day
By ART CHANCE Sept. 10, 2001, was just another day. I was a labor relations analyst IV for the Department of Administration, Division of Personnel, and I had... Read more.
Murray Walsh: Welcome to NETPower, energy without emissions
By MURRAY WALSH Part three of a four-part series We have previously examined fossil substances (or maybe we should say carbon-based substances so we can include... Read more.
Win Gruening: Population, population, population
By WIN GRUENING It is axiomatic in residential real estate sales that there are three important considerations in determining the value of a property in any community: Location,... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Nationalism in America, Alaska, and around the world
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY History teaches us that nations can be like people. While having many things in common, each is unique. As with people, a nation’s behavior... Read more.
Murray Walsh: How to save the planet without going nuts
By MURRAY WALSH Part One: Environmental Movements I am a student of all of the 20th Century environmental movements and a participant in many of them. This... Read more.
Michael Tavoliero: Time to defeat Marxism and brand ‘Competitive Education’ in Alaska
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO In February of 2013, then-Sen. Mike Dunleavy introduced SJR9, a resolution amending the Alaska State Constitution relating to state aid for... Read more.
Art Chance: From ‘flatten the curve’ to flatten the country, thanks to experts
By ART CHANCE We’ve had a lot of purported experts paraded before us as we’ve endured now almost two years of semi-house arrest. What started out as “two... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: For American schools to succeed, they need this one key ingredient
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Education and knowledge translates into power. Education does not parallel economics or politics, but is the soul of the society, and more... Read more.
Win Gruening: Good news, bad news
By WIN GRUENING With the gradual re-opening of travel in July, my wife and I were finally able to visit our son and his family in London. They had moved there in... Read more.
Art Chance: Empty chairs, killing fields, and Biden’s brazen lies about Afghanistan
By ART CHANCE We pulled our children out of the “A Clockwork Orange” youth culture in Juneau in 2005. The younger son was a vexing problem; he had an unerring... Read more.
Dan Fagan: What will a Dunleavy reelection campaign look like?
By DAN FAGAN Republican Gov. Michael J. Dunleavy is not who he used to be. He ran as a budget hawk promising significant reductions in state spending. The governor... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Murkowski and Sullivan refuse to say how they’ll vote on job-killing ‘PRO Act’
By DAN FAGAN If the federal Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or PRO Act becomes law, it will make it much harder to work as an independent contractor or become... Read more.
Art Chance: Aug. 6, 1945 and the end of the world
By ART CHANCE Five thousand years of the plodding progression of Western Civilization ended and a new World was born a little after 8:15 am Japanese Time (GMT +9)... Read more.
Lessons from the Goths for what’s happening at the U.S. southern border
By ART CHANCE Those of us who’ve had Western Civilization courses know “The Goths” as a group of Germanic tribes and clans that pressed against the northeastern... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Remembering the Soviet psychological documentary film ‘I and Others’ that I took part in
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Communist propaganda in the former Soviet Union was based on the Marxist–Leninist ideology to advocate for the Communist Party agenda.... Read more.
Jim Crawford: News flash — 2021 Permanent Fund revenue at $18.8 billion
By JIM CRAWFORD The Alaska Permanent Fund just posted June 30, 20121 fiscal year-end earnings and expenses. Our Permanent Fund generated total revenues in the last... Read more.
Tim Barto: Sports and character
By TIM BARTO When I was a young boy and budding athlete, the phrase we often heard about why young people should get involved in sports was “sports builds character.”... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Media’s all-out blitz to demonize the unvaccinated
By DAN FAGAN According to a study conducted by the prestigious, King’s College London, the number of symptomatic cases of Covid-19 in the United Kingdom grew more... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: United we stand, divided we fall with race, ethnicity in America
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY In the past, many of my students at Alyeska Central School, the former state correspondence school based in Juneau, and my students at the... Read more.
Pebbled: Prices of metals may mean mining projects have better luck moving ahead
By MARK HAMILTON (Editor’s note: This is the 10th in a series by Mark Hamilton about the history of the Pebble Project in Alaska.) With a significant move upward... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Neo-Marxism and utopian Socialism in America
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY What practical lessons can we learn from history? There is no simple answer to this question because history is a complex subject. History... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Joe Biden’s hidden tax is hitting Alaska hard
By DAN FAGAN If you live in Anchorage and it seems like things are getting more expensive, it’s not your imagination. Inflation is expanding faster in Anchorage... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Why are Alaska’s two U.S. senators advancing Joe Biden’s agenda?
By DAN FAGAN Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton is a fighter. He understands his role as a U.S. Senator from a conservative state is to give his all when it comes... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Young, Sullivan, and Murkowski’s swampiness is costing all Alaskans
By DAN FAGAN Why would Alaska’s Congressional delegation support the Jones Act when it clearly and indisputably significantly drives up the cost of just about... Read more.
Win Gruening: Ranked-choice voting is not that simple
By WIN GRUENING If the election debacle that played out in the New York City’s mayoral race is any indication, Alaska voters may get surprised next year when our... Read more.
Art Chance: National Education Association has zero authority to bargain Critical Race Theory in curriculum
By ART CHANCE 1987 wasn’t the happiest year of my life. I got divorced after 16 years of marriage and became a single father of a teenage daughter. I had to... Read more.
Rick Whitbeck: Alaska’s long-term financial plan sits in the hands of many eco-left-backed legislators
By RICK WHITBECK / POWER THE FUTURE If you look at the “bright side,” one good thing happened to Alaska’s economy this year. The American Rescue Plan... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Religious freedom is guarded by ethnic minorities in America
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Ethnic minorities, religious refugees, and other groups segregated by a dominant society have developed and implemented strategies and tactics... Read more.
Dan Fagan: After 245 years, have we learned nothing about Democrats?
By DAN FAGAN Our beloved nation declared its independence 245 years ago today, July 4, 1776. 85-years after our nation was born, our forefathers were tested once... Read more.
How energy will steer the Alaska Senate race between Murkowski and Tshibaka
By RICK WHITBECK / POWER THE FUTURE In the battle for the United States Senate, all eyes are Alaska. The next 16 months promise to be the most expensive and exciting... Read more.
Dan Fagan: As each day passes, state leaders move further away from reality
By DAN FAGAN It’s easy to drift away from believing what’s real, with all the lies, half-truths, and propaganda swirling around us. Without even realizing... Read more.
Dan Fagan: When it comes to the PFD, they fixed what wasn’t broken
By DAN FAGAN If Legislators followed the law and paid the 2021 Permanent Fund dividend based on the statutory formula that is on the books, each available Alaskan... Read more.
Mark Hamilton: The history of hysteria
By MARK HAMILTON (Editor’s note: This is the ninth in a series by Mark Hamilton about the history of the Pebble Project in Alaska.) I could probably tell how old... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: You’ll find narrow-minded people anywhere, but America is not an anti-Semitic country
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY As a little Jewish boy in Kiev, Ukraine in the 1950s and 1960s, I often questioned myself for the reasons of the anti-Jewish attitude by many... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Conservative legislators should quit covering for RINOs
By DAN FAGAN It’s time for the Alaska Republican Party to come clean with its members and admit too many elected politicians with an R in front of their name are... Read more.
Dan Fagan: They claim they slashed budget by 40%, but here’s what they didn’t tell you
By DAN FAGAN If you live in Republican Sen. Josh Revak’s district, you likely received a flyer from him during his last campaign cycle boasting about the deep... Read more.
Mark Hamilton: Build your media filter based on science, not narrative
By MARK HAMILTON (Editor’s note: This is the eighth in a series by Mark Hamilton about the history of the Pebble Project in Alaska.) We are engaged in a contest... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Is Lisa Murkowski pulling Dan Sullivan to the left?
By DAN FAGAN It stung recently when Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan announced his endorsement of his Senate colleague Lisa Murkowski if she chooses to run for re-election... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Multiculturalism in America, Old Believers in Alaska
Edited by ALEXANDER DOLITSKY The charges that white privilege, systemic racism, and critical race theories are tearing our country apart do not match the facts... Read more.
Win Gruening: Cruise ship tourism, moving forward or looking back?
By WIN GRUENING The unsuccessful effort to gather sufficient signatures for three proposed initiatives limiting cruise visitors to Juneau was a welcome relief to... Read more.
Tim Barto: Why are people not working?
By TIM BARTO Employers want to hire employees but can’t get people to apply for or accept the jobs. This phenomenon is unknown in American history, and it’s... Read more.
Ronald Reagan’s D-Day speech
By THE ANCHORAGE DAILY PLANET On June 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan spoke at the dedication of the U.S. Ranger Monument at Pointe du Hoc, France. In the audience... Read more.
Art Chance: Ashes of our fathers, the Normandy invasion, and the soy boys
By ART CHANCE Let us transport ourselves back 80 years: On Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy all but destroyed the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: A political refugee reflects on significance of the American flag
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Through history, people have used rock drawings, language, a smile or handshakes, music, songs, legends, national flags, and national anthems... Read more.
Pebbled: The environmentalist who cries ‘Wolf!’ is louder than the scientific process
By MARK HAMILTON (Editor’s note: This is the seventh in a series by Mark Hamilton about the history of the Pebble Project in Alaska.) As Alaskans, perhaps more... Read more.
Win Gruening: We pay, they spend, as Juneau Assembly rejects property tax relief
By WIN GRUENING In a recent City and Borough of Juneau Finance Committee meeting, a majority of Assembly members rebuffed an attempt to provide tax relief to local... Read more.
Art Chance: When you wish upon a star
By ART CHANCE Juneau is a nice place to live if you are among the upper levels of the local, state, and federal government and the people who deal with them. ... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: My first days in America as a Soviet immigrant
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY There are decisive episodes, dreams, words, scenes, facial expressions, meetings, smells and other physical and spiritual phenomenon that are... Read more.
Bob Bell: We need a Legislature that looks out for us, not for themselves
By BOB BELL The state legislature is going through a convoluted and dysfunctional budgeting process. Those of us who follow this debacle every year hope for a better... Read more.
May 8: World War II Victory Day, a reminder of the Alaska-Siberia lend-lease role
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY “The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation … It must be a peace which rests on the... Read more.
Pebbled: When the government dictates ‘advanced prohibition’ of any project
By MARK HAMILTON (Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series by Mark Hamilton about the history of the Pebble Project in Alaska.) Part of our collective awareness... Read more.
Bob Bird: FBI raid on innocent couple shows lawlessness at Department of Justice
By BOB BIRD Wednesday’s rogue FBI raid on an innocent couple in Homer is an example of what happens when a lawless and completely illegitimate political party... Read more.
Win Gruening: The $162 million consequences of cruise ship petitions
By WIN GRUENING Like all communities in Alaska, Juneau is looking forward to emerging from the pandemic stronger and healthier than before. After a year... Read more.
Masked for your safety. Really?
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL They congratulated themselves at the Centers for Disease Control when they announced vaccinated people may attend small outdoor gathering without... Read more.
Dan Fagan: We need Dan Sullivan now, more than ever
By DAN FAGAN Leftists are – at their core – first and foremost – above all else – anti-Israel. So, it’s no surprise uber-leftist... Read more.
Dan Sullivan: America stands at strategic crossroads
By U.S. SEN. DAN SULLIVAN We could enact the Biden administration’s climate change policies that would shut down whole industries, provide pink slips to millions... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: Old Believers preserve faith in the new world
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY (Illustration: Vasily Surikov’s Boyarynya Morozova (1887), depicts the defiant Feodosia Morozova during her arrest. Her two raised... Read more.
Art Chance: John Brown and Jim Crow
By ART CHANCE A few years ago I would have said that Jim Crow, like John Brown, lay ‘a moldering in the grave. Comrades Barack Obama, Stacey... Read more.
Craig Campbell: A lesson from Charlie Kirk for Anchorage’s ‘turning point’ election
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL I’m on the road in Dallas for Republican Party training. Before you snipe that “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” let me defend... Read more.
Glen Biegel: Five Covid promises Dave Bronson must make to be mayor of Anchorage
By GLEN BIEGEL Let’s think about the coalition who seek new leadership and an end to the Anchorage mayor’s and Assembly’s dictatorial powers. You might think... Read more.
Pebbled: The secret history of ANWR and the human hand that shaped it
By MARK HAMILTON (Editor’s note: This is the third in a series by Mark Hamilton about the history of the Pebble Project in Alaska.) Very few Alaskans know about... Read more.
Win Gruening: Voter suppression or election integrity? The ‘woke’ battle rages in Georgia
By WIN GRUENING The latest battle in “woke” politics is the hyperbolic response to Georgia’s recently passed voting law. The legislation addresses... Read more.
Craig Campbell: Dunbar’s Anchorage is another San Francisco ‘treat’
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL Some of you may remember the 1960’s television ads for RiceARoni, with the cute jingle, “Rice A Roni – The San Francisco Treat.” ... Read more.
Pebbled: Environmental industry has fear-mongering down to an art
By MARK HAMILTON (Editor’s note: This is the second in a series by Mark Hamilton about the history of the Pebble Project in Alaska.) I’m not going to attempt... Read more.
Art Chance: 50 years, an oil boom, and how we broke the Alaska economy
By ART CHANCE My biological daughter will turn 50 in a few weeks. Her very pregnant mother and I were living in her childhood bedroom in her parents’ house in... Read more.
Boutin: Snow machines on side roads work fine in New Hampshire, so why not here?
By TOMAS BOUTIN The Governor Dunleavy Administration has a proposal to allow people to use off-road and utility vehicles on specific highways. Just over... Read more.
Republicans, the game is being played on your dollar
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO In mid-March, the Alaska Republican Party State Central Committee voted, by a 77% majority, to find that its U.S. Senate incumbent, Lisa Murkowski,... Read more.
Supreme Court packing, under Biden, will have long-lasting effects on the nation
By LANCE PRUITT With everything happening on Friday, one thing thing that went under the radar that should be front and center: President Joe Biden’s executive... Read more.
Pebbled: Virtue signaling won over science in the project of the century for Alaska
By MARK HAMILTON (Editor’s note: This is the first in a series about the history of the Pebble Mine project in Alaska, from the perspective of someone who... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Sen. Sullivan clueless to conservatives’ loathing of Murkowski
By DAN FAGAN Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan took to his Facebook fan page to do some bragging on Monday. “Congressman Young, Sen. Murkowski and I were just... Read more.
Craig Campbell: Delta’s Big Corporate assault on America
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL Do you want to make a difference? Do you believe America is becoming a socialist nation complicit with support from big corporations pandering... Read more.
Basketball brouhaha highlights school board -parent divide
By WIN GRUENING Once again, the Juneau School District found itself at odds with a large group of parents over Covid-19 policies set by the school board and enforced... Read more.
Art Chance: First Amendment protects citizens from government, but when is a government employee just a citizen?
By ART CHANCE Once again, former Assistant Attorney General Libby Bakalar is in the news as Gov. Mike Dunleavy and former Chief of Staff Tuckerman Babcock have filed... Read more.
Craig Campbell: Dave Bronson demonstrated command leadership in the face of impending catastrophe
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL On Sept. 22, 1995, an E-3A Airborne Early Warning Aircraft Systems aircraft with 24 Canadian and US aircrew members onboard departed Elmendorf... Read more.
Power the Future: China-US talks, and nary a word about ‘existential threat’ of climate change
POWER THE FUTURE In the first meeting between top US and Chinese officials under the Biden administration, things started off a bit testy. The mini-summit, held... Read more.
Win Gruening: The State of the Union is a needed American tradition
“Well done is better than well said.”– Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1737 By WIN GRUENING Polarization and divisiveness continue to... Read more.
Craig Campbell: My choice for mayor is Dave Bronson
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s election time again in Anchorage. This current mayoral election will determine if Anchorage has really... Read more.
Art Chance: Those boondoggle fast ferry boats sold for a dime-on-the-dollar
By ART CHANCE I returned to the Executive Branch from the Legislature in December of 1999. It wasn’t a particularly happy reunion; I still disliked and distrusted... Read more.
Dan Fagan: There could be a big surprise on Election Day in Anchorage
By DAN FAGAN If you’ve lost all hope Alaska’s largest city will ever return to the bustling, prosperous, and mostly safe town it once was, consider Michelle... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Some politicians want Alaska’s economy to fail
By DAN FAGAN Alaska lost 23,000 private sector jobs between January of 2020 and January 2021. Roughly 34% of those job losses came from the high paying oil and gas... Read more.
Who is Forrest Dunbar?
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL This mayoral election is one of the most critical elections Anchorage has faced since the mid-1980’s. Who we select for mayor will determine... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Murkowski was denied communion over her stand on abortion
By DAN FAGAN On Monday of this week, a man identifying himself as Ken called my radio talk show claiming Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was denied communion by a Catholic... Read more.
This time, Sen. Lisa Murkowski goes too far
By DAN FAGAN Rep. Deb Haaland, Democrat Congresswoman from New Mexico, is a staunch opponent of oil and gas drilling and an enthusiastic backer of the Green New... Read more.
And to think I grew up near Mulberry Street
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL This past week I experienced an epiphany — you know, events that change the course of your life and enlighten you with self-actualization... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Former DPS Commish says Dunleavy fired her after she demoted politically connected trooper
By DAN FAGAN Former Department of Public Safety Commissioner Amanda Price took a direct shot at Mike Dunleavy on Facebook this week describing the governor as a... Read more.
Is this the year for independent travel in Southeast Alaska?
By WIN GRUENING In my last column, I wrote about the prospects for any kind of a tourism recovery this year in Alaska. The visitor industry, especially in Southeast... Read more.
Serious accusations
By CRAIG MEDRED The story behind the story of the presumed death of former Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium CEO Andy Teuber now in the news is looking more... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Alaska could stand to upgrade Senate seat in 2022 with Kelly Tshibaka
By DAN FAGAN I remember the first time I met Sen. Dan Sullivan. He walked into my studio at KFQD and instantly I knew he was different. I had high expectations... Read more.
Dan Fagan: Did Rasmussen fake outrage over sexism to make her new ‘woke’ friends happy?
By DAN FAGAN Want to make sense of the “woke culture” that’s infected our nation like a cancer? The key is to understand purveyors of wokeness are forever... Read more.
Craig Campbell: Sen. Dan Sullivan deserves recognition for leadership
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL Alaska and America face an unprecedented period of conflict between ideologies, which is polarizing our national politics. Challenges to... Read more.
Gruening: Canada’s gut-punch to Southeast Alaska
By WIN GRUENING 2020 was tough on tourism. Alaska’s cruise industry had the worst year in its history. The global pandemic left thousands... Read more.
Campbell: In politics, your word is your bond
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL In politics it is said that any publicity is good publicity so long as you are not in an obituary. Also in politics, there are two types... Read more.
The Anchorage Assembly’s war on conservatives
By: CRAIG E. CAMPBELL On Tuesday, the Anchorage Assembly will launch the most vicious and unethical action I have ever witnessed by that body. Assembly member... Read more.
Win Gruening: Dunleavy recall, opening Pandora’s box
By WIN GRUENING As a political opposition group renews its effort to gain sufficient signatures to force a recall of Gov. Mike Dunleavy, one can’t help but question... Read more.
Craig Campbell: Laddie Shaw, a true Alaska hero
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL What is it with our state elected officials? We go to the polls to select those who will represent us in Juneau and before the game... Read more.
Alexander Dolitsky: On systemic racism, looking back and forward
By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Recently, the Juneau Assembly initiated an investigation of so-called “systemic racism” in town—although there is no clear evidence of... Read more.
The 20-20 House of 1963
By ART CHANCE Former Speaker of the House Bruce Kendall is no longer wit us, but I lost touch with him after he left the second Hickel Administration and returned... Read more.
Alaska Legislature goes virtual
By WIN GRUENING In some ways, the first regular session of the Alaska State Legislature that gaveled in on Tuesday, Jan. 19, is similar to others in recent years. ... Read more.
Craig Campbell: The end of our democratic republic
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL The past 24 hours will go down in history as one of America’s darkest periods. Raw political power by Democrats who are about to hold absolute... Read more.
What did you do in the war that China just won?
By ART CHANCE I spent a lot of the 1980s and 1990s riding airplanes and sleeping on floors or in hotel rooms for federal and state governments. ... Read more.
Alaska’s vaccine allocation plan charts wise course
By WIN GRUENING Alaska has already differentiated itself during the pandemic by achieving some of the lowest Covid mortality rates in the country. Fortunately, the... Read more.
Is history repeating itself?
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL The 1960s were a turbulent time for America. The Vietnam War was raging, Cuban Missile Crisis nuclear war brinkmanship, President John F.... Read more.
Ghosts of Christmas past
By WIN GRUENING “It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly... Read more.
Win Gruening: Haines disaster a reminder to prepare
By WIN GRUENING A stark reminder of the capriciousness of Mother Nature visited neighboring Haines last week. Record-breaking rainfall triggered a massive landslide that... Read more.
Craig Campbell: Space, Alaska’s final frontier
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL As 2020 comes to a close, and not too soon for me, I am encouraged that a vaccine for the China virus is finally being distributed. President... Read more.
Art Chance: Lawyers, logic, and betting on the Supreme Court decision
By ART CHANCE I’ve been reading the Left’s frothing about the Texas election lawsuit. One published on an NBC News site is an example of just about everything... Read more.
Big losers
By CRAIG MEDRED Unhappy with how the Alaska Board of Fisheries was managing the waters that lap at the doorstep of Alaska’s urban core, the United Cook Inlet... Read more.
Assemblyman Constant goes next-level, accuses Downing of inciting murder
By SCOTT LEVESQUE Anchorage Assembly member Christopher Constant has accused Must Read Alaska publisher Suzanne Downing of trying to get the Assembly “killed.”... Read more.
Anchorage easing on church gatherings is result of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death
MUNI ATTORNEY EXPLAINS: NEW COURT HAS NEW FOCUS ON RIGHTS By SCOTT LEVESQUE Anchorage’s acting mayor retained her authority on Tuesday to keep the city’s... Read more.
Dunleavy: Vaccines on the way to Alaska, no mandates
By SCOTT LEVESQUE Appearing on the Must Read Alaska Show podcast, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said that Alaska would receive close to 100,000 doses of the COVID-19... Read more.
Unmasking the mask, and undoing the mandates
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL Caretaker Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson tested positive for COVID-19. I am certain we all wish her a quick recovery and that she will not experience... Read more.
Bill Satterberg: Alaska needs judicial selection reform now
By WILLIAM R. SATTERBERG JR. I have been practicing both civil and criminal law since 1976. For several years, I have been asked why I did not become a judge. There... Read more.
Campbell: The path to socialism has started
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL You might at first think Caretaker Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson is showing compassion in her announcement today to provide food vouchers to those... Read more.
Art Chance: Dred Scott decision made war inevitable in 1857; will 2021 be another watershed year?
By ART CHANCE The year 2020 seems poised to join 1857 as a watershed year in American History. From the Founding, America’s irrepressible conflict had... Read more.
Fagan: Will Dunleavy cower to the media over Dave Stieren?
By DAN FAGAN The fear of COVID-19 has created more pain, suffering, and death than the virus itself. The solution has been worse than the problem. The media’s... Read more.
Campbell: Dunbar is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
By: CRAIG E CAMPBELL Yesterday I was driving down Muldoon Road when I saw a most scary sign. Right there at the intersection of Muldoon and... Read more.
Campbell: It’s time to flip the school board
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL When I moved to Alaska in 1981, we had one of the finest school systems in the nation, ranked second to only Connecticut. Today... Read more.
Gruening: We can’t afford to wait any longer to open our schools
By WIN GRUENING Is anyone paying attention? Scientific evidence continues to mount that K-through-12 schools can operate with face-to-face learning and do so safely... Read more.
Fagan: Anchorage’s Leftist Assembly is the result of mail-in elections
By DAN FAGAN It’s as if we’re different species. Anchorage Assembly members Christopher Constant, Kameron Perez-Verdia, Felix Rivera, Meg Zaletal, Forrest Dunbar,... Read more.
Craig Campbell: The ‘Make America Weak Again’ doctrine of Joe Biden
ALASKA’S MILITARY ASSETS COULD BE ON CHOPPING BLOCK By CRAIG CAMPBELL I’m not ready to accept that President Donald Trump did not win re-election. I just... Read more.
Fagan: What fear-mongering media isn’t telling you about COVID in Alaska
By DAN FAGAN Here’s some information you won’t read in the Anchorage Daily News or KTUU about COVID-19 and the virus’ impact on Alaska. Wyoming residents are... Read more.
With Ballot Measure 1 defeated, drilling begins again on North Slope
By DAN FAGAN ConocoPhillips has, for the most part, shut down much of its drilling this year knowing the potential passing of Ballot Measure One would price the... Read more.
The hits just keep on coming from the Anchorage Cabal
By CRAIG CAMPBELL Watching the politically out-of-control Anchorage Assembly continue to denigrate the esteemed role of local government with their quest for power... Read more.
Fagan: Outsiders manipulate Alaska elections, benefit Democrats
By DAN FAGAN Lower-48 purveyors of dark money dumped close to $50 million into Alaska this election cycle hoping to accomplish three things: Buy a seat in the U.S.... Read more.
Gross polling malpractice and the propaganda machine
By SCOTT LEVESQUE With nearly 95% of the votes accounted for in Alaska’s 2020 General Election, it’s over for U.S. Senate candidate Alan Gross. As the... Read more.
Local governments need to take a hard look at revenues
By WIN GRUENING With the national election behind us, it’s again time to turn our attention to the local economy. Trump may be conceding, but the pandemic will... Read more.
Medred: Grossly out of touch
By CRAIG MEDRED One of the most misguided political campaigns in Alaska state history was drawing to a close today with Dr. Al Gross still holding out hope for a... Read more.
Tshibaka: From a nation divided to a nation united
A CALL FOR A PRUDENT PAUSE BEFORE DECLARING A WINNER By KELLY TSHIBAKA A house divided cannot stand. Today, our nation’s deep divisions threaten the integrity... Read more.
Reinbold wonders if Dunleavy should step aside, calls his mandates ‘socialist’
By DAN FAGAN Republican Sen. Lora Reinbold is measured, calm, mild-mannered, and agreeable – said no one ever. Reinbold is a pint-sized fighter. But when she... Read more.
Muni Attorney, Clerk deny two more recall petitions
By SCOTT LEVESQUE The acting mayor of Anchorage shall not be recalled — at least not this acting mayor, and not by this petition request. The Anchorage Municipal... Read more.
Fagan: It’s time to call evil, evil again
Former President Ronald Reagan spoke with great authority in West Germany in 1987 when he demanded Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tear down the very symbol of 20th Century... Read more.
Lawyered up: Trump, Biden raising money for legal fight
By SCOTT LEVESQUE Joe Biden is raising money for a likely legal fight from President Donald Trump over election results in several states. The website entitled Biden... Read more.
Fraud alert: Election system needs greater protection against corruption
By CRAIG E CAMPBELL Do you think the election process in America is corrupt? The process unfolding in Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania and other states is confirming,... Read more.
Massachusetts turns down ranked choice voting, but will Alaska do the same?
By SCOTT LEVESQUE Massachusetts voters have rejected the adoption of rank choice voting. With 99% of the vote accounted for, Question 2 lost by a margin of 55% to... Read more.
More states decriminalize pot, and Oregon goes for LSD, heroin, meth, cocaine
By SCOTT LEVESQUE A nationwide push to temper drug laws saw big victories in several states this week. Oregon voted to decriminalize small amounts of hard drugs,... Read more.
In Homer, an election watch party cheers Vance on election night
By CASSIE LAWVER Rep. Sarah Vance’s election watch party at Land’s End in Homer was the place to be on Tuesday night after a long and contentious election... Read more.
Fagan: The truth behind ADN’s shady endorsement — follow the money
By DAN FAGAN Most journalists understand following the money is the quickest way to answer the question of why. Journalists should be asking the owner of the Anchorage... Read more.
Campbell: It took only one week for nanny mayor to go after Anchorage businesses?
By CRAIG CAMPBELL It only took one week for our new leftist acting mayor to proclaim her totalitarian control over we plebiscites. Many of us predicted she would... Read more.
Liz Snyder staffer voted in Snyder’s district, but doesn’t seem to live there
SHADES OF REP. LEDOUX VOTING ESCAPADE By SCOTT LEVESQUE A key staffer on Liz Snyder’s campaign for House District 27 is raising eyebrows after appearing to... Read more.
Gruening: Experience and accomplishment beat dishonesty every time
By WIN GRUENING Alaska’s 2020 U. S. Senate race has turned into one of the most negative I’ve ever seen. Alan Gross, the Democrat nominee, has set a new low... Read more.
Fagan: LaFrance weaves a tangled web; deception her only path to victory
By DAN FAGAN Suzanne LaFrance sits on the Anchorage Assembly. She leans hard-left and enabled disgraced former Mayor Ethan Berkowitz and his unprecedented tyrannical... Read more.
Craig Campbell: Are we witnessing a coup d’état against America?
By: CRAIG E. CAMPBELL We are one week away from the most significant election since the Civil War. The sides are clearly divided, with stark differences in their... Read more.
Loren Leman: Empty promises of Ballot Measure 2
By LOREN LEMAN I spent four years overseeing Alaska’s elections as lieutenant governor. During that time, as well as my earlier years as a legislator, I developed... Read more.
Alaska Day – an alternative history of a unique holiday
WHAT IF THE RUSSIANS HAD SOLD IT TO CANADA? By MURRAY WALSH It is good to have an Alaska Day. There are lots of ways to contemplate the origins of our state and... Read more.
Campbell: Good luck, Acting Mayor Quinn-Davidson
By CRAIG CAMPBELL The speed at which politics has been spinning these past eight months is enough to make one dizzy to the point of vomiting. Now, I don’t want... Read more.
Civics 101: How we elect our president with the Electoral College, Congress, and you
By SCOTT LEVESQUE On Nov. 3, many Americans will be glued to their television or computer screens, watching the “results” of this year’s presidential... Read more.
Gruening: When will our schools reopen?
By WIN GRUENING If you haven’t bookmarked this website, you should: CovidActNow.org. It shows that while Alaska is experiencing increasing Covid risk... Read more.
Fagan: Governor breaks silence on ballot measures, Ethan Berkowitz
By DAN FAGAN After months of virtual silence over major controversial issues facing Alaska, Gov. Michael Dunleavy finally came out from his basement. Dunleavy had... Read more.
Mayor retains emergency powers despite opposition
By SCOTT LEVESQUE The resignation of Mayor Ethan Berkowitz, announced Tuesday at the Anchorage Assembly meeting by his Chief of Staff Jason Bockenstedt, overshadowed... Read more.
Fagan: Berkowitz has no one to blame but himself
By DAN FAGAN Ethan Berkowitz has left his position as mayor in disgrace. But it’s not just his extramarital affair with a former news anchor that will forever... Read more.
Should the mayor get extended emergency powers until January? Assembly to decide on Tuesday
By SCOTT LEVESQUE The Anchorage Assembly will vote Tuesday on whether to extend Mayor Ethan Berkowitz’s executive powers through Dec. 31. The request, AR 2020-379,... Read more.
Tavoliero: We need the Permanent Fund dividend
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO I don’t buy into the declaration of “It’s time to end the Permanent Fund dividend.” We are spending in 2021 over $12... Read more.
New Anchorage tax would add body-cams for cops to increase transparency
By SCOTT LEVESQUE The Municipality of Anchorage’s Public Safety Committee and Mayor Ethan Berkowitz are proposing a new $1.84 million special tax ordinance... Read more.
Is Big Mike back?
By DAN FAGAN If you’ve ever experienced a hot, muggy summer day outside in the deep south, you know the misery the oppressive heat brings. But then out of... Read more.
Campbell: Tide is turning toward liberty
By CRAIG CAMPBELL Every public conflict reaches a climatic point where decisive action leads the way to closure. In 2020 the coronavirus pandemic has created a... Read more.
What won’t Murkowski do to return to the Swamp?
Ballot Measure 2’s main purpose is not to rid Alaska politics of so-called dark money as its proponents claim. Far from it. Backers of the 25-page, confusing,... Read more.
Fairbanks City, North Pole candidate review
By SCOTT LEVESQUE In addition to Fairbanks Borough Assembly and School Board seats on Tuesday’s ballot, the Fairbanks City Council and North Pole City Council... Read more.
Better late than never, Assembly to let $10 million more for small businesses
By SCOTT LEVESQUE Three Assembly members on Friday proposed an additional $10 million in CARES Act funds to help Anchorage’s small businesses. It’s a... Read more.
Ballot Measures 1 and 2 are just wrong for Alaska
By WIN GRUENING Historically, Alaskans have always bristled at attempts by outsiders to control our state’s destiny to advance their own agenda. We persevered... Read more.
Walker effect: Nearly a third of Alaskans on Medicaid
By DAN FAGAN How bad was former Gov. Bill Walker for the state of Alaska? Let me count the ways. He was certainly one of the most consequential governors in Alaska’s... Read more.
Campbell: Assembly usurps executive powers on policing as a step to micro-managing
By CRAIG CAMPBELL In 1993 West Anchorage elected a moderate Democrat to the Anchorage Assembly. He was a card-carrying union guy, working in the construction... Read more.
Fagan: The Left controls the courts in Alaska
Did you know a small, close-knit group of hard Leftists firmly control one-third of Alaska’s government? They operate under the name Alaska Bar Association, and... Read more.
Campbell: Busting the liberal climate change narrative
By CRAIG CAMPBELL I was out on my deck the other day, a nice fall afternoon in Eagle River, enjoying the beautiful view of autumn leaves changing to a brilliant... Read more.
Robin Brena’s dirty little secret
Why would a single Alaskan cough up $1 million of his own cash to push a ballot initiative? That’s what Anchorage trial lawyer Robin Brena has done. What’s in... Read more.
Murray Walsh: Vote ‘no’ on Ballot Measure 2
By MURRAY WALSH ‘Yes on 2’ made a presentation at the Juneau Chamber of Commerce in a Zoom meeting, which I attended. I have said in an earlier column... Read more.
Hey LaFrance, stop lying and deceiving the voters with ‘nonpartisan’ label
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO Alaska District 28 is a voting district that spans from Anchorage midtown to Girdwood. It is remarkably similar in size to Anchorage... Read more.
Anchorage’s Leftist cabal
By CRAIG CAMPBELL The current Anchorage Assembly majority is the perfect definition of an oligarchy in lock-step with Mayor Berkowitz. I like Webster’s... Read more.
What makes an Alaskan ‘authentic’?
By WIN GRUENING It’s become a bit tiresome watching the constant barrage of political ads and op-eds claiming a candidate isn’t really “Alaskan” and thus... Read more.
Why does liberal billionaire George Soros back so-called independent Al Gross?
Alaska, your country needs you now more than ever. Our nation’s cold civil war is raging. The next major battle in the conflict comes November 3, when Americans... Read more.
In ‘Forrer’ decision, Alaska Supreme Court gets it right
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO I have not been a fan of the Alaska Supreme Court. In my non-legal opinion, they have seldom gotten things right for the conservative... Read more.
Dance party protest goes footloose on mayor’s ban on dancing and loud music
By SCOTT LEVESQUE It’s not every day you witness a conga line forming in the middle of a political demonstration, but that’s what happened Tuesday evening... Read more.
‘Cuties’ culture war ramps up as pedophilia normalized
By DAN FAGAN If you’re looking for a reason to hold out hope for the future, here’s something: The Left, Democrats, and their media allies have done lost their... Read more.
Anchorage Daily News just hit a new low
By DAN FAGAN It’s no secret the Anchorage Daily News is run by men and women of the Left. The paper’s bias against conservative ideas and values is glaring,... Read more.
Anatomy of a joyless Leftist
By DAN FAGAN Those who view America as a vile racist and oppressive nation are not interested in hearing otherwise. Challenge them. Go ahead and try. You’ll see... Read more.
Saying America is systemically racist is a destructive lie
By DAN FAGAN Too many believe our nation is fundamentally unfair, oppressive to minorities, and raging with racial injustice. That belief was on full display as... Read more.
Is new Juneau debt a good idea?
By WIN GRUENING In recent years, Juneau’s Assembly has disregarded voters’ wishes on sales tax and bond issue propositions. One need only look at the approved... Read more.
Constantly misguided assemblyman says racism is ‘baked into our community’
By DAN FAGAN Are you a racist? I’m not either. Are your friends racist? Yeah, neither are mine. So where are all these racists Democrats warn us about? They constantly... Read more.
The thankless generation
The poisonous ideology of Leftism is frying the brains of America’s youth. It’s a cult, and is filling a generation of young people with uncontrollable rage.... Read more.
Dave Bronson is opposite of Mayor Ethan Berkowitz
By DAN FAGAN The latest guy to run for mayor in Anchorage is a conservative’s conservative. Dave Bronson is a former U.S. Air Force pilot and recently retired... Read more.
Our only solution: Decentralize Anchorage
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO “The era of big government is over. But we cannot go back to the time when our citizens were left to fend for themselves. Instead, we must... Read more.
Hundreds gather to protest Anchorage Assembly
By SCOTT LEVESQUE Hundreds gathered outside the Loussac Library on Tuesday afternoon to protest two proposed ordinances: AO 2020-65, prohibiting “conversion... Read more.
Lawsuit over locked meetings? Allard plans to sue Anchorage Assembly
By DAN FAGAN Assembly member Jamie Allard is showing us how it’s done when it comes to battling extreme, crazy, tyrannically bent leftists. Never in the history... Read more.
The Perfect Cup cafe gone as Assembly sits on CARES Act funds
By DAN FAGAN There’s no state in the nation with fewer COVID-19 related deaths per capita than Alaska. Thus far, in 2020, 99.996% of Alaskans have escaped death... Read more.
Out-of-control Assembly of excessive progressives
By CRAIG E. CAMPBELL A few weeks ago I wrote a column asking where was the Anchorage Assembly at providing the checks and balances expected of a legislative body... Read more.
Attacking systemic racism or adding more bureaucracy?
JUNEAU’S ASSEMBLY APPEARS READY TO TAKE BUREAUCRACY PATH By WIN GRUENING Following months of racial unrest and protests, the country is struggling with Black... Read more.
Giessel was her own undoing
PRIMARY 2020 ANALYSIS What a bloodbath! Even though tens of thousands of absentee ballots have yet to be counted, some incumbents took such a beating Tuesday, 60,000... Read more.
High Senate stakes: Voters feel frayed and betrayed
PART II: GIESSEL, COGHILL, VON IMHOF Alaska voters, especially conservative Republicans are angry, frustrated, and feeling betrayed. On Tuesday, many will look for... Read more.
Are House GOP turncoats in trouble? Tuesday will tell
ANALYSIS OF THE HOUSE PRIMARY Tuesday is Primary Election day. Some Republicans are banking on short memories from voters. Two years ago, Alaska voters sent more... Read more.
The year of our discontent
Unless you were a college sophomore or some mind-numbed, America-hating leftist with chronic Trump Derangement Syndrome, America was a good place and generally optimistic... Read more.
Anchorage is Exhibit A for an unfolding civil war
By DAN FAGAN These are serious times. So serious, we’re at war. It’s a civil war. 155-years have passed since our last one. Our second civil war is well underway. ... Read more.
Trump endorses Young
By SCOTT LEVESQUE President Donald Trump jumped on Twitter this afternoon to pen a glowing endorsement of Rep. Don Young as the Congressman seeks re-election this... Read more.
School closures – based on science or fear?
By WIN GRUENING With the school year beginning and coronavirus not yet gone, getting America’s kids back to school full-time presents a major challenge. With... Read more.
Pray tell: Where is the Anchorage Assembly?
By CRAIG CAMPBELL These are trying times for Anchorage. Coronavirus continues to spread, creating a challenging political environment for elected officials to... Read more.
Another solution for Anchorage homelessness
By DAN SULLIVAN, FORMER MAYOR OF ANCHORAGE There has been extensive discussion over the last number of weeks regarding a plan put forth by the municipal administration... Read more.
Cops who are kicked to the curb won’t vote for Biden
There is a fable of unknown origin about a scorpion and a frog. The scorpion wants to cross a stream but cannot swim; the scorpion asks the frog for a ride a ride... Read more.
Anchorage gay politicos abuse power by taking choice away from parents
Hypothetical: A teenager is raised as a born-again Christian. He has doubts about his faith and would like to see a counselor to help wean him off his religious... Read more.
The bad plan offered by Ballot Measure 2
OUTSIDE MONEY ENGAGES IN POLITICAL TRICKERY IN ALASKA By SEAN PARNELL AND MARK BEGICH The Covid crisis has increased interest in improving America’s election system.... Read more.
Three ways to start an online business in uncertain times
With little money, you can try your hand and creativity at an online store.... Read more.
A healthy economy will help us defeat the coronavirus
By WIN GRUENING In a few short months, the pandemic upended the world as we knew it. Our routine of work, school, travel, grocery shopping, medical visits,... Read more.
Had enough, Anchorage?
Anchorage has become a lawless city under the leadership of Mayor Ethan Berkowitz and the mostly hard left-leaning members of the Assembly. Just ask Eric Connick,... Read more.
Lessons from literature: We have no place left to run
Doctor Zhivago is to the Cold War as Gone With the Wind is to the American Civil War. Both stories reduce epochal events to love stories. Yuri Zhivago and Rhett... Read more.
Berkowitz creates new Office of Leftist Virtue Signaling
Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz and his mostly left-leaning counterparts on the Assembly have the maturity level of a small spoiled child. You remember when you... Read more.
Dismantling statues is easy, but solutions are harder
By WIN GRUENING The images on our television screens showing Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests are difficult to watch. Listening to personal stories of people impacted... Read more.
‘Tenting tonight’ at Gettysburg
By ART CHANCE It’s the title of a song from the Civil War era, in which the singer laments the peaceful times when “the boys” tented on the old campground. ... Read more.
Millennials: Get out of your comfort zone to succeed
By JOHN QUICK / MUST READ AMERICA The majority of large companies in the United States are not owned and run by millennials, but they employ them. As a millennial,... Read more.
Seward statue: Preserve our history, don’t tear it down
By WIN GRUENING Calls to take down the statue of William Henry Seward from the Court Plaza across from the Capitol in downtown Juneau accelerated after a petition... Read more.
Full force of government: Anchorage ordinance would prohibit ‘conversion’ therapy
By DAN FAGAN Three Anchorage Assembly members introduced an ordinance Tuesday that would make it illegal for counselors to help teenagers seeking to overcome unwanted... Read more.
Anchorage Daily News endorses race-based discrimination
By DAN FAGAN The Anchorage Daily News editorial board published a column Sunday entitled, “A long-overdue reckoning.” In it, the board openly called for business... Read more.
Millennials taking over the workplace: 3 things to know
By JOHN QUICK Now that America is hiring again, it’s time to take a look at our workforce because it will look very different from here on out. Millennials are... Read more.
First Amendment rights? Only for the Left
By WIN GRUENING Americans were horrified by the senseless killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer. Subsequently, Americans... Read more.
Murkowski defection: Are her swamp days numbered?
By DAN FAGAN Want to become an instant hero with the leftist media? Carry an “R” behind your name and slam our president. CNN headline, June 5, 2020: “This... Read more.
Allow legislators to vote their conscience
By DAN FAGAN When a candidate promises one thing and does another, what’s a voter to do? I don’t remember anyone running for the Legislature promising to raid... Read more.
America slipping the surly bonds of earth once again
By ART CHANCE I’m a product of the “pay any price, bear any burden” generation. I watched President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration on the black-and-white... Read more.
Berkowitz virtue signals as he destroys Anchorage
By DAN FAGAN Virtue signaling politicians are destructive, dangerous, and deadly. For example, the Municipality of Anchorage looks the other way when it comes to... Read more.
Of Memorial Days past
By ART CHANCE I grew up in rural Georgia in the Fifties and Sixties. I grew up with ghosts in the closet. Old family Southerners could rattle off what company, regiment,... Read more.
Of masks and guns
AS WITH GUNS, ONLY PROTECTIVE IF USED PROPERLY By CRAIG MEDRED If you live in Alaska, there are situations in which a firearm just might save you from being mauled... Read more.
Alaska’s road to recovery
TIME TO BUILD THE LYNN CANAL HIGHWAY By WIN GRUENING According to Mouhcine Guettabi, an economist with the UAA Institute of Social and Economic Research, it’s... Read more.
Have they no shame?
By ART CHANCE I had to get married to get my checkbook balanced, but I knew enough about the Executive Budget Act and State budgeting processes to ask questions... Read more.
Come to the cabaret
IT’S TIME TO RELEASE AMERICA FROM HOUSE ARREST By ART CHANCE Those of us who know anything of Weimar Germany know it from the play and movie, “Cabaret.”... Read more.
Banning books
By CRAIG MEDRED When and how was it that American journalists became so contumelious toward the U.S. working class? On second thought, let me rephrase that... Read more.
Pick priorities, not winners and losers, to plug Juneau’s budget gap
By WIN GRUENING Alaskans are beginning to realize the true dimensions of the economic challenges we face in recovering from this pandemic. Initially, federal, state,... Read more.
Rainy Day Fund exists and it’s raining, already
By ART CHANCE It’s Raining Those of us who’ve been in Alaska longer than the day before yesterday remember when the Permanent Fund was cast as a “Rainy Day... Read more.
West Side Story: There’s a place for us
By ART CHANCE One benefit of being incarcerated at home is you get to watch some of those obscure cable channels you pay for. While mindlessly browsing through channels... Read more.
Finance co-chair doesn’t trust rural Alaskans with early P-Fund dividend
By ANDREW JENSEN “Have you ever been to the villages at dividend time?” That was the question posed to me during a phone call from House Finance Co-Chair Jennifer... Read more.
Fraught with peril: State workers clocking in at home
By ART CHANCE I read with interest the MRAK story about Superior Court Judge Matthews siding with the State in denying the Alaska State Employees’ Association’s... Read more.
Flattening the curve without flattening the economy
By WIN GRUENING In the space of a few short months, our world has been abruptly upended. On March 11, the World Health Organization officially declared the coronavirus... Read more.
Oh, rats! Those who don’t know history are bound …
By ART CHANCE In the early Sixth Century CE, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian had almost restored Roman control over the Western Roman Empire. The Franks, Lombards,... Read more.
Roads don’t rust
TO SAVE FERRIES, SOUTHEAST NEEDS MORE ROAD CONNECTORS By WIN GRUENING It has been said that, “A boat is a hole in the water into which you throw money.” This... Read more.
A mine is a terrible thing to waste
By WIN GRUENING “It is our duty as Alaskans to be at the forefront of climate change mitigation strategies and new resource opportunities.” – Alaska Center... Read more.
Old times, not forgotten
GONE WITH THE WIND IS ABOUT THE END OF A CULTURE By ART CHANCE The latest thing to “trigger” fake news talking heads and other crazy leftists is President Donald... Read more.
‘Call of the Wild’: An allegory of Alaska political life
‘KILLING SPITZ’ MEANS ELECTING REAL REPUBLICANS By ART CHANCE Watching movie trailers for the “Call of the Wild” started me thinking about what I... Read more.
Lisa Murkowski proves herself; impeachment fiasco proves something else
By WIN GRUENING After months of hearings, mountains of evidence and mostly second-hand witness testimony, the impeachment inquiry and trial of the President this... Read more.
Facts, not myths needed when it comes to cruise ships
By WIN GRUENING Community discussions about cruise tourism impacts are most credible when focused on facts and solutions. They need to remain positive and avoid... Read more.
Sen. Giessel gives vision of next session in front of resource crowd
THE QUEST FOR THE $100 BILLION PERMANENT FUND By ART CHANCE I can’t remember the last time I was up bright and early for a 7 am meeting, but there I was at the... Read more.
Appeasement and conflict
SPECIAL INTERESTS IN A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL By ART CHANCE A friend in a political discussion group I participate in posed a question to the group: What motivates political... Read more.
It took decades to write this
REFLECTIONS ON A WONDROUS JOURNEY FROM RURAL GEORGIA By ART CHANCE On Jan. 1, 2020, I enter my ninth decade on this rock. Depending on how you count it, it could... Read more.
The ACLU huffs and puffs
By ART CHANCE The ACLU has sent a “Don’t make us sue you” threat to Gov. Mike Dunleavy over his not rehiring an exempt agency employee who worked at the Alaska... Read more.
Review: ‘White Christmas’ musical showcases strong pipes, weak strings of Valley Performing Arts
By ART CHANCE I had never actually seen a real white Christmas until I came to Alaska in 1974. I first saw the movie White Christmas in the 1960s; movies... Read more.
Thankful for the historians
By WIN GRUENING This is the time of year when America enjoys turkey, football, floats, family reunions, and Black Friday shopping. The “first Thanksgiving,”... Read more.
Movie Review: ‘Ford vs. Ferrari’ victory lap
By ART CHANCE “Go like hell.” That was Carroll Hall Shelby’s instruction to his driver, Ken Miles, at the 24 hours of Daytona, when Ford Motor Company’s... Read more.
Hatch Act ‘to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities’ is unenforced
By ART CHANCE Political activity by public employees and use of public employees by public officers for political ends has been a vexatious issue since the beginning... Read more.
Is capping cruise ship visitors a good idea?
By WIN GRUENING The idea of imposing a cap on the number of cruise ships and visitors allowed in Juneau has once again been raised. The concept was... Read more.
Juneau budget: NGO gift shops exempt from sales tax
THE RISE OF THE NONPROFIT (NO TAX REVENUE) GIFT SHOPS By WIN GRUENING In a recent Assembly Finance Committee meeting, Jeff Rogers, City and Borough of Juneau Finance... Read more.
Theater review: Valley Performing Arts delivers on spine-tingling production
OPENING NIGHT OF ‘THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE’ By ART CHANCE, THEATER REVIEWER I visited Valley Performing Arts in Wasilla for the opening night of “The... Read more.
Deep state II: State benefits for temp-exempts is illegal
By ART CHANCE Continued from Sunday’s “Department of Work Around It” We tried to clean up some of the personnel mess during the Murkowski Administration... Read more.
State of Alaska’s Deep State — ‘Division of Work Around It’
By ART CHANCE I keep waiting for the day that there is someone in the Dunleavy Administration who is ideologically and personally loyal to the governor and the agenda... Read more.
The two faces of Janus
By ART CHANCE Mark Janus was an Illinois teacher who didn’t like his compulsory union dues being used for the political activities his union chose. He took the... Read more.
Reducing subsidy for ferries will keep system afloat
By WIN GRUENING One of the most vehement fiscal debates this year concerned reductions to the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) budget. Initially, the Dunleavy... Read more.
Which way is the courthouse?
By ART CHANCE We now have dueling lawsuits and dueling op-eds in Pravda, excuse me, the Anchorage Daily News, about the State’s actions to implement the US Supreme... Read more.
Mayor Jim Matherly: Will he fend off Kathryn Dodge in Fairbanks mayor’s race?
MOST WATCHED RACE IN THE STATE FOR OCT. 1 By KOBE RIZK Incumbent Fairbanks mayor Jim Matherly will face off with Democrat Kathryn Dodge in Fairbanks’ municipal... Read more.
Juneau Assembly hijacking taxpayers on JACC
By WIN GRUENING Assembly members have a fiduciary responsibility to ensure that city-owned and taxpayer-funded facilities essential to Juneau’s role as a capital... Read more.
Kenai teachers unions run the healthcare plan, and want taxpayers to pay for it
By ART CHANCE I have trouble taking teacher strikes seriously; they’re generally either the result of hysteria or they’re a charade, and sometimes there is some... Read more.
The mountain has labored and brought forth a mouse
By ART CHANCE The mountain that labored and brought forth a mouse is an old Greek proverb that goes back to Aesop. It refers to great promises and great... Read more.
More state budget cuts coming — will Alaskans be ready?
By WIN GRUENING SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR Gov. Michael Dunleavy’s quest to balance the state budget reached its first milestone. On Aug. 19, Dunleavy achieved what... Read more.
Educational changes will happen through local involvement
By WIN GRUENING SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR Much of the consternation about proposed state budget vetoes this year centers around those related to education. Indeed, the... Read more.
MRAK Almanac: Fairs and festivals this weekend
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MRAK Almanac: National Endowment for the Arts chairwoman in Juneau
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MRAK Almanac: Taste of Alaska with Don Young
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Let’s pitch in and help the Glory Hall meet the needs of the homeless
By WIN GRUENING For most Juneau residents, our community is a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family. Our magnificent scenery, small footprint, cultural... Read more.
MRAK Almanac: Seward Silver Salmon Derby
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MRAK Almanac: Fairbanks to become Purple Heart City
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MRAK Almanac: Tanana Valley State Fair
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MRAK Almanac: Ketchikan Blueberry Fest; Valdez Gold Rush Days
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Anchorage Economic Development Corp: We like PFDs, sometimes
BY KOBE RIZK The Anchorage Economic Development Corporation released its annual 3-Year Outlook Report Wednesday in a star-studded lunch meeting at the Dena’ina... Read more.
MRAK Almanac: Meet an astronaut in Homer; Gold Rush Days in Valdez
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In contentious meeting, UA regents approve path to single accreditation
By KOBE RIZK In an 8-3 vote and after hours of discussion, the University of Alaska Board of Regents directed UA President Jim Johnsen to pursue a single-accreditation... Read more.
MRAK Almanac: Board of Regents meets, Mat-Su Miners final home game of season
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Is this the right time to JACC up taxes?
By WIN GRUENING During recent deliberations, Juneau Assembly members reviewed a list of pending projects that have been submitted for financial support in the near... Read more.
MRAK Almanac: Ted Stevens Day – Get Out and Play!
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MRAK Almanac: Southeast Alaska State Fair
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MRAK Almanac: Juneau considers taxes, UA regents consider exigency
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MRAK Almanac: Moon landing, Hammond birthday
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MRAK Almanac: Testify, eat pie, drink coffee edition
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MRAK Almanac: Molly of Denali edition
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Earthquakes, vetoes, municipal budgets
BY WIN GRUENING On Nov. 30, Alaska’s southcentral region experienced a magnitude 7.0 earthquake ranked as the second most damaging in our state’s history. ... Read more.
MRAK Almanac: Bear Paw Festival Edition
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MRAK Almanac: Wildfire record?
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MRAK Almanac: Rallies for PFD, others for state spending
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MRAK Almanac: Peonies on parade
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MRAK Almanac: What’s happening on the 3rd and 4th of July in Alaska?
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American exceptionalism, patriotic assimilation, and the Fourth of July
By WIN GRUENING SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR On July 4, 1776, a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, steeple bells rang throughout Philadelphia. John... Read more.
MRAK Almanac: Bird watchers gather in Anchorage; assemblies tackle taxes
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MRAK Almanac: The ‘sleep when we die’ edition
PRODUCED BY KOBE RIZK The MRAK Almanac is your place for political, cultural, and civic events, events where you’ll meet political leaders or, if you are interested... Read more.
MRAK Almanac: Food bloggers converge on Juneau
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MRAK Almanac: Anchorage Assembly to talk trash, homeless solutions
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MRAK Almanac: Wasilla air show; GCI’s best dad jokes
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MRAK Almanac: Ship Creek combat fishing
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MRAK Almanac: Alyeska bike park open; Human Rights Commission rides again
PRODUCED BY KOBE RIZK The MRAK Almanac is your place for political, cultural, and civic events, events where you’ll meet political leaders or, if you are interested... Read more.
MRAK Almanac: Mystery of the Franklin Expedition; Noel Wien’s birthday
By KOBE RIZK The MRAK Almanac is your place for political, cultural, and civic events, events where you’ll meet political leaders or, if you are interested in... Read more.
MRAK Almanac: Dunleavy to hold PFD ‘Rally in the Valley’
Thank you, 1st Strike (Click here for more info on this equipment auction). By KOBE RIZK The MRAK Almanac is your place for political, cultural, and civic events,... Read more.
MRAK Almanac: The Turnagain bore ‘spring tide’ edition
By KOBE RIZK The MRAK Almanac is your place for political, cultural, and civic events, events where you’ll meet political leaders or, if you are interested in... Read more.
MRAK Almanac: Dunleavy town hall on Facebook, Pacific Island Fest
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MRAK Almanac: Last chance for Denali Road Lottery
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MRAK Almanac: Epic Memorial Day Weekend Edition
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MRAK Almanac: Ramping up for Memorial Day weekend; who’s on Denali this week?
The MRAK Almanac is your place for political, cultural, and civic events, events where you’ll meet political leaders or, if you are interested in getting to know... Read more.
Alaska Gasline corporation in retrograde
JOURNAL DETAILS WALKER’S PIPELINE HISTORY An Alaska Journal of Commerce editorial this week has a devastating breakdown of how the Alaska Gasline Development... Read more.
Murkowski powers through fundraising
TAKING NO CHANCES In another sign that she takes nothing for granted anymore when it comes to voters, Sen. Lisa Murkowski has raked in more than $730,000 during... Read more.
Alaska oil production up, thanks to SB 21
THAT’S GREAT; NOW LET’S DO IT AGAIN In the way-back machine, we check back to 1978: U.S. Senate voted to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control.... Read more.
Gasline czar Keith Meyer to face panel
SUMMER IS GRILLING SEASON The new head of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation will on Wednesday get his first chance to meet with the Senate Natural Resources... Read more.
Media covers the Alice Rogoff story
BAR NAPKIN CONTRACTS MAKE THE BEST LEADS With Hopfinger v. Rogoff, time and money are on Alice Rogoff’s side. While we wait, news writers find the story fascinating. After... Read more.
Walker’s signature bill fails with The People
LEGISLATURE IS NOT THE PROBLEM In the end, Governor Bill Walker was just unable to make his case with the people of Alaska on his Permanent Fund restructuring bill,... Read more.
SB 128: Imperfect solution, but at least a solution
ALASKA, THIS IS AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT We are in a recession. There – we acknowledged the grenade on the table. Now, to explain: In the best of all possible... Read more.
