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Alaska’s state agencies continue to operate with pre-COVID levels of travel and outreach expenditures despite tightened fiscal realities. This section targets savings from administrative travel, ...
President Trump has an opportunity to reform the government in our country like has never before been possible in my lifetime. He will need a strong and determined Republican Party to help him achieve ...
Bob Bird ran for U.S. Senate in 1990 and 2008. He is a past president of Alaska Right to Life, a 47-year Alaska resident and a retired public school teacher. He has a passion for studying and teaching ...
The themes of the declaration reveal our ultimate goals of individual liberty, moral agency, and the duty to act against injustice. Is it an injustice to require work or public service for the ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases that deal with state laws that prohibit biological males from competing in girls’ sports. The states of West Virginia and Idaho have asked the ...
Alaska’s executive agencies have grown large, redundant and administratively costly. The Departments of Natural Resources (DNR), Environmental Conservation (DEC), Commerce, Community, and Economic ...
The responses to my last video about the Division of Elections have been interesting to me. The biggest surprise was the number of people asking me to run for Lt Governor, however Ranked Choice voting ...
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is in the news again. Once more she threatened to leave the Republican party and caucus with the Democrats. We have heard her make this threat before, and it is getting a bit ...
Alaskans who biobanked their samples with 23andMe or who consented to information sharing can still request that 23andMe destroy their samples and delete their information through their 23andMe ...
Alaska’s education system is among the most expensive and least effective in the United States. Despite annual per-student spending exceeding $18,000, Alaska ranks near the bottom nationally in ...
In an effort to strengthen, support and celebrate traditional family values, a coalition of local churches, faith-based ministries, area nonprofits and businesses helped put on the 4th Annual Family ...
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 emigration to Israel became a real possibility. These dreams ...