Alaska Department of Public Safety will host the annual statewide Peace Officer Memorial Ceremony on May 9 in Anchorage. The annual ceremony honors the sacrifice of the 69 local, borough, state, and federal peace officers that have died in the line of duty while serving Alaskans. Distinguished guests who will be on hand include Alaska Public Safety Commissioner James Cockrell… Source ..read more

In a recent vote that received little to no press coverage, four Alaska Republicans in the State House – including Senate President Gary Stevens and Majority Leader Cathy Giessel – joined all Democrats in voting to kill an amendment to the state operating budget bill that would have prohibited the state from using public money to pay for abortions. Sen. Shelley Hughes (R-Palmer) introduced… Source ..read more

In what conservative Alaska legislators characterized as an open “political attack” against one of the strongest champions for homeschool, charter and correspondence education, 11 Republican lawmakers joined all Democrats in the Alaska Legislature to reject Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s reappointment of Bob Griffin to the State Board of Education. In the wake of Alaska’s disastrous academic… Source ..read more

A record number of Alaskans are dying from a massive spike in drug deaths, driven by fentanyl pouring across the southern border. On May 6, Gov. Mike Dunleavy and key members of his cabinet joined U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan for a press conference to address the growing crisis. While the gathering was largely focused on announcing a new educational and preventative initiative – “One Pill Can… Source ..read more

Editor’s note: The text below is taken from a longer message from State Sen. Shelley Hughes (R-Palmer) to her followers. It addresses the difficulty the Alaska Legislature faces in attempting to craft constitutionally sound law that would satisfy a ruling by Anchorage Superior Court Judge Adolf Zeman who struck down the state’s popular and quickly expanding homeschool allotment program. SEN. Source ..read more

The mayoral run-off election between incumbent conservative Mayor Dave Bronson and left-leaning challenger Suzanne LaFrance is shaping up to be a pivotal moment in the history of Anchorage politics. A Bronson victory would ensure a check to the liberal supermajority on the Anchorage Assembly, while a LaFrance win would consolidate power among the cultural and social left. Source ..read more

On Tuesday, May 7, Alaska lawmakers will gather for a joint session of the State Senate and House to vote on whether to confirm more than 80 of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s appointees to fill key positions on state boards and commissions. Legislators will also decide on who should replace Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, should she win her campaign against Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola in November. Source ..read more

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 have not read their history, the Federalist papers, the conditions on which the individual states accepted the federal Constitution, nor the plain texts of our own flawed document, rendered (with important modifications) by a socialist think-tank… Source ..read more

The State of Alaska was granted a brief stay – until June 30 – in the ongoing fight to maintain its correspondence and homeschool educational allotment program, which nearly 23,000 students utilize. The Superior Court’s stay of its April 12 opinion, which gutted the program, allows the allotments to continue uninterrupted until the end of the current fiscal year. The State is now asking the… Source ..read more

After being flooded with letters, emails and public testimony urging them to defend and protect what many see as a key component to make homeschooling a viable option for thousands of Alaskan families, state lawmakers in the House Education Committee advanced a substitute bill on May 3, which would allow Alaska to continue reimbursing homeschool families for educational expenses incurred from… Source ..read more