Alaska Watchman

The effort to establish a separate government for Eagle River and Chugiak is sometimes described simply as a movement to leave Anchorage. That description is understandable, but incomplete. The deeper history is one of local government realignment; the recurring American practice of reconsidering governmental boundaries when population, community identity, service systems and...

Alaska will soon be barred from drawing on federal taxpayer dollars to underwrite cross-sex surgeries and hormonal manipulation of children. The Trump administration finalized a new rule this month that officially ends federal Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funding for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries for minors.

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State Representative Louise Stutes cheated when it came to election financing. This isn’t my opinion; she recently admitted as much in a consent decree with the Alaska Public Offices Commission. They caught her committing numerous violations of state campaign finance regulations. The violations Stutes committed are so serious that they should disqualify her from ever holding ...

In Alaska, public education carries extraordinary power and control. It does more than transmit mathematics, science, history and language; it helps shape how young people understand authority, citizenship, rights, government and their relationship with one another. Precisely because that influence is so great, public education must resist the temptation to transform instruct...

The Alaska Supreme Court is considering a case that could have enormous consequences for parents, students and public schools across our state. At issue in X.A. v. Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District is a Mat-Su School District policy requiring students to use bathrooms and changing facilities designated for their biological sex, while providing single-occupancy facilit...