Compassion is good. False compassion enables the perpetuation of what originally summoned the compassion. An obvious example would be to sympathetically pat the head of a starving orphan, hug them, ...

The latest state and national assessments of Alaska’s public school students reveal that the failure to teach basic reading, math and science is a continuing and chronic problem. Despite new reading ...

Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor seems to be trying to rehabilitate his image, possibly in preparation for a run at the governor’s office in next year’s election. It appears that he is attempting ...

A Mat-Su family, represented by the hard-left Northern Justice Project, has filed a lawsuit against the nationally acclaimed Academy Charter School in Palmer. Their complaint? The school’s requirement ...

The Anchorage School District has come to an impasse in its contract negotiations with the Anchorage Education Association. The district has negotiated in good faith with the teachers’ union for nine ...

There were two more horrific murders reported this weekend. One was in Charlotte, North Carolina, the other in Lanham, Maryland. Two beautiful young women were senselessly killed for no reason. One ...

Kenai Borough voters will have a chance to decide whether all in-person votes are tabulated by hand on election day. Hand count proponents are hoping voters will approve Prop. 1 during the Oct. 7 ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) no longer wants to follow the CDC recommendations for Covid jabs. AAP “thinks they know better than any parent or doctor in this country and wants you to bend ...

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 jury as an investigative tool. Our state Constitution ...

Alaska’s Permanent Fund has changed in both its investments and its use since it was first created in 1976. Originally, it was invested in just bonds – the safest investment vehicle out there. The two ...

The Alaska State Troopers’ (AST) Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) program is seeking to acquire advanced night vision googles for officers who serve in the tactical law enforcement program, a group ...

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