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 ...

Alaska’s executive agencies have grown large, redundant and administratively costly. The Departments of Natural Resources (DNR), Environmental Conservation (DEC), Commerce, Community, and Economic ...

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 ...

Late Thursday night, June 26, the U.S. Senate Parliamentarian ruled that the Scholarship Tax Credits, which were a part of the Educational Choice for Children Act , violated Senate Reconciliation ...

The Alaska Watchman aims to raise awareness of key issues affecting Alaskans. Coming from a broadly Judeo-Christian perspective, we are committed to the highest standards of journalism and ethical ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anchorage’s working-age population (those between 16 and 64 years old) is also affected by baby boomers aging out of the workforce, while the arrival of new residents continues to slow. The report ...

Eleven members of the Alaska Legislature’s GOP minorities joined with the Democrat-controlled majorities to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a record-spending education bill that will benefit a ...

While the Brexit movement was successful, the voters did not get the results they wanted. The Prime Minister at the time was Boris Johnson, a member of the Conservative party. Johnson botched the job ...

Alaska’s indigenous women and their unborn babies are increasingly vulnerable to abortion, according to the latest comprehensive data from the state. For decades, the abortion industry and its allies ...

The writer was raised in the former Soviet Union before settling in the U.S. in 1978. He moved to Juneau in 1986 where he has taught Russian studies at the University of Alaska, Southeast. From 1990 ...