Alaska must develop a detailed, preemptive regulatory strategy to dismantle its own bureaucratic roadblocks - without increasing state spending—by using existing federal funding programs to unlock ...

Alaska is rich, its people are strong, but its government is fat and afraid, and now the reckoning comes. After decades of unchecked bureaucratic growth, structural inefficiency, and a dangerous ...

Have you ever wondered just how much money the Alaska Legislature has siphoned off from your family’s annual Permanent Fund Dividend payments? A new calculator makes that easy. In 2016, Alaska ...

Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor has joined a coalition of 28 state attorneys general in signing onto a letter demanding answers from Meta Platforms, Inc. after disturbing reports surfaced showing ...

Today is Memorial Day. Americans will have backyard barbeques and relax with friends. Here in Homer, today marks the beginning of the summer tourist season, which is in full swing this weekend. The ...

Alaska stands at a crossroads. Decades of bureaucratic expansion, fiscal mismanagement, and policy drift have left the state with underperforming institutions, rising costs, and a growing disconnect ...

Palmer Mayor Steve Carrington has successfully survived an attempt to remove him from office for alleged abuse of power. After trailing by two votes on election night 99-97, he surged ahead once the ...

Bernadette Wilson, who recently announced her bid to become Alaska’s next governor, has just added two seasoned senior team members to her election campaign. Veteran political strategist Paul Smith ...

There’s an old adage, that evil triumphs when good men do nothing. But in modern politics, especially here in Alaska, evil often triumphs because incompetent men and women occupy the seats of public ...

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 ...

The special election to recall Palmer Mayor Steve Carrington for alleged abuse of power is razor tight. As of election night there were 99 votes to recall him and 97 to retain. Total turnout appears ...

In vetoing the education bill crafted by the Democrat-led majorities in the Alaska Legislature, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said the flawed legislation did not address Alaska’s disastrous educational outcomes ...