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 ...

Anchorage’s top election official is attempting to defend the city’s novel vote-by-phone policy, after a Nov. 13 New York Times article highlighted concerns and criticisms with the controversial ...

Construction crews work on building a bridge at mile 43 of Denali Park Road. The crew working on a 475-foot-long bridge in Alaska’s Denali National Park was recently told that they could no longer fly ...

The most important aspect of the ethnohistory of the people of the high north was the process of exploration and colonization of Siberia and Alaska by the Russian empire officials. Exploration of the ...

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

In a June 6 interview with the Alaska Watchman, Republican U.S. House candidate Nick Begich discussed how he would tackle a number of critical issues facing the nation. Begich is looking to unseat ...

Alaskans across the state are being inundated with disturbing flyers, warning them to get shots and vaccines before its too late. The recent mailers contain a litany of ominous warnings, aimed at ...

Profoundly religious, the Russian people were shaken to their core by the Russian Orthodox Church liturgical reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon (1666–1667) who, under the reign of Tsar Alexis ...

For years, Alaska’s education establishment has perfected the art of crying poverty while sitting atop one of the most bloated bureaucratic structures in the country. The chorus is always the same – ...

Historically, the United States has provided foreign aid to other countries since 1812; but on a large scale only during and after World War II. The history of the U.S. foreign assistance is marked by ...

Every time Alaska’s education bureaucracy finds itself cornered by poor results, it reaches for a familiar escape hatch: “evidence-based.” It’s the talisman that turns spending requests into virtue.

This analysis by Alaska Policy Forum looks at an urgent issue for Anchorage, which is considering a new short-term rental tax next week. That may seem like an easy fix for housing, but in reality, it ...