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Governor Dunleavy Criticizes Legislature Over Alaska Education Reforms
The Tundra Drums - Alaska
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August 30, 2025
Governor Mike Dunleavy criticized the Alaska Legislature today for refusing to advance meaningful education reform despite poor student outcomes. Dunleavy highlighted that Alaska ranks 51st nationally in educational achievement and urged lawmakers...
Governor Dunleavy urges Alaska lawmakers to act on urgent education reforms
Your Alaska Link
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Governor Mike Dunleavy is calling on the Alaska Legislature to take action on education reform, citing the state’s low national ranking. In a letter sent this week, Governor Dunleavy criticized lawmakers for what he calls persistent inaction on...
After Alaska, Ukraine alliance envisions new war against Russia once current one ends
Al Mayadeen
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August 30, 2025
Dmitri Kovalevich reveals how Zelensky’s Washington visit exposed Ukraine’s role as a pawn, with its elites preparing for endless wars, even a “third war,” while society collapses under loss, desertion, and bankruptcy. In the second half of...
Opinion: Building Alaska’s future by putting education first —why I’m running for governor
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Then-Sen. Tom Begich at the Alaska state Capitol in Juneauy in 2022. (AP) When I served as a state senator, the most common visitors to my office were parents and teachers. Parents expressed concern that their children were falling behind in...
Opinion: I can get things done. Here’s why I’m applying for the job of Alaska governor.
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Sen. Click Bishop, R-Fairbanks, speaks during a joint session of the Alaska Legislature met on March 18, 2024, to consider an override of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of an education funding bill. (Marc Lester / ADN) When the Anchorage Daily News...
Letter: As Alaska health-care providers, we’re calling for the medical stand with us against political manipulation of our profession
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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We are writing in solidarity with our dedicated colleagues who practice evidence-based medicine on a daily basis. The recent decision by the Alaska State Medical Board to deem treatment of gender dysphoria in minors “unprofessional conduct” is a...
Don’t cut off Southeast Alaska’s access to EVs
Chilkat Valley News - Alaska
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August 30, 2025
By Steve Behnke Southeast Alaska communities are different from most of America. We’re not connected by roads. If we want to move vehicles in or out of town, we rely on barges and ferries. That’s why Alaska Marine Lines’ (AML) recent decision to...
Alaska News Nightly: Friday, August 29, 2025
Alaska Public Media
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Friday on Alaska News Nightly: An appeals court sides with the federal government over the state in a subsistence management lawsuit. Plus, how a burning hotel led to the formation of the Municipality of Anchorage. And Anchorage aims for a more...
Juneau police officer resigns following violent arrest
KTOO - Alaska
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August 29, 2025
Vehicle dash camera footage shows former Juneau police officer Brandon LeBlanc arresting a man on Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (Courtesy/Juneau Police Department) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/29bodycam.wav The Juneau Police...
Alaska Medical Board condemns late-term abortion, votes to punish doctors who ‘transition’ children
LifeSite
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August 29, 2025
News The Alaska State Medical Board unanimously approved resolutions calling for a ban on late-term abortion and declaring that ‘gender transitioning’ children is ‘unprofessional conduct.’ JUNEAU, Alaska (LifeSiteNews) — The Alaska State Medical...
Governor: Another special session will not happen
Alaska's News Source
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August 29, 2025
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - As Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced Friday there will not be another special session, he blamed a majority of lawmakers in a press release for not moving forward on his special session education agenda, saying they were...
Dunleavy says he won’t call Alaska lawmakers into another special session this year
KTOO - Alaska
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August 30, 2025
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy (center, red tie) stands with members of the Alaska Legislature on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, at the Alaska Oil and Gas Association’s annual convention in Anchorage. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) In a Friday letter...
JD Vance, White House Take Politico Reporter to Task Over Latest Hit Job on a Member of Trump Team
Red State
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August 29, 2025
Vice President J.D. Vance and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took a Politico reporter to the woodshed for the attempted hit job the outlet did on a top member of President Donald Trump's team, Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve...
RINO Sen. Lisa Murkowski to Face Primary Challenge from Governor Mike Dunleavy in 2028
The Gateway Pundit
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August 29, 2025
Alaska’s swamp-friendly Senator Lisa Murkowski may finally be facing the reckoning that conservatives have been demanding for years. Fox News confirms that Alaska’s Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy is preparing to announce a 2028 run for U.S....
At oil conference, Dunleavy declines to endorse his lieutenant governor as his replacement
KTOO - Alaska
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August 29, 2025
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, at right, speaks during the 2025 Alaska Oil and Gas Association conference in Anchorage, on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2025. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) A year before Alaska’s 2026 primary election, 10 candidates have...
Eagle River Pet Business Grows Thanks to Customer Loyalty and Support from ‘My People’
Alaska Business
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August 29, 2025
“We did curbside service. I redid the bathing room so we could be far enough apart to work safely. We sanitized everything. We took our own temperatures twice a day. We went through quite a bit just to remain open,” she describes. It was important...
Technology, Investment Hasten Alaska Oil and Gas ‘Renaissance’
Alaska Business
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August 30, 2025
“Just years ago, we were not seeing this kind of increase in the forecast coming out of DNR, so this is a reversal of some expectations,” says Berry. She credits the reversal to investments by the Slope’s biggest producers, Hilcorp and...
Tim Barto: From Kansas to Anchorage, schools hide gender transitions from parents
Must Read Alaska
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August 29, 2025
By TIM BARTO The cultural assault to get children to see blurred lines between the sexes, question their own sexuality, and transition to the gender of their choice is now an assault by the public education system. The US Department of Education...
Feds say they will reopen bids for new Anchorage air traffic control tower
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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A ConocoPhillips De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 departs Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport en route to Kuparuk on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. (Bill Roth / ADN) The Federal Aviation Administration says it plans to reopen bidding on a contract...
With gas crunch looming, Alaska's utilities won’t get big wind before tax credits expire. Here’s why.
Northern Journal - Alaska
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August 29, 2025
For years, urban Alaska utilities have been studying large-scale wind farms that could help break the state’s dependence on natural gas power — encouraged by the potential for hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits from the federal...