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Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: A relook at sales taxes

Brad Keithley

October 4, 2024

Over the years, we have been less than supportive of using a statewide sales tax to help address Alaska’s fiscal deficits. While certainly not as regressive as using cuts in the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD), sales taxes are still…

Anchorage Assembly lifts jaywalking ordinance, pedestrian deaths spike

Keith McCormick

October 2, 2024

This year Anchorage has witnessed a tragic, unsettling, and statistically significant rise in pedestrian fatalities. Deaths that serve as a grim reminder of failed infrastructure, policy, and enforcement.  Anchorage's streets are the same...

The Sunday Minefield – September 29, 2024

Jeff Landfield

September 29, 2024

The November election is just over five weeks away. Absentee and early voting starts in just over three weeks on October 21. Governor Mike Dunleavy (R – Alaska) endorsed Representative Ben Carpenter (R – Nikiski) in his bid to…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The Legislature to Alaska families – The less you make, the more we take

Brad Keithley

September 27, 2024

One of the things that disappoints most about the Alaska media is its ongoing failure to report on - or even reference - the hugely regressive impact of...

Anchorage’s inaction on homelessness

Keith McCormick

September 24, 2024

As trash plagued encampments continue to proliferate in our city’s public spaces, it has become clearer than ever that Anchorage’s homelessness problem has reached a crisis level. Homelessness in our community has spiraled into an undeniable catastrophe. The sight of…

Guilty of being white: A review of Matt Walsh’s “Am I Racist?”

Jacob Hersh

September 23, 2024

“Am I racist?” Before you answer that question, center yourself. Close your eyes. Ground your body in your chair. Take several deep breaths. Really feel yourself in the space. Give $30,000 to a grifter with a PhD in “Sustainability”...

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