Because the most sensible argument against Alaskan statehood was our inability to pay for self-government, Congress crafted us a special gift: that oil, gas and coal revenues taken from federal ...

The monumental effort to repeal Alaska’s highly controversial and confusing ranked-choice voting system remain on track to pass by the narrowest of margins after the Division of Elections most recent ...

Let’s get some priorities straight. Alaska cannot squander this moment. It is going to take leadership and courage to turn things around. Amazingly, it might – it should – be a bi-partisan effort.

Two weeks ago, I published my predictions for the 2024 general election. You can find them here. It is time to review the actual election results and see where I was right and where I got it wrong. 1 ...

Florida, with a population of 20 million, called it a night just four hours after polls closed, while Alaska, a state that could fit its entire voter base into a Tampa Bay neighborhood, is still ...

In the political upset of the century, Donald Trump has retaken the white house, with the US Senate, and unless a suspicious amount of Ranked Choice Ballots come through for Mary Peltola and a few ...

Indeed, it was a very pleasant surprise to me and to other common-sense Americans to see how tremendously wide and strong the voter support for Donald Trump turned out, and how weak the support was ...

This morning, the GOP finds itself in control of 1) the presidency, 2) the US Senate, 3) the House of Representatives and 4) (gasp!) the supreme court! This has never happened since, what, The Alaska ...

Three days after the General Election, Alaskans remain in the dark about whether voters successfully repealed the state’s controversial ranked-choice voting system, and whether Nick Begich has ...

The federal taxpayers’ money that poured into Alaska following the recent Juneau flooding begs a question: Is there anything in the U.S. Constitution that allows Congress to tax one American (or print ...

While those Southeast waters rapidly subsided, the flood of invaders on the Southern border seems unrelenting. Where is the frantic effort to stem that The Alaska Watchman aims to raise awareness of ...

Advocates for repealing Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system hold signs urging voters to pass Ballot Measure 2. After counting 246,171 votes, the fate of Alaska’s controversial ranked-choice voting ...