(Anchorage, AK) – Following a week-long trial, an Anchorage jury Tuesday found 52-year-old Ronald Fischer of Xenia, Ohio, guilty of the sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl in Anchorage in 1995. The jury deliberated for approximately two hours before finding Fischer guilty of Sexual Assault in the First Degree. In the early morning hours of Feb. […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor recently joined a coalition of 23 states to challenge Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act. Vermont’s dangerous law, like the one passed in New York, will fine America’s coal, oil and natural gas suppliers out of business. “Alaska is home to the most abundant natural resources and some of […]
“The people stealing from Americans are not folks with tattoos and hoodies—it’s people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins, sitting in this Capitol right now,” said Rep. Maxwell Frost. House Republicans on Thursday morning passed their sprawling budget reconciliation package after making last-minute changes to the legislation to mollify far-right hardliners. The final count […]
Although another case could soon come before the high court, the ACLU still welcomed that, for now, “public schools must remain secular and welcome all students, regardless of faith.” Public education and First Amendment advocates on Thursday celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to allow the nation’s first religious public charter school in Oklahoma—even though […]