“Young learners and families around the country rely on Head Start and eliminating funding for this essential program would be devastating to local communities,” warned one critic. Critics on Monday decried the Trump administration’s consideration of a budget proposal that would completely eliminate funding for the early childhood education program Head Start—which serves over 800,000 […]
Washington, DC – Thursday U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced the names of the young Alaskans she is nominating to the U.S. Military Service Academies for the class of 2029. “These young Alaskans have shown exemplary leadership and dedication to their communities, and it is an honor to nominate them to our nation’s military service academies,” said […]
“We do not need to spend almost a trillion dollars on the military, while half a million Americans are homeless and children go hungry,” Sen. Bernie Sanders writes in a new op-ed. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday announced his opposition to an annual military policy bill that would authorize a Pentagon budget of nearly $850 billion, a […]
To the greater Alaska community, It may be summer here, but interest in the Arctic never stops. Last week, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson hosted the biennial Arctic Thunder Open House. If you’re one of the thousands who made it out, you got a look at what’s “behind the fence” and witnessed some of the military capabilities […]