Drew Cason

Open primaries and ranked choice voting are already making a positive difference.

OPINION: Alaska's future depends on what we do now about our budget deficit -- and young Alaskans have the most at stake in that future.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski claims "religious hospitals, charities, and schools will be required to go against their deeply-held -- and constitutionally protected -- beliefs" by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). But Sen. Murkowski and other co-sponsors of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012 (RFRA) are likely aware that PPACA doesn't violate the First Amendment.