Neighbor:  It's true that Alaska is a pretty "red" state.  ADN has always been an Anchorage paper, though, and Anchorage has always been pretty much purple.  And for the past several years, I'd say that ADN has been relentlessly balanced - it has always published opinion pieces from all sides of the aisle, as well as news stories from a variety of papers.  I think most people who complain about ADN being liberal, or unbalanced are overly used to getting their news from truly unbalanced outlets like Fox, Info Wars, Breitbart or Drudge, and find being exposed to an outlet like ADN which includes liberal perspectives as well as conservative ones to be outside of their conservative comfort zone.