The Q&As with 2025 candidates for Mat-Su Assembly and School Board
Candidates for Mat-Su Assembly and School Board respond to your questions in this handy, easy-to-use guide.
Over the past few months, voters across the Matanuska-Susitna Borough sent us their top questions for the 2025 Borough Assembly and School Board candidates.
We compiled the most frequently asked questions and key topics into a survey and contacted each candidate for their input.
Every Mat-Su Assembly candidate submitted responses. Three of the five School Board candidates either did not respond to participation requests sent by email, text, and voice message or did not participate.
Below are the candidate questionnaires submitted by:
- Michael Bowles, candidate for Assembly, District 1
- Michelle Heun, candidate for Assembly, District 1
- Stephanie Nowers, candidate for Assembly, District 2
- Dana Raffaniello, candidate for Assembly, District 2
- Maxwell Sumner, candidate for Assembly, District 4
- Gage Saxton, candidate for School Board, District 2
- Dena McChargue, candidate for School Board, District 7
The voter guide also includes information on two propositions that will appear on all Mat-Su voter ballots, and two propositions that will appear on some ballots.
Election Day is scheduled for Nov. 4, 2025.
About the Mat-Su Sentinel voter guide
What you see in this voter guide is exactly what each candidate submitted in response to the questionnaire. We did not edit or alter their responses in any way.
Questions and topics were submitted by voters through a Mat-Su Sentinel form. Questions were selected based on the number of submissions received on each issue and whether the topic was relevant to the seat in question. For example, the guide does not ask candidates about national or state-level issues that fall outside the authority of local government.
Submitted photos were cropped for size or adjusted to display properly on your screen.
School board candidates listed without a photo and with "no response" answers did not submit responses to the voter guide questionnaire distributed by email. Two candidates – Kendal Kruse and Lorie Colee – did not respond to multiple attempts via phone, text, and email to confirm receipt of the questionnaire and did not participate. One candidate, Brooks Pitcher, confirmed receipt of the questionnaire but did not participate.
How to find your polling place
There are two easy ways to search for your polling place online.
Voters can look up their registration information and find their polling precinct number and address in the Alaska State Voter Search portal. Simply enter your first name, last name, and the city on your mailing address, then select "Submit." The system will find your name and information.
Another way to find your polling place is to use the Alaska State Map portal, which relies on GIS mapping to link an address to a precinct number and location. Enter your full address into the search field, and the map will display the location and assigned precinct information.