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Changes to criminal code must be intelligent, informed and incremental
Sentencing reform is complex and multi-layered. It must include all stakeholders in the process. Not everyone will get what they want. Not all wrongs will be righted.
What the Legislature gives, it can take away
Wherever you live, we in Arizona are asking for your help in our historic National Campaign to empower and protect all American women once and for all.
Why are legislators pushing billions of dollars in tax hikes despite record revenues?
An interesting paradox has developed at the Legislature this year. Even though state policymakers are sitting on record tax revenues and a robust Arizona economy, they seem more obsessed with tax increases than ever before.
Hurt feelings over herd immunity?
I read with great interest the opinion piece published on Monday from Sen. Paul Boyer in support of SB1115.
It is time for legislators to even the field on sales tax
I’m a Republican and free-market conservative. I believe in a limited government, individual liberty and free will.
Don’t make measles great again in Arizona
States are moving to restrict exemptions. As outbursts of measles plague our nation and others, it is strange to see Arizona work to make its children less safe, undermining what courts and public health officials have described as the gold standard for preventing infections--reduced exemptions.
Costly Consequences: The Irony of the Equal Rights Amendment
Public policy often sounds better in theory than it plays out in reality. The Affordable Care Act, The Patriot Act, The Women’s Reproductive Health Care Act have all been criticized for arguably not living up to their names. The same will be said of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), should it pass the many hurdles ahead.
Loophole in abuse, neglect statutes permits inaction to persist
An Oklahoma mom killed her newborn by putting him into the washing machine with a load of laundry. A Utah mom gave her 17-month-old a fatal mix of methadone and Tylenol. A Pennsylvania mom suffocated her six-week-old.
Pediatrician told me ‘shut your mouth’ on vaccination question
“Shut your mouth.” That’s what a pediatrician said to me when I simply questioned where Vitamin K is mandated for my newborn baby.
Government should forgo gold shovels, oversized scissors
Despite the evergreen temptation to involve itself in the market, the government should resist the gold shovels and oversized scissors and commit themselves to the difficult and mundane work of improving government functions for all.
Arizona must be bolder on sentencing reform
This legislative session, Republican lawmakers are following in the footsteps of President Donald Trump and addressing the need for sentencing reform in Arizona. So far, the bills that have gained momentum in the House and Senate are well-intentioned but too weak to put a dent in our massive prison population.
Car-sharing bill protects consumers, personal freedom
With each technological advance we witness the same response as whatever legacy industry is being disrupted seeks the government’s assistance in burying the upstarts in red tape, taxes and fees. And all of this while cloaking its anti-competitive actions behind talk of “leveling the playing field” or “protecting consumers.”
