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Research teaches us that students who receive high-quality, full-day kindergarten are abounding with successful outcomes.

Most great ideas die on the vine due to one issue or another, and sometimes for good reason. But the least we can do as a free society is make it as easy as possible for people to strike while the iron is hot and potentially create something that makes even the smallest improvement on the human condition.

The prosperity of the technology community and the local economy is the goal of the Arizona Technology Council, and the decisions on international trade and H-1B visas are critical to that success.

Fair treatment for all taxpayers and letting the market develop itself seems like a no brainer, but in the world of municipal economic development, it’s rare.

Above all, universal full-day kindergarten would allow educators to make the most of an important fact: With whom a child learns is as important as from whom she learns and where she learns.

As a state, our students lead the nation in academic gains as reflected on our NAEP scores, “the nation’s report card.”

Like a foot soldier of the paranoid fringes on lurid display in alt-right blogs, Checks and Balances’ chief fantasist, Scott Peterson, is a man with a rich imaginative life.

So today, as the governor of Arizona, I’m proud to applaud our state legislators for passing an “Article V resolution” to limit the scope and jurisdiction of the federal government and finally impose fiscal restraints on the tax-and-spenders in Washington.

A new government report suggests we must revisit the regulatory regime that restricts hard rock mining in the United States.

Can Arizona compete? Can we improve educational opportunities for all of children? Can we expand ESAs? ¡Sí, se puede!