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At a time when many Americans are concerned about the health of our election system, our coalition formed to provide information about how Arizona’s voting system currently operates and to study alternative nonpartisan primary structures that could make our government more efficient, fairer, less divisive, and more responsive to the needs of ALL Arizona voters. 

The monthly child tax credit was an overwhelming success. They cut poverty and reduced hunger, and if we renewed them they would cover the cost of inflation. Arizona’s political leaders would be on the right side of the policy and the politics if they would support renewing the monthly child tax credit payments this year.

Arizonans of all political affiliations want to prevent new waves of illegal immigration. Senators Kelly and Sinema can do their fellow Democrats a favor by standing against amnesty.

Spending more on education is not an end in itself, but a means to improve student outcomes to ensure students are prepared for life beyond the classroom and to provide our booming economy with the skilled workforce needed to continue to thrive. 

The challenges to electing leaders who truly represent us as Arizonans are on full display in this primary season. We need an election system that serves all Arizonans and gives us the leaders we want and need. It’s time for a change. 

Education changes lives. It changes families. And it changes communities. But college is expensive. We must support more students who wouldn’t otherwise be able to pursue a college education. We must invest in programs that get people out of poverty by helping them grow.

Many other states license both well drillers and pump installers for a more complete management of what is possibly a state’s most precious resource, groundwater. It's a shame that a trade association had to take matters into their own hands to get essential information about the equipped water well and how it performs. Perhaps it’s time for the state of Arizona to step up and do as other states have done, get involved in the sale and transfer of real estate served by water wells.

As they commonly say in the West, “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting,” will always be true. Speeches on water may be dry topics to some but all Arizonans are dependent on our water resources, and we are all dependent on agriculture. 

While this threat has been damaging in the short term, there is hope that the Biden administration will do the right thing and support a decision that fosters continued growth in the solar industry. The solar industry needs a negative determination on the Commerce Department’s investigation to consider tariffs as soon as possible to regain certainty in the market.

Our state’s continued dependence on fossil fuels jeopardizes Arizona’s health and climate today and will continue to do so into the future – unless we act now.