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Late last year, the Arizona Department of Public Safety announced that the use of mobile and fixed photo-radar technology will be expanded on highways throughout Arizona in an effort to improve traffic safety in areas that warrant such increased enforcement.Given ...

The 2008 presidential preference election is rapidly approaching us in Arizona on Feb. 5. However, I wonder if the 755,000 voters in the state who are registered as independents or no party designated, realize unless their registration is changed to ...

In Arizona, a consensus on the need to improve public education has been achieved. Rather than ranting against our schools, as some are prone to do, the School District Redistricting Commission (SDRC) was empowered to redesign the school system so ...

The good news — more areas within the state of Arizona are in compliance with Federal ozone standards. The bad news — more areas within the state of Arizona are in compliance with Federal ozone standards. The good news is ...

We’ll be expecting more from Arizona high school students, thanks to Monday’s action of the State Board of Education. The board increased minimum graduation requirements to include three credits of math and three credits of social studies for the graduating ...

Should Scottsdale fund $30 million or more for its Center for the Arts remodel? Was the Mesa Arts Center worth it? How about the new Tempe Performing Arts Center? Is the West Valley behind the arts curve? Has Phoenix Symphony ...

There is a great deal of discussion these days regarding Arizona’s large and rapidly growing Latino population — much of it negative. Lost in the debate is the very important fact that Arizona’s Latino students, currently 40 percent of our ...

Recently, the Arizona Business & Education Coalition (ABEC) convened a crash course on the school finance formula for more than 70 business and education opinion leaders. Our experts were Chuck Essigs, director of Government Relations for the Arizona Association of ...

I appreciate facts don’t sell —emotion does, and there is nothing more emotional than immigration these days. Because there are so many aspects and implications of immigration in today’s world, this is understandable. But facts are troublesome things and they ...

Last month, Governor Napolitano announced a combination plan to put this year’s budget back into balance after several months of tax revenues falling below projections. The plan calls for using $200 million from the state’s rainy day fund, saving $300 ...