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For too long Arizona and other states have neglected this crucially important issue — both in the public conversation about higher education and in terms of effective policymaking. It is past time that we made increasing access to need-based financial aid for low-income students a statewide priority.

Since the Trump administration directed the Labor Department to review occupational licensing laws around the country last year, the Arizona Legislature passed legislation addressing needed reforms to these laws.

For the first time in 15 years, several dozen science teachers from across Arizona convened to re-write the state’s STEM standards, laying out a vision of how Arizona’s youth can acquire the skills of tomorrow.

If the administration continues to disregard the concerns of the voting public, then we need a Congress that will hold the administration responsible for these and other attacks on our environment and public health. We need to make sure we safeguard Arizonan’s health, protect our pocketbooks and prevent the waste from other states from polluting the air we breathe.

This year marks the second consecutive year that an ERA bill failed to see a vote in the state Legislature. We must convince our state legislators to prioritize the ERA in the next legislative session. Arizona can play an instrumental role in achieving constitutionally guaranteed equality for all women in the United States. Equal means equal.

K-12 education in Arizona is missing a billion dollars. The phrase is repeated so frequently the media mimics it without understanding its meaning. The trouble is, it’s rhetoric — not fact.

As taxpayers in Arizona, our hard-earned money contributes to a wide range of items – employee salaries, health care, education, public safety, office supplies. The list goes on and on. While reasonable people may disagree on how our taxpayer dollars ...

Express bus service from Fountain Hills and Scottsdale to downtown Phoenix and the Capitol area is under siege.

The federal government was well-intentioned when it passed the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010 to regulate the banking industry. After all, the trauma of the Great Recession and the banks involved impacted us all.

Reliable power, affordable water and good jobs are essential elements of Arizona’s productive economy. Without these fundamentals, not much else matters.