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The Arizona Capitol Times recently reported the same people behind the failed jungle primary initiative in 2012 plan on taking another run at it in 2016. Only this time jungle primary supporters intend to team up with another group of liberals pushing an aggressive regulatory agenda designed to relieve Arizonans of our free speech rights—all under the guise of eliminating so-called dark money.

When an abuser beats his partner and then beats the system, it sends a message that domestic violence can be a crime without consequences. It’s time to change that narrative, in Arizona and around the country.

As a strong school system and an educated workforce continue to be hot topics, jobs are being left on the table as companies continue to struggle to identify a qualified workforce.

While Governor Ducey and Arizona’s K-12 schools are eager to resolve the prolonged lawsuit over voter-approved inflation funding, JTEDs’ premier Career and Technical Education programs still face extinction starting in 2017.

The Clean Power Plan will be costly, but it seems no one is considering the cost of being reactive rather than proactive about climate change and the health issues that ensue because of it.

There is no financial freedom or justice with payday loans. Instead these financial bottom feeders prey upon people with the fewest financial resources.

With considerable discussion about Arizona’s education funding, along with high school and college graduation rates, shouldn’t we do all we can to improve our state of education instead of making it much worse by legalizing marijuana?

In preparation for our recent agricultural water summit, the undersigned commissioned a poll to separate fact from fiction. Sound policy requires conversation and cooperation, but should be preceded by solid data.

Irony,” says literary critic Harold Bloom, “demands a certain attention span, and the ability to sustain antithetical ideas, even when they collide with one another.”

The current proposal to get more money to schools is quite simply, terrible. A manufactured crisis to make sure there is plenty of room for tax cuts this upcoming session.