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When I was given the opportunity to share my story of how school choice programs such as ESAs and STOs have helped my family at this week’s National School Choice Week roundtable with Governor Doug Ducey, it was like coming ...

As China prepares to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, Beijing recently made a stunning announcement. Any athlete speaking out “against Chinese laws and regulations” will be subject to “punishment.” Beijing claims it’s an “innocent party,” but the threat to athletes ...

Just like businesses, schools must have a predictable budget as they plan their operations. Unfortunately, schools are at an immediate, grave risk of losing more than a billion dollars. This is not new funding, but funding that was already appropriated ...

Every ten years Arizona remaps its legislative and congressional districts, based on the latest census data.   In 2011, many Republicans in Arizona were convinced that the Democrats had gamed the system in their favor. The current remapping is getting the ...

While “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli was getting barred for life and ordered to pay back millions for running an anticompetitive scheme to preserve a monopoly, the Arizona legislature has been engaged in cooking up a similar scheme on behalf of the ...

In its last two regular meetings, the Arizona Industrial Development Authority approved conduit revenue bond issues for 16 projects, including three new charter schools and 13 multifamily apartments that will provide thousands of affordable housing units in the Grand Canyon ...

January 22, 2022 marks the 49th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. But this year, young women/people facing pregnancy could face significant harm as the first generation in half a century to enter adulthood without the ...

It is interesting to observe the national media, as well as heavily funded leftist political organizations, working in tandem as they attempt to paint Senator Kyrsten Sinema as an “obstructionist” because of her strong position in favor of protecting the ...

Four anti-abortion bills have been introduced into the state legislature including a Texas copycat bill (HR2001, HR2483, SB1044, SB1164). The issue is not whether a state has the constitutional authority to protect “unborn life” but whether women, who have been ...

Do you believe that “things happen for a reason”? I have believed this my whole adult life. Sometimes the outcome makes us sad but then turns out to be a blessing in disguise. I do believe God allows bad and ...