Please pass texting while driving ban
As cars got faster and heavier, we came to understand how to more safely use these advancements by adopting laws to promote public safety through personal responsibility.
The aiding and abetting of migrant caravans
The crisis at the southern border is no accident. It’s the intentional result of deliberate efforts by liberal activists to encourage illegal immigration on a massive scale.
Driving under the influence of electronics needs to stop!
According to the most recent 2017 study by the Arizona Department of Transportation, a person was killed every 8 hours and 46 minutes in a traffic collision on our roads.
Students, teachers suffer as Legislature considers nonsense
Senator Heather Carter, a Republican from Legislative District 15 – my district – recently sponsored a bill to revamp funding for special education in Arizona. Senator Carter has long been a proponent of public education (she is definitely in the minority in her party) and this was another good bill from her.
Ancient Islamic scholars warned against fake news
Fake news has become a nuisance all over the world.
What the state is doing to help further victims’ rights
As one of Arizona’s largest funders of victims’ services each year, ACJC places great focus on seeking legislative changes that advocate for victims’ rights, provide additional resources, and improves accessibility to victims’ services and programs.
Solving the crisis, anarchy Democrats created is pro-immigrant
For far too long, Democrats have been able to frame their willful indifference to the tragedy unfolding on our southern border as “pro-immigrant.”
The hypocrisy, unrealistic savings of school district consolidation
It is the Legislative season so once again a bill will be pushed for consolidation of public school districts in Arizona. This time it is Rep. John Fillmore, R-Apache Junction, with HB2139, a bill that will mandate all elementary and union high school districts become unified by 2024.
It’s too bad charter reform will have to wait
Big things aren’t easily done at the Arizona Capitol.
State should loan Pinal County farmers funds until feds pitch in
Recognizing the immediate realities of a historic drought, the Legislature and governor acted responsibly this year to approve the Drought Contingency Plan. The DCP prepares Arizona for a drier future, but its implementation requires cooperation and sacrifice among many water users.
It’s time to change Arizona laws that favor child predators
If you want to get high regularly, what state do you move to? Colorado. If you want to sexually abuse children, what state do you move to? Arizona.
You’re alive because our ancestors trusted evidence
E pluribus unum. Out of many, one. Our de facto national motto calls upon all of us to work for the good of the whole.