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Ballot measure sets Arizona on wrong energy course
As for APS, we are on course to provide customers with clean energy, now and for the long-term. We will continue to plan a future that responsibly supports clean energy in our state, while maintaining the reliable service that customers expect. A growing number of distinguished Arizona business and community leaders agree this constitutional amendment is bad for Arizona and formally oppose the ini[...]
Let’s not pretend there is no K-12 funding hole
The fact is that we are not providing adequate funding for our public schools and our students. Moving to an adequate funding level for K-12 public schools in Arizona will be a long trip. Arizona has started that trip, so let’s not allow the train to get off track because we have a long uphill route that will need us all onboard.
Simple facts about public school funding, not rhetoric or fake news
In Arizona, we face societal and economic challenges that must be addressed. Scapegoating education funding reinforces the status quo and doesn’t move us forward as a state. If we desire safe communities and a strong economy, we will need to cease the numbers game and senseless rhetoric, and focus all our efforts on ensuring a prosperous Arizona by investing in our children.
Arizona says no to low-income students who want opportunity
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.
Time to rein in uncompetitive, unfair occupational licensing
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.
Our science standards must be based on fact, not ideology
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.
Proposal to gut methane rule harmful to Arizona, Latino communities
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.
Legislators must make ERA priority in next session
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.
It’s rhetoric, not fact, to say that public schools lack $1 billion
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.
Government-spending websites prevent waste, abuse; Arizona excels
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.... […]
Don’t throw us under the bus – proposed changes affect Scottsdale, Fountain Hills
Express bus service from Fountain Hills and Scottsdale to downtown Phoenix and the Capitol area is under siege.
New federal law great news for Arizona, locally-owned banks
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.
