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Open primary ‘do-gooders’ push Frankenstein of a ballot scheme
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.
High-profile domestic abusers still receive favored treatment
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.
Priming the workforce pipeline: The importance of career & technical education
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.
JTED funding still in limbo
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 true cost of suing the EPA
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
There is no financial freedom or justice with payday loans. Instead these financial bottom feeders prey upon people with the fewest financial resources.
Letter to the Editor: Here is what people need to know about public pensions
As a retired public school educator with more than 31 years devoted to serving thousands of Arizona’s students and their families, I am concerned that the public has been given some misinformation about public pensions.
Arizona should improve education rather than making it worse by legalizing marijuana
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?
When it comes to water, Arizona needs to build on its record of stewardship
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.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Media (Ironically Speaking)
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.”
Education proposal is a heist of our children’s future
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.
Arizonans have no reason to fear the future of school funding
Some participants in these funding discussions express a lot of fear and anxiety about efforts to enhance equity and school choice in our school finance system. A brief walk though time might help to alleviate such concerns.
