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Is it responsible that America has no limits on carbon pollution from power plants?
The Earth’s climate is getting warmer, and humans are partly responsible. That’s not my opinion, that’s a fact supported by more than 97 percent of climate scientists. The outcome over the next 50 years and beyond could include massive heat waves, prolonged drought, extreme weather and the mass extinction of species.
Questions on immigration policy: Brewer’s letter to President Obama
I write regarding media reports that the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is transporting hundreds, and potentially thousands, of illegal aliens from the south Texas border and releasing them at bus stations in Tucson and Phoenix.
Candidates’ forums will highlight an active year for the League of Women Voters
For the League of Women Voters, election time is an exciting and busy time of year. The election ballot will include more candidate races and ballot measures. Take your time voting to ensure you vote for all races and ballot measures.
ASU Alumni Law Group gives graduates real world experience
A few years back, Douglas J. Sylvester, dean of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, toured the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and he returned with a vision on how to stem the obturations facing recent graduates entering the legal fraternity: a shrinking pool of job offers, increased debt burdens, and lawyer skill preparedness for firms. The concept was in his words: â€[...]
Protecting Arizona’s Family Coalition response to child welfare proposal — real reform is missing
This week, Gov. Jan Brewer called a special session of the Arizona Legislature to consider much-needed reform to our child welfare system.
TGen-led study discovers genetic cause of rare ovarian cancer
An international research team led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) recently found the cause of a rare type of ovarian cancer that most often strikes girls and young women.
Solid, productive session for small business
The 51st Arizona Legislature’s Second Regular Session was solid and productive for the National Federation of Independent Business with Arizona’s small business owners scoring gains on taxes and regulatory reform while turning back troubling efforts to unlevel the playing field for small business in economic development.
Moderate GOP bloc has better sense of current, mainstream popular culture
In a fit of modesty, the GOP-dominated Arizona Legislature stuck to basic business this session, passing a straightforward budget containing a few core funding restorations, and otherwise made few gaffes, despite the efforts of a few headline-seeking members.
Bundy and his fellow ranchers are living on government welfare
It’s perversely ironic for rancher Cliven Bundy to excoriate poor people for collecting government subsidies, while ripping off the federal government of a million dollars in grazing fees. But, even if he were to pay up, Bundy and his fellow ranchers, would still be living on government welfare.
Supreme Court’s campaign contribution decision to have substantial impact
Pundits have alternatively saluted and denounced the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision this month striking down aggregate campaign contribution limits as unconstitutional. Few, however, have addressed the decision’s impact on states, candidates, and contributors in years to come.
Why Arizona’s regulatory moratorium is unnecessary
We expect our drinking water to be clean and safe and our lakes, rivers and streams to be places we can fish and swim. Why is this so? Forty-four years ago on April 22, the world embarked upon a still unfinished journey to protect the environment from the unintended effects of our industrial society. The Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act are just two of the key pieces of legislation our Congre[...]
A fond memory: ‘Kicking Butts’ at the Arizona Capitol
High school graduation is around the corner and among this year’s greatest memories is my day at the Arizona Capitol as a youth advocate for Students Taking a New Direction (STAND), Arizona’s anti-smoking youth coalition.
