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No Means No: Why Tucson Voters Should Reject TEP’s Repackaged Climate Deal
This November, Tucson voters are being asked (again) to approve a 25-year franchise agreement between Tucson and Tucson Electric Power (TEP). Franchise agreements are generally standard arrangements that allow utilities to use public...
Republicans Produced their Budget Plan. Now Hobbs Needs to do the Same.
Less than an hour had passed from when Republicans delivered a budget to Katie Hobbs desk yesterday to when she stamped it with a ‘veto.’ No one is surprised, since from the moment she walked out of negotiations six weeks...
Arizona Republicans Called Hobbs’ Bluff. Now She Should Fold.
As we noted back in March, Chaos Katie ran away from negotiations after Republicans refused to anchor the entire state budget to her reckless Prop 123 scheme, a plan that would have ratcheted state trust land distributions to 10.9%, a raid on...
Flagstaff’s Radical 2045 General Plan
Flagstaff residents have until May 19th to vote on the Flagstaff Regional Land Use Plan 2045, a mail-in only election that will determine whether this becomes the city’s guiding blueprint through 2045. The plan will shape...
Katie Hobbs’ “Energy Promise” to Arizona Ratepayers: Higher Costs, More Subsidies
Last year, Katie Hobbs, by executive order, established a “task force” headed by her Office of “Sustainability” to develop a report on energy affordability and reliability. This month, her task force submitted their plan which would do the...
The Local Control Myth
Proximity to the people does not prevent abuse of power. In fact, it often does the opposite. Municipal governments enact restrictive policies just as easily as state or federal governments and often with less scrutiny. There is a myth in...
Don’t Be Fooled: The ESA Ballot Initiative Is Designed to Kill School Choice in Arizona
For more than a decade, the teachers’ unions and their allies at Save Our Schools (SOS) have made their mission clear: stop school choice in Arizona. They fought the expansion of our state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) Program...
US Supreme Court Expected to Clear Path for States to Adopt their own SAVE Act Legislation
Arizona has been working to stop noncitizens from voting in our elections for over 20 years. After years of litigation, we are near the final step in proving our model works. That’s why last month we filed...
Chaos Katie Runs Away from Budget Negotiations…Now What?
Leading under divided government is hard, but it does not excuse a governor from actually governing. Republican legislative leadership has held a clear and defensible line when it comes to the state’s budget: spend only the revenues the state actually...
Reporter with Red for Ed Ties Exposed for False Claims About Arizona School Choice Program
Arizona’s legacy media is at it once again—going after our state’s highly popular Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program, which now sits at over 100,000 enrollments. Last month, activist...
Negotiating With Hobbs on Prop 123 Would Be a Major Self-Own by Legislative Republicans
Katie Hobbs would love nothing more than for Republicans at the legislature to start wheeling and dealing on Prop 123, the roughly $300M per year K-12 funding stream from Arizona’s State Land Trust. ...
Cities Penalize Retailers for their Own Stolen Property
While some legislators are working to keep California-style policies out of Arizona, corrupt municipal leaders in cities such as Phoenix and Tucson clearly haven’t gotten the memo. For years, these cities have subjected...