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FLOCK Cameras are Invading – Coming Soon to a City Near You
Don’t you want to live in a crime-free utopia? Wouldn’t allowing the government to track our every move, solve all our problems? Local authorities seem to think so, and they have the perfect tool to usher in mass surveillance in your city: Flock cameras. Flock Safety...
SRP’s Plan to Trade Coal Generation for Gas will only Accelerate Green Scam Rate Hikes
Two months ago, Arizona’s monopoly utilities and their political allies were patting themselves on the back about the expansion and development of a couple of new natural gas projects that they claim will help the Grand Canyon state keep up with growing energy...
Repealing REST Rules Won’t Move Needle on Ending Green Scam in Arizona
The Green New Scam got its start in Arizona two decades ago when a 5-0 Republican Commission (including then Republican Kris Mayes) adopted the Renewable Energy Standard and Tarriff Rules, or the REST Rules. Among other things, most significantly it ushered in the...
The Arizona Free Enterprise Club recommends that Maricopa County voters vote NO on Proposition 409
OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATION FROM THE ARIZONA FREE ENTERPRISE CLUB: The Arizona Free Enterprise Club recommends that Maricopa County voters vote NO on Proposition 409, the $898 million bond proposal from Valleywise Health. It was just over 10 years ago, in 2014, that...
Kris Mayes Is Undermining Defense of Arizona’s Proof of Citizenship Law
In 2022, the Arizona legislature passed—and then-Governor Ducey signed into law—a landmark election integrity bill: HB 2492. Authored by the Arizona Free Enterprise Club, the law bolsters safeguards to our election process by requiring proof of citizenship to register...
Prop 417: Tucson’s Plan to Keep Ruining Tucson
This November, Tucson voters will decide whether they would like to continue doubling down on Tucson’s failed policies that have invited rampant crime, made it impossible to navigate the city without extreme frustration, and drain its wealth and livability to pursue...
TUHSD’s Financial Scandal Exposes Where Actual Fraud & Abuse Exist in Arizona’s K-12 System
Ever since Arizona passed universal school choice, the Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program has been the target of the Red for Ed teachers’ union, Democrat lawmakers and their corporate media allies. They demand transparency and accountability for alleged...
CHANDLER PROPOSITION 410: Eases Term Limits For Power-Hungry City Officials
What’s most likely to get your local officials fired up to fight for you? Lower utility rates? Wrong. Removing sexually explicit material from our libraries? Nope. How about just filling potholes in our roads? You’d think so. But what really gets the local officials...
MAG’s Transportation Plan Is Already Failing to Meet Promises—Lawmakers Need to Act Accordingly
How long must taxpayers be forced to throw money at a failed plan before something is done about it? For the Maricopa Association of Governments’ (MAG) regional transportation plan—which for two decades spent billions on light-rail and other wasteful “active...
The Capitol Light Rail Extension is on Track – To Be Another Boondoggle
The idea to extend light rail to the State Capitol has occupied the dusty shelves of bureaucratic transit plans for ages. Phoenix first floated it in their 2000 “Transit 2000” plan, their 2015 Transportation 2050 initiative, and the concept has taken up space in...
Page Residents VS. The Road Diet
Freedom-loving, car-driving residents of Arizona have long been fighting the constricting “road diets” local government officials, city planners, and corrupt bureaucrats have pushed for years. Proponents of these diets claim that by tearing out perfectly good vehicle...
We’re Not Backing Down: ASU and PBS Must Answer for Colluding Against Kari Lake
Taxpayer-funded resources should not be used to tilt the scales of any election. This isn’t a difficult concept to understand. So, when Arizona State University (ASU) and PBS were exposed for colluding to help Katie Hobbs in the 2022 governor’s race against Kari Lake,...