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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...

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...