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AZFEC: Chandler Proposition 410: Eases Term Limits For Power-Hungry City Officials

Oct 15, 2025

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | 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...

WARREN PETERSEN: Protect Conservative Attorneys From Political Prosecutions

Oct 13, 2025

By Sen. Warren Petersen | Recently, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Board of Professional Responsibility recommended the most drastic punishment—disbarment—for former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark over his private strategic counsel in the...

TIFFANY BENSON: The Gender Conversation Is Far From Over: Waiting On Christians To Join The Chat

Oct 11, 2025

By Tiffany Benson | After publishing this Substack, I came across this video of a young woman’s “detransition” story. I also learned that Texas Christian University canceled an event featuring Chloe Cole, another “detransitioner” who travels the nation sharing her...

CHARLOTTE GOLLA: Chandler’s Prop 410 Campaign Is Filled With Deception

Oct 10, 2025

By Charlotte Golla | Chandler, Arizona, has a special election coming up on November 4, 2025. If you’re a resident, keep an eye on your mailbox. Ballots were mailed to voters on Wednesday, October 8, 2025. One matter on this year’s special election ballot seems rather...

AZFEC: MAG’s Transportation Plan Is Already Failing To Meet Promises—Lawmakers Need To Act Accordingly

Oct 9, 2025

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | 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...

FRANK LASEE: How Wind And Solar Are Quietly Inflating Electricity Bills

Oct 7, 2025

By Frank Lasee | In the first five months of 2025, solar and wind dominated new U.S. electricity generation. Of the 15 gigawatts (GW) added, solar was 11.5, wind was 2.3, and gas was just 1.3, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)....

AZFEC: The Capitol Light Rail Extension Is On Track – To Be Another Boondoggle

Oct 6, 2025

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | 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...

DAVID WINSTANLEY: Conservatives Need To Pay Attention To SRP Elections

Oct 3, 2025

By David Winstanley | Sandra D. Kennedy, with help and funding from Soros and company, has made it clear that she will bring the Green New Deal to SRP whether customers care or not. You remember Sandra Kennedy, right? Kennedy tried to pass a Green New Deal regulatory...

AZFEC: Page Residents VS. The Road Diet

Oct 2, 2025

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | 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...

LADNER & BEDRICK: Deer Valley Unified Shortchanges Teachers And Scapegoats Families

Sep 29, 2025

By Matthew Ladner & Jason Bedrick | Arizona’s district schools have never been so well funded. They’re sitting on more than $20 billion in cash reserves and unused or underused buildings. Yet they’re still begging voters for more money. School bureaucrats who have...

WARREN PETERSEN: Finishing What Charlie Kirk Started

Sep 29, 2025

By Sen. Warren Petersen | There is a heavy sadness that has swept the nation. Society is grieving to a level not seen since the 1960s. Earlier this month, America suffered an unspeakable loss. Charlie Kirk was in the middle of doing what he loved, talking to college...

DARYL GROVES: Forgiveness, Justice, And The Narrow Road: What Erika Kirk Showed America

Sep 26, 2025

By Daryl Groves | I had the privilege of attending Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, seated not far from the stage. To say that it was “moving”, would be an enormous understatement. Nearly 100,000 gathered in Arizona to grieve the loss of a husband, friend,...