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MIKE BENGERT: Can SUSD Governing Board Member Pittinsky Be Trusted?
By Mike Bengert | Anyone who has watched Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) Governing Board meetings over the past two years has likely noticed how often Member Pittinsky cites his business experience and expertise. He presents himself as a thoughtful...
AZFEC: Proposition 406 – Page Residents Get Their Say On Lake Powell Boulevard
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Last year, residents of Page, a small town in northern Arizona, fought back against plans to reduce vehicle lanes on Lake Powell Boulevard, one of the town’s most important roads. This November, they have the opportunity to...
ANGELA WHEELER: Climate Lawsuits Fail Constitutional And Scientific Review
By Angela Wheeler | The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether municipalities can set national energy policy by forcing oil and gas companies to pay for weather damages purportedly precipitated by carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from combustion of their products....
AZFEC: Arizonans Can Have Fast, Accurate, Secure, Transparent Election Results With Prop 144
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Arizona’s future belongs to its citizens. Only their votes should decide it, foreign money should not influence it, and they should not be left waiting weeks for answers after every election. Proposition 144 puts those...
TIFFANY BENSON: Peoria’s Proposition 428 Is The Definition Of Insanity
By Tiffany Benson | Remember the pop-culture definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result? This fits like a hand to glove when we contrast the Prop 428 campaign against Peoria Unified School District’s (PUSD) failed...
AZFEC: Prop 142 Ends The Workarounds For Racial Preferences
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | There are some principles we like to think America settled a long time ago. Racial discrimination is wrong. Government should not treat people differently because of the color of their skin. And our public institutions should...
TALA GOUDARZI: Current High Energy Prices Were Decades In The Making
By Tala Goudarzi | It is a common cliché to say that social media and the deluge of content we consume each day have significantly hampered, if not entirely destroyed, our attention spans. Sometimes it seems like memory itself may be a vestige of a bygone...
AZFEC: Big Brother Wants to Know How Much You Drive
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | In George Orwell’s 1984, Big Brother needed telescreens, microphones, and cameras to watch citizens, extinguish the idea of a private life, and to tightly control their “decisions”. Today, technology makes that job...
FRANK LASEE: Expensive State Clean Energy Mandates: The Math Nobody Ran
By Frank Lasee | Thirteen states from Vermont to Hawaii have written a hard deadline into law: 100 percent carbon-free (CO2-free) or “clean” electricity, most by 2040 or 2045. Lawmakers sold these mandates as a bargain: cheaper power alongside cleaner air. Voters in...
AZFEC: The Right Lesson To Learn From The Ongoing Fight Over School Choice In Arizona
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Over the last four years Governor Katie Hobbs, the teachers’ unions, and their allies in the corporate media have been relentlessly attacking Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESAs) program, the most popular and...
TJ SHOPE: Mayes Must Release The Full Sunshine Investigation
By T.J. Shope | Over the past few years, a government pay-to-play scandal has been brewing in Arizona that rivals the malfeasance we have come to expect from American bastions of improprieties like New York, Illinois, and California. A couple of years ago, the state’s...
MIKE BENGERT: Scottsdale School District Violates Arizona Open Meeting Law — Again
By Mike Bengert | After investigating an Open Meeting Law (OML) complaint against the Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD), the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office (MCAO) determined that Dr. Menzel and the SUSD Governing Board once again violated the rights of SUSD...
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