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AZFEC: Arizona Corporation Commission Could Saddle Ratepayers With 14% Rate Hikes
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Arizona ratepayers already know what it feels like to watch their electric bills climb. In just the last few years, rates have increased by 27% across Arizona, all while environmentalists and Democrats in Washington claimed...
AZFEC: The Only Thing Pay To Play Katie Got Out Of The Budget Was Corporate Handouts For Her Friends
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | After months of vetoes and walking away from the table, Hobbs has finally signed a budget. A budget that looks pretty much the same as the one Legislative Republicans sent up to her desk at the beginning...
CHRISTINE ACCURSO: I Ran Arizona’s ESA Program. Here’s What the Critics Won’t Tell You.
By Christine Accurso | I have sat at the desk where the reimbursement requests come in. I have reviewed the accounts flagged for misuse. I have personally picked up the phone and called parents when something did not look right. I ran Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship...
YENDI PARKER: The Protect Education Act Doesn’t Protect Education
By Yendi Parker | Eight years ago, the United States Marine Corps moved my family to Arizona. Since then, my husband and I have used Arizona's Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program to help provide the education our three children need to succeed. As both a...
WARREN PETERSEN: Arizona Should Lead America’s Golden Age—Not Prosecute It
By Sen. Warren Petersen | Earlier this spring, a federal judge in Phoenix had to step in and protect law-abiding Americans from a prosecutor who had lost all sense of limits. He struck down Kris Mayes’s case against the prediction market Kalshi and, in doing so,...
MIKE BENGERT: Scottsdale Students Deserve Better Than Failed Education Experiments
By Mike Bengert | I have opposed Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) Superintendent Dr. Menzel and his Governing Board allies since his arrival, and for good reason. For decades, progressive education experts have promoted policies they said would raise...
BEDRICK & LADNER: Capitol Coordination: When A Reporter Becomes An Activist
By Jason Bedrick & Matthew Ladner | For months, we have documented the pattern of errors, distortions, and outright fabrications that characterize the coverage of Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program by Channel 12’s political reporter Craig Harris....
VIJAY JAYARAJ: Climate Alarmism’s Reset And The Policy Reckoning It Demands
By Vijay Jayaraj | A quiet technical decision in climate science should trigger one of the most consequential policy corrections of this decade. Deep within the bureaucratic machinery of global climate research sits an obscure modeling group called the Scenario Model...
AZFEC: Katie Hobbs Is Turning Arizona’s Scenic Landscape Into A Playground For Foreign Solar Developers
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | For generations, Arizona’s wide-open land has supported ranchers, farmers and the communities that helped build our great state. Then, the climate activists came along. Armed with nothing more than junk...
ANNA VAN HOEK: Empty Classrooms, Full Costs
By Anna Van Hoek | At the May 5 Higley Unified Governing Board meeting, the Board approved a lease agreement with AZ Aspire Academy to utilize a portion of Power Ranch Elementary. I think it's a good thing that the district is looking for ways to generate additional...
DAVID BLACKMON: Texas Leads A New Natural Gas Pipeline Boom
By David Blackmon | Texas is once again proving why it stands as America’s unrivaled energy powerhouse. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), more than 66% of planned U.S. natural gas pipeline capacity additions for 2026 and 2027 — roughly...
AZFEC: The Damage From Katie Hobbs’ Illegal Housing Moratorium Is Only Beginning
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | For decades, Arizona has been a national model for how to responsibly manage and develop water resources. As a result, our state has enjoyed years of economic growth while welcoming millions of new residents to live and work...
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