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ALEXANDER KOLODIN: Part 3 Of 4 – How To Solve The Tragedy Of The Commons In Our State
By Alexander Kolodin | From harvesting timber in national forests to grazing cattle on the open range, our nation has faced many tragedies of the commons over the years. Whether hunting big game in the wild or extracting oil and gas from underground...
AZFEC: Move Over, Tim Walz. Katie Hobbs Is Now The Most Scandal-Plagued Governor On The Ballot In 2026
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Over the past month, Minnesota has been hard at work to set the gold standard for jaw-dropping fraud scandals under the watch of Democrat Governor Tim Walz. The Somali...
WARREN PETERSEN: Fighting—And Winning—For Arizona
By Sen. Warren Petersen | For years, Arizona was governed by Republican majorities in the state legislature—with Republicans also holding the Governor’s and Attorney General’s offices. During that time, we transformed Arizona into one of the most enviable and...
ALEXANDER KOLODIN: Part 2 Of 4 – Lack Of Private Property Rights Is Sucking Rural Arizona Dry
By Alexander Kolodin | Across rural Arizona, wells are going dry. Unmitigated groundwater pumping is depleting aquifers and leaving rural communities helpless. In places like Sunizona and Salome, large industrial users are to blame. As corporate interests...
ALFREDO ORTIZ: America’s Labor Market Turning A Corner Led By Main Street And GOP Policies
By Alfredo Ortiz | Friday’s jobs report shows the American labor market is turning a corner. The unemployment rate fell to 4.4%, and average wages grew 40% faster than inflation. Rising real wages are a stark contrast to the Biden administration, where 25% inflation...
AZFEC: Addressing Affordability In The 2026 Legislative Session
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Arizona has hardly had an opportunity to recover from the aftershocks of Biden-omics. The trillions of dollars injected into the economy through the so-called Inflation Reduction Act continue to work their way through the system...
ALEXANDER KOLODIN: Part 1 Of 4 – Arizonans Had Private Property Rights To Groundwater
By Alexander Kolodin | Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos. Also known as the ad coelum doctrine, it means: "Whoever owns the soil owns everything up to the heavens and down to the depths.” This includes gold, silver, oil—or...
DAVID BLACKMON: What 2026 Will Deliver On Energy Policy
By David Blackmon | As the end of 2025 nears, the question arises: What can Americans expect in the world of energy policy in 2026? Predicting future events where energy is concerned is always a risky enterprise. After all, if anyone could accurately foresee where,...
STEVE MILLOY: Trump Dismantles Climate-Industrial Complex
By Steve Milloy | The Trump administration took a major whack at the climate-industrial complex this week. It’s a fantastic move. But another event this week spotlights the need to do more. White House Office of Management and Budget Chief Russ Vought announced this...
JD FOSTER: New Data Confirm Pundits Wrong On Economy Again, But At Least They’re Consistent
By J.D. Foster | Guess what! Inflation, growth, jobs: Conventional wisdom from America’s economic punditry was across-the-board wrong. Again. At the year’s start the punditry predicted that Trump’s tariffs would cause a surge of inflation and would likely trigger...
AZFEC: Arizona’s Liberal NGO Syndicate Is Larger And More Sophisticated Than You Think
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | When people hear the phrase “left-wing political machine,” they probably think of local activist groups, paid protestors, and maybe even out-of-state wealthy progressive donors writing...
DAVID BLACKMON: Ford’s EV Fiasco Fallout Hits Hard
By David Blackmon | I’ve written frequently here in recent years about the financial fiasco that has hit Ford Motor Company and other big U.S. carmakers who made the fateful decision to go in whole hog in 2021 to feed at the federal subsidy trough wrought on the U.S....
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