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STEVE MILLOY: Trump Admin Proposes End To Climate Hoax

Aug 6, 2025

By Steve Milloy | The Environmental Protection Agency officially proposed to terminate what President Trump has long called the “climate hoax.” If successful, the federal government will be out of the climate regulation business with no hope of returning to it without...

AZFEC: Arizonans Could See Over $400 Million In Tax Hikes Without Conformity To Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill

Aug 3, 2025

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | This year, the tax cuts from the Trump Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 were set to expire. Failing to extend the cuts would have resulted in a 22% tax hike for the average taxpayer. For Arizonans, it would have meant an average tax...

TIFFANY BENSON: Arizona K-12 Community Members: Do You Know Your Superintendent?

Aug 1, 2025

By Tiffany Benson | K-12 superintendents are the CEOs of public schools, spearheading a cabinet of professionals who manage district resources and implement safety and academic programs. Superintendent qualifications may include a doctorate of philosophy (Ph.D.) or...

DAVID BLACKMON: Zeldin, Trump, Prepare Assault On EPA Endangerment Finding

Jul 30, 2025

By David Blackmon | The Trump administration is gearing up to try to revoke one of the most overreaching, unscientific regulatory edifices ever erected: the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding.” News broke this week that the Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a...

LISA EVERETT: Stop The Federal Monitoring Of Our Sheriff’s Office

Jul 24, 2025

By Lisa Everett | On Wednesday, July 16th, I attended the quarterly public meeting held by the federal monitor overseeing the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, alongside Sheriff Jerry Sheridan. These meetings are intended to gather community input regarding the...

AZFEC: Arizona Can’t Get A New Governor Fast Enough

Jul 23, 2025

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | 15 months. That is how much time we have left until Arizona can elect a new governor, and it couldn’t come soon enough. Since taking office in 2023, Katie Hobbs has been a complete disaster. The heights of her corruption have...

AZFEC: End DEI Indoctrination In Arizona Schools

Jul 18, 2025

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Following President Trump’s directive to scrub divisive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, practices, and language from public institutions, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to the Arizona...

PEGGY MCCLAIN: The Dais Is For The Elected — Not The Employed

Jul 17, 2025

By Peggy McClain | Recently, the Peoria Unified Governing Board made a necessary correction: They removed the superintendent from the dais, restoring a clear boundary between the elected and the employed. While some saw this as dramatic, the only real surprise was...

TIFFANY BENSON: K-12 Teachers: Being Fired And Called ‘Racist’ Is Not The Worst That Can Happen

Jul 16, 2025

By Tiffany Benson | The steady decline of academic success and moral integrity is an undeniable reality in many Arizona school districts. K-12 libraries are plagued with sexually graphic novels. Science textbooks tout evolutionary theory and climate change nonsense....

AZFEC: Kris Mayes Is Upset That Utilities Are Raising Rates To Pay For The Green Scam Agenda She Supports

Jul 16, 2025

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Attorney General Kris Mayes has long fancied herself as a champion for ratepayers. After another round of rate hikes rolled in at the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC), this time a proposed 14% increase by both...

WILLIAM BEARD: Regional Transit In Tucson: Bigger Tax Bill, Worse Results?

Jul 12, 2025

By William Beard | Reprinted with permission from the Goldwater Institute. In 2006, voters in Pima County made a deal: an increase in the sales tax for better roads and infrastructure. But now, after nearly two decades of taxpayers holding up their end of the bargain,...

DAVID BLACKMON: America’s EV Industry Must Now Compete On A Level Playing Field

Jul 11, 2025

By David Blackmon | America’s carmakers face an uncertain future in the wake of President Donald Trump’s signing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law on July 4. The new law ends the $7,500 credit for new electric vehicles ($4,000 for used units) which...