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Arizona Court Strikes Down Water Bureaucracy’s Development Restrictions

Goldwater Institute challenges state tax credit for Arizona movie producers

Key Points Appeal claims tax credit violates Gift Clause Attorney says state actually loses money through tax incentivization  State position is that filming movies, videos and com...

Anti-Consumer “Common Sense” Institute Wants to Cut Free Transit and Bury Tucson with Freeways

The right-wing “Common Sense Institute of Arizona” has blared its anti-consumer MAGA views by baselessly arguing that Tucson needs more freeways like Phoenix, fewer bike lanes, and...

Report: Arizona Public Universities Fall Short on Civics

State’s Largest School District Warned Over Free Speech Policy

Honors in DEI: Arizona’s Honors Colleges Enact Indoctrination in Required Courses

Diane Brown: Promoting pragmatism over partisanship with PIRG

Diane Brown has spent the past four decades advocating for consumers with the Public Interest Research Group. Twenty of those years have been spent in the Grand Canyon state, where...

Judge rules against ADWR’s water-based restrictions of Phoenix housing developments

Key Points: Court rules Arizona Department of Water Resources acted illegally in 2023 when it restricted housing development in Phoenix over water supply concerns  The state water...

Report: Off-Cycle Elections Give Outsized Power to Few Voters

Group Looks at Fiscal and Family Impacts of Proposed Arizona ESA Restrictions

Arizona Legislators Consider Next Move in Grand Canyon Area Suit

The Case for David Schweikert: Business Leaders Like GOP Governors

2 Anti-School Choice Campaigns in Arizona Mislead Voters

Arizona’s trailblazing Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program enables the families of more than 102,000 students to choose the learning environments that work best for their chil...

Report: New Tax Policy to Add Thousands of Arizona Jobs

Injunction Sought in Arizona Elections Manual ‘Punishing’ Political Speech Lawsuit

City of Scottsdale Accused of Politically Based Firing in $1.5 Million Claim

“End the Waste. End the Fraud. End the Abuse”: Auditor General Finds Major Issues of Non-Compliance with the ESA Program

It is amazing what an audit can uncover. In another bombshell report by 12 News journalist Craig Harris, the billion-dollar-a-year Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) pri...

Attorney General Kris Mayes Makes Her Case for Re-Election as the Lawyer for All the People of Arizona

A champion for reproductive freedom.  A crusader for senior citizen protections from elderly home abuse and online scams. A defender of public safety, presiding over the largest se...

Gap Between Results and Rhetoric: Turning Point Action’s Claims of SRP Election Victory

Courts are no substitute for water-pumping markets

A Maricopa County court recently denied Fondomonte’s request to delay Attorney General Kris Mayes’ groundwater lawsuit, reigniting statewide debate over rural water extraction. The...

AZ Opportunity: Driving Arizona’s workforce toward a stronger, competitive future

Arizona’s civic and business leaders joined host Steve Goldstein to discuss AZ Opportunity, a bold initiative from the Arizona Board of Regents aimed at strengthening the state’s e...

Arizona Law Blocks Local Limits on Small Assisted Living Homes

Institute for Reforming Government: Oversight hearing success: IRG testifies as GOAT Committee starts shining a light on...

Superintendent Underly skips hearing, sends staff who were not part of the water park conference in question MADISON, Wis – On March 16th, the Institute for Reforming Government (I...

Attorney General Mayes sparks turf war with Arizona Corporation Commission

Key Points: Attorney General Kris Mayes is challenging several recent Corporation Commission decisions Commissioners say Mayes is infringing on their authority to set utility rates...