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Honoring the Sacrifice: A Reflection on Memorial Day

May 26, 2025 9:11 amJune 5, 2025 4:35 pm

Memorial Day is more than just the unofficial start of summer or a long weekend for barbecues and sales. It is a time to pause, reflect, and pay our most profound respects to those who gave their lives in service...

Mayes’s Tariff Lawsuit Proves ‘Trump Hate’ Overshadows Policy

April 25, 2025 5:00 amMay 1, 2025 7:55 am

Arizona’s Attorney General Kris Mayes never met a Trump lawsuit she didn’t like. And her latest move, enjoining a multistate suit to halt Trump’s use of tariffs, proves the point. Even before the election, which Trump won by achieving an...

Making American Great Again – by Moving Forward

November 6, 2024 2:29 pmNovember 14, 2024 11:02 am

In the wake of President-Elect Donald Trump’s historic victory last night, we find the country still deeply divided. After what was arguably the nastiest and most hate-filled political campaign, at least that I can recall, “we the people” face a...

Early Arizona Voter Turnout Up Significantly from 2020

October 23, 2024 4:01 pmOctober 28, 2024 3:25 pm

I did my Arizona civic duty today by voting early and in person and was pleasantly surprised to see others doing the same – many others. What I expected to be a quick trip to City Hall turned into a...

An Open Letter to America

September 12, 2024 5:00 amSeptember 20, 2024 9:18 am

Yesterday, we commemorated one of the darkest days in America’s short but storied history. I remember the horror of seeing those symbols of American greatness – the Twin Towers and The Pentagon – burn to the ground. I also recall...

Arizona Lawmakers Commemorate 9/11

September 11, 2024 5:00 amSeptember 20, 2024 9:19 am

On September 11, 2001, America faced one of its darkest days as coordinated terrorist attacks claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people. The events of that day left an indelible mark on the nation’s history, forever changing our collective memory...

Why I’m Fighting for Victims of Arizona’s Opioid Crisis

July 26, 2024 3:00 pmAugust 1, 2024 10:10 am

In response to the opioid epidemic, Arizona declared a public health emergency in 2017 and passed the Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act in 2018, even as national opioid deaths increased 30% from 2019-2020 and 15% from 2020-2021. More than five people die...