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My dear departed colleague Clay Thompson used to deal each day with questions and comments from readers, often pointing out their foibles, their...
I find myself thinking this Memorial Day weekend about Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jose Jimenez. He was a Mexican national who came to the U.S., to...
Kari Lake has scored a "huge victory” in her efforts to silence the sound of freedom. Oh, I’m sure the Voice of America will go on under Lake’s...
You could feel the tension rise as wildfire erupted near Greer in eastern Arizona’s high country. The Greer Fire was burning where the Wallow Fire...
The Department of Justice report issued last year on the Phoenix Police Department was brutal. It didn’t focus solely on isolated incidents, but...
In 2022, Arizona voters made history by passing Proposition 308, granting in-state tuition to undocumented students — Dreamers — who have lived in...
Many old-school conservatives who never drank the MAGA Kool-Aid but still root for Donald Trump’s success because the Democratic alternative is so...
A reader asked me a question about the masked federal agents who have been assigned to arrest the men and women appearing for civil immigration...
Remember when candidate Donald Trump vowed to deport violent criminals who broke into the country to rape and murder and generally pillage the land?...
Arizona’s school voucher program was a bait and switch con job from the start. A lie. It was proposed and adopted initially with the noble purpose...
Two Mesa high schools will be offering a new class this fall, one designed to prepare their students for a lucrative career in the hottest field...
Justin Heap beat me in the 2024 Republican primary, and he replaced me as Maricopa County recorder. I’m now writing in his defense. Kind of. In just...
As Donald Trump dithers over which Republican is MAGA enough to get his 2026 endorsement for governor of Arizona, Katie Hobbs is plying a centrist...
The notion that we must end court supervision of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office just because it costs too much isn’t just absurd. It’s...