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Legislative Alert: Feb 2

CONGRATULATE GOVERNOR DUCEY!! (Yes, we just said that.) The Governor VETOED the Tax Conformity Bill on Friday. This means that state taxes will not be reduced by around $200 million per year to conform to the 2017 Federal Tax Cut bill. Rather than just making technical changes to conform the Arizona tax code, the […]

Republican Bill to Ban Dropping Off Mail-In Ballots in Arizona will Significantly Impact Coconino County.

Voters turned out in record numbers to exercise their rights as citizens to vote in the 2018 election in Arizona. Some races were not decided until the last ballot was counted. In some cases this took additional time after the election since many ballots were dropped off at polling places on election day or at […]

Take Action: Sign Petition to Stop Voter Suppression!

In November 2018, over 220,000 Arizonans cast their ballot by delivering their mail-in ballot to their polling location instead of a mailbox. Now the Republicans in the Arizona Legislature want to change the law to require that all ballots delivered to a voter by mail must be returned to election offices by mail — no […]

Action Alert: Federal Minimum Wage

Last week, Democratic leadership in Congress reintroduced the Raise the Wage Act (H. R. 582) in the House with 181 cosponsors and companion bill (S. 150) in the Senate with 31 cosponsors. This legislation, if enacted into law, would raise the federal minimum wage to $8.55 this year and increase the federal wage floor over the next five years to reach […]

Report from the ADP Environmental Caucus

by Christa Sadler, 2d Vice Chair Greetings from the second vice-chair of the ADP Environmental Caucus. Of the five officers elected at the January 26, 2019 meeting, Coconino County at least has one voice! The mission of the ADP Environmental Caucus is to strive toward educating and engaging its members on environmental issues affecting Arizona […]

Action Alert: This Week in the Arizona Legislature

Use Request to Speak to make your voice heard on the following bills that are up for hearing in the Legislature this week. And/or, call or email your legislators. Use RTS to speak against HB2474 – This bill would expand the empowerment scholarship accounts. It is a continuing effort by the Legislature to go around […]

Supervisors not up to par with students

That was a very nice front page article in the Thursday, Jan. 17 edition concerning the water ethic contest participated in by fourth-graders to raise awareness about the importance of water conservation. It was also nice that the Board of Supervisors attended the award event that was held to recognize the contest participants. The students […]

Calling on representatives to take action

I am calling on my representatives in Congress, Senators Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema, to take action against the unprecedented and dangerous situation we are in as a nation. They are the voices of their constituents and we demand that something must happen and soon. Senator McConnell has once again blamed Democrats for Trump’s shutdown. […]

City caves to another student housing development

With the approval of the latest mega-student housing development at the old Jeld-Wen industrial site on Butler Avenue, the city of Flagstaff (Planning and Zoning Commission) has once again capitulated to outside (Texas) developers whose fabulous profits for projects such as The Hub, The Standard, and now this monstrosity on Butler Avenue continue to degrade […]

Guest Column: Shutdown is disrupting the park experience

While the government shutdown may seem abstract to many, it has very real and devastating consequences for national parks and the people who care for them. National parks protect our nation’s culture, wildlife, history, and natural beauty, and we need to protect them in return. During this government shutdown, it is estimated the national parks […]