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School Funding Negotiations Break Down

In 2000 voters approved a law which requires state aid to schools to be adjusted annually for inflation. Lawmakers proceeded to ignore this law for years. As a result our schools have been shorted over $1 billion. [...]

September 12, 2015|Categories: Talking Points|

The Problem with Guns in America

  One in three people in the U.S. know someone who has been shot.1 On average, 32 Americans are murdered with guns every day and 140 are treated for a gun assault in an emergency room.2 Every [...]

January 17, 2015|Categories: Talking Points|

School shooting Is a real problem

  There have been 95 shootings on K-12 and college campuses — an average of nearly one every week — in the two years since the deadly attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., according [...]

January 17, 2015|Categories: Talking Points|

Legislative Looney Toons

        State Legislative District 6 (including much of Coconino County) has become the butt of many jokes because of the absurd extremists who are our State Legislators. Brenda Barton and Bob Thorpe are not [...]

December 21, 2013|Categories: Talking Points|

Ann Kirkpatrick–Votes 2nd half of 2013

  Below is a comprehensive list of all House votes taken the second half of 2013. You will find a description of each bill, an indicator of vote passage, the votes in favor, the opposing votes, and [...]

December 10, 2013|Categories: Talking Points|
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