Scottsdale Needs Real Control Over Short-Term Rentals

Raoul Zubia is a lifelong Scottsdale Resident, former Vice Chair of the Protect and Preserve Scottsdale Task Force, and the only moderate candidate running for Scottsdale City Council. I have lived in this neighborhood since the 1960s. For the past few years, I have been living in my childhood home to help my aging mother. … Read more

Tre Rhodes Brings Fresh Urgency to TUSD School Board Race

Tre’Davon Rhodes knows what public schools can do for students whose futures are anything but guaranteed. Raised by a single mother with an incarcerated father, he worked throughout high school and wasn’t certain college was his next step. A Sabino High School counselor helped him find direction. His grandmother supplied another reason: Before she died, … Read more

Solving Affordability and Water Security: Harder Will Make it Easier

Ashley Harder is a Phoenix business owner, community leader, and historic preservation advocate whose 20 years of work revitalizing neighborhoods, supporting small businesses, and expanding housing opportunities have delivered lasting results throughout the city. She is a candidate for Phoenix City Council District 4.  Our city is growing, and that’s a good thing. But two … Read more

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego Reacts to Trump/Kennedy Jr. Proposed Gutting of Head Start Standards

In Phoenix, the Head Start-Preschool Program served 2710 children from some of the city’s poorest families in the 2024/25 school year. 2566 families were supported. 284 of the children were special needs. 52 were foster kids. 42 had suffered through homelessness. In addition to providing quality preschool options for Phoenix’s poorest families, the Head Start … Read more

Mayes, Kelly, and Gallego Go After Trump/Kennedy Jr. Gutting of Head Start Standards

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Grand Canyon State Senators Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego have taken steps this week to stop Donald ‘I love the uneducated’ Trump and Robert ‘Vaccinations are bad’ Kennedy Jr’s proposed cuts and standards “gutting” to the popular federal pre-school program, Head Start, that were announced last August. In a … Read more