By: J. Charles Coughlin This month, HighGround will be celebrating our 30th anniversary.  I celebrated our 25th anniversary with a blog post thanking and celebrating the many mentors, colleagues, clients, and friends who helped this firm get this far. In that post, I expressed my gratitude for the opportunities I have been given and the…

We’re thrilled to share some exciting news: HighGround has received five national awards for our work in public affairs, strategic digital communications, and campaign excellence — and we’re also proud to be nominated in the 2025 Arizona Capitol Times Best of the Capitol Awards! 2025 Campaign & Elections Reed Awards Best Website for a Ballot Initiative — Prop 140 Best…

Cochise County Rose, the Chief propagandist for unregulated water speculators in greater Arizona, published quite the screed this week— criticizing the thoughtful proposal from advocates of greater water regulation in rural Arizona. Cochise Rose’s propaganda fails one giant and significant test which must not be ignored by policymakers or the public. Her proposal would continue…

By: J. Charles Coughlin If you have never watched the series on HBO, “From the Earth to the Moon,” you are missing out – big time.  It is a history-based docudrama about the American space effort beginning with Kennedy’s 1962 speech to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.  The…

By Nick Ponder, Guest Commentary //February 27, 2025 for the Arizona Capitol Times A series of very unusual economic recessions (Great Recession; Covid-19 Recession) and the following expansions changed the financial model for homebuilding. Heightened costs of labor and materials, combined with some complex financial issues, led to housing price escalation in Arizona, across the nation,…