By:  Barrett Coughlin Until 1993, women couldn’t even wear pants on the Senate Floor. Now here we are in 2019 questioning Arizona’s first female Senator elect’s thigh-highs.  After roughly four years in the New York fashion industry, I chose a more lighthearted career path and landed in politics. As we approach another fashion month it…

At HighGround, we often find clarity and solace in these difficult times within the columns written by David Brooks from the New York Times.  In this latest piece, “The Remoralization of the Market,” he extolls the virtues of capitalism, but also discusses how we need to refocus the role it plays in a moral and…

Lawsuit Focused on Misleading Description and Illegally Gathered Signatures    “This light rail opposition group has had ample opportunity to have their voices heard through three campaigns and hundreds of public stakeholder hearings.  They have lost, time and again, and now have set themselves on a course to upend the will of the voters. Their…

Arizona’s bright copper star and yellow shafts of light lost some luster this morning with the news of our friend Congressman Ed Pastor’s passing. The flag’s depiction of an Arizona sunrise is an appropriate way to remember our friend – his constant optimistic demeanor and his sunny disposition brightened everyone’s day. For my part, I…

On the eve of a Presidential visit in August of 2017, HighGround commissioned a poll that showed President’s Trump approval rating in Arizona at 41.8%, and his Republican support at 74% and I wrote the following observation (see the post here): “If the President and the GOP fail to expand public support beyond the GOP…