When David Wright asked his father to construct a home at the base of Camelback Mountain for him and his wife Gladys, the Arcadia neighborhood looked much different than how we know it today. In 1952, as construction began on what would be known as the David Wright House, architect Frank Lloyd Wright was surrounded…

From the Arizona Republic: James Madison wrote in Federalist Paper #10, “If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by Republican principle which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by a regular vote.”  Yet here in Arizona, our Legislature just passed two laws substantially curtailing the public’s ability to…

The Hopes of our Neighbors “Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” –Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption If you’ve ever spent a Saturday afternoon scrolling through your TV channels and landed on TNT or TBS, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve seen The Shawshank…

The author Jon Meacham wrote in the “Art of Power”, his biography on Thomas Jefferson, that “he (Jefferson) knew, though, that life was best lived among friends in the pursuit of large causes, understanding that pain was the price for anything worth having.” This week Arizona lost a friend – a pursuer of just causes,…

I don’t want to trivialize one person’s suffering, but the United Airlines passenger incident last week reminded me a little of how I felt in the 2016 elections last summer and fall. Instead of being dragged off the plane against my will after I paid for a service, I was dragged onto a ballot I…