Our team at HighGround is proud of the work we’ve accomplished over the past 20 years, taking on the tough policy challenges and working to build an Arizona that everyone can be proud of. It takes dedication to the state, an eagerness to find solutions and a constant positive energy to overcome obstacles and “make…

In reading a New York Times guest editorial earlier this week by Gar Alperovitz and Thomas Hanna, one could make a case that for the sake of our public institutions, K-12 schools, and higher education, both Governor Doug Ducey and State Treasurer Jeff DeWit are correct.  Our State Land Trust should be protected to serve…

Arizona’s Summers are Hot enough – We Don’t Need Overheated Rhetoric! The Bloviator-in-Chief, Donald Trump, is coming to town this weekend to bathe Arizonans in his overheated rhetoric which only speaks to about a third of the Republican Primary voting electorate. The media, however, is playing along with the Manhattan-based carnival act and even the…

It was announced earlier this week in the latest survey conducted on behalf of Stand for Children that voters now believe that Education has surpassed Immigration and Border Issues as the top issue facing the state. This marks the first time since the start of the great recession that Education has been at the top…

From Stand for Children Voters support leveraging state trust fund for education, want to fix lower performing schools through raising teacher pay and weighing family income in the community when funding education Phoenix, Arizona – After several years of other issues taking the spotlight in the state of Arizona, a recent statewide survey commissioned by Stand for Children…