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…

Since our firm started back in 1996, the HighGround team has always taken pride in not only our work, but in the high-quality kind of people who work here. There is no better example of that than Kate Fassett. Over the past decade at HighGround, Kate has grown from our office manager into one of…

Frank Lloyd Wright once said, “The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.” There have been times that I have said that politics can be a soul sucking endeavor.  Sometimes the act of public policy is difficult to appreciate – I have…

We were sad to learn that Dr. Margaret Kenski has passed away after a long battle with cancer. We send our condolences to Hank, their daughters, and their grandchildren. We join in mourning her loss with the many throughout Arizona who had the honor of knowing and working with her. HighGround’s Robert Johnson first met…