By: J. Charles Coughlin After taking a week off to watch my resurgent Michigan Wolverines beat the Cornhuskers and the Buckeyes, I returned to read yesterday’s Sunday edition of the Arizona Republic. Since the last election cycle closed with lopsided Republican victories, I have watched and read as the Republic’s coverage of Arizona politics has…

By: J. Charles Coughlin When will Arizona learn how to honor its leaders?  When will we not, in a gathering of community leaders, focus on what is wrong with Arizona, but on what is right? We all certainly have our differences, but as our mothers taught us: “if you don’t have anything nice to say…”…

As Democrats continue to overstate the meaning behind the successful recall of Senator Russell Pearce and the mouth breathing continues over the ouster of IRC Chairman Mathis, NY Times Columnist David Brooks sheds some badly needed light on our own internal blind spots.  His column, as usual, is a great read with terrific insights: internet…

A common motto of the world scouting movement is “to leave this world a little better than you found it.”  Robert Brinton, President and CEO of the Mesa Convention and Visitors Bureau passed from us this past Friday, October 21. Robert left Arizona a better place for us all and we are all better to…

Following up on our post earlier this week on addressing the underlying frustration of the occupy movement, we see a worthy start on Wall Street reform from Presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal.  It is a much improved approach over the dismissive “jealous” comment from Herman Cain. Huntsman poses some interesting ideas…