Get your appetite ready and mark your calendars for Phoenix’s first ever Chile Pepper Festival hosted by Roosevelt Row. On September 29, 2012, Roosevelt Row CDC will kickoff the first-annual Roosevelt Row Chile Pepper Festival. The Festival will highlight Phoenix food culture with the Southwest’s favorite vegetable, the chile pepper, and will showcase some of…
DetailsA new poll from Moore Information has Congressman Paul Gosar leading Senator Ron Gould by a 31-21% margin. Bob Moore, who has a history of calling them right in Arizona, does a good job of taking a scientific, balanced approach to his research. Here’s what he finds: “By a two-to-one margin, voters are positive about…
DetailsA comprehensive article on the debacle known as Fast & Furious tells us one thing quite clearly and leaves us asking two final questions: What we know quite clearly: The ATF is in a bureaucratic Catch 22 hobbled on one side by weak laws governing gun sales/transfers and the other by the NRA and Second…
DetailsGovernor Jeb Bush has an excellent article in the National Review that we full heartedly agree with. For the long term health of the Republican Party, we need to be solutions driven and push forward with the discussion of policies that are focused more about real results over ideology. We should indeed be the party…
DetailsNew York Times writer Frank Bruni wrote column today titled “Don’t Look Down” discussing the brinksmanship nature of our current political environment. He posits that we have grown accustomed to living near the edge and making changes only when truly forced. Bruni explains, “As cliff dwellers we deal with nothing until the last possible minute…
DetailsAt Highground, we have had the opportunity to work with some special people who have played integral roles in Arizona’s rich history. We have always looked to help candidates who have a clear reason for running for office, and a vision for how they can see that through. We are honored to have the opportunity…
DetailsWhether you are a fan of Grover Norquist and his libertarian gospel of anti-taxation or a believer in the Rev. Al Sharpton’s rhetoric of government oppression, one thing is clear to me, their ideologies contribute significantly to our political culture’s inability to resolve the endemic public policy challenges of our time. From entitlement reform and…
DetailsIn case you missed it, the Arizona Republic had an extensive update on the Light Rail system yesterday and the plans for the future extensions in Phoenix and in Mesa. Mesa is moving forward with the ground breaking on their extension and Phoenix is expected to vote on theirs next month. Though the lines and…
DetailsPublic officials are, by their very definition, “ public figures “ exposed to media review and voter scrutiny. We have seen that here in Arizona recently with a series of investigations, indictments, and various personal issues splashed across the headlines. As we have said before, these are the exceptions, not the rule in Arizona politics. …
DetailsBy: Paul Bentz With that, there is the temptation to fall into a “tit for tat” mentality where candidates are focused on their opponents. Candidates should take a page out of last week’s episode of Mad Men. After getting his ad dropped in favor of Don’s concept, Michael Ginsberg said to Don Draper, “I feel…
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