Dozens of Sun City residents gathered at a town hall meeting on Thursday to voice opposition to a proposed 14% increase in rates by Arizona Public Service. The community is home to 40,000 retirees who all get their electricity from APS. Many live on fixed incomes. The proposed statewide rate hike comes just two years[...]

There is a difference between living and surviving. Living means taking my kids on camping trips, buying birthday presents for my grandchildren and cooking healthy meals for my family. Surviving is cutting back, skipping meals and sacrificing basic necessities each month. For years, my husband and I were able to truly live, but lately it[...]

Heating bills are going up this winter—but it’s not an accident. Gas utilities are raising prices, tacking on mystery charges, and building pipelines we don’t need—all while making record profits and handing CEOs million-dollar payouts. That’s not fair. And it doesn’t have to continue. 

In 1990, I moved to Phoenix and built a life here with my three children. For 44 years, I was proud to focus my career on advocating for disabled and deaf children, a mission I continue today as a volunteer. Now at 66, I am blessed with 11 wonderful grandchildren, and much of my time[...]

As data centers draw ire from neighborhood groups across the state, the Arizona Legislature may consider nixing a lucrative tax incentive for the tech facilities powering AI. Why it matters: Arizona has become one of the top markets for data centers in the country, leading a bipartisan group of elected officials to question whether the[...]