In 2000, when the City of Prescott asked for a 1% increase in their sales tax to pay for streets and open space, the residents listened. In 2017, when the City asked for a .75% increase in their sales tax to pay down $78 million in police and fire public pension debt, the residents listened. […]
By the AZFPI Board You are now entering another episode of Prescott’s Twilight Zoning…. In the first episode of the TV series, “The Twilight Zone,” a man finds himself totally alone in a small town. His panic escalates into terror as he desperately searches for an explanation for incomprehensible events. Sounds a lot like
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Future of Prescott Public Safety Depends on Passage of Prop 478 By the AZFPI Board The funny thing about Prescott’s Public Safety ballot initiative (Proposition 478) is that no one, and we mean no one, disputes additional funding is needed for police and fire/emergency medical services (hereinafter, public safety). Not even talk radio show hosts,
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By the AZFPI Board Part II – Potential Impacts of Utility-Scale Solar in Yavapai County This is the second part in a two-part series about proposed utility-scale solar and battery storage farms in Yavapai County Yavapai County’s Development Services staff has drafted a utility-scale solar ordinance to regulate the construction, operation, and decommissioning of large,
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By the AZFPI Board Part I – Utility-Scale Solar in Yavapai County This is the first article in a two-part series about proposed utility-scale solar and battery storage farms in Yavapai County Remember playing “Whisper Down the Lane” in school as a kid? The game usually starts with the teacher, who whispers a sentence into
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The latest “political hit” job indicates there’s a new cabal in town. Dark money in Yavapai County is back, and unfortunately, it looks like it’s here to stay.1 The latest “campaign” hit piece targets four of the seven current Prescott Council members, Save the Dells, AZFPI, the Executive Committee of Prescott Indivisible, Noel Campbell, Mary
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By The AZFPI Board Do you know why the IRS Tax Code is approximately 2,600 pages? Because when it comes to paying taxes, the honor system just doesn’t work. And like it or not, governments use taxes (and fees) to pay for essential services such as roads, public safety, and utilities. So why then, in
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By the AZFPI Board This post was updated on 4/29/24 to reflect a correction on the EPA’s ECHO database. A Look at the Players, Property & Regulators of Gold Paradise Peak Mine This is a complicated story of high-stakes real estate with mineral rights investments, never-ending litigation, unresolved regulatory violations, and financial skullduggery. But singularly
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‘If You Build it, They Will Come’: A Business Plan That Only Works in Hollywood By AZFPI Arizona faces more than a billion dollars in financial deficits over the next few years.1 Yep, you read that correctly. Yet our state representatives from LD-1 remain undeterred in their mission to give Prescott Frontier Days (PFD) $15.3
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By Arizonans for Promoting Integrity Prescott is no longer a small town. Our once sleepy Daily Courier used to report about stolen bicycles. Lately, the paper’s journalistic integrity rivals that of the National Enquirer reporting on space aliens. Tim Wiederaenders and the Daily Courier have been fixated on the City of Prescott’s three personnel—not criminal—investigations
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