Let’s Make a Mine Deal: The Story of the Gold Paradise Peak Mine

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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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The Missing Outrage over Leaked City Documents

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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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Misuse of the Prescott Mayor Recall Process: Who’s Behind the Curtain?

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By AZFPI The misuse of the recall process in Prescott continues. Despite an outside legal investigation that concluded Mayor Goode did not violate the city charter—discrediting the very premise of the recall petition.1 Despite the city manager has since voluntarily resigned her position with the city.2 And despite it was the sweetheart deal with the …

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AZFPI Against Abuse of Recall Process to Unseat Mayor Goode

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By the Arizonans For Promoting Integrity Board The recall process allows citizens to remove an elected official from office before that person’s term ends. This process should be reserved for incompetent or corrupt officials.(1) Here in Prescott, however, the recall process is akin to watching 8-year-olds in a school cafeteria. For no discernable reason, a …

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The 1888 Buckle Club Rodeo Petition: The Mengarelli Misinformation Machine is Back

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By Deb Thalasitis and Mary Beth Hrin All around Prescott there are yard signs, petitioners, hand fans, radio spots from council candidate Chad DeVries, even texts with a link to the 1888 Buckle Club website where you can sign the petition to “Save the Rodeo.” So we want to know: Who exactly is trying to take …

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Glassman Lacks Credibility in Campaign for Arizona Attorney General

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By Pam Pearsall If it is primary season in Arizona, Rodney Glassman must be running for some political office somewhere. But exactly who and what does Glassman want to be when he grows up? Butcher? Baker? Candlestick maker? First, there was Glassman’s foray into the private sector managing his family’s Gateway Ice Center in Tucson …

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