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
Let’s Make a Mine Deal: The Story of the Gold Paradise Peak Mine Read More »
‘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
PFD Rodeo Plan Akin to ‘Field of Dreams’ Fantasy Read More »
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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Another Look Behind the Curtain – the Rodeo and the Recall Save the Rodeo? Again? What’s that got to do with the effort to recall Mayor Phil Goode? Well, apparently the Recall Committee thinks the two are related. The latest angle in the never-ending “recall reason roulette” is that residents are hearing from petition circulators
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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
Misuse of the Prescott Mayor Recall Process: Who’s Behind the Curtain? Read More »
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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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
The 1888 Buckle Club Rodeo Petition: The Mengarelli Misinformation Machine is Back Read More »
By AZFPI Who is Chad DeVries? Perhaps a better question is exactly how far will DeVries go to get elected to Prescott City Council? There is the campaign persona that he is a “family man” and a successful businessman. Then there is the reality DeVries wishes to hide from public scrutiny. Since DeVries himself has
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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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