Goldwater Institute

Connecticut Senate President Pro Tem Donald E. Williams Jr. recently declared that "public financing is the cornerstone of election reform." Thomas Jefferson disagrees. So do I.

Two years ago, Angela Sartain watched her oldest son, Pierce, a graduate of half-day kindergarten, cry over his first-grade homework. Now, her youngest son, Wyatt, is in full-day kindergarten and already reading at a first-grade level at Marana's Desert Winds Elementary School.

Conservatives and some top business activists want to bring a controversial set of anti-tax laws and government spending caps to Arizona.

We hear it all the time: "If a family should be forced to reduce its budget in bad times, so should government." It has become something of a mantra among fiscal conservatives.

The Rodel Foundation says that if Arizona spent $1.7 billion a year on particular programs, "it is reasonable to expect student performance to double within 10 years."