The Prickly Pear will provide current, linked articles about Arizona consistent with our Mission Statement to ‘inform, educate and advocate’. We are an Arizona based website and believe this information should be available to all of our statewide readers. Price: WATCH: Parade of Migrants Stream Across Border into Arizona Hoft: Arizona Hospital Worker Says Nearly […]

More than 100,000 Arizona voters on the Permanent Early Voting List (PEVL) have not voted by early ballot in the past four years. Think about that for a moment. These are people who asked to be on the PEVL but are choosing not to use the system. Not only does this waste taxpayers like your […]

The Prickly Pear will provide current, linked articles about Arizona consistent with our Mission Statement to ‘inform, educate and advocate’. We are an Arizona based website and believe this information should be available to all of our statewide readers. Opponents Hopeful Supreme Court Puts Brakes On Tax Surcharge Until Prop 208 Challenge Gets To Trial […]

The Arizona Supreme Court announced this afternoon that it will immediately hear the constitutional challenge to Proposition 208 brought by a group of legislators and taxpayers represented by the Goldwater Institute. The lawsuit argues that the initiative violates several provisions of the state Constitution, including limits on spending and tax increases. “Today’s order shows that the […]