Some understand that the North American Free Trade Agreement needs to be modernized, and on Monday, President Trump announced a new trade agreement between the U.S. and Mexico. However, there are not many details on this sixteen-year U.S.-Mexico Trade Agreement and Mexico’s President asking for the participation of Canada.

University of Arizona's Daily Wildcat reported that according to Gallup, 63 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the current direction of the country. Yet, if voter turnout is anything like the last five primary elections, no more than 30 percent of Arizonans registered to vote are going to cast a ballot in August 28th’s primary.

CNN Politics reported that Latino voters could help decide several competitive races in Arizona this election cycle and Republicans and Democrats are making their best pitches to win the vital constituency.

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The New York Times reported that there was a time not long ago when many in Arizona thought Joe Arpaio would remain sheriff of Maricopa County for the rest of his life. Now the 86-year-old is waging one of his final battles, against irrelevance.

The Foothills Focus reported that a new report published this month by Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University declared that Arizona is experiencing a voter crisis due to participation steadily declining across the state; especially in the primary elections where only one in three potential voters cast a ballot in the 2016.

In a column in the Arizona Daily Star, commissioner Mark Kimble, member of the Citizens Clean Elections Commission and registered independent voter, says there is an increasing number of voters choosing neither the Democratic nor Republican party, but instead defining themselves as “party not designated.”

Susan Craig

August 22, 2018

These days there's more and more talk of the possibility of reductions in Arizona's surface water supplies and whether the state will need to find additional water. We may not have to look too far.

Two housing experts and a Marine Corps veteran weigh in on the lack of affordable housing in Arizona.

Grady Gammage Jr. is a senior research fellow at Arizona State University's Morrison Institute for Public Policy and has over 40 years of experience in law and policy in Arizona.

Chamber Business News reported that Arizona home builders in the populous center of the state are worried that emerging water wars threaten the development of the Sun Corridor, the megaregion between Phoenix and Tucson.

As water interests across the state race to negotiate how to mitigate shortages, keeping development strong in Arizona will be one of their biggest challenges.