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Maddison Hughes went to an Arizona Talks and KTAR News forum on the 2026 ballot propositions already sure of how she would vote. Hearing why other Arizonans saw the same measures differently still changed her mindset, she writes, because being informed doesn't mean you're done thinking.
Rudy Cota III argues that ranked choice voting and jungle primaries are a seductive but false fix for Arizona's political frustration, and that the real work of better politics happens inside the parties, not by rewriting the rules of the ballot.
Leaders of Save Our Schools Arizona and the Arizona Education Association make the case that universal ESA vouchers are draining the public schools most families still choose—and lay out the ballot measure to rein them in.
A mother of three kids with dyslexia on what Arizona's ESA scholarship made possible, and why she's worried about the ballot measure that would change it.
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