Dear LD25 Friends, Last week, I wrote about housing affordability after our Legislative Town Hall at Arizona Western College. One of the points I made was simple: Arizona has a housing supply problem, and access to land is a big part of it. Now, new information from the Legislature's Joint Ad Hoc Committee on State Land Oversight shows why this conversation truly matters. BUCKLE UP! Arizona is currently short approximately 56,000 homes, while about 276,000 acres of potentially developable...

Dear LD25 Friends, This week, I had the opportunity to join fellow Yuma-area legislators at Arizona Western College's Legislative Town Hall for about 90 minutes of questions and conversation about the issues affecting our communities. It was incredible and I always look forward to these. We covered a lot of ground... water, housing affordability, education, workforce challenges, childcare, technology, state trust lands, and more. These conversations matter because good policy starts with...

Thank you to everyone who took a moment to tell me which issues matter most to you. Three topics rose to the top: border security and public safety, cost of living, and election laws and government accountability. I appreciate hearing directly from you, and I want to follow up by sharing some of the work that has taken place at the Legislature on each of these priorities. Border Security and Public Safety Arizona’s border communities experience the consequences of drug trafficking, human...