CITIZENS TAX COMMITTEE

The City of Prescott has on hand $123,500,000 in "cash" investments. Have you heard about it?  Where did the money come from?  Where is the money intended to be spent?  Why didn't the Mayor's Special Strategic Committee discuss this as a possible option for t...

WHO’S TRUTH

In response to Council Woman Orr's letter to the editor.

The difference between truth and fact is that fact is something that cannot be combated with reasoning, for it is logic itself. But truth is something which depends on a person's perspective and experie...

Recently a mailer hit Prescott and Yavapai county attacking a Prescott Mayoral candidate Mary Beth Hrin for having this medical bill in 2009 (Please click on this link to view entire county record). They published medical information and misrepresented the content of t...

Public Pension Plans consume large parts of city budgets.

Presently, public safety, including contributions to The Public Safety Pension Retirement System (PSPRS), consumes nearly 75% of the Prescott city budget. No municipality can survive, let alone thrive with this k...

Everyone knows the story of Hansel and Gretel.  Siblings go into the woods leaving breadcrumbs trailed behind them to find their way back home.  The birds eat the bread crumbs and the children end up getting lost finding a witch’s candy house.  In the end the witch is...

Your property Taxes are “Proposed” to go up! If you live in the Central Yavapai fire District (CYFD), your property taxes are “increasing” more than they should. At their April meeting the CYFD board voted 3-2 to increase all personnel wages 4 1/2 %!

Most property owner...

Baseball season is in full swing.  As a true Arizonan I firmly believe the Diamondbacks are batting and pitching their way to the World Series.  They are looking pretty good right now.  I noticed too, ticket prices keep going up.  It is now very difficult for a family...

Below is an Article written by a PSPRS Consultant defending the PSPRS managing of the funds.  Basically its not our fault and the legislature forced us to due such bad things as PBI.  Their defense of their accomplishments of a 46% statewide funding level is sad.  We a...

Arizona's pension system for public safety officers, politicians and correctional guards is among the worst-performing public retirement plans in the U.S. because of sub-par investment returns and high investment-management costs, a national report on state retirement...