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Neil Giuliano is president and CEO of Greater Phoenix Leadership (GPL), the successor organization to the once-powerful Phoenix 40.

Paul Bender, former Supreme Court law clerk, chief deputy associate solicitor general of the United States and dean of the ASU School of Law is our guest.

Our presidential politics have come into much greater clarity after the Iowa caucuses and post New Hampshire primaries.

One day before the Iowa caucuses and one week before the New Hampshire primary, the Think Tank brings together a panel of pollsters including the former editor of the Gallup Poll and the director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, the principal New Hampshire-based survey research organization: David Moore is a former vice president […]

Jana Bommersbach was the most-acclaimed investigative reporter in the state of Arizona back in the early 1980s.

Mike and Mike go mano-a-mano in this week’s Think Tank discussing two of the hottest topics on the national agenda.

The Think Tank has assembled an all-star panel of political insiders (no mere journalists this week) to review 2015 and look forward to 2016.

We asked historian Jack August, Arizona’s premier historian, who was the best governor Arizona ever had. He responded without hesitation: Bruce Babbitt. We then asked him why. His response was equally instantaneous: The 1980 Groundwater Act. Most sources credit Kathy Ferris for making that act a reality. She is currently the executive director of the […]

Thirty or so years ago, Linda Valdez was coaxed into taking a vacation in the interior of Mexico. There she met a young Mexican man and fell in love.

Want to hear about developments in the Middle East from someone who is knowledgeable and actually spends a lot of her time there?