When Nehemiah led the rebuilding of Jerusalem’s wall, his enemies plotted to attack the city. “And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night,” Nehemiah wrote (Nehemiah 4:9, ESV). God frustrated the plot against His people and...
Peter Garbow
Know What is on Your Ballot
In the spring of 1781, the Revolutionary War was still undecided. Massachusetts had just ratified a new state constitution that Samuel Adams helped write, and its citizens were preparing to choose their leaders. Adams wrote to a Boston newspaper with a reminder of...
Arizona Girls Deserve Better Than What Kaylie and Macy Got
Macy Petty Charles, who now lives in Mesa, skipped prom in high school to chase a college volleyball scholarship. At a national club tournament packed with college scouts, she looked across the net. "I realized that my opponent was a man," she said, "and it wasn't...
On the Passing of Senator Jon Kyl
Arizona has lost one of the finest public servants it has ever known, and Center for Arizona Policy has lost a dear friend. Senator Jon Kyl dedicated nearly three decades of his life to representing the people of Arizona in Congress — first in the House, then in the...
Buildings came down that morning. We did not.
At 5:46 this morning, in the dark at Tempe Beach Park, volunteers began reading names. They start at 5:46 because that is what time it was here when the first plane hit. Arizona does not change its clocks, so while New York watched it happen at 8:46, most of this...
Four Words That Protected 100,000 Arizona Students
Somewhere in Arizona this summer, a man set up a folding table outside a grocery store with a clipboard and a stack of petitions. And somewhere in Arizona this summer, a mother pushing a cart with a toddler in the seat stopped, listened to his pitch, and said,...
Arizona’s Educational Freedom Holds. The Anti-ESA Initiative Fails to Reach the Ballot.
Arizona Supreme Court decision confirms the teachers union-backed, out-of-state-funded measure did not submit the required number of valid signatures. PHOENIX — It's official: the teachers union-backed initiative to restrict Arizona's Empowerment Scholarship Account...
Anti-ESA Initiative Falls Short — But the Arizona Supreme Court Has the Last Word
Statement from Center for Arizona Policy President Peter Gentala on the Trial Court Ruling in Clark v. Fontes PHOENIX — Based on the trial court's ruling in Clark v. Fontes and the signature validity rates reported by Arizona's county recorders, the teachers’...
Biggs Names Sine Kerr as Running Mate, Arizona’s First Lieutenant Governor Ticket
Former state senator brings a farmer's practicality and a decade of work on faith, family, and fairness for women Andy Biggs, GOP nominee for Governor, today named former state Sen. Sine Kerr as his running mate, forming the first joint ticket in Arizona history....
A Session That Stood for Arizona’s Families
As the 2026 legislative session closes, here is the honest tally — real victories, hard setbacks, and the fight that now moves to the ballot box. When the gavel fell this month to close Arizona’s 2026 legislative session, my first thought was of you, the CAP...