by AZ Free Enterprise Club | Oct 30, 2026 | Opinion
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club |
Before giving a politician four years in office, voters deserve answers to a few basic questions: Where do you stand? What do you plan to do? And how will it make their lives better?
Katie Hobbs has already had four as Governor and now wants four more. Apparently, explaining what she intends to do with them is asking too much.
Hobbs is the only major statewide nominee who refused to take the debate stage this election cycle, but her reluctance to lay out a second-term agenda does not end there. Voters looking for one on her campaign website will come up empty, too. Even her 2022 website featured a section outlining her plans for Arizona. This time, visitors get “Meet Katie,” a biography touting her supposed “accomplishments,” with plenty about why she thinks she deserves another term, and very little about what she intends to do with it.
Andy Biggs has taken the opposite approach, making his policy positions, priorities, and agenda easy to find and easy to read. On taxes, housing, water, energy, and school choice, voters can examine what he proposes and decide for themselves.
But Hobbs’ refusal to lay out a second-term agenda does not mean voters have to guess what another four years would look like. She has a record, and Arizonans have been living with the consequences…
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by AZ Free Enterprise Club | Oct 19, 2026 | Opinion
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club |
Last year, residents of Page, a small town in northern Arizona, fought back against plans to reduce vehicle lanes on Lake Powell Boulevard, one of the town’s most important roads. This November, they have the opportunity to protect it by voting YES on Proposition 406. A Yes vote on this measure would prevent the City from reducing the road’s vehicle lanes without further voter approval, pumping the brakes on a proposed road diet.
At the center of the controversy is the Page Downtown Streetscape Master Plan, approved by the City Council in 2022. Among the plan’s proposals is a “road diet,” the quippy name for stripping perfectly good roads of their vehicle lanes, and narrowing streets to accommodate bikes, buses and other barely used transportation methods. In Page’s case, that means cutting two of the four travel lanes on Lake Powell Boulevard through the downtown business district, a stretch of about 1.4 miles.
Despite years of resident opposition, the idea remained on the table. So, residents took action, gathering around 1,000 signatures to put the issue before the voters. The City challenged the initiative, and the fight went all the way to the Arizona Supreme Court. In July 2025, the justices unanimously ruled that the initiative was legislative in nature and could proceed. In other words, the people of Page are allowed to vote on their own main street…
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by AZ Free Enterprise Club | Oct 15, 2026 | Opinion
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club |
Arizona’s future belongs to its citizens. Only their votes should decide it, foreign money should not influence it, and they should not be left waiting weeks for answers after every election.
Proposition 144 puts those principles into Arizona’s Constitution.
You can read it for yourself. It is short, fits on one page, and in less than 200 words, it ensures that only US Citizens can register and vote, requires that every voter must show government issued ID before casting their ballot, bans foreign money in any of our elections, and allows all voters to tabulate their ballots on election day at their polling place and have their votes posted election night.
Together, these reforms will result in more secure elections and faster and more accurate election results.
Prop 144 Will Speed Up Results with On-Site Tabulation
Rarely do Republicans and Democrats find common ground on election policy. But in this year’s Maricopa County primary, officials from both parties recognized the benefit of an option Prop 144 would guarantee statewide: on-site tabulation…
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by AZ Free Enterprise Club | Oct 9, 2026 | Opinion
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club |
There are some principles we like to think America settled a long time ago. Racial discrimination is wrong. Government should not treat people differently because of the color of their skin. And our public institutions should judge individuals based on their merit and character – not their race. Unfortunately, those previously settled principles have been completely undermined by the radical “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) program.
This November, Arizona voters will have an opportunity to reaffirm that principle by voting YES on Proposition 142. The measure would strengthen Arizona’s constitutional protections against race-based discrimination and preferential treatment, close an existing loophole tied to federal funding, and prohibit some of the craftier ways public institutions have used to preserve race-based DEI policies and practices.
Isn’t Racial Discrimination Already Illegal?
Most people already believe it is unlawful for the government to discriminate based on race – and didn’t Arizona already prohibit it anyway?
Arizonans certainly thought they had.
In 2010, voters passed Proposition 107 by an almost 20-point margin, amending the state constitution to prohibit the state from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any person based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, public education, and public contracting.
This should have closed the door on government-sanctioned racial preferences in Arizona.
Unfortunately, it didn’t…
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by AZ Free Enterprise Club | Oct 6, 2026 | Opinion
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club |
In George Orwell’s 1984, Big Brother needed telescreens, microphones, and cameras to watch citizens, extinguish the idea of a private life, and to tightly control their “decisions”.
Today, technology makes that job considerably easier. And some policies kick the door wide open to this kind of government invasion of privacy and manipulation.
Programs to tax, track, and limit citizens’ vehicle miles traveled (VMT) are exactly that kind of threat, and many states are experimenting with them to their own detriment. California, as per usual, is the cautionary tale to our West, perfectly demonstrating the extreme costs and loss of freedom that could come with importing these VMT ideas into Arizona.
Arizonans have a chance to stop this kind of government overreach before it takes hold here…
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