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Celebrate our free press on July 4: Give to Tucson Sentinel's nonprofit independent reporting tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
As you celebrate Independence Day, please support the free press that is the bedrock of our democracy, and help underwrite your local nonprofit news organization: the independent Tucson Sentinel.

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Veteran local journalist Jim Nintzel joins Tucson Sentinel staff tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Longtime Southern Arizona journalist Jim Nintzel, who worked as a reporter and editor at the Tucson Weekly for more than three decades before stepping down last year, is joining the Tucson Sentinel staff to serve as the Government & Political Impact reporter.

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Arizona Republic reporters to strike for 2 days to protest low pay, unfair working conditions tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
For two days, unionized reporters at the Arizona Republic and 24 other newsrooms and across the country will walk off the job in order to send a message to parent company Gannett about unfair working conditions.

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Tucson Sentinel

Border Patrol agents kill tribal member on Tohono O'odham Nation tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A member of the Tohono O'odham Nation was shot and killed in front of his home by U.S. Border Patrol agents Thursday night. Raymond Mattia was fired at 38 times, family members said.

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Judge finds against Kari Lake, reaffirms Hobbs was elected Arizona governor tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A judge rejected on Monday claims by failed GOP candidate Kari Lake of misconduct in the 2022 election, again affirming that Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs was elected Arizona governor last November.

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@nicksherman

1.212.555.3668

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Short circuit: Tucson voters rebel against TEP deal, now it's time to get to work tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Prop. 412 — an election that would have allowed Tucson Electric the continued right to access public rights of way for repairs — died a sputtering, sparkly death Tuesday. All sides have until 2026 to come up with a new deal.

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@JorgeStolfi @TucsonSentinel Why would you insist on being demonstrably wrong, though?

census.gov/topics/population/r

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The ugly truth behind 'We Buy Ugly Houses' tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
HomeVestors of America has developed a system for snapping up problem properties, but while part of the company mission is a promise not to take advantage of anyone who doesn’t understand the true value of their home, franchisees use deception to pursue rock-bottom prices.

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@JorgeStolfi @TucsonSentinel "Supposedly" is doing so much work there, it just tripped over its own hernia. Sure, race just didn't exist when America was founded. Deep insight.

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Judd Legum

Elon Musk, who claimed to be a "free speech absolutist," is censoring tweets in Turkey ahead of critical elections at the request of the autocrats currently in power

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Wednesday deadline to mail back ballots in Tucson's Prop. 412 special election tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Wednesday is the suggested deadline for voters to return ballots by mail in Tucson's special election to approve or refuse a new franchise agreement with Tucson Electric Power.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D.

Sister Senators: In SC, the only female senators (3 R's, 1 Ind, 1 Dem) as a block are refusing to allow the Republican supermajority legislature to pass a near-total abortion ban. An abortion ban is about controlling women and they will not be controlled.
news.yahoo.com/unexpected-wome

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@dkiesow

How many people even know what "fiat" means in that sense? What in the Henry Ford is going on here? ; )

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Heidi Li Feldman

Early indications that the shooter in #Allen was a neo-nazi. washingtonpost.com/nation/2023 #GunViolence

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@billyjoebowers

You could save it in that really good box that's in the closet — you know, next to that other really good box.

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<snapping fingers while humming>

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@TucsonSentinel

Local news matters, and fossil chain media giants are squeezing it to death all over the country — including here in Tucson.

This is a bad day for our community, and especially for these great journalists, their families, and their colleagues.

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Nearly 25% of Arizona Daily Star newsroom laid off tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
From the top editor on down, the Arizona Daily Star staff was cut by nearly one-quarter on Monday, as the newspaper's corporate chain owners told local journalists they were being laid off.

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For Tim Butler of the Psychedelic Furs, blood is thicker than rock'n'roll tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Four decades after the Psychedelic Furs' debut, co-founding member Tim Butler reflects on the road out of Middlesex, England. Most well-known in the U.S. for the the theme for "Pretty in Pink," the band is back after a long break, and has an upcoming stop in Tucson.

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