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Secure ballots or boondoggle? Cochise County tailors $1M election project to Finchem-connected firm tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As Cochise County prepares to spend up to $1 million in state money to test anti-counterfeit features on ballots, it appears the project was tailored for one company in particular that has pushed the idea with the help of political allies in Arizona for more than two years.

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Mining companies, Forest Service respond to enviro's filing against Patagonia drilling tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Two mining companies and the U.S. Forest Service have filed their responses to claims by environmentalists that exploratory drilling would cause “irreparable” damage to the Patagonia Mountains.

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Initiative seeks more 'sanctuary cities for the unborn' in Arizona & across U.S. tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A pastor from Longview, Texas, who has, by his count, succeeded in helping 67 cities and three counties pass ordinances banning abortion, made his first stop in Arizona in early June, exhorting churchgoers in Prescott Valley to make it the first sanctuary city for the unborn in Arizona.

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House dads: Az Rep. Gallego’s paternity leave shows slowly growing acceptance tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego was not the first member of Congress to take paternity leave, and though it’s rare in Congress, paternity leave is becoming increasingly common in workplaces around the country.

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Tech breakthrough could boost states’ use of geothermal power tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Lawmakers in some states have been laying the groundwork to add geothermal power to the electrical grid and pump underground heat into buildings, and now, a new drilling technique could greatly expand where geothermal plants could be built.

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Trial over Backpage prostitution accusations delayed to late August tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A federal judge delayed a trial against Michael Lacey and former employees of backpage.com by three weeks following the death of co-defendant and backpage.com co-founder James Larkin.

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EPA approved fuel ingredient could cause cancer in every person exposed over a lifetime tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
An EPA document shows that a new Chevron fuel ingredient has a lifetime cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than what the agency usually finds acceptable — even greater than another Chevron fuel’s sky-high risk disclosed earlier this year.

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Study cited by Texas judge in abortion-pill case under investigation tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The research cited to order a suspension of mifepristone’s FDA approval earlier this year was authored by many of the same anti-abortion activists directly involved in suing the FDA - but now the study is now being investigated amidst claims the authors exaggerated their findings.

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Lessons of unnecessary mass destruction on 78th anniversary of Hiroshima attack could guide future nuclear talks tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
As the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima during WWII marks its 78th anniversary, the lessons of unnecessary mass destruction learned could help guide future nuclear arms talks.

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Under Trump, Texas’ foot soldiers became federal judges, securing a conservative stronghold in the courts tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judiciary full of ideological allies is helping Texas block Democratic priorities and advance right-wing legal doctrines. But the bigger prize is conservative control of the rule of law itself.

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@tippenring "As a Superfund Alternative site, cleaning the water is overseen by the EPA, but the cost will be borne by Cyprus Tohono Corporation, the most recent company to own and operate the mine."

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From hot issues to hot dogs, politicians turn to Threads to reach voters tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Among the 100 million users who reportedly signed up last month for Threads, Meta’s new social media platform, were Arizona politicians from both state and federal office and from both sides of the aisle.

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Texas backlash to Obama fueled conservative drive to reinterpret U.S. Constitution tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Barraging the Obama administration with lawsuits, the Texas attorney general’s office wasn’t just trying to block policies. It was injecting disruptive, overtly Christian legal philosophies into the mainstream, and grooming a generation of conservative legal warriors.

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Road to ruin: RTA board, Tucson City Council must iron out differences tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Updated: At some point in the near future the whole RTA Board should have a confab with the City Council and figure out what it's gonna take to keep Tucson in the loop, before both sides are too far apart to build an off-ramp from their disputes.

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Cleaning Tohono O’odham water polluted by copper mine will take 30 years, $126 million tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The EPA has finalized a 30-year plan to clean drinking water in a Tohono O'odham village polluted by decades of copper mining. Meanwhile, a different EPA department is negotiating to reopen the mine with the same company first responsible for the waste.

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Tucson’s A-10s headed to final destination as Davis-Monthan lands new special ops mission tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Air Force is finally moving forward with plans to decommission the A-10, including squadrons based in Tucson, but a new special ops mission will be moving to at Davis-Monthan AFB — bringing the first "tail-dragger" combat propeller plane in 50 years.

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Road to ruin: RTA board, Tucson City Council must iron out differences tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
At some point in the near future the whole RTA Board should have a confab with the City Council and figure out what it's gonna take to keep Tucson in the loop, before both sides are too far apart to build an off-ramp from their disputes.

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Road to ruin: RTA board, Tucson City Council must iron out differences tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
At some point in the near future the whole RTA Board should have a confab with the City Council and figure out what it's gonna take to keep Tucson in the loop, before both sides are too far apart to build an off-ramp from their disputes.

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Court allows Biden rule limiting asylum at the border to be kept in place for now tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal appeals court decided to allow the Biden administration to keep in place a temporary two-year rule that restricts asylum at the U.S. border, while the legal challenges to a lower court’s ruling play out.

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'Conscience' bills let medical providers opt out of providing a wide range of care tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
This year, 21 bills instituting or expanding so-called medical conscience objection laws have been introduced in statehouses, including Arizona, and some go to the point of undermining patient care and threatening the right of people to receive lifesaving and essential care.

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