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Teachers at Tucson's BASIS charter school overwhelmingly vote to form union tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: By a 2-1 margin, teachers at Tucson's acclaimed BASIS Tucson North school voted to unionize Wednesday evening, making the Northeast Side charter the first in Arizona to have staff organize.

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Hobbs vetoes bills to bar ranked-choice voting, criminalize immigrant aid groups tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican proposals to ban ranked-choice voting and criminalize immigrant aid organizations were blocked on Wednesday by Gov. Katie Hobbs, who wielded her veto stamp to add five more vetoes to her growing tally, bringing the total bills vetoed to 48 this year.

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Texas judge’s abortion pill ruling supported by 69 Republicans in Congress tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A group of 69 congressional Republicans is backing a federal judge’s ruling that would overturn the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-decade-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.

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Federal judge blocks Biden administration definition of 'waterway' under Clean Water Act tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge paused a new Biden administration rule which sought to redefine what constitutes a waterway under the Clean Water Act, though the court found no urgency to implement the new rule before the Supreme Court has the opportunity to rule in another wetlands case.

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Voting to raise their own pay puts state lawmakers in a bind tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Persistently low salaries discourage everyday citizens from serving in state legislatures, say legislators who face an uphill battle to raise pay, and unless salaries are raised, there is a possibility of only wealthy or retired lawmakers.

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Bill would ban photo radar, red light cameras in Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Legislation barring photo radar and red-light cameras in Arizona is closer to becoming law, despite concerns that it could increase traffic accidents and deaths.

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Appeals court keeps abortion pill on shelves but limits use tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A late-night ruling out of the Fifth Circuit allows the popular abortion pill mifepristone to stay on shelves nationwide but under limited circumstances after the appeals court handed the government a partial stay of the order that would have halted the FDA's approval of mifepristone.

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Teachers at Tucson's BASIS charter school overwhelmingly vote to form union tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
By a 2-1 margin, teachers at Tucson's acclaimed BASIS Tucson North school voted to unionize Wednesday evening, making the Northeast Side charter the first in Arizona to have staff organize.

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A 'no' vote on Tucson's Prop. 412 would leave all parties in the dark tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Voters never reject franchise agreements. However, the law isn't clear about what happens if, come May 16, they fail to approve a deal between the city and Tucson Electric Power.

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Engel announces repeat congressional run in Az's CD 6 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Kirsten Engel, the Democrat who lost a close race last year to represent Southern Arizona in Congress, said Wednesday she'll be back in the hunt again in 2024, looking to challenge freshman Republican Juan Ciscomani.

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Liz Harris expelled from Arizona House for lying about conspiracy presentation tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican Rep. Liz Harris was expelled from the Arizona House of Representatives on Wednesday for orchestrating a February meeting in which a member of the public spread wild conspiracy theories and lying to the House Ethics Committee.

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Food truck debate in Az Senate highlights differences on conflict of interest for lawmakers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A heated debate over a proposed food truck regulation bill in the Arizona Senate last week shone light on stark differences in opinion between Republicans and Democrats in the legislature when it comes to conflicts of interest.

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Democratic attorneys general urge appeals court to keep abortion pill available tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Democratic attorneys general from 23 states - including Arizona - and the District of Columbia weighed in with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, supporting access to the abortion medication mifepristone.

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Economic insecurity for military families predates pandemic, inflation tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Like families across the country, military families are struggling with inflation, but the military community can face disproportionate challenges when the cost of living is high - a situation dating back over 25 years and made worse by federal guidelines.

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Hobbs vetoes bills increasing sentences for fentanyl, legalizing silencers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed five bills Tuesday, including one that critics argued would have made having one fentanyl pill amount to intent to sell and another bill that would have removed silencers from the state’s prohibited weapon’s list.

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Tribal leaders, lawmakers want new 1.1 million acre monument in Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tribal leaders and lawmakers called on President Biden to set aside more than 1.1 million acres around the Grand Canyon as a new national monument, needed to protect the area’s water, wildlife, sacred spaces and ancestral homelands from uranium mining and other projects.

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As states continue to bicker, feds say Colorado River cuts are coming tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Cuts to water use along the Colorado River could be spread evenly across some Southwestern states, or follow the priority system that currently governs water management, as federal officials consider ways to keep hydropower generation going at the nation’s largest reservoirs.

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Las tasas de autismo aumentan, junto con la conciencia de las comunidades de color tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
El autismo está en aumento, ya que la conciencia ha llevado a una detección más temprana en las comunidades de color, y la investigación reveló que el trastorno del espectro autista no se basa tanto en las "diferencias biológicas" como en las circunstancias socioeconómicas.

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Pinal Sheriff Mark Lamb enters U.S. Senate race to challenge Kyrsten Sinema tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb announced Tuesday he is running for U.S. Senate seat currently held by Kyrsten Sinema, becoming the first Republican to enter the 2024 contest, but unlikely to be the last.

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House Ethics Cmte says Rep. Liz Harris damaged the integrity of Az Legislature, should be disciplined tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican state Rep. Liz Harris engaged in disorderly conduct, violating rules of the Arizona House of Representatives and “damaging the institutional integrity of the House,” the House Committee on Ethics announced Tuesday.

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