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Voters don’t always have final say – state legislatures & governors increasingly undermining ballot measures that win tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Citizen initiatives became popular during the Progressive Era of the early 20th century as a way to give power back to citizens, yet it is becoming increasingly common for lawmakers across the country to not only ignore the will of the people, but also actively work against it.

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Mystery Legislative Theater 2024: GOP battle for sanity turning into a bad sc-ifi tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Ahh, it's the legislative season. Wake up and smell the lithium because the crazy has now begun.

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Mystery Legislative Theater 2024: GOP battle for sanity turning into a bad sc-ifi tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Ahh, it's the legislative season. Wake up and smell the lithium because the crazy has now begun.

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Voters don’t always have final say – state legislatures and governors are increasingly undermining ballot measures that win tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Citizen initiatives became popular during the Progressive Era of the early 20th century as a way to give power back to citizens, yet it is becoming increasingly common for lawmakers across the country to not only ignore the will of the people, but also actively work against it.

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Zoppé Family Circus returns to Tucson with 'carnevale' experience tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Zoppé Family Circus, which was founded nearly 200 years ago in Venice, Italy, returned to Tucson, bringing joy and entertaining acts for people of all ages.

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Zoppé Family Circus returns to Tucson during tour tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Zoppé Family Circus, which was founded nearly 200 years ago in Venice, Italy, returned to Tucson, bringing joy and entertaining acts for people of all ages.

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Tucson City Manager Mike Ortega, longest-serving in decades, set to leave after 8.5 years tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
After more than 8 years on the job, Tucson City Manager Mike Ortega will step down after the next budget is in place, he told the Tucson Sentinel on Friday. He's the second-longest-serving top city staffer ever.

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Az's Governor’s Office of Tribal Relations recommended for renewal until 2028 tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Members of the Arizona House Government Committee who were present voted unanimously to pass the renewal of the Governor’s Office of Tribal Relations - revitalized to its current form as a way to assist state agencies in implementing Tribal consultation and outreach activities - until 2028.

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Abortion foes launch campaign against Arizona ballot initiative, spread misinformation tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Opponents of the initiative to make abortion access a right in Arizona have launched a campaign against it, using alarmist language and hyperbolic claims to turn Arizona voters away.

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Why Arizona is worried about finishing presidential election on time but other states aren’t tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The officials who run Arizona’s elections put out a blunt reminder last week: If lawmakers don’t soon change key dates related to the upcoming presidential election, military voters may get their ballots late, and results might not be delivered to Congress in time.

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Phoenix asks DOJ to end federal oversight of police reforms tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Three years into a Department of Justice investigation of Phoenix police, Arizona’s capital city on Thursday asked the DOJ to allow it to reform its department without federal oversight.

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Navajo president calls for new VA medical, benefits centers at House hearing tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren called on lawmakers to put Veterans Affairs medical and benefits centers on the reservation to help deliver services that he said Indigenous veterans have earned but often cannot access.

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Children’s nutrition program, revved up in pandemic, faces severe cuts tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal program built to improve nutrition for new mothers and kids is growing for the first time in over a decade, thanks to changes made during the pandemic, but continuing to pay for the additional participants may be difficult.

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The Conflationists: Purveyors of the emerging far-right narrative on the U.S.-Mexico border tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
In spending time along the border as a volunteer and journalist, I found that some right-wing media personalities are less interested in learning about the root causes of the migration crisis than the attention they get from spreading reactionary rhetoric

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Respiratory bugs on the rise in Southern Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Between holiday gatherings and children returning to classrooms, local officials are warning that Pima County has high transmission rates of respiratory diseases such as the common cold, COVID, flu and Respiratory Syncytial Virus.

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Tucson city contractors must pay 'prevailing wage' after Council vote tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The Tucson City Council voted unanimously this week to require a prevailing wage on contracted work, just hours after Phoenix became the first city in the state to establish such a policy. A ruling from Attorney General Kris Mayes paved the path for the ordinance.

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NCAA adopts rules to create NIL deals database, registry as convention opens in Phoenix tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The NCAA approved a package of rules that call for creation of a database of NIL deals that could be accessed by athletes and universities, and a registry of companies that want to work with athletes, a move inspired by the need for more transparency and clarity.

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Aztec men have 6-game winning streak snapped by Chandler-Gilbert tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s basketball team (14-2, 6-2 in ACCAC) had a six-game winning streak snapped on Wednesday in a battle between two NJCAA Division II ranked teams.

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Hoffmeyer's posts double-double as Pima women cruise passed Chandler-Gilbert tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s basketball team (12-4, 7-2 in ACCAC) proved too much to handle on Wednesday against Chandler-Gilbert Community College (8-8, 3-5).

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High court takes issue with substitute expert testimony in Arizona drug case tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The majority of Supreme Court justices took issue with substitute expert testimony presented in an Arizona man’s drug conviction, signaling a narrow ruling finding his Sixth Amendment rights had been violated.

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