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Vote ’em if you’ve got ’em: Az voters could see flood of questions on ballot tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
There are already four initiatives on the Arizona ballot, and another 15 that have been filed with the Secretary of States’ Office and will be added if supporters can collect enough signatures - evidence of either voter enthusiasm or voter unhappiness with their elected officials.

Senate passes bill to allow casitas across Arizona, over objections of cities who say it goes too far tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republicans and Democrats in the Arizona Senate came together in an effort to legalize construction of casitas, or accessory dwelling units, in cities and towns across the state as a way to combat housing shortages - though cities say it goes too far.

Pima's Waugh named Player of the Year, Lopez named top defender tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s basketball team produced four representatives on the All-ACCAC Conference Team and three on the NJCAA All-Region Team.

Waugh named Player of the Year, Lopez named top defender as Pima women represented on All-ACCAC & All-Region teams tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s basketball team produced four representatives on the All-ACCAC Conference Team and three on the NJCAA All-Region Team.

Gonzales named Freshman of the Year, 4 Pima players named All-ACCAC & All-Region tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s basketball team received more recognition for their play during the regular season as the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference released their All-Conference and All-Region teams.

After Super Tuesday, exhausted Americans face 8 more months of presidential campaigning tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Now that Super Tuesday is over and the Democratic and Republican nominees are all but officially chosen, as everyone expected, voters can turn the page to the general election - but they’re not excited about it, and they haven’t been for months.

Az voters might decide whether banks can ‘discriminate’ against firearms companies tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republicans want Arizona voters to decide if state agencies should be barred from working with any bank that “discriminates” against firearms companies or individuals who work in the firearms industry.

5 Arizona marijuana bills remain after weeks of deliberations tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona legislators introduced more than a dozen bills focused on amending marijuana laws this year, but just five are left standing as lawmakers have passed the midpoint of their annual session.

Bill to spur ‘starter home’ construction, opposed by Az cities, heads to Hobbs’ desk tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Republican measure dubbed the “Arizona Starter Home Act” has passed out of both chambers of the Arizona legislature and will now head to Gov. Katie Hobbs’ desk, where its fate remains unclear.

GOP bill to ‘erase’ trans & nonbinary Arizonans from law inches toward passage tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Republican proposal seeking to enshrine a narrow definition of biological sex into state law allows for gender-nonconforming Arizonans to be pushed out of locker rooms, bathrooms, domestic violence shelters and even sexual assault crisis centers that don’t align with their biological sex.

States & tribes scramble to reach Colorado River deals before election tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The states and tribes in the Colorado River basin have been fighting over the waterway for more than a century, and issues are converging ahead of this fall’s presidential election, which could upend negotiations by ushering in a new Congress and new Bureau of Reclamation leadership.

Vote ’em if you’ve got ’em: Voters could see flood of questions on ballot tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
There are already four initiatives on the Arizona ballot, and another 15 that have been filed with the Secretary of States’ Office and will be added if supporters can collect enough signatures - evidence of either voter enthusiasm or voter unhappiness with their elected officials.

How to write fiction set in our Southern Arizona Borderlands tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Tucson journalist and novelist Leo W. Banks shares some tips of the trade when it comes to writing about the Borderlands of Southern Arizona.

At Copper World mine hearing, questions about water quality clashed with hope for economic opportunities tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality held a final public hearing to decide whether to approve a groundwater permit for the Copper World project, an open-pit copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains, about 30 miles southeast of Tucson.

Drop off hazardous household waste, old documents & more at Tucson collection event Saturday tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: Get rid of your old paint, computers and sensitive documents this Saturday at the city of Tucson’s monthly household hazardous waste collection event.

Tsosie-Hood & Waddell help lead on both sides of diamond as Pima softball sweeps South Mtn tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College softball team (13-8, 2-2 in ACCAC) got back to ACCAC conference play on Tuesday in a road matchup at South Mountain Community College (4-5, 2-4).

The world according to Sinema: It's the voters who got small tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Channeling her inner Nora Desmond, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema read the electorate wrong and now says it's the people's fault that she's unpopular.

Alvarez throws complete game as Pima baseball splits at Paradise Valley tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College baseball team (18-6, 6-4 in ACCAC) fell short of earning an ACCAC conference road sweep on Tuesday at Paradise Valley Community College (15-9, 5-7).

PCC guard Rylei Waugh named ACCAC Division II Player of the Week for 6th time tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
Pima Community College women’s basketball player Rylei Waugh was selected as ACCAC Division II Player of the Week on Tuesday for the sixth time.

Drop off hazardous household waste, old documents & more at Tucson collection event Saturday tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Get rid of your old paint, computers and sensitive documents this Saturday at the city of Tucson’s monthly household hazardous waste collection event.

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