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Think outside the Bell: Where to find Tucson's best tacos tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
What's been dubbed as the "2022 Taco Bell New Year's Eve Downtown Bowl Bash" will occupy Tucson this weekend, part of the Arizona Bowl activities that help showcase our city. But Tucsonans know that real tacos don't come from that fast-food chain.

Mayes wins Arizona attorney general race by 280 votes over Hamadeh after recount tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: Kris Mayes maintained her win in the race for Arizona attorney general after the results of a recount were released Thursday, with the Democrat prevailing by 280 votes over Republican Abe Hamadeh. Most of the vote shifts were in Pinal County, where officials blamed 'human errors.'

Mayes wins Arizona attorney general race by 280 votes over Hamadeh after recount tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: Kris Mayes maintained her win in the race for Arizona attorney general after the results of a recount were released Thursday, with the Democrat prevailing by 280 votes over Republican Abe Hamadeh. Most of the vote shifts were in Pinal County.

9th Circuit revives children’s suit against Google over surreptitious tracking tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Google must face a purported class-action lawsuit by children who claimed they were tracked and profiled for targeted ads without their parents' consent while watching YouTube videos, reversing a previous decision brought under various state laws.

Arizona’s falling vaccination rates could lead to serious health issues in the future tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Vaccination rates among schoolchildren in Arizona have steadily declined since 2012, but the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the drop across the state - and the trend is unlikely to reverse any time soon, which could result in serious health consequences in the future.

In child welfare cases, most of your constitutional rights don’t apply tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The mostly low-income families who are ensnared in child welfare cases have few of the rights that protect Americans as the rights that most U.S. citizens consider fundamental are hardly rights at all when it is a child protective services “caseworker” knocks on the door.

Coverage of climate change in college textbooks headed in wrong direction tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Evidence is mounting fast of the devastating consequences of climate change, but a study found that most college biology textbooks published in the 2010s contained less content on climate change than textbooks from the previous decade.

Mayes wins Arizona attorney general race by 280 votes over Hamadeh after recount tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Kris Mayes maintained her win in the race for Arizona attorney general after the results of a recount were released Thursday, with the Democrat prevailing by 280 votes over Republican Abe Hamadeh.

Tucson Sounds: First Fest and 2022's best in local music tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
In which we anticipate the second coming of Bisbee's First Festival and JJP reimagines her top three local favorite albums as weird 1970s road movies... it's YOUR music column at TucsonSentinel.com!

For the IDEA beat, 2022 was a year of lifting COVID restrictions, gov't drama & untimely deaths tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The IDEA beat in 2022 reported on Southern Arizona, Pima County and Tucson during a time of shocking violence in the community, the end to COVID-19 measures and funding and an important midterm election.

Sentinel journalists take top awards from Arizona Press Club tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
From column writing to sports photography and Spanish-language reporting, the staff of the Tucson Sentinel was recognized with a number of top awards announced by the Arizona Press Club.

Feds will close stretch of Coronado Nat'l Forest while Arizona pulls down shipping container wall at border tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Federal officials are closing access to a section of the Coronado National Forest where Arizona officials installed hundreds of cargo containers in a failed attempt to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

2022 in review: Tucson Sentinel's top stories of the year tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson rang in 2022 much as we left the previous year, but with a few new twists: in the grip of a pandemic that has become a fevered political question, more immigration and asylum issues, a growing megadrought due to climate change, and a burgeoning housing crisis.

Muchas escuelas encuentran modos de resolver el problema del ausentismo sin suspensiones tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Para el año escolar 2021-22, los distritos de todo el país enfrentaban lo que muchos denominaron una crisis de ausentismo debido a que el cierre de escuelas relacionado con la pandemia causó estragos en la asistencia, y los educadores tuvieron que actuar.

Southwest Airlines’ holiday meltdown brings on federal investigation tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines faces a federal investigation into whether it violated its own legally required customer service plan amid a blizzard of flight cancellations that ruined plans and angered travelers over the Christmas holiday.

Justices take up fight to prolong pandemic-born asylum barriers tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In a split decision, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a fight over the conclusion of Title 42 - and while the Biden administration’s immigration policy hangs in the balance, the court agreed only to decide if the 19 states have a basis to intervene in the case.

New GOP-proposed bill targets pronoun use in Arizona schools tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona legislators are beginning to file bill proposals for the upcoming legislative session and one of the first seeks to restrict the use of students’ preferred pronouns in schools.

Police & prosecutors used junk science to decide 911 callers were liars tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Junk science in the justice system is nothing new, and the system is at its most opaque when prosecutors know evidence - like 911 call analysis - is unfit for court but choose to game the rules, hoping judges and juries will believe it and vote to convict.

Pima Health Dep't director Cullen tapped by Hobbs to lead ADHS tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs has picked Dr. Theresa Cullen, Pima County health director, to lead the state Department of Health Services. Cullen has spent 35 years working in public health and took the helm in Pima County in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Photos: Paul Ingram's picks for TucsonSentinel.com's best pictures of 2022 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
2022 often felt like one of the most violent years in recent memory, with many of our stories about the immediate and longterm consequences of crime, but there were also moments of genuine hope and beauty reflected in the Sentinel's coverage throughout the year.

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