Arizona led nation for rise in homeless youth last year, HUD report says https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/011623_homeless_youth/arizona-led-nation-rise-homeless-youth-last-year-hud-report-says/
Arizona saw the largest increase in the number of homeless youth in the nation last year, at a time when other large states were seeing those numbers decline
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Trump Org gets expected sentence, $1.6 million, for payroll and tax fraud https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/011623_trump_org_fraud_sentence/trump-org-gets-expected-sentence-16-million-payroll-and-tax-fraud/
Found criminally liable for a tax evasion scheme at trial, former President Donald Trump’s real estate companies were ordered to split a $1.6 million fine, the maximum possible penalty for a corporate entity.
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U.S. to hit debt limit much sooner than expected, thrusting Congress into showdown https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/011623_debt_limit_congress/us-hit-debt-limit-much-sooner-than-expected-thrusting-congress-into-showdown/
The U.S. government will hit its borrowing limit this week, forcing the new, divided Congress into negotiations over the debt limit much sooner than expected, though a potential date for the nation to default isn’t expected until this summer.
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Tucson MLK march to take place Monday https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/011323_tucson_mlk_march/tucson-mlk-march-take-place-monday/
Tucson's Martin Luther King, Jr. day will kick off with a march on the South Side and a celebration at Reid Park, but residents should remember city services will close for the holiday.
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Hellertoon: Keeping MLK's legacy alive and climbing https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011623_hellertoon_mlk/hellertoon-keeping-mlks-legacy-alive-and-climbing/
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. isn't just a giant of American history, on whom we can shine our most anodyne civic slogans. His true legacy is one of action, not rhetoric, and his words challenge anew each generation to climb toward the mountaintop, and to put their own shoulders to the lever to bend our society toward justice.
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Sika & Kay drop double-doubles off the bench as Pima men's basketball wins 8th straight https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/011423_pcc_mens_basketball/sika-kay-drop-double-doubles-off-bench-as-pima-mens-basketball-wins-8th-straight/
The Pima Community College men’s basketball team (16-1, 8-1 in ACCAC) picked up an eighth straight win on Saturday after beating Glendale Community College (7-9, 2-7) at the West Campus Aztec Gymnasium.
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FactCheck: Hot air over gas stove risks https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/011623_factcheck_gas_stoves/factcheck-hot-air-over-gas-stove-risks/
The Biden administration is not planning to ban gas stoves, but comments from a commissioner on the CPSC about gas stoves being a “hidden hazard” and that “products that can’t be made safe can be banned” provided just enough fuel to stoke fear and outrage.
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5 score in double figures as Aztec women's basketball corrals Glendale Gauchos https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/011423_pcc_womens_basketball/5-score-double-figures-as-aztec-womens-basketball-corrals-glendale-gauchos/
The Pima Community College women’s basketball team (13-4, 6-3 in ACCAC) produced a run in the second quarter and maintained its advantage in the second half on Saturday against Glendale Community College (3-13, 1-8).
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How the distortion of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s words enables more, not less, racial division https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011623_mlk_words_distortion_op/how-distortion-martin-luther-king-jrs-words-enables-more-not-less-racial-division/
Uses of King’s words, especially by right-wing conservatives, are too often attempts to weaponize his memory against the multicultural democracy of which King could only dream.
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Watch Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011623_mlk_dream/watch-martin-luther-king-jrs-i-have-dream-speech/
Video: "I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together."
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Music was a pandemic lifeline for Jake Leckie of The Guide https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/011323_the_guide_tjf/music-was-pandemic-lifeline-jake-leckie-guide/
When the pandemic hit, countries entered periods of lockdown and people self-isolated. For Jake Leckie, Elizabeth Goodfellow and Nadav Peled, music was a lifeline.
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Wildcat soccer’s Hocking to play for Batman’s team https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/011323_arizona-soccer/wildcat-soccers-hocking-play-batmans-team/
Iliana Hocking, a fifth-year senior midfielder for the Arizona Wildcats, was picked 44th in the National Women’s Soccer League draft on Thursday by New Jersey-based club Gotham FC.
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FactCheck: Biden and Abbott twist their border narratives https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/011323_factcheck_biden_abbott_border/factcheck-biden-and-abbott-twist-their-border-narratives/
President Joe Biden, who made his first visit as president to the southern border, and Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, offered competing versions of who’s to blame for a spike in illegal immigration - but both twisted some facts to fit their partisan narratives.
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States that limit business with banks that 'boycott' fossil fuels could pay high cost https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/011323_states_investments_fossil_fuel/states-that-limit-business-with-banks-that-boycott-fossil-fuels-could-pay-high-cost/
Republican state policymakers’ efforts to boost fossil fuels by prohibiting their governments from doing business with companies that take sustainability into consideration has the potential to cost states millions.
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9th Circuit hears appeal over press access to Maricopa County voting centers https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/011323_maricopa_conradson_access/9th-circuit-hears-appeal-over-press-access-maricopa-county-voting-centers/
The Ninth Circuit seems likely to reverse a federal judge’s denial of a restraining order that would eradicate part of Maricopa County’s journalist-vetting criteria - used to bar Jordan Conradson a press pass granting access to voting centers during the November 2022 election.
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ExxonMobil’s climate predictions from the late 1970s were eerily accurate https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/011323_exxonmobil_climate_predictions/exxonmobils-climate-predictions-from-late-1970s-were-eerily-accurate/
ExxonMobil's climate projections, made by in-house scientists between 1977 and 2003, were startlingly accurate and correctly predicted that fossil fuel burning would lead to global warming - while funding research and advertising to sow doubt about climate science.
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Bachelor’s degree dreams of community college students get stymied by red tape https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/011323_community_college_bachelor_degree/bachelors-degree-dreams-community-college-students-get-stymied-by-red-tape/
The already low proportion of students who transfer from community colleges to bachelor’s degree-granting universities fell by about 10 percent over the last two years, with the decline even larger for Black students and men - part of the drop in people going to college at all.
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Arizona GOP leaders say they won’t be 'rushed' to stop looming massive school budget cuts https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/011323_school_budget_cuts/arizona-gop-leaders-say-they-wont-rushed-stop-looming-massive-school-budget-cuts/
An impending school funding ceiling is one of the first hurdles on the Arizona legislative agenda, and while schools are facing nearly $1.4 billion in budget cuts if it isn’t lifted, Republican legislative leaders say they will take action — just not immediately.
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GOP leaders say they won’t be 'rushed' to stop looming massive school budget cuts https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/011323_school_budget_cuts/gop-leaders-say-they-wont-rushed-stop-looming-massive-school-budget-cuts/
An impending school funding ceiling is one of the first hurdles on the Arizona legislative agenda, and while schools are facing nearly $1.4 billion in budget cuts if it isn’t lifted, Republican legislative leaders say they will take action — just not immediately.
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Natives Americans incarcerated at alarming rates, report shows https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/011323_native_incarceration_rates/natives-americans-incarcerated-alarming-rates-report-shows/
Native American people are incarcerated at rates up to seven times higher than white people in the United States, are overrepresented in the prison population in 19 states and are sentenced more harshly compared to white, African American and Hispanic people.
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