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Arizona GOP lawmakers fight schools at Capitol & local board meetings tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican lawmakers are taking sides in Arizona school board conflicts to advance their battle against perceived leftist agendas in the classroom, and public school advocates say when political rhetoric takes center stage, the education community suffers.

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House votes to roll back Biden’s stream protection rule tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. House voted to undo a Biden administration definition of what qualifies as “waters of the United States,” a rule unpopular with farmers and others who say that maintenance on private property is more difficult when permission from the government must be granted.

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Arizona lawmakers reject bid to bring water to parched Rio Verde Foothills tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona House and Maricopa County Board of Supervisors both voted against proposed solutions that would see Scottsdale provide water to unincorporated Rio Verde Foothills, but officials are pining for another they say is the obvious choice.

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Push to stiffen penalties for damaging utilities advances in Arizona Senate tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In the wake of attacks on substations across the nation, a bill at the Arizona legislature would create a new classification for the criminal activity and make those who interfere with a utility liable for the cost of loss of power.

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Gallego co-sponsors BADGES Act to improve tribal law enforcement tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego and other House representatives introduced the Bridging Agency Data Gaps & Ensuring Safety (BADGES) for Native Communities Act, a bipartisan bill that hopes to strengthen tribal law enforcement and increase public safety across Indian Country.

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Cuillier: Arizona’s transparency forecast calls for increasing clouds tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Arizonans are losing control of their government. As the nation celebrates National Sunshine Week, March 12-18, all indicators point to an alarming trend of increasing government secrecy, including in our state.

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'They dug in & got it done': Aztec women's basketball wins 8th regional title, heading to NJCAA nat'l tourney tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s basketball team is heading back to the NJCAA Division II National Tournament.

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Don't touch that clock! Rest of U.S. springing ahead to Daylight Saving Time tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday morning for most of the United States, but Arizona residents won't have to switch their clocks — we don't observe DST.

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Romero launches reelection campaign, touting COVID, housing success as Tucson mayor tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson Mayor Regina Romero launched her reelection campaign this week, timing it with the celebration of International Women's Day as she boasted the work she's done for the homeless, small businesses and families in the city.

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Wadsack throws barbs at Arizona State Bar, refuses to offer any proof tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican state Sen. Justine Wadsack has proposed a law based on claims that the State Bar told lawyers they would be disbarred if they took COVID-19 related court cases. But Wadsack wants you to take her word for it, as she refused to provide any evidence of those claims to lawmakers or to the Arizona Mirror.

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My family has deep roots in Arizona. So why are Republican politicians trying to push us out? tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Some Arizona politicians have decided families with deep roots in the state are not welcome — simply because a family member is transgender.

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Elections matter: AG Mayes upholds Tucson's 'source of income' protection for renters tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Tucson has felt some of the first tangible results of the 2022 midterms, as the Arizona Attorney General's Office just told city officials that "source of income" protection for renters is kosher under state law.

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Texas abortion ruling nears, but blue states aren't waiting to protect pill access tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge in Texas soon could make one of the two pills used in medication abortions harder to come by, even in blue states that support abortion rights - though Arizona and many other states are trying to ensure continued access to the drugs.

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Feds move to crack down on water pollution from coal plants tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed new wastewater treatment standards for coal-fired power plants to reduce discharges of toxic metals and other pollutants by approximately 584 million pounds per year into nearby waterways.

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National ban on transgender athletes in girls’ sports passed by U.S. House panel tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A U.S. House committee passed a bill on a party-line vote that would block transgender girls from competing in school sports consistent with their gender identity, a reflection of a broader push in multiple states to curb the rights of transgender student athletes.

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With his father, Pedro, on his mind, Rio Gomez returns to Arizona with Team Colombia tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
Representing his mother’s home country of Colombia in a tune-up for the World Baseball Classic, Arizona native Rio Gomez pitched in his hometown for the first time since his father, longtime baseball reporter Pedro Gomez, died on Super Bowl Sunday two years ago.

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AZ House Elections Committee: Don’t say ‘conspiracy theory’ tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The leader of the Arizona House elections committee doesn’t want speakers in front of the committee to utter the words “conspiracy theory,” two weeks after that same House committee allowed a Gilbert insurance agent to spread wild and utterly unfounded conspiracy theories.

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Feds pause Flaming Gorge releases amid snowy winter for Colorado River tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The federal government has halted releases from the Flaming Gorge Reservoir that were meant to prop up water levels at Lake Powell downstream, as heavy snows allowed the Bureau of Reclamation to end releases two months earlier than originally planned.

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Arizona teachers could go to prison for recommending 'sexually explicit' books tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican lawmakers advanced a measure that would put Arizona teachers behind bars if they so much as recommend a book to students that is considered too “sexually explicit,” after claiming schools all over Arizona are “sexualizing” students.

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Hobbs signs executive order establishing Missing & Murdered Indigenous Peoples Task Force tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
For the first time in history, an Arizona governor signed an executive order to officially establish a task force focused on addressing the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples crisis.

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