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Efforts to remove invasive giant reed in Arizona rivers & lakes continues with Forestry Dep't grants tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The stubborn Arundo donax plant, an invasive species brought to the U.S. from Southeast Asia, is wreaking havoc in about 30 mostly warm-weather states in the South and West - including Arizona - and a grant is now helping to remove Arundo in Tanque Verde Creek in east Tucson.

Walensky to step down as CDC director as COVID emergency winds down tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is stepping down at the end of June after 2½ tumultuous years leading the nation’s primary public health agency — and much of the Biden administration’s effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

9th Circuit orders feds to revisit OK of livestock grazing in Tonto Nat'l Forest tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Ninth Circuit panel sided with Arizona property owners who accused the U.S. Forest Service of violating the law in approving cattle grazing in the Tonto National Forest, ordering the decision partially vacated and directing the Forest Service to review the environmental assessment.

Climate change may spell disaster for Arizona’s saguaro tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Thriving through three distinct biomes and migrating north from Mexico over several million years, the prickly giants unique to Mexico and Arizona are perhaps the region’s most distinctive feature - but for more than 20 years, almost no new saguaros have sprouted from the desert soil.

Interior Dep't to release new report on abuses in Indian boarding school program tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Over a year after the Department of the Interior released the first volume of its Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, which lays the groundwork to address intergenerational trauma created by federal policies, its second report will be made public later this year.

Julie Willoughby sworn in to Az Legislature, replacing expelled Liz Harris tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Just hours after the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors selected her to fill a legislative vacancy in a Chandler-based district, Julie Willoughby took the oath of office and became a state representative, replacing former GOP Rep. Liz Harris, who was expelled on April 12.

Hellertoon: Pollsters beware tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Those who conduct political polls are often critiqued and criticized, and even attacked — on social media, at least. They should praise cell phones and texts (even if so many people find their incessant queries a bit pestersome).

Pinal County election director saw glaring errors, cashed out, then fled tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Virginia Ross had proof of inaccuracies that she didn’t flag before county supervisors certified the November election results, even as she told them she stood by the numbers — and then collected a $25,000 bonus before quickly moving to an East Texas town.

Arizona Republicans travel to Hungary for far-right conference tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
At the Hungarian edition of the Conservative Political Action Conference, Arizona is on center stage as U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar and failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake will share a stage with the leader of a far-right Austrian party founded by former Nazis.

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