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House committee approves bills on whole milk, condemns sheltering migrants in schools tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The House Education and Workforce Committee passed several bills that are a rebuke of not only the Biden administration’s policies on immigration, child nutrition and healthcare, but also regulations from the Obama era.

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Defiant Republicans block gas stove bills in anger over debt ceiling tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Conservative Republicans, including two from Arizona, took what was expected to be a routine party-line vote Tuesday on bills reining in federal bureaucrats and turned it into a referendum on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

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Arizona officials warn motorists to 'Secure Your Load' to prevent road debris tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Gov. Katie Hobbs declared June 6 Arizona’s “Secure Your Load Day,” as the state saw more than 800 debris-related crashes last year, and officials reminded drivers to secure their load and call 911 if they see a hazard in the road.

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As border cases go up, staffing stays the same & morale falls tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A DHS official testified that staffing shortages and a surging workload at the Southwest border have depleted morale among customs and border officials, leaving many ready to quit - but the DHS and Democrats pushed back, saying his findings were based on a flawed survey.

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How building more backyard homes, granny flats & in-law suites can help alleviate the housing crisis tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The U.S. has lost a variety of living options because of the homogenization of zoning policies, as well as developers’ desire to have inexpensive and easily replicated building plans - but an additional unit of housing on a single lot should again become a more common housing option.

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Hate groups’ political influence growing, watchdog says tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
More than 1,200 hate and anti-government extremist groups were active across the U.S. in 2022, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center report on the prevalence of extremists who target people of color, LGBTQ people, Jewish communities and other religious minorities.

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As northern Arizona county makes ballot hand-count plan, Secretary of State steps in tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes sent a letter stating he is concerned that moving forward would would put the county’s election officials in “serious legal jeopardy,” after Mohave County supervisors voted to request a plan to hand-count ballots in the 2024 presidential election.

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Lake to appeal Az election outcome again, she isn’t sanctioned but Finchem is tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Kari Lake filed her intent to appeal the outcome of her bid to overturn the results of Arizona’s 2022 gubernatorial election, while failed Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem and his lawyer were ordered to pay more than $48,000 for bringing a case the judge called “groundless.”

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Tucson's final city budget will spend big on climate tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Tucson City Manager Mike Ortega makes it plain that the city's budget does not short-change climate relief. All told it reaches up to $80.5 million. Plus, more in local government meetings this week.

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Record 106 vetos: Gov. Hobbs says 'no' to GOP bills criminalizing homelessness, ranked-choice voting tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Gov. Hobbs has racked up more than 100 vetoes, rejecting Republican-backed bills that criminalized homelessness, banned ranked-choice voting, and a bill that created penalties for filming sexually explicit acts on school property - but also threatened educators with prison.

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Federal trial in 'forever chemicals' case delayed as 3M nears PFAS settlement tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The bellwether trial over PFAS contamination of public water systems was expected to offer legal observers their first glimpse into a sprawling case that could rival the asbestos crisis in its impact, but the case is on hold as attorneys told the court they were nearing a settlement.

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Dollar stores, giant grocery chains push healthy food out of reach for many tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Huge grocery chains and ubiquitous dollar stores are limiting some rural and urban communities’ access to healthy food at the same time they bankrupt the farmers who produce it.

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Tucson puts CART captions forward in City Council meetings tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Hearing-impaired residents will now have better access to the Tucson City Council, as a new on-screen captioning system will provide more accurate real-time transcriptions of what elected leaders and others say during meetings.

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Arizona claims immunity in negligence case over foster home sex abuse tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona claimed qualified immunity as a child sex abuse victim argued for partial summary judgment in a negligence suit against the state over its placement of foster children in the care of former civilian army leader David Frodsham and leaving him there despite numerous complaints.

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True the Vote leadership accused of using donations for personal gain tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Conservative activists Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips used the conspiracy-peddling nonprofit True the Vote to enrich themselves, with the group making loans to founder Engelbrecht and issuing contracts to director Phillips that may have violated state and federal law.

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Eating disorders marked by diagnosis, treatment gap for men, women of color tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Eating disorders are on the rise in the U.S.,and while attention still centers on women, who are most likely to suffer from eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia, research, diagnosis and treatment lags for men, LGBTQ individuals and Latina and Black women.

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Feds defend Mexican wolf recovery plan before 9th Circuit panel tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A 9th Circuit panel heard arguments over whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must once again rewrite its recovery plan for the endangered Mexican wolf, as conservationists argued the new plan didn’t include site-specific management data and is too similar to the old one.

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Tucson puts CART captions forward in City Council meetings tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Hearing-impaired residents will now have better access to the Tucson City Council, as a new on-screen captioning system will provide more accurate real-time transcriptions of what elected leaders and others say during meetings.

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Federal trial in 'forever chemicals' case delayed as 3M nears settlement tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The bellwether trial over PFAS contamination of public water systems was expected to offer legal observers their first glimpse into a sprawling case that could rival the asbestos crisis in its impact, but the case is on hold as attorneys told the court they were nearing a settlement.

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Despite GOP senator's claims, no 'practice of filming porn' in Az schools tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican Arizona Sen. Jake Hoffman is urging the Arizona governor to sign a bill that would end the “practice of filming pornography in K-12 schools,” something that is currently not allowed or encouraged at public schools in the state.

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