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States rethink ambitious projects as tax revenues shrink & pandemic aid ends tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A projected $1.7 billion budget deficit looms in Arizona after a flat income tax enacted by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey in 2021 took effect last year, and many other states arealso being forced to rethink expensive projects as tax revenues decline and federal pandemic aid ends.

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Feds award Intel $8.5 billion; money to expand Chandler, other chip plants tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The federal government awarded nearly $20 billion of grants and loans to Intel Corp. to construct and expand semiconductor facilities in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico and Oregon, including more than 3,000 manufacturing jobs and 7,000 construction jobs in Chandler.

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Pro-immigrant business leaders: Az GOP bills targeting migrants are ‘anti-business’ tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona business leaders slammed a GOP bill allowing the state to arrest and deport migrants as “anti-business” and “bad for Arizona,” and called on lawmakers to defeat it.

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Expanded child tax credit stranded in U.S. Senate by GOP comparisons to welfare tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
One of the cheapest provisions aimed at helping low-income families has become a main sticking point for Republican senators as they negotiate a bipartisan tax package that attracted broad support in the U.S. House.

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Az AG joins lawsuit, accuses Apple of operating smartphone monopoly tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Justice Department and 16 states, including Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, are suing Apple, accusing the company of trying to create a monopoly on smartphone markets to the detriment of consumers and innovation.

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EPA finalizes regulation to boost electric vehicle sales tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Biden administration has finalized regulations hoping to accelerate sales of electric vehicles and cut carbon emissions while giving automakers more time and leeway to comply than initially proposed.

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Mounting research shows COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including significant drops in IQ scores tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
From the very early days of the pandemic, brain fog emerged as a significant health condition that many experience after COVID-19, and four years later, there is now abundant evidence that being infected with SARS-CoV-2 can affect brain health in many ways.

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Arizona ‘excited’ for 1st Four matchup against Auburn in nat'l tournament tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
For the fourth consecutive year, the Arizona women’s basketball team was invited to the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, and it might have been the first upset of the spring, with the Wildcats drawing a First Four bid as an 11-seed in Portland Region 3.

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Man with Pima County molestation conviction dies in state prison custody tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A man sentenced in 2022 in a Pima County child molestation case died Wednesday in the custody of Arizona state prison officials. Modesto Jimenez, 46, was pronounced dead at a hospital in Phoenix — the ninth Arizona prisoner to die in March.

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Ballet Tucson's spring concert to close season 'with a bang' tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Ballet Tucson will close the dance company's season "with a bang," performing classical and neo-classical pieces in a spring concert this weekend.

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Arizona ‘excited’ for First Four matchup against Auburn in NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
For the fourth consecutive year, the Arizona women’s basketball team was invited to the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, and it might have been the first upset of the spring, with the Wildcats drawing a First Four bid as an 11-seed in Portland Region 3.

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Planned Parenthood affiliates train abortion doulas to reduce stress for patients tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Doulas are trained, non-medical patient advocates, typically associated with pregnancy and childbirth and end-of-life care, but there’s a growing movement in the U.S. to have advocates provide physical and emotional support to other potentially high-anxiety reproductive health services.

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Arizona House to vote on Ten Commandments in the classroom tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican state Senator Anthony Kern said the Ten Commandments shaped the country's heritage, as the Arizona’s House Education Committee advanced a bill that would allow public school teachers and administrators to post and discuss the Ten Commandments in the classroom.

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Organizations assist Native American voters as election year ramps up tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Native Americans in Arizona continue to work within a system that has challenged their ability to vote for decades, and with new legislation affecting the upcoming election in November, the challenge just got harder for Native Americans looking to exercise their voting rights.

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GOP measure would amend Az Constitution so restaurants can pay servers less than minimum wage tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Republican measure - backed by restaurant owners and other business groups - would ask voters to amend the Arizona Constitution and let Arizona businesses pay employees who work for tips 25% less than the minimum wage.

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Az officials warn of potentially ‘explosive’ wildfires this summer tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona is on the verge of a volatile wildfire season, and forestry officials urge state residents to be prepared and to take steps now to head off the worst of it.

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Despite lingering challenges, Trump, Biden cruise to victories in Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump cruised to victory in Arizona’s presidential preference election Tuesday, easily outdistancing challengers despite an organized protest vote and former challengers who were still on the ballot.

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Baseball coach Ken Jacome earns 200th win at Pima as Aztecs sweep Glendale tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The No. 18-ranked Aztecs swept a doubleheader over the Gauchos and gave head coach Ken Jacome his 200th career win at Pima with the victory in the second game.

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Az Republicans want to ask voters to ban early voting, put 1,000-person cap on precincts tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In an effort to bypass a veto from Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, Arizona Republicans want to ask voters to end early voting by mail, sharply limit early voting in person and cap precinct voting locations in Maricopa and Pima counties at 1,000 voters.

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New Texas immigration law is blocked again by federal court tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal appeals court late Tuesday night stopped a state law allowing Texas police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border — hours after the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed it to go into effect.

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