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Former Az lawmaker Cano tapped for Tucson city lobbying post tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Andrés Cano, a former Tucson-area lawmaker who resigned last year to undertake graduate studies at Harvard, has been named as the city government's director of Federal & State Relations. The position entails obtaining government grants for Tucson — a high-profile post in an election year in which the Biden administration is focused on Arizona.

Juneteenth holiday: An important moment to contemplate our nation’s past & present tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The brutal enslavement of millions of Africans and people of African descent is far from the nation’s only original sin, and it’s also far from the only example from American history that readily gives rise to that question – “What in the world could they have been thinking?”

'Anti-documentary trilogy' at MOCA Tucson explores connection between water & colonialism tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Puerto Rican artist Sofía Córdova’s "SIN AGUA" film installation at MOCA Tucson uses research and personal narrative to examine the effects of colonialism on water access in Arizona, while grappling with the catastrophic impact of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico.

New partnership will boost agricultural education for Indigenous students tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Indigenous students enrolled in schools run by the Bureau of Indian Education will have access to more comprehensive, culturally relevant agricultural training and education as part of a new partnership the BIE established with the Native American Agriculture Fund.

Americans with HIV are living longer. Federal spending isn’t keeping up. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
More than half of the people living with HIV in the United States are older than 50, and an estimated that 70% of people living with the virus will fall in that age range by 2030 - yet funding constraints and an increasingly dysfunctional Congress leave people aging with HIV vulnerable.

Swing-state legislatures diverge on election-year gun measures tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Gun policy has been a topic of debate for decades, but has become especially prominent as the number of gun-related deaths and mass shootings has grown almost every year since 2014, with this past week offering reminders of the continuing salience of guns in American life.

Bill aims to ease teacher shortage at tribal schools by granting federal pensions to educators tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Teachers have been in short supply across Arizona, and nowhere is that felt more than at schools run by Native American tribes, but while a lawmaker from New Mexico has proposed a way to level the playing field, so far it’s gained little traction in Congress.

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