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$28M more funding for Pima IDA's downpayment help for 1st-time homebuyers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County has added another $28 million in funding for first-time homebuyers through its Lighthouse program, the county announced Friday.

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‘Say her name’: Hundreds gather to honor Native teen Emily Pike, demanding justice for her death tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Signs reading “Justice for Emily Pike” and “No More Stolen Sisters” stood out among the hundreds of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people gathered at Encounter AZ church in Mesa for a candlelight vigil for San Carlos Apache teen Emily Pike, who was murdered in February.

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‘Say her name’: Hundreds gather to honor Native teen Emily Pike, demanding justice for her death tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Signs reading “Justice for Emily Pike” and “No More Stolen Sisters” stood out among the hundreds of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people gathered at Encounter AZ church in Mesa for a candlelight vigil for San Carlos Apache teen Emily Pike, who was murdered in February.

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Arizona appeals court ruling puts instructions for this year’s elections in doubt tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Az Secretary of State Adrian Fontes violated state law by giving the public only 15 days to comment on a draft of his elections rulebook, casting some doubt on which set of instructions will apply to this year’s all-mail local elections, one of which is currently taking place in Pima County.

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‘Donald J. Trump Highway’ proposal fails in Arizona Senate by a single vote tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s Senate Republicans couldn’t find the votes they needed to recommend that State Route 260, which runs through rural areas between Cottonwood and Show Low, be renamed “Donald J. Trump Highway.”

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Federal office working to end surprise medical bills just got slashed tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Trump signed legislation in 2020 to protect Americans from surprise medical bills - but the president’s wide-ranging push to slash government spending, led by billionaire Elon Musk, is weakening the federal office charged with implementing the No Surprises Act.

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Millions of people, including 600K in Az, could lose Medicaid coverage under anticipated GOP cuts tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A report by Democrats details how many people in each state would lose access to Medicaid if Republicans in Congress were to cut the program by one-third — a scenario some GOP lawmakers have floated as an option to help pay for tax cuts.

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Trump wants to kill CHIPS Act, saying tariff threat prompted TSMC’s new $100B bet tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Touting the $100 billion expansion TSMC announced, President Donald Trump boasted that he’d lured the chipmaker not with subsidies but with a threat of tariffs on imported semiconductors - though the next evening, Trump told Congress he wants the CHIPS Act overturned.

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Trump, again, walks back tariffs in trade war with Canada & Mexico tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to delay for a month broad tariffs he levied on Canada and Mexico earlier in the week, amid stock prices tumbling on Wall Street and heightened fears of an economic fallout.

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Trump: ‘Good people’ shouldn’t lose federal jobs, but Musk is doing an ‘amazing job’ with mass firings tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
With thousands of federal workers already laid off, President Donald Trump said that he wants his Cabinet members to “keep good people” and does not want to “see a big cut where a lot of good people are cut” - but thinks Musk and the DOGE service have done “an amazing job.”

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Senate Republicans push changes that could limit Az voting centers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s Republican legislators are taking another crack at voting law changes, after the Democratic governor vetoed their recent attempt to make the state’s elections more like Florida’s.

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Senate Republicans push voting changes that could limit Az voting centers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s Republican legislators are taking another crack at voting law changes, after the Democratic governor vetoed their recent attempt to make the state’s elections more like Florida’s.

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Judge puts federal funding freeze on ice, finding Trump placed himself ‘above Congress’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A second federal judge indefinitely stopped the Trump administration from enforcing a broad federal spending freeze outlined in a January memo from the White House’s budget office.

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How Tucson voters can cast their ballots in Tuesday's Prop. 414 election tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
If you haven’t yet sent back your Proposition 414 ballot, Tucson election officials say it's too late to mail it but you can drop it off in person on or before Election Day on Tuesday, March 11.

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Pima County Jail officer gets 3 years of probation for punching inmate tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A corrections officer at the Pima County jail who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault of an inmate last August was sentenced to three years on probation Wednesday.

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How Tucson voters can cast their ballots in Tuesday's Prop. 414 election tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
If you haven’t yet sent back your Proposition 414 ballot, Tucson election officials say it's too late to mail it but you can drop it off in person on or before Election Day on Tuesday, March 11.

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How Scott Blades helped build a lifeline for people living with HIV in Tucson tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
In 1994, Scott Blades founded Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network to provide support to Tucsonans living with HIV. Three decades later, medical advancements have made the prognosis for HIV much brighter, though the stigma remains, Blades said.

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High court tips scales against veterans seeking disability benefits tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Supreme Court - testing the limits of a longstanding rule that puts extra weight behind veterans’ claims - ruled against two veterans who were denied post-traumatic stress disorder disability benefits by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Eva Burch is resigning from Az Senate because it’s too partisan & doesn’t pay well enough tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Mesa Democratic Sen. Eva Burch announced late Wednesday afternoon that she would be resigning next week, citing partisan gridlock and the low pay state lawmakers receive.

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‘It is not efficiency, it is destruction’: Dem AGs challenge Trump & Musk’s federal cuts tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The attorneys general of Arizona, Minnesota, New Mexico and Oregon vowed at a town hall in Phoenix Wednesday evening that they would continue to fight back against sweeping federal cuts being made by President Donald Trump and his ally, Elon Musk.

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