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ADOT to hold public meetings on new Pinal County highway tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona officials are asking the public to weigh-in on a plan to build a new north-south highway in Pinal County, connecting Interstate 10 with the Superstition Freeway near Apache Junction.

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Flowing Wells to discuss fed grant freezes; TUSD has new teacher performance gauge tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Updated: The Flowing Wells Unified School District is taking a good look at how to handle federal education cuts, while rules and regs force more administrative work to comply; plus more from local government meetings around Tucson this week

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AI data centers are using more power. Regular customers are footing the bill. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Regular energy consumers, not corporations, will bear the brunt of the increased costs of a boom in artificial intelligence that has contributed to a growth in data centers and a surge in power usage, recent research suggests.

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Judge orders Trump administration to ‘stop violating the law!’ and publish spending details tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to once again publish details about the pace at which it plans to spend money approved by Congress.

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Arizona joins lawsuit challenging Trump’s citizenship requirements for Head Start, Meals on Wheels tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joined a coalition of 20 other state AGs in suing the Trump administration over changes aimed at preventing people who aren’t U.S. citizens from accessing public-based services.

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Appeals court dismisses Az superintendent’s lawsuit challenging dual-language education tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The state appellate court has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, challenging the right of public schools to use dual-language immersion to teach English Learner students.

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Trump administration pulls back on work combating human trafficking, long a top GOP priority tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A key office charged by Congress with coordinating the federal government’s work against human trafficking was gutted last Friday, the latest in a string of cuts across different agencies to the government’s work on an issue that Republicans have long hailed as a top priority.

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Surprise medical bills were supposed to Be a thing of the past. Surprise — they’re not. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
While the No Surprises Act has been a phenomenal success in taking on some unfair practices in the wild West of medical billing, it was hardly a panacea.

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Public school enrollment continues to fall tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Across the country, public school enrollment has failed to rebound to pre-pandemic levels — and data suggests the decline is far from over.

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IRS is building a vast system to share millions of taxpayers’ data with ICE tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data.

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With fewer protections and more paperwork, LGBTQ+ Americans face a Medicaid coverage cliff tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Millions are expected to lose health care coverage through President Trump’s “one big, beautiful” tax and spending law — and LGBTQ+ Americans, who rely heavily on social services due to high rates of poverty and disability, are among those who will be most impacted.

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Insurers & customers brace for double whammy to Obamacare premiums tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Most of the 24 million people in Affordable Care Act health plans face a potential one-two punch next year — double-digit premium increases along with a sharp drop in the federal subsidies that most consumers depend on to buy the coverage, also known as Obamacare.

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Some frozen federal funds for schools released to states by Trump administration tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Trump’s administration confirmed Friday that it’s releasing funds that support before- and after-school programs as well as summer programs, a portion of the $6.8 billion in withheld funds for K-12 schools that were supposed to be sent out two weeks ago.

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Flowing Wells to discuss fed grant freezes; TUSD has new teacher performance gauge tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The Flowing Wells Unified School District is taking a good look at how to handle federal education cuts, while rules and regs force more administrative work to comply; plus more from local government meetings around Tucson this week

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Pima County asking for public comments on candidates for vacancy in Superior Court tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Pima County commission is asking for public comments on 10 candidates to fill a vacancy on the Superior Court in Pima County created by the retirement of Judge Peter W. Hochuli.

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Call Fiorello LaGuardia: FC Tucson will be having a Fusion party tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
FC Tucson will face Ventura County Fusion, a team they've beaten in their last two meetings, in the Western Conference semifinal on Sunday night.

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'A fantastic event:' MegaMania draws hundreds to PCC Downtown campus tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
MegaMania saw 1,200, many of whom dressed up as characters from their favorite fandoms, attend the pop-culture event at the Downtown campus of Pima Community College on Saturday.

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Deputizing National Guard officers as immigration judges would likely violate constitutional rights tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
A plan by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to deputize Florida’s nine National Guard Judge Advocate General’s Corps officers to serve as immigration judges bypasses a framework that is set in law, and violates the constitutionally mandated separation of powers.

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Mum’s the word on SCOTUS shadow docket tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Living up to its infamous moniker, the Supreme Court is increasingly issuing unsigned and unreasoned emergency docket rulings that allow President Donald Trump to wield unilateral authority over the government.

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Ciscomani & Schweikert face well-funded Democrats in toss-up districts that could be key in 2026 midterms tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The three Arizona Republicans whose U.S. House seats the Democrats hope to nab next year hold comfortable fundraising leads, midyear campaign filings show.

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