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Teachers rally against complaint hotline, call for its end tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Dozens of teachers took to the street on Wednesday afternoon to demand that Arizona Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne’s newly established parental complaint hotline be dismantled.

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Arizona Republican legislators announce formal opposition to ranked choice voting tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Freedom Caucus wants to preemptively prohibit any use of ranked choice voting to decide city, state, county or federal elections, claiming "it disenfranchises voters and allows marginal candidates not supported by a majority of the voters to win elections.”

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Dementia’s dangerous rise leads legislators to ask up to $500,000 for Alzheimer’s tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
State legislators are pushing a bill to build a state dementia plan and put up to $500,000 toward new jobs focused on Alzheimer’s disease, a common type of dementia that is rising especially fast in Arizona.

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Arizona Republicans move to regulate drag shows tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Senate Republicans voted Wednesday to support two bills aimed at regulating drag shows and related performances, despite concerns that the bills are intended only to regulate and ostracize LGBTQ people and content.

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Rio Verde Foothills poised to sue Maricopa County over water woes tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Residents of Rio Verde Foothills will likely sue Maricopa County over its inaction in solving the community’s ongoing water crisis after the county Board of Supervisors rejected a proposal which would have seen Scottsdale sell water to the county for distribution to the subdivision.

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Lift a glass & sing along: St. Patrick's Day playlist tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Whether it's the lilting strains of a classic folk song or the pounding of three-chord punk rock — or the omnipresent U2 — the music of the small island of Ireland has influenced artists throughout the world. So raise a glass of Guinness, tap your toe or even get up and dance a bit as we celebrate St. Patrick's Day with song.

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States to receive $2.5B from feds for electric vehicle charging infrastructure tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The federal government will send $2.5 billion over the next five years to states, local governments and tribes to build electric vehicle charging infrastructure as part of the new Charging and Fueling Infrastructure grant program.

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Arizona agencies possibly exposed in LastPass data breach tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Multiple state agencies, including the Arizona Department of Homeland Security and state’s Medicaid provider, may have had their passwords and login credentials exposed in a breach of the popular password management software LastPass.

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Hobbs, Fontes, Maricopa County clap back at Lake’s appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Maricopa County, Adrian Fontes and Katie Hobbs filed biting responses to failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s petition asking the Arizona Supreme Court to take up her election case, and Hobbs and Fontes asked for sanction for bringing a suit based on frivolous claims.

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Sweeping bill to address Arizona’s housing crisis shot down tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In a rare show of bipartisan agreement, the Arizona state Senate voted down a bill aimed at addressing the housing crisis on the grounds it doesn’t actually increase affordable housing and strips away powers from cities and towns to guide development to meet local needs.

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Biden boosts gun control with tougher background checks tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Tuesday expanding the number of background checks conducted before gun sales, imposing harsher penalties on violations of federal firearms law and directing a study of how firearm manufacturers market to minors.

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Arizona school advocates worry about keeping counselors as federal funding set to expire tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Some of the pandemic relief funding from the federal government will expire later this year, and Arizona school advocates worry extra counselors brought on by schools using the funding may be let go if a way isn't found to keep the positions.

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Facing drought, Western states seek to deny groundwater to foreigners tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As the American West battles its worst megadrought in over 1,200 years, lawmakers in Arizona, California, Texas, Utah and Washington state are rethinking how groundwater is used and who gets access to it — with some even targeting foreign-owned companies.

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EPA unveils first federal limits on 'forever chemicals' in drinking water tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. drinking water standards will for the first time include limits on the presence of cancer-causing substances known as PFAS, according to new regulations that will be overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Arizona GOP leaders win permission to defend abortion law in court tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Republican legislative leaders have been given the go-ahead by a federal judge to defend a 2021 abortion law in court after Attorney General Kris Mayes said she wouldn’t.

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Aztec women get No. 7 seed for NJCAA Division II nat'l tournament tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s basketball team is heading back to the NJCAA Division II National Tournament next week in Port Huron, Mich., as the NJCAA announced the seedings and brackets.

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Paid not to farm? Expanded Colorado River program divides farm community tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
With water levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead at record lows, federal officials are ready to spend tens of millions of dollars to get farmers and other water users to conserve in 2023 and keep the reservoirs from falling farther.

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Sláinte! St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Tucson tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
If you have no idea where to go for St. Paddy's Day, well you're in luck. Here's a list of Tucson places to visit — responsibly.

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Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse differs from last financial crisis tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
After the largest U.S. bank failure in more than a decade, the federal government blamed the bank failures in part on the 2018 law that rolled back regulations for smaller and medium-sized banks, and rushed to reassure Americans that the U.S. banking system was stable.

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Arizona AG Kris Mayes & 22 other attorneys general defend DACA tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joined nearly two dozen other states last week in defending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on behalf of more than 30,000 Arizonans DACA recipients.

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