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Bernie Sanders confronts former Starbucks CEO over union-busting allegations tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Democratic senators grilled the former CEO of Starbucks over allegations that the giant coffee company intimidated, harassed and fired workers who tried to form unions after nearly 300 Starbucks stores have unionized since 202, but the company has yet to ratify a contract.

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Hobbs’ press secretary resigns after outrage over violent tweet tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A spokeswoman for Gov. Katie Hobbs has resigned after Republican backlash erupted when she tweeted an image implying violence against transphobes.

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Robbins: UA had 'systemic failures' before shooting death of Prof. Meixner tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The University of Arizona had a series of systemic failures, including "missed opportunities and mistakes" that ultimately led to the October fatal shooting of Prof. Thomas Meixner, said UA President Robert C. Robbins. The Meixner family is preparing to sue for $9 million.

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J.T. Drake earns 2 saves as Pima baseball wins 12th straight tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College baseball team (30-8, 17-5 in ACCAC) picked up its 30th win of the season on Tuesday in an ACCAC doubleheader sweep against Chandler-Gilbert Community College (20-16, 10-12).

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Pima softball drops doubleheader to Eastern Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College softball team (18-15, 15-9 in ACCAC) hit a bump in the road on Tuesday in its ACCAC doubleheader against Eastern Arizona College (26-12, 23-5).

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Texas Observer will continue publishing after staff crowdfunds more than $300k tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Days after voting to cease publication and lay off its journalists, the nonprofit publisher of the Texas Observer said on Wednesday that it would change course and keep the publication going, following an emergency appeal that crowdsourced more than $300,000 to save the 68-year-old liberal publication.

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Hobbs’ press secretary resigns after outrage over violent tweet tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A spokeswoman for Gov. Katie Hobbs has resigned after Republican backlash erupted when she tweeted an image implying violence against transphobes.

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Migrant detention center fire leaves 40 dead in Juárez tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A fire at a temporary migrant detention center run by the Mexican government in the border city of Ciudad Juárez Monday night left at least 40 people dead, though authorities disagree on the cause.

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SPJ: ''No responsible journalist can accept or excuse Fox News behavior' tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Appealing to confirmation bias and manufacturing outrage with deceptive posturing for profit, popularity or power while turning away from facts is a cynical and hypocritical strategy.

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Why are prices rising more for lower-income college students than their higher-income peers? tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Though lower-income students generally still pay less than higher-income ones, nearly 700 universities and colleges have, over the last decade, raised the prices paid by their lowest-income students more than the prices paid by their highest-income ones.

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Anti-trans school bathroom bill advances with Arizona GOP backing tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican lawmakers are charging ahead with their attacks on transgender Arizonans, despite veto promises from Gov. Katie Hobbs, unanimously backing a measure on Tuesday that calls for separate school facilities for trans students.

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Fontes asks court to order Finchem to pay $75,000 for bringing 'groundless' election challenge tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes wants Mark Finchem, the Republican Fontes defeated in last year’s election, to pay nearly $75,000 in attorney’s fees for filing what a judge said was a “groundless” lawsuit to overturn the election.

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Hobbs rejects Arizona food tax ban championed by GOP tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An Arizona Republican priority bill that sought to eliminate municipal food taxes was shot down by Gov. Katie Hobbs, who vetoed it Tuesday, siding with cities across the state that opposed the measure.

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Hobbs vetoes bill targeting banks that refuse to work with gun makers, NRA tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have barred the state from working with any firm that “discriminates” against gun manufacturers or the National Rifle Association, a proposal that mirrored a Texas law passed last year.

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States with legal pot consider how to protect cannabis workers tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
As legalization spreads and the marijuana workforce grows, unionization attempts are increasing while state lawmakers and labor organizers consider the daily hazards faced by cannabis workers.

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Liberal justices balk at criminalization of certain speech linked to illegal immigration tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A law under review by the Supreme Court makes it a crime to encourage unlawful immigration into the U.S., but there are questions about how government prosecutors would distinguish between scams targeting vulnerable migrants and commonplace discussions.

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Glendale breaks ground on first complex to use state affordable housing tax credit tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Construction is underway in Glendale on an affordable housing complex funded in part by a state low-income housing tax credit that allows people to come on at any income level sponsored below 60 percent of the median and only pay 30 percent of their rent.

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Biden, Hobbs order flags to half-=staff to honor victims of Nashville school shooting tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
President Joe Biden and Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs have ordered that flags be flown at half-staff through sunset on Friday to honor the victims of Monday's school shooting in Nashville.

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Autism rates rise in U.S., along with awareness in communities of color tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Autism in Arizona and across the U.S. is on the rise, as awareness has led to earlier detection in communities of color, and research revealed that autism spectrum disorder is not based so much on “biological differences” as on socioeconomic circumstances.

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An Arizona veteran’s ballot rejection story went viral. Here’s what really happened. tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
It was an alarming claim that didn’t take long to go viral: Maricopa County had incorrectly rejected a ballot from an Arizona veteran in the November election, disenfranchising him - but was a registered voter in Navajo County, and was not registered to vote in Maricopa County.

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