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Game changers: 2 years after historic sports broadcast, rise of women shakes up industry https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/033123_female_sports_broadcasters/game-changers-2-years-after-historic-sports-broadcast-rise-women-shakes-up-industry/
It’s been two years since women ruled the court and controlled every single on-air role of a national NBA broadcast, but it’s not as if one monumental night completely altered decades of policies rooted in tradition and, sometimes, sexism.
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Game changers: 2 years after historic broadcast, rise of women shakes up industry https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/033123_female_sports_broadcasters/game-changers-2-years-after-historic-broadcast-rise-women-shakes-up-industry/
It’s been two years since women ruled the court and controlled every single on-air role of a national NBA broadcast, but it’s not as if one monumental night completely altered decades of policies rooted in tradition and, sometimes, sexism.
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How Maricopa County tried to improve its voter signature review before 2022 https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/033123_maricopa_signature_improvements/how-maricopa-county-tried-improve-its-voter-signature-review-before-2022/
A Maricopa County judge may soon allow Kari Lake to attempt to prove one of the claims challenging her loss to Gov. Katie Hobbs: That bad actors forged signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballot envelopes, and the county failed to follow state law when approving them.
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Maricopa County leads nation in population increase, surpasses 4.5 million https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/033123_booming_maricopa/maricopa-county-leads-nation-population-increase-surpasses-45-million/
Maricopa County added 56,831 residents between July 2021 and June 2022, the largest population growth for a county in the nation, with an estimated 4.5 million residents last year - the second straight year the county led the nation in population growth.
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Pima soccer's NJCAA '21 nat'l champ Fernando Garate commits to Ivy League https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/033023_pcc_mens_soccer/pima-soccers-njcaa-21-natl-champ-fernando-garate-commits-ivy-league/
Pima Community College men’s soccer player Fernando Garate (Salpointe Catholic HS) is continuing his collegiate career at Cornell University, an Ivy League institution in Ithaca, N.Y.
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Claytoonz: The Indicted Presidents Club https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/033023_trump_claytoonz/claytoonz-indicted-presidents-club/
Donald Trump is in the Corrupt Presidents Club with Richard Nixon the Impeached Presidents Club with Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, Twice-Impeached President Club all by himself and now… he’s in the Indicted Presidents Club all by his lonesome.
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Trump indictment won’t keep him from presidential race, but will make his bid much harder https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/033023_trump_campaign_op/trump-indictment-wont-keep-him-from-presidential-race-but-will-make-his-bid-much-harder/
What are the consequences of an indictment and potential trial for Donald Trump's election campaign and, if his effort is successful, his future presidency?
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Trump indictment won’t keep him from presidential race, but will make his bid much harder https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/033023_slug/trump-indictment-wont-keep-him-from-presidential-race-but-will-make-his-bid-much-harder/
What are the consequences of an indictment and potential trial for Donald Trump's election campaign and, if his effort is successful, his future presidency?
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Grand jury vote to indict Donald Trump shows he, like all other presidents, is not an imperial king https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/033023_trump_jury_op/grand-jury-vote-indict-donald-trump-shows-he-like-all-other-presidents-not-imperial-king/
Presidents are not kings. But Donald Trump was just another example of a president acting as if he was king by just another name.
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Indictment filed in NY makes Trump 1st U.S. president to face criminal charges https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/033023_trump_nyc_indictment/indictment-filed-ny-makes-trump-1st-us-president-face-criminal-charges/
Donald Trump will face criminal charges after a Manhattan grand jury returned an unprecedented indictment Thursday related to the payment of hush money during his 2016 run for office - the first ever criminal indictment against a current or former U.S. president.
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Indictment filed in NY makes Trump first US president to face criminal charges https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/033023_trump_nyc_indictment/indictment-filed-ny-makes-trump-first-us-president-face-criminal-charges/
Donald Trump will face criminal charges after a Manhattan grand jury returned an unprecedented indictment Thursday related to the payment of hush money during his 2016 run for office - the first ever criminal indictment against a current or former U.S. president.
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Facing recall, Wadsack threatens GOP control of Arizona Legislature https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/033023_wadsack_recall_op/facing-recall-wadsack-threatens-gop-control-arizona-legislature/
Sen. Justine Wadsack is acting like there's not a book she won't censor and a decision she won't make for parents as their state legislative overlord. Recalling her is tricky. Beating her the old-fashioned way may be easy and the path to Democratic control in the Legislature.
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U.S. judge rules insurers don’t have to cover many free preventive health services https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/033023_insurers_preventive_care/us-judge-rules-insurers-dont-have-cover-many-free-preventive-health-services/
Health insurance companies may no longer need to cover a wide swath of preventive health care services that were required by the 2010 Affordable Care Act, under a federal judge’s ruling issued Thursday in Texas.
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'Complex' $185 million Major League Baseball deal closes minor leaguer pay saga https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/033023_mlb_minor_leagues/complex-185-million-major-league-baseball-deal-closes-minor-leaguer-pay-saga/
Major League Baseball will pay big in a sprawling class action over whether minor leaguers qualify as year-round employees, after a federal judge repudiated the league's contention that they're seasonal workers, and separately liable for violating Arizona’s record-keeping law.
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Arizona had highest COVID-19 death rate in U.S. over 3 years https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/033023_covid_deaths/arizona-had-highest-covid-19-death-rate-us-over-3-years/
Arizona had the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths in the nation over three years, a death rate similar to that of the three nations with the highest coronavirus death rates in the world, and Latinos and Blacks were more likely to die of COVID-19 than other racial groups.
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Arizona will fail clean-air standards if other states aren’t 'good neighbors' https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/033023_smog_neighbors/arizona-will-fail-clean-air-standards-if-other-states-arent-good-neighbors/
Arizona is doing all it can to improve air quality but will not meet federal standards as long as pollution from other jurisdictions can drift across its borders, the director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality testified Wednesday.
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Report places Arizona first in U.S. for rate of COVID-19 deaths https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/033023_covid_deaths/report-places-arizona-first-us-rate-covid-19-deaths/
Arizona had the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths in the nation over three years, a death rate similar to that of the three nations with the highest coronavirus death rates in the world, and Latinos and Blacks were more likely to die of COVID-19 than other racial groups.
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Dueling bills aim to allow Az School for the Deaf & Blind to remain open https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/033023_asdb_funding/dueling-bills-aim-allow-az-school-deaf-blind-remain-open/
Competing bills to allow the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind to remain open were both heard in the state Senate on Wednesday as parents, teachers and former students pushed for lawmakers to keep the school open.
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Postpartum Medicaid expansion is the first step to maternal health equity, experts say https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/033023_postpartum_medicaid_expansion/postpartum-medicaid-expansion-first-step-maternal-health-equity-experts-say/
U.S. maternal mortality rates keep growing, an anomaly compared to other economically similar countries, and nine states - including Arizona - are waiting on approval from the CDC to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage to reduce the numbers.
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State election officials at U.S. Senate hearing discuss threats to workers, call for funding https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/033023_election_worker_threats/state-election-officials-us-senate-hearing-discuss-threats-workers-call-funding/
Election officials detailed to the U.S. Senate Rules Committee how their states countered threats to election workers and worked to combat misinformation and disinformation during the 2022 midterm election.
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