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After 31 years of 'Growing Native,' Petey Mesquitey still thinks the borderlands are beautiful tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
This summer marks 31 years of "Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey" on 91.3 KXCI. Every week, he regales listeners with tales of native desert plants and animals, from the spring orange flowers of the brittle bush to the winter silhouette of the desert willow.

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Arizona Burn Center: 'Contact burns' from hot surfaces lead to hospitalizations, some deaths tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Burn Center officials are warning about roads and surfaces that get blistering hot – literally – in the summer sun, after several years in which contact burns resulted in scores of hospital admissions.

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CDC to reduce funding for states' child vaccination programs tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reducing funding to states for child vaccination programs, a change agency officials linked the reduction to the debt ceiling deal recently struck by the Biden administration and Congress.

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Conservative moms want to defend Arizona’s anti-trans athlete ban tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A trio of conservative activists is asking to intervene in a lawsuit against Arizona’s trans athlete ban, claiming their daughters would face unequal treatment in school sports if the ban is eliminated.

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Trump aide & valet at Mar-A-Lago pleads not guilty in classified documents case tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Walt Nauta, former President Donald Trump's valet at his Mar-A-Lago estate, pleaded not guilty in Miami federal court on Thursday to charges related to the mishandling of classified documents case after security footage showed Nauta moving dozens of boxes to a storage room.

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Trump aide and valet at Mar-A-Lago pleads not guilty in classified documents case tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Walt Nauta, former President Donald Trump's valet at his Mar-A-Lago estate, pleaded not guilty in Miami federal court on Thursday to charges related to the mishandling of classified documents case after security footage showed Nauta moving dozens of boxes to a storage room.

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Cities have ways to curb gun violence; feds are giving them more money tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
700 experts gathered last week at a community violence intervention conference, hosted by the Giffords Center for Violence Intervention, to share their strategies for curbing urban gun violence and tapping new funding streams - including $50 million from the federal government.

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Indigenous youth discuss missing & murdered Native people, climate change tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Arizona youth leaders were among the more than 2,400 Indigenous youth leaders from hundreds of Indigenous nations to come together at the 2023 UNITY conference to talk about issues impacting their communities, including MMIP, climate change and mental illness.

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Cities have ways to curb gun violence; feds are giving them more money tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
700 experts gathered last week at a community violence intervention conference, hosted by the Giffords Center for Violence Intervention, to share their strategies for curbing urban gun violence and tapping new funding streams - including $50 million from the federal government.

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Months of wet weather erase drought across the Southwest tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A stretch of unusually wet months has erased drought across much of the Southwest, according to climate experts, who spelled out how a snowy winter and rainy spring brought relief to a particularly parched region.

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Garbology revisited: Tracking trash in the Santa Cruz River tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Preliminary findings from a study in the Santa Cruz River suggest floating trash traps could solve a trash problem caused by the whole city.

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Registration for Pima County after-school rec program begins Thursday tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Registration for after-school recreation programs at six of Pima County’s community centers for children in kindergarten through 5th grade begins Thursday, July 6.

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Months of wet weather erase drought across the Southwest tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A stretch of unusually wet months has erased drought across much of the Southwest, according to climate experts, who spelled out how a snowy winter and rainy spring brought relief to a particularly parched region.

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At Lake Powell, record low water levels revealed an 'amazing silver lining' tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As water levels at Lake Powell - the nation’s second-largest reservoir - dipped to the lowest they’ve been since 1968, a breathtaking landscape of deep red-rock canyons that cradle lush ecosystems and otherworldly arches, caverns and waterfalls is emerging.

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Chemehuevi Tribe struggles to take its share of water decades after Colorado River flooded their land tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Chemehuevi Indian reservation fronts about 30 miles of the Colorado River, yet 97% of the tribe’s water stays in the river, much of it used by Southern California cities - and the tribe isn’t paid for it.

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As veteran disability claims soar, unaccredited coaches profit off frustration with VA system tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Companies such as Austin-based VA Claims Insider say they will aid veterans, such as Tucson resident Simon Keller, in making disability claims to the Department of Veterans Affairs - but have also touched off complaints of extortion and investigations into illegal activities.

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Shifting to EV fleets would save Arizona governments millions tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona governments could save almost $283 million over the next 10 years if roughly 20,000 gasoline-powered light-duty vehicles in their fleets that are due to be retired were replaced with electric vehicles, according a recent report.

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Biden censored pandemic skeptics in collusion with social media firms, judge rules tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Biden administration likely violated the First Amendment by coercing social media companies to suppress alleged misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 presidential election, a federal judge ruled.

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Study shows sharp increases in maternal deaths over two decades tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Maternal mortality rates more than doubled in some states between 1999 and 2019, with sharp increases for some racial and ethnic groups, according to a report touted as the first study to provide such maternal mortality calculations for every state.

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Nogales sales tax revenues surge, shoring up city finances tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The City of Nogales isn't exactly swimming in funds, but a report to the city council shows the city ending the year with a healthy cash reserve thanks to booming sales tax revenues and tight spending.

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