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Biden admin to ban medical debt from Americans’ credit scores tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Biden administration announced a major initiative to protect Americans from medical debt, outlining plans to develop federal rules barring unpaid medical bills from affecting patients’ credit scores.

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Justice Kagan says it’s time for a Supreme Court ethics code tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Justice Elena Kagan endorsed creating a code of ethics for the Supreme Court, citing benefits for justices and the public, comments that came just hours after news broke about Justice Clarence Thomas’ apparent failure to comply with federal disclosure laws.

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Immigrants urge 4th Circuit to gut law on illegal reentry into U.S. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A Fourth Circuit panel will decide whether the federal law that criminalizes illegal reentries into the United States violates the Fifth Amendment, after a lower court ruled the law has been reenacted multiple times, and the intent of racial animus had since been weakened or dissolved.

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Some 1,900 Arizona homeowners have fallen for a predatory title scheme tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A predatory title scheme known as Non-Title Recorded Agreements for Personal Services, that keeps homeowners stuck in a contract while enticing them with a quick $500 to $1000, has come under the scrutiny of attorneys general in several states, including Arizona.

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Rural Americans may be on their own during Medicaid unwinding tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
72% of people who lost Medicaid coverage since states began the unwinding process this year were disenrolled for procedural reasons - not because officials determined they are no longer eligible - and those procedural disenrollments could disproportionately affect rural people.

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Fairness isn’t the bottom line in city courts when traffic tickets can be profitable tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
One increasingly common source of money for city governments is traffic tickets, and research shows police officers issue more traffic tickets when cities are financially in a deficit - but judges and their courts also use traffic citations to generate money for the cities that employ them.

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Tucson broadcast legend John C. Scott dead at 80 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Local radio legend John C. Scott died on Friday. He was 80. He spent more than three decades as the host of the John C. Scott Show, which bounced from AM station to AM station and sometimes stretched as long as four hours a day, five days a week.

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Kyleigh Oliver nets 2 goals as Pima women win 3rd straight match tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s soccer team (4-4-1, 3-2-1 in ACCAC) continued their upward trajectory with an ACCAC conference road win on Saturday.

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Ruiz's 1st-half hat trick helps Pima men's soccer cruise past Paradise Valley tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s soccer team (8-1, 5-1 in ACCAC) won a fifth straight game on Saturday as they took control at Paradise Valley Community College (3-6-1, 1-4-1).

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Pima volleyball suffers setback in loss at No. 2 Scottsdale tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College volleyball team (7-9, 3-3 in ACCAC)dropped its ACCAC conference match up at Scottsdale Community College (11-0, 7-0) on Friday.

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Rural Americans may be own their own during Medicaid unwinding tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
72% of people who lost Medicaid coverage since states began the unwinding process this year were disenrolled for procedural reasons - not because officials determined they are no longer eligible - and those procedural disenrollments could disproportionately affect rural people.

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Just Ducky: Confident Arizona soccer squad scores 3 on Oregon tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
In front of a boisterous crowd filling Mulcahy Stadium on Friday night, Arizona’s women’s soccer team opened up their final PAC-12 schedule with a decisive 3-0 win over the visiting Oregon Ducks.

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9th Circuit rejects attempt to stall mining projects near Patagonia tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The 9th Circuit rejected an attempt to block two exploratory mining projects in Southern Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains, ruling against a coalition of environmental groups who sought to hold up federal permits for potential copper mines in the Coronado National Forest.

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Phoenix OKs short-term rental rule; officials warn it’s not a 'magic elixir' tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Phoenix City Council unanimously passed regulations on short-term rentals through a permitting process that would be required of property owners who want to rent out following a Sept. 6 vote that legalized backyard casitas.

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Clarence Thomas secretly participated in Koch network donor events tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Justice Thomas attended at least two donor summits of the Koch network, the political organization founded by libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch, putting him in the position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.

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Parents want answers about how Az's school voucher money is spent tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Parents whose children go to public schools and those whose kids attend private schools through Arizona’s universal school voucher program want more transparency about how the program uses tax money to pay student tuition at private schools.

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Texas border cities scramble to shelter thousands of newly-arrived migrants tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Thousands of migrants have crossed from Mexico to Eagle Pass and El Paso in the past few days, with both cities struggling to find shelter for the new arrivals as immigration officials process and release many of them into the border cities.

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Kari Lake’s attorney claims Az voter signatures are public record in new election trial tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Kari Lake is back in court after several failed attempts to overturn Arizona's 2022 gubernatorial election, fighting for access to voter signatures she says will help prove her claims - but Maricopa County says those signatures aren’t public record.

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Arizona abortion access initiative to begin gathering signatures tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Reproductive rights advocates gathered Thursday to urge Arizonans to support the signature-gathering effort - necessary to land the initiative on the 2024 ballot - for the Arizona Abortion Access Act, which aims to enshrine the procedure as a right in the state Constitution.

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Gov't shutdown inches closer as House GOP fails to pass defense bill, lawmakers exit D.C. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. House Republicans were unable for a third time Thursday to begin debate on the Defense funding bill, with Arizona's Rep. Andy Biggs and Eli Crane joining in blocking debate and voting on the bill, with many lawmakers heading home for the weekend on Thursday instead of sticking around for votes.

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