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Pima Dems stumble in search for challenger to Az Sen. Justine Wadsack https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020724_ld17_wadsack/pima-dems-stumble-search-challenger-az-sen-justine-wadsack/
Arizona Democrats see Tucson’s LD17 as a potential swing district as they seek to flip the Arizona Senate. But the party has yet to find a candidate to run against state Sen. Justine Wadsack, a controversial lawmaker they see as vulnerable in the November election.
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Az Republicans, Hobbs on a collision course over how to fix election recount law https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020724_election_recount_law/az-republicans-hobbs-collision-course-over-how-fix-election-recount-law/
Az GOP lawmakers are gearing up for a showdown with Gov. Hobbs over creating a fix for an impending election timeline issue created by Republican changes to the state’s recount law which could lead to overseas and military voters becoming disenfranchised.
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Game on: Arizona high school esports embraces changes, challenges entering 5th season https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020724_esports_growth/game-on-arizona-high-school-esports-embraces-changes-challenges-entering-5th-season/
A sport once thought to be nothing more than a hobby is growing rapidly throughout Arizona, and the state’s high school esports teams are preparing to begin their fifth season of competition.
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U.S. needs homes, but lacks workers to build them https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020724_housing_workers/us-needs-homes-but-lacks-workers-build-them/
The United States needs an estimated 7 million more homes to house everyone who needs shelter, but to build all those homes, experts say, America would need many more construction workers.
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The U.S. needs homes, but lacks the workers to build them https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020724_housing_workers/the-us-needs-homes-but-lacks-workers-build-them/
The United States needs an estimated 7 million more homes to house everyone who needs shelter, but to build all those homes, experts say, America would need many more construction workers.
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The U.S. needs homes. But first, it needs the workers to build them. https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020724_housing_workers/the-us-needs-homes-but-first-it-needs-workers-build-them/
The United States needs an estimated 7 million more homes to house everyone who needs shelter, but to build all those homes, experts say, America would need many more construction workers.
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Az GOP bill would strike ‘gender’ from state law, limit sex to male, female https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020724_gop_gender/az-gop-bill-would-strike-gender-from-state-law-limit-sex-male-female/
GOP senators want to rewrite Arizona law to define sex as only male and female and not “a person’s subjective sense of self,” a move they said will protect women and girls from “unwanted intrusions” by transgender women.
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GOP rout sinks Mayorkas impeachment vote in House https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020724_mayorkas_impeachment/gop-rout-sinks-mayorkas-impeachment-vote-house/
House Republicans' effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was dead in the water as the lower chamber voted against a resolution aimed at removing the Biden administration official from his post.
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Bleak future for immigration action after U.S. Senate GOP abandons border security deal https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020724_senate_immigration/bleak-future-immigration-action-after-us-senate-gop-abandons-border-security-deal/
U.S. Senate Republicans walked away from the bipartisan border security and immigration deal clinched after months of painstaking negotiations, siding with their House colleagues and presidential front-runner Donald Trump.
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Century Room celebrates 2 years of Tucson jazz club https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/020624_century_room/century-room-celebrates-2-years-tucson-jazz-club/
The Century Room, the stage dedicated to live jazz at Hotel Congress, is turning two years old and a party Friday night will celebrate that anniversary.
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Grijlalva & Ciscomani pledge to vote against Senate border bill https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020624_immigration_overhaul_reax/grijlalva-ciscomani-pledge-vote-against-senate-border-bill/
U.S. Reps. Raúl Grijalva and Juan Ciscomani both said they would vote against the Senate's border bill, but for different reasons — underscoring the hard road ahead for the first major overall the U.S. immigration system in 40 years.
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Century Room celebrates 2 years of Tucson jazz club https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/013124_century_room_2nd_anniversary/century-room-celebrates-2-years-tucson-jazz-club/
The Century Room, the stage dedicated to live jazz at Hotel Congress, is turning two years old and a party Friday night will celebrate that anniversary.
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Pima's Waugh averages 24 pts to earn 5th selection as ACCAC Division II Player of the Week https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/020624_pcc_womens_basketball/pimas-waugh-averages-24-pts-earn-5th-selection-as-accac-division-ii-player-week/
Pima Community College women’s basketball player Rylei Waugh produced another stellar week on the court and was recognized by the ACCAC conference.
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Republicans are still trying to protect Az attorneys behind bogus election lawsuits from punishment https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020624_election_lawsuits/republicans-are-still-trying-protect-az-attorneys-behind-bogus-election-lawsuits-from-punishment/
Senate Republicans are again attempting to take power away from the State Bar of Arizona and the state Supreme Court, the entities that have disciplined several attorneys over the past few years for taking on baseless election fraud cases.
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D.C. Circuit denies Trump’s claim of presidential immunity in election subversion case https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020624_trump_immunity_denied/dc-circuit-denies-trumps-claim-presidential-immunity-election-subversion-case/
A D.C. Circuit panel rejected Donald Trump’s theory that his time in the White House grants him immunity from criminal prosecution in a unanimous ruling on Tuesday.
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Republicans are still trying to protect attorneys behind bogus election lawsuits from punishment https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020624_election_lawsuits/republicans-are-still-trying-protect-attorneys-behind-bogus-election-lawsuits-from-punishment/
Senate Republicans are again attempting to take power away from the State Bar of Arizona and the state Supreme Court, the entities that have disciplined several attorneys over the past few years for taking on baseless election fraud cases.
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Private equity’s growing footprint in home health care draws scrutiny https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020624_home_health_equity/private-equitys-growing-footprint-home-health-care-draws-scrutiny/
Many private equity firms have turned their sights to the lucrative and less regulated home health care industry, and state and federal laws that were spurred by private equity’s involvement in hospital systems and other health care sectors also could work for home health agencies.
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Native American communities have highest suicide rates, yet interventions scarce https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020624_native_suicide/native-american-communities-have-highest-suicide-rates-yet-interventions-scarce/
Non-Hispanic Indigenous people in the United States die by suicide at higher rates than any other racial or ethnic group, and despite decades of research into suicide prevention, suicide rates among Indigenous people have remained stubbornly high.
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9th Circuit considers reviving Az law regulating defense attorneys’ access to victims https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020624_victim_access/9th-circuit-considers-reviving-az-law-regulating-defense-attorneys-access-victims/
The state of Arizona defended before a Ninth Circuit panel a law, overturned in 2022, that prohibits criminal defense attorneys from contacting victims without going through the prosecutor’s office.
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Should drunk drivers who kill someone be forced to pay child support for orphaned kids? https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020624_drunk_driving_support/should-drunk-drivers-who-kill-someone-forced-pay-child-support-orphaned-kids/
Arizona has joined dozens of other states in considering a bill that requires drunk drivers to pay child support for children left orphaned in accidents caused by their impaired driving, but lawmakers wondered whether it would ultimately hurt an orphaned child more than it would help.
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