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Arizona bill aims to reclaim social equity licenses from investors, corporate marijuana dispensaries tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona lawmakers are pushing to return social equity licenses for marijuana dispensaries to their original owners, alleging private investors and cannabis corporations used predatory tactics to seize control of nearly all the lucrative licenses.

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Court filings reveal secret grand jury interviews that led to indictments of Cochise County supervisors tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An Arizona grand jury alleged that Cochise County Supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd engaged in a conspiracy and interference after the midterm election when attempting to expand the hand-count audit of ballots and refusing to certify the county’s results.

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GOP backs voting by mail, yet turns to courts to restrict it in battleground states tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
National Republicans are working to convince voters to take advantage of mail and early voting this year, but the party is fighting in courtrooms and legal filings in key election battlegrounds across the country - including Arizona - to make it harder to cast a mail ballot and have it counted.

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Republican bill would let Az ranchers shoot & kill border-crossers on their property tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Republicans want to make changes to the state’s existing “Castle Doctrine” law that would let ranchers in southern Arizona legally shoot and kill undocumented immigrants who cross their land.

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Historic horse racing machines would violate Arizona’s tribal gaming compact, AG says tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s gaming compact with Native American tribes doesn’t allow for the use of so-called historic horse racing devices, and although amendments made to the gaming compact in 2021 create additional exceptions, none of those changes permit historic horse racing machines.

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Party line votes define Az election law proposals, with vetoes looming tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republicans lawmakers last week approved a bevy of bills that would make sweeping changes to Arizona elections, but all are likely to die at the hands of Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who holds the power of veto and showed last year that she was not afraid to use it.

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Trump defeats Haley in South Carolina primary tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Donald Trump won the South Carolina Republican primary, soundly defeating Nikki Haley in her home state as more than 200,000 votes were cast in early voting and state GOP officials anticipated record turnout.

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Two years later, Arizona lawmakers remain divided on Ukraine support tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, members of Arizona’s congressional delegation remain just as divided as ever on what role the U.S. should play in the war as it enters its third year.

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Cunningham: Griffin's water-audit bill would be wasteful duplication tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
To mandate that a municipal water company pay a private entity to do work again that is already being paid for by ratepayers is exactly the sort of wasteful spending that, presumably, the people that pushed HB 2030 claim they are against.

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Flags to half-staff Monday for internment of Marine sergeant killed in chopper crash tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered flags at all Arizona state buildings be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on on Monday, Feb. 26, for the interment of U.S. Marine Sergeant Alec Langen, one of the casualties of a helicopter crash during a training flight in California.

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Tucson Mayor Romero joins Biden administration officials to tout local impact of federal dollars tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As the incumbent president builds up his reelection campaign, the Biden administration is sending in reinforcements to fortify the local war on buffelgrass.

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Looking for an exit: Tucson jamming RTA over claimed $600 million 'shortfall' tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
I can see both sides' point as a political logjam threatens $2 billion worth of investment in the Tucson area's transportation system. There are off-ramps a-plenty if either side is willing to lay off the horn and take the exit.

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Mexico's lawsuit vs. Arizona gun dealers faces challenge during hearing in Tucson tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Following a two-hour hearing Thursday, a federal judge in Tucson will consider whether a lawsuit launched by the Mexican government against five Arizona gun dealers will move forward.

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Az GOP measure would harshly punish businesses for hiring undocumented workers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona voters might get the chance to decide whether to expand the use of E-Verify to keep undocumented immigrants out of the construction industry and away from public assistance programs, under a Republican-backed proposal approved in the state House.

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Arizona Republicans vote to ban guaranteed basic income programs tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Republican-led measure that would prohibit the state from enacting any guaranteed basic income programs received unanimous approval from Arizona House Republicans.

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Az bill to spur ‘starter home’ construction passes amid concerns it strips too much control from cities tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A measure that would bar cities and towns from forcing a homeowner into an HOA and prohibit any city larger than 70,000 people from regulating the size of lots for single-family homes passed out of the Arizona House of Representatives with bipartisan backing.

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Early ballots mailed out in Arizona's presidential preference election tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Voters signed up on the early voting list were sent ballots in Arizona's presidential preference election this week. The March 19 contest, which determines delegates sent to the Democratic and Republican national conventions to pick presidential candidates, is open to only registered members of those parties.

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How Dartmouth College’s unionization case could impact athletes at University of Arizona, ASU tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The recent vote that could make Dartmouth men’s basketball the first unionized collegiate sports program in the country could potentially impact athletes across the country, including those in Arizona.

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Arizona in critical need of blood donations for sickle cell disease patients tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona currently has a one- to two-day supply of donated blood, barely half of the standard supply, a critical shortage for Arizonans who need frequent blood transfusions because they have sickle cell disease.

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Cash-strapped University of Arizona says climate action can wait tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The University of Arizona this week delayed implementation of its climate action plan citing a $177 million budget deficit, and despite rising revenues, it is now unclear when or if those proposals will be put into action.

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