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Bail clampdowns don’t match what research says about suspects, experts say tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Politicians on both sides of the debate often connect bail policy to crime rates, but doing so is problematic, because so much of the crime data that states and cities use is unreliable, and misconceptions about crime can leave voters vulnerable to misinformation.

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Arizona business leaders blast proposed ‘anti-immigration’ laws tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Local business owners and activists gathered at the Arizona Capitol building Monday to denounce a proposed immigration-related ballot measure they compare to Arizona’s infamous Senate Bill 1070.

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13 Az presidential primary test ballots mistakenly mailed out in Pima County tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As a result of a testing glitch, 13 Pima County households were mailed ineligible ballots for the upcoming March 9 presidential preference election.

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GOP senators move to ensure 14th Amendment won’t block Trump in Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican state senators passed a bill to ensure Donald Trump isn’t barred from running for president in Arizona for supporting an insurrection and violating the 14th Amendment - though Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has already said that Trump cannot be barred from the state ballot.

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Bombs away: Sahuarita gets info on explosive finds near town tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is just now starting a clean up on something called the Sahuarita Bombing Range, which has been closed for 65 years. TUSD is figuring out life after federal COVID money, plus more from government meetings around Tucson this week.

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Arizona Attorney General joins FTC lawsuit to halt Kroger-Albertsons merger tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, the Federal Trade Commission and a bipartisan coalition of states announced the filing of a lawsuit challenging the proposed merger of Kroger and Albertsons.

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Migrantes huyen de la violencia y piden asilo en EE.UU. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Una familia que huyó de la violencia en México se sumó a las más de 1.3 millones de personas que solicitaron asilo en Estados Unidos a través de la solicitud CBP One.

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Why reparations are always about more than money tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Past atrocities do not end when the physical violence comes to an end. It continues to affect the social, cultural and economic lives of those targeted far into the future - making societies sometimes turn to a set of tools, used to respond to past mass violence, we refer to as reparations.

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Az 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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Facing future of shortages, Colorado River users dream of making more water tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As more people depend on the Colorado River, less and less flows downstream each year, and as cities are increasingly having to ask how they’re going to deliver enough water to fulfill everyone’s needs, some have started dreaming of a future where the West generates water.

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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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