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Former Az lawmaker Cano tapped for Tucson city lobbying post tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Andrés Cano, a former Tucson-area lawmaker who resigned last year to undertake graduate studies at Harvard, has been named as the city government's director of Federal & State Relations. The position entails obtaining government grants for Tucson — a high-profile post in an election year in which the Biden administration is focused on Arizona.

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Hobbs: Flags to half-staff Thursday to honor Scottsdale Police Detective Ryan So tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has ordered flags at all state buildings to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Thursday, June 20, in remembrance of Scottsdale Police Detective Ryan So, who was killed in the line of duty on June 13.

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Juneteenth holiday: An important moment to contemplate our nation’s past & present tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The brutal enslavement of millions of Africans and people of African descent is far from the nation’s only original sin, and it’s also far from the only example from American history that readily gives rise to that question – “What in the world could they have been thinking?”

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Arizona judge won’t dismiss Cochise County election interference case tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A state judge denied multiple motions to dismiss and remand charges against Cochise County supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd, accused of interfering with an election officer in 2022.

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Feds link Sinaloa cartel to Chinese bankers in money laundering indictment tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday exposed what the government calls a complex conspiracy between the Sinaloa cartel and Chinese underground banking networks to launder more than $50 million in drug proceeds.

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Arizona’s 15-week abortion ban too confusing for doctors, Dem lawmakers say tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling on the state’s attorney general to clarify the exception in Arizona’s 15-week abortion ban, saying that women and doctors need better guidelines when faced with life or death situations.

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Hobbs signs $16.1 billion Arizona state budget tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed into law a $16.1 billion state budget for the upcoming fiscal year on Tuesday, amid threats of a lawsuit from the state attorney general and disapproval from both sides of the political aisle.

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Texas National Guard shooting pepper balls to deter migrants at U.S.-Mx border tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
National Guard members on the Texas-Mexico border have added pepper ball guns to their arsenal, firing at migrants who are gathering on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande or trying to break through the tangle of concertina wire strung along the border.

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Candidates make cases for Pima County's top law jobs tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In a packed room, a full slate of candidates vying for two of the county's top positions — Pima County attorney and Pima County sheriff — answered questions during a forum Monday night.

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Candidates make their case for Pima County's top law enforcement jobs tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In a packed room, a full slate of candidates vying for two of the county's top positions — Pima County attorney and Pima County sheriff — answered questions during a forum Monday night.

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'Anti-documentary trilogy' at MOCA Tucson explores connection between water & colonialism tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Puerto Rican artist Sofía Córdova’s "SIN AGUA" film installation at MOCA Tucson uses research and personal narrative to examine the effects of colonialism on water access in Arizona, while grappling with the catastrophic impact of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico.

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Final defendants arraigned in Arizona's fake Trump elector case tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Two of Donald Trump’s attorneys and a former U.S. Senate candidate for Arizona pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning in connection to the 2020 Arizona fake elector scheme.

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New partnership will boost agricultural education for Indigenous students tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Indigenous students enrolled in schools run by the Bureau of Indian Education will have access to more comprehensive, culturally relevant agricultural training and education as part of a new partnership the BIE established with the Native American Agriculture Fund.

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Biden announces new protections for undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens, DACA recipients tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Joe Biden unveiled Tuesday new protections for undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens and measures to make it easier for immigrants brought illegally as children to qualify for work authorization.

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Americans with HIV are living longer. Federal spending isn’t keeping up. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
More than half of the people living with HIV in the United States are older than 50, and an estimated that 70% of people living with the virus will fall in that age range by 2030 - yet funding constraints and an increasingly dysfunctional Congress leave people aging with HIV vulnerable.

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Judge blocks Iowa immigration law, state AG to appeal tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction for Iowa’s law on illegal immigration that would give law enforcement officials the power to charge undocumented immigrants, blocking it before enforcement was set to begin July 1.

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Swing-state legislatures diverge on election-year gun measures tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Gun policy has been a topic of debate for decades, but has become especially prominent as the number of gun-related deaths and mass shootings has grown almost every year since 2014, with this past week offering reminders of the continuing salience of guns in American life.

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Biden to unveil protections for some undocumented spouses, easier DACA work visas tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Biden administration Tuesday will announce deportation protections for long-term undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens, along with quicker approval of work permits for those in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

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Bill aims to ease teacher shortage at tribal schools by granting federal pensions to educators tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Teachers have been in short supply across Arizona, and nowhere is that felt more than at schools run by Native American tribes, but while a lawmaker from New Mexico has proposed a way to level the playing field, so far it’s gained little traction in Congress.

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Write-in candidates must file with Pima County by Thursday tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The deadline is approaching for qualified candidates to file paperwork to run as write-in candidates in this year's elections. One has signed up to run for an office that would otherwise have had no candidates at all — Pima County constable in JP9.

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