Judge gives OK: Az Gov. Hobbs agrees to nominate new state agency directors https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082924_hobbs_directors/judge-gives-ok-az-gov-hobbs-agrees-nominate-new-state-agency-directors/
A judge signed off on an agreement between Gov. Katie Hobbs and Republican legislative leaders, in which she consented to nominate directors for several state agencies early next year.
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Supreme Court keeps lock on Biden’s student loan repayment plan https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082924_scotus_student_loans/supreme-court-keeps-lock-bidens-student-loan-repayment-plan/
After an extended delay, the Supreme Court kept President Joe Biden’s student loan repayment plan on pause, rejecting a pair of emergency applications to the court.
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Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey gets 5 years in prison for money laundering https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082924_lacey_backpage/backpage-co-founder-michael-lacey-gets-5-years-prison-money-laundering/
Co-founder and former owner of Backpage.com Michael Lacey was sentenced to five years in federal prison Wednesday morning for his role in operating the controversial classified advertising website that hosted thousands of prostitution ads featuring underage girls.
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Mexican man who shattered leg in border-wall fall near Sasabe waits for rescue https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082824_migrant_injured_sasabe/mexican-man-who-shattered-leg-border-wall-fall-near-sasabe-waits-rescue/
U.S. and Mexican officials have yet to take a 60-year-old Mexican man to a hospital after he was seriously injured when he plummeted from the border wall in the remote desert nearly a dozen miles west of Sasabe, Ariz., aid workers said.
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Crawford goes for 34 assists, 2 blocks & 2 aces as Pima volleyball bounces back at Phoenix https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/082824_pcc_volleyball/crawford-goes-34-assists-2-blocks-2-aces-as-pima-volleyball-bounces-back-phoenix/
The Pima Community College volleyball team (2-4, 1-1 in ACCAC) hit the road for the first time in ACCAC conference play on Wednesday at Phoenix College (1-2, 0-2).
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Facing staff shortage, Pima County Public Library checks out closing multiple locations https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082824_library_closures/facing-staff-shortage-pima-county-public-library-checks-out-closing-multiple-locations/
The Pima County Public Library system is experiencing a staffing shortage so great that it is having difficulty meeting the needs of a community that is, with increasing frequency, dealing with homelessness, substance abuse, and mental illness, officials said.
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Engel & Ciscomani going head-to-head in televised debate Thursday https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082824_cd6_debate_pol_cal/engel-ciscomani-going-head-to-head-televised-debate-thursday/
U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani and Democratic challenger Kirsten Engel will meet in a televised debate Thursday night.
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$18.7M in federal funds heading to Pima County to shelter migrants https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082824_border_funding/187m-federal-funds-heading-pima-county-shelter-migrants/
Pima County will receive more than $18.7 million in federal dollars to shelter asylum seekers, part of $47.3 million headed to Arizona, U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego said Wednesday.
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'Long COVID' & his gang of symptoms star in Pima Health comic https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/082824_long_covid_comic/long-covid-his-gang-symptoms-star-pima-health-comic/
Long COVID and his gang of symptoms are the focus of a new Pima County Health Department campaign: a comic book with a main character who'll appear this weekend at Tucson Comic-Con.
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Lizzie Walker nets 2 as Pima women earn shutout win at Chandler-Gilbert https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/082824_pcc_womens_soccer/lizzie-walker-nets-2-as-pima-women-earn-shutout-win-chandler-gilbert/
The Pima Community College women’s soccer team (2-0, 2-0 in ACCAC) scored two goals in each half as they picked up another road win on Tuesday at Chandler-Gilbert Community College (0-2, 0-2).
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Castaneda's hat-trick highlights 5 unanswered goals as Aztec men beat Chandler-Gilbert in soccer https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/082824_pcc_mens_soccer/castanedas-hat-trick-highlights-5-unanswered-goals-as-aztec-men-beat-chandler-gilbert-soccer/
The Pima Community College men’s soccer team (2-0, 2-0 in ACCAC) rallied from a two-goal deficit to pick up another road win on Tuesday at Chandler-Gilbert Community College (0-2, 0-2).
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Billionaire Timothy Mellon has poured $165 million into 2024 elections https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082824_mellon_campaign_donations/billionaire-timothy-mellon-has-poured-165-million-into-2024-elections/
Timothy Mellon, heir to Gilded Age industrialist Andrew Mellon, has continued to pour tens of millions into the campaigns of former President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican congressional candidates in 2024.
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Feds killed plan to curb Medicare Advantage overbilling after industry opposition https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082824_medicare_overbilling/feds-killed-plan-curb-medicare-advantage-overbilling-after-industry-opposition/
A decade ago, federal officials drafted a plan to discourage Medicare Advantage health insurers from overcharging the government by billions of dollars — only to abruptly back off amid an “uproar” from the industry.
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Blue & red states were putting period products in schools — then came the anti-trans backlash https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082824_trans_period_products/blue-red-states-were-putting-period-products-schools-then-came-anti-trans-backlash/
For years, bills that put tampons and pads in school bathrooms were gaining traction across states - but the rise of anti-trans legislation has made a health issue political.
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Harris campaign focuses on Arizona in its push to drive Gen Z voters to the polls https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082824_ua_harris_frost/harris-campaign-focuses-arizona-its-push-drive-gen-z-voters-polls/
The Harris effort to mobilize Generation Z voters on campuses across battleground states is focusing its “Back-to-School” campaign kick-off in Arizona, with U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost — the first Gen Z member of Congress — set to join students Wednesday at the University of Arizona.
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Az Supreme Court lets legislature’s description of ‘open primaries’ measure stand https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082824_open_primary_ballot/az-supreme-court-lets-legislatures-description-open-primaries-measure-stand/
The Arizona Supreme Court sided with Arizona legislators over a trial court judge who concluded their description of a ballot proposition to end partisan primaries was “misleading,” overturning the lower court’s ruling and allowing the language to stand on the November ballot.
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After scathing GAO report, Border Patrol agents ordered to stop tossing out migrants’ belongings https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082824_migrant_belongings/after-scathing-gao-report-border-patrol-agents-ordered-stop-tossing-out-migrants-belongings/
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has directed agents to stop discarding migrants’ personal belongings, after a scathing report detailing how medicine, clothes, cell phones, cash and identity documents have been taken by authorities at holding facilities and never returned.
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Watch Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011722_mlk_dream/watch-martin-luther-king-jrs-i-have-dream-speech/
Video: "I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together."
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Ciscomani lands U.S. Chamber endorsement in Southern Az congressional race https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082724_cd6_endorsements/ciscomani-lands-us-chamber-endorsement-southern-az-congressional-race/
Rounding up the endorsements in the CD 6 race between Republican incumbent Juan Ciscomani and Democrat Kirsten Engel:
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Ciscomani lands U.S. Chamber endorsement in Southern Az congressional race https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082724_cd6_endorsements/ciscomani-lands-us-chamber-endorsement-southern-az-congressional-race/
Rounding up the endorsements in the CD 6 race between Republican incumbent Juan Ciscomani and Democrat Kirsten Engel:
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