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Amid deportation arrests, County Attorney says Pima officials should request papers from feds seeking access tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As the Trump administration makes a show of force against migrants, Pima County officials should ask for a copy of any warrants and identification from federal agents seeking access to county facilities and employees, County Attorney Laura Conover advised this week.

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Pima County residents have until end of January to weigh in on draft RTA Next plan tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County residents have until Jan. 31 to weigh in on the 20-year transportation plan that the Regional Transportation Authority hopes to ask voters to approve in November.

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Hobbs names Maria Elena Cruz, 1st Latina & Black justice, to Az Supreme Court tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Gov. Katie Hobbs named Judge Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona Supreme Court, making her the first Latina and first Black high court justice in state history.

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Hobbs names Maria Elena Cruz, 1st Latina justice, to Arizona Supreme Court tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Gov. Katie Hobbs named Judge Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona Supreme Court, making her the first Latina and first Black high court justice in state history.

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‘Shortchanging our community’: Navajo people are left in the dark about uranium transport tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Safety lessons about uranium taught to native youth feel a bit contradictory now, since uranium ore is being allowed to be transported through their community from Pinyon Plain Mine, even though it has been proven how harmful uranium has been to the Navajo people and their land.

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Az license plate bill—once noncontroversial—faces uphill battles tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Like beer? Rock ’n’ roll? Neutering your pet? There’s an Arizona license plate for that. But backing LGBTQ+ students with college scholarships? This seems to be a bridge too far for some Republicans to cross.

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Arizona House takes step to defend Colorado River water tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An Arizona House committee advanced a bill to allocate $1 million to defending the Grand Canyon State’s Colorado River water rights and approved allowing for the removal of an active groundwater management area.

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Clinics accuse Arizona of race discrimination in response to rehab center Medicaid scandal tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Two dozen behavioral health care facilities, providers and clinicians sued Arizona and the state’s Medicaid agency, claiming racial discrimination and negligence in the agency’s handling of the state’s sober living scandal.

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Kristi Noem labels immigrants as ‘dirt bags,’ pledges support to Homeland Security staff tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem promised staff to provide resources and support as the agency fulfills its duties, after earlier in the day saying she was in NYC accompanying U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “to get the dirt bags off our streets.”

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Chemtrail believers sway Az GOP lawmakers to support geoengineering ban tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Conspiracy theorists came out in force to support an Arizona Republican bill that aims to ban “geoengineering,” citing the long debunked “chemtrails” conspiracy theory as evidence that nefarious actors are already turning Arizona’s skies into a laboratory.

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Az Republican lawmakers ignore legal warnings to push forward with restrictions on trans people, flags tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican lawmakers are aiming to erase trans Arizonans from public life and ban government agencies from displaying LGBTQ pride flags, ignoring warnings from legislative attorneys that doing so could potentially violate the U.S. Constitution.

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Extension of temporary protections for Venezuelan immigrants revoked by Trump administration tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security revoked an extension of temporary protective status for nearly 600,000 Venezuelans, a decision that comes as President Trump has directed his administration to carry out highly publicized immigration enforcement actions.

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Former Wisconsin poet laureate, a member of the White Earth Nation, to give Tom Sanders Memorial Reading tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Kimberly Blaeser, an Ojibwe writer and photographer, will give a poetry reading at the University of Arizona this week. The former Wisconsin poet laureate's latest book, "Ancient Light," was published by the UA Press.

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Trump directs federal government to restrict access to gender-affirming care for youth tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Hospitals, clinics and medical schools that provide gender-affirming care to transgender youth are at risk of losing federal funding if they continue providing that care, according to a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump.

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The State Dep't is blocking new passports for trans Americans tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The State Department is no longer issuing U.S. passports with “X” gender markers and has suspended processing all applications from Americans seeking to update their passports with a new gender marker - a decision that affects all transgender and nonbinary Americans.

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Tucson police & schools lay out course as Trump jettisons 'sensitive' locations policy tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Schools in Tucson, along with the Catholic Diocese and city officials moved to reassure parents and the community after the Trump administration again cleared the way for immigration officials to enter schools, churches and other sensitive locations.

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Az Democrats blast Trump's freeze on federal spending; Ciscomani quiet tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s two Democratic senators slammed the Trump administration’s freeze on funding for all federal grant, loan and financial assistance programs. Meanwhile, local officials said they were still determining how the halt would affect city and county government as well as school districts.

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Judge temporarily blocks Trump freeze on broad swath of federal payments tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal district judge ruled the Trump administration must wait until at least next week before it can move forward with pausing federal spending on trillions in grants and loans, though she emphasized the short-term administrative stay might not continue after a Feb. 3 hearing.

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Arizona will join a lawsuit to block Trump’s federal spending freeze tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona is joining with other states to sue President Donald Trump over his sweeping federal grant freeze that is set to go into effect Tuesday evening, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

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He won a landmark Supreme Court birthright citizenship case. El Paso tried to deport Wong Kim Ark anyway tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Wong Kim Ark has the unique distinction as perhaps the only person with a Supreme Court ruling declaring him, by name, a citizen of the United States — but that didn’t prevent an immigration official from arresting him and beginning deportation proceedings.

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