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Stat shaming: Amphi school board looks at audit designed to make it look bad, CFUSD extends contracts tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
A low percentage of funding going directly to Amphi school classrooms is as much a function of the denominator as numerator — and if that doesn't make sense, maybe poorly funded Arizona public schools are to blame.

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Wildcat soccer draws against Lumberjacks in 1st spring contest tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
A promising early goal by Sami Baytosh gave Arizona soccer an early lead against Northern Arizona University in a spring season contest at Phoenix’s Reach 11 soccer complex on Saturday afternoon. A late NAU goal meant that the Wildcats had to settle for a tie, however.

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Arizona national parks & forests already feeling strain from federal worker firings tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona national parks and forests are already feeling a strain on resources after President Donald Trump’s executive order for a federal hiring freeze and extensive firings.

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Senior has 4 RBIs, Roberts throws gem as Pima baseball sweeps Mesa tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College baseball team (22-6, 10-6 in ACCAC) got back on track in ACCAC conference play on Saturday with a road sweep at Mesa Community College (17-10, 8-8).

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Why sizzling cities are mapping hot spots street by street tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Locating the hottest parts of cities with precision is critical for guiding efforts to contend with heat’s dangerous effects - especially important when heat risk overlaps with poverty, where communities may have less access to air conditioning and fewer ways to stay cool.

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What do firings of DOD & VA inspectors general mean for military whistleblowers? tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Trump raised alarm with his unprecedented sacking of more than a dozen heads of inspector general offices during his first week back in the White House, and some advocates for greater independence and accountability are asking: Could IG reform really come?

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Public lands: The places that hold our nation’s stories are not for sale tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Interior Secretary Douglas Burgum’s plans to “unleash” industrial exploitation of public lands seeks to gut public land stewardship principles enshrined in law and in the time-honored American tradition of bipartisan conservation.

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Arizona court: Saying ‘no snitching’ is felony witness intimidation tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Snitches may get stitches, but telling that to an accomplice or witness to a crime is a felony in Arizona, an appellate court ruled.

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States - including Arizona - slam White House over ‘slap in the face’ mass federal layoffs tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A coalition of 20 Democratic attorneys general - including Az Attorney General Kris Mayes - are suing the Trump admin over “unlawful” mass terminations of probationary employees in the federal government, a directive the coalition says was carried out without required legal notice.

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$28M more funding for Pima IDA's downpayment help for 1st-time homebuyers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County has added another $28 million in funding for first-time homebuyers through its Lighthouse program, the county announced Friday.

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‘Say her name’: Hundreds gather to honor Native teen Emily Pike, demanding justice for her death tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Signs reading “Justice for Emily Pike” and “No More Stolen Sisters” stood out among the hundreds of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people gathered at Encounter AZ church in Mesa for a candlelight vigil for San Carlos Apache teen Emily Pike, who was murdered in February.

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‘Say her name’: Hundreds gather to honor Native teen Emily Pike, demanding justice for her death tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Signs reading “Justice for Emily Pike” and “No More Stolen Sisters” stood out among the hundreds of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people gathered at Encounter AZ church in Mesa for a candlelight vigil for San Carlos Apache teen Emily Pike, who was murdered in February.

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Arizona appeals court ruling puts instructions for this year’s elections in doubt tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Az Secretary of State Adrian Fontes violated state law by giving the public only 15 days to comment on a draft of his elections rulebook, casting some doubt on which set of instructions will apply to this year’s all-mail local elections, one of which is currently taking place in Pima County.

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‘Donald J. Trump Highway’ proposal fails in Arizona Senate by a single vote tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s Senate Republicans couldn’t find the votes they needed to recommend that State Route 260, which runs through rural areas between Cottonwood and Show Low, be renamed “Donald J. Trump Highway.”

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Federal office working to end surprise medical bills just got slashed tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Trump signed legislation in 2020 to protect Americans from surprise medical bills - but the president’s wide-ranging push to slash government spending, led by billionaire Elon Musk, is weakening the federal office charged with implementing the No Surprises Act.

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Millions of people, including 600K in Az, could lose Medicaid coverage under anticipated GOP cuts tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A report by Democrats details how many people in each state would lose access to Medicaid if Republicans in Congress were to cut the program by one-third — a scenario some GOP lawmakers have floated as an option to help pay for tax cuts.

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Trump wants to kill CHIPS Act, saying tariff threat prompted TSMC’s new $100B bet tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Touting the $100 billion expansion TSMC announced, President Donald Trump boasted that he’d lured the chipmaker not with subsidies but with a threat of tariffs on imported semiconductors - though the next evening, Trump told Congress he wants the CHIPS Act overturned.

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Trump, again, walks back tariffs in trade war with Canada & Mexico tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to delay for a month broad tariffs he levied on Canada and Mexico earlier in the week, amid stock prices tumbling on Wall Street and heightened fears of an economic fallout.

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Trump: ‘Good people’ shouldn’t lose federal jobs, but Musk is doing an ‘amazing job’ with mass firings tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
With thousands of federal workers already laid off, President Donald Trump said that he wants his Cabinet members to “keep good people” and does not want to “see a big cut where a lot of good people are cut” - but thinks Musk and the DOGE service have done “an amazing job.”

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Senate Republicans push changes that could limit Az voting centers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s Republican legislators are taking another crack at voting law changes, after the Democratic governor vetoed their recent attempt to make the state’s elections more like Florida’s.

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