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Taking the fork: Local governments struggle with uncertainty in a time of budgeting https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/041825_budget_woes_op/taking-fork-local-governments-struggle-with-uncertainty-time-budgeting/
The city of Tucson and Pima County are quite simply, screwed by lacking clairvoyance about the economy. Will 2026 be a horror show or Golden Age? So far, local officials appear more than happy to consider the upside. The downside is right next to it and can't be ignored.
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Both sides claim victory as Arizona fetal personhood lawsuit dismissed https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041825_personhood_suit/both-sides-claim-victory-as-arizona-fetal-personhood-lawsuit-dismissed/
A legal challenge against an Arizona law that gives fetuses rights has been dropped, putting the law back on the books despite an overwhelming majority of voters who agreed last year to make abortion a constitutional right in the Grand Canyon State.
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Arizona ‘fake electors’ claim prejudice in grand jury proceeding https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041825_az_fake_electors/arizona-fake-electors-claim-prejudice-grand-jury-proceeding/
Arizona Republicans who falsely claimed to be Arizona’s certified presidential electors in 2020 say their “fake elector” moniker prejudiced the grand jury and requires a remand.
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Trump Is spending billions on border security. Some residents living there lack basic resources. https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/041825_border_spending/trump-spending-billions-border-security-some-residents-living-there-lack-basic-resources/
Although billions of dollars flow into the majority-Latino communities along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, many remain among the poorest places in the nation, a disparity between the size of governments’ investment there and how little it’s reflected in the quality of life.
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Lawmakers fear AI data centers will drive up residents’ power bills https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/041825_ai_power_bills/lawmakers-fear-ai-data-centers-will-drive-up-residents-power-bills/
Proposals in state legislatures seek to ensure that data centers don’t result in increased rates for other electric customers, but those goals are also under attack from President Donald Trump, with policies to block enforcement of all state climate policies and boost coal production.
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Why Easter is called Easter & other little-known facts about the holiday https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/041825_easter_history_op/why-easter-called-easter-other-little-known-facts-holiday/
Easter is quite similar to other major holidays like Christmas and Halloween, which have evolved over the last 200 years or so. In all of these holidays, Christian and non-Christian (pagan) elements have continued to blend together.
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Hobbs vows to veto all bills until disability funding crisis resolved https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041725_hobbs_vetoes/hobbs-vows-veto-all-bills-until-disability-funding-crisis-resolved/
Arizona’s Democratic governor has promised to veto every piece of legislation that Republicans send to her until the legislature passes a “reasonable, negotiated” funding bill to prevent the state’s Division of Developmental Disabilities from going broke next month.
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Az militia founder wrongly identified as ICE agent in viral window-smashing video https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041725_lewis_arthur_ice/az-militia-founder-wrongly-identified-as-ice-agent-viral-window-smashing-video/
Social media posts falsely claimed a man with connections to Arizona and far-right militias — Michael "Lewis Arthur" Meyer — was the ICE agent who smashed a car's window with an axe to apprehend a Guatemalan immigrant. But that man has not been hired by ICE and is currently in Oklahoma spreading conspiracy theories there.
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