Tucson Sentinel

Tucson Mayor Regina Romero tapped for Rodel fellowship https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/111822_tucson_romero_rodel/tucson-mayor-regina-romero-tapped-rodel-fellowship/
Tucson Mayor Regina Romero has selected as a 2023 Rodel fellow, and will join other local and state-level elected officials of both parties from around the U.S. at a series of seminars to talk about ethics, leadership and democracy over the next two years.
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Tucson Mayor Regina Romero tapped for Rodel fellowship https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/111822_tucson_romero_rodel/tucson-mayor-regina-romero-tapped-rodel-fellowship/
Tucson Mayor Regina Romero has selected as a 2023 Rodel fellow, and will join other local and state-level elected officials of both parties from around the U.S. at a series of seminars to talk about ethics, leadership and democracy over the next two years.
#Tucson #Arizona

Tucson Mayor Regina Romero tapped for Rodel fellowship https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/111822_tucson_romero_rodel/tucson-mayor-regina-romero-tapped-rodel-fellowship/
Tucson Mayor Regina Romero has selected as a 2023 Rodel fellow, and will join other local and state-level elected officials of both parties from around the U.S. at a series of seminars to talk about ethics, leadership and democracy over the next two years.
#Tucson #Arizona

Tucson Mayor Regina Romero tapped for Rodel fellowship https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/111822_tucson_romero_rodel/tucson-mayor-regina-romero-tapped-rodel-fellowship/
Tucson Mayor Regina Romero has selected as a 2023 Rodel fellow, and will join other local and state-level elected officials of both parties from around the U.S. at a series of seminars to talk about ethics, leadership and democracy over the next two years.
#Tucson #Arizona

Trump breaches court order by tying FEMA relief to states' compliance with ICE https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/101425_fema_immigration/trump-breaches-court-order-by-tying-fema-relief-states-compliance-with-ice/
The Trump administration is continuing to make federal emergency relief contingent on states’ compliance with immigration enforcement, despite a court order barring that very action.
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Mayor Romero, Tucson officials unveil new 'Safe City' program https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/101425_safe_city_initiative/mayor-romero-tucson-officials-unveil-new-safe-city-program/
Mayor Regina Romero and a group of city officials discussed how they are responding to increased public "frustration" about public drug use, crime and homelessness on Monday.
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STAR Village opening in Tucson, begins sheltering up to 25 people this week https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/101425_star_village/star-village-opening-tucson-begins-sheltering-up-25-people-this-week/
Tucson officials and two nonprofits plan to open a city-sanctioned homeless encampment Wednesday morning.
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New LDS President Dallin Oaks inherits global faith far more diverse than many realize https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/101425_lds_president_op/new-lds-president-dallin-oaks-inherits-global-faith-far-more-diverse-than-many-realize/
Oaks will inherit leadership of a religious institution that is both deeply American and increasingly global – diversity at odds with the way it’s typically represented in mainstream media, from “The Secret Life of Mormon Wives” to “The Book of Mormon” musical.
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Judge slams ‘misleading’ Hegseth over slashes to defense research grants https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/101425_defense_research_cuts/judge-slams-misleading-hegseth-over-slashes-defense-research-grants/
The Department of Defense breached federal procedure when it decided to cut research grant reimbursements without so much as “a nod” to Congress, according to a federal court.
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Can states, and a little bit of faith, convert church land into affordable housing? https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/101425_church_housing/can-states-and-little-bit-faith-convert-church-land-into-affordable-housing/
If Arizona and other states are to meet the nation’s demand for new apartments, developers are going to need land, and parcels owned by faith-based organizations are starting to become a part of the solution for some states.
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FactCheck: Q&A on the 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccines https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/101425_factcheck_covid_vax/factcheck-qa-2025-2026-covid-19-vaccines/
Amid growing doubts about the vaccine guidance coming from the CDC, states and expert organizations have issued their own updated COVID-19 vaccine recommendations — some that are different from the agency’s for the first time in decades.
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The U.S.-Mexico border wall may pose perils to pollinators https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/101425_border_pollinators/the-us-mexico-border-wall-may-pose-perils-pollinators/
Early research has shown the federally-funded border wall-in-progress at the U.S.-Mexico border can stop or deter the migration of pivotal pollinators through habitat destruction and the walls themselves.
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Frida Kahlo-inspired exhibit opens at Tucson Botanical Gardens https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/101425_fridas_garden/frida-kahlo-inspired-exhibit-opens-tucson-botanical-gardens/
She's easy to recognize with her "unibrow" and flower crown, and she's at the center of the Tucson Botanical Gardens. Frida's Garden, an exhibition inspired by renowned painter Frida Kahlo, has opened here.
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High-ranking Pima Sheriff's Dep't chief resigns after pay probe https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/101425_buddy_janes_pcsd/high-ranking-pima-sheriffs-dept-chief-resigns-after-pay-probe/
Harold "Buddy" Janes, the operations bureau chief for the Pima County Sheriff's Department, resigned Saturday following an investigation into his use of comp time, Sheriff Chris Nanos said.
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Arizona certifies CD7 election but Grijalva still blocked from taking office https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/101425_grijalva_congress/arizona-certifies-cd7-election-but-grijalva-still-blocked-from-taking-office/
Arizona on Tuesday certified the Sept. 23 congressional election that Democrat Adelita Grijalva won with 69 percent of the vote, but House Speaker Mike Johnson has still not scheduled a date for her to take office.
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Nutrition program for women, infants & children to stay afloat through end of month https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/101425_nutrition_funding/nutrition-program-women-infants-children-stay-afloat-through-end-month/
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is infusing $300 million into a key federal nutrition program to keep it running through October, while a government shutdown continues without an apparent end point.
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Judge dismisses legal challenge to Az's Secure the Border Act https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/101425_secure_border_challenge/judge-dismisses-legal-challenge-azs-secure-border-act/
A lawsuit aimed at blocking a 2024 law that could someday give Arizona police officers the power to arrest migrants was thrown out, who ruled that it was filed prematurely because the law hasn’t yet been fully enforced and it might never be.
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Indigenous Peoples Day transcends borders in Southern Arizona https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/101325_indigenous_peoples_day/indigenous-peoples-day-transcends-borders-southern-arizona/
Indigenous people throughout Southern Arizona acknowledged the day as a reminder that their cultures persist.
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Trump, U.S. leaders celebrate end of hostilities in Gaza https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/101325_gaza_hostilities/trump-us-leaders-celebrate-end-hostilities-gaza/
After just over two years in Hamas captivity, the surviving Israeli hostages were released Monday as President Donald Trump visited Israel and Egypt to celebrate a U.S.-brokered peace deal to end the war in Gaza.
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Tucsonans with misdemeanor warrants can get straight with the law Friday https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/100925_warrant_quash/tucsonans-with-misdemeanor-warrants-can-get-straight-with-law-friday/
If you have a misdemeanor warrant issued by Tucson City Court, or think you may have one, you can start to get your legal troubles cleaned up by taking part in the city's "warrant quash" event on Friday, Oct. 17.
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Loft Cinema, Folklife Alliance, TSO & other Tucson arts groups have NEA grants yanked by Trump admin https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/050725_nea_cuts/loft-cinema-folklife-alliance-tso-other-tucson-arts-groups-have-nea-grants-yanked-by-trump-admin/
Tucson’s Loft Cinema is among dozens of organizations nationwide to lose federal grant money from the National Endowment for the Arts in the past week after the Trump administration set its sights on gutting the agency.
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Conservative groups sue to block Arizona voter-approved ‘dark money’ law https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/122122_dark_money_lawsuit/conservative-groups-sue-block-arizona-voter-approved-dark-money-law/
Two Arizona conservative groups are suing to block Proposition 211, dubbed the ‘Voters Right to Know Act” which targets dark money in elections, arguing that it violates the constitutional right to freedom of speech.
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