‘The restrictions are unbelievable’: GOP states target voter registration drives https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052624_voter_registration_hurdles/the-restrictions-are-unbelievable-gop-states-target-voter-registration-drives/
Since the 2020 election, at least six states have passed legislation cracking down on voter registration drives, and many groups view the laws - enacted by Republicans in Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Montana and Tennessee - as a threat to their work.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 13:10:51 JST Tucson Sentinel 4 ways vaccine skeptics mislead you on measles & more https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052524_vaccine_skeptics/4-ways-vaccine-skeptics-mislead-you-measles-more/
A growing number of parents are deciding not to get their children vaccinated against measles, as well as diseases like polio and pertussis, due to a flood of misinformation - rhetoric that erodes confidence in the science backing routine childhood vaccines.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 07:26:31 JST Tucson Sentinel Az Republicans take aim at the ‘convenience’ of voting with sweeping election reform ballot measure https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/051724_gop_voting_reform/az-republicans-take-aim-convenience-voting-with-sweeping-election-reform-ballot-measure/
Republicans in the Arizona Senate are looking to put a sweeping election reform resolution to voters this fall, and they’re not shy about the fact that it is designed to make it harder for Arizonans to vote.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 04:28:42 JST Tucson Sentinel ‘Time is running out’: Navajo Nation urges Congress to act on radiation compensation bill https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/051624_navajo_reca/time-running-out-navajo-nation-urges-congress-act-radiation-compensation-bill/
Members of the Navajo Nation are urging Congress to act on RECA expansion bill - set to expire in less than a month - that compensates individuals who become ill because of exposure to radiation from the United States’ development and testing of nuclear weapons.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 01:21:16 JST Tucson Sentinel Photos: Police dash University of Arizona protest over Gaza with gas, pepper balls, rubber bullets https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/051024_ua_gaza_protest/photos-police-dash-university-arizona-protest-over-gaza-with-gas-pepper-balls-rubber-bullets/
For the second time in two weeks, protesters took over a small corner of the olive grove on the University of Arizona campus and refused to leave until police used rubber bullets, pepper balls and gas to force them out.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 05:55:55 JST Tucson Sentinel Anthony Kern can no longer use broadcast facilities after using them to join a pro-Hitler talk show https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/050724_kern_broadcast/anthony-kern-can-no-longer-use-broadcast-facilities-after-using-them-join-pro-hitler-talk-show/
Arizona state Sen. Anthony Kern is no longer allowed to access legislative broadcast equipment after he used the Senate’s broadcast studio to appear on a far-right talk show last week with a host who has declared Adolf Hitler a “hero.”
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 04:15:17 JST Tucson Sentinel Businesses struggle to adjust as FTC rule bans noncompete agreements https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/050724_ftc_noncompete/businesses-struggle-adjust-as-ftc-rule-bans-noncompete-agreements/
The Federal Trade Commission’s decision to invalidate virtually all employee noncompete agreements will mean big changes in the workplace as businesses seek new ways to protect themselves against employees taking valuable information when they leave to join a rival.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:53:34 JST Tucson Sentinel Work on new 'beginner' trail to Tanque Verde Falls restricts parking through June 15 https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/043024_tanque_verde_falls/work-new-beginner-trail-tanque-verde-falls-restricts-parking-through-june-15/
Some parking areas on the north side of Redington Road will be closed through mid-June as the Forest Service constructs three new lots, and builds a "beginner-friendly" trail with a view of the scenic waterfall in Tanque Verde Canyon.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 05:57:41 JST Tucson Sentinel One of Eli Crane’s fundraising consultants was busted for a meth lab in 2016 https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/042524_crane_meth_consultant/one-eli-cranes-fundraising-consultants-was-busted-meth-lab-2016/
Arizona Republican Rep. Eli Crane has paid nearly $150,000 to a fundraising consultant who was a rising star in GOP campaign circles until 2016, when she was arrested after police found an active meth lab at her home.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 04:50:36 JST Tucson Sentinel Cash-strapped election offices have fewer resources after bans on private grants https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042524_election_grant_ban/cash-strapped-election-offices-have-fewer-resources-after-bans-private-grants/
Pushed by conservative activists, 28 states over the past four years have banned or restricted local governments’ use of private donations to run cash-strapped election offices, and election officials say the ongoing funding uncertainty is untenable.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 04:48:57 JST Tucson Sentinel In blow to green groups, 9th Circuit upholds federal plan for Colorado River dam https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/042524_green_colorado_river/in-blow-green-groups-9th-circuit-upholds-federal-plan-colorado-river-dam/
Conservationists lost an appeal to the Ninth Circuit as they attempted to force the federal government to reconsider climate change studies in managing the Glen Canyon Dam and Colorado River.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 09:43:08 JST Tucson Sentinel Az Rep. Austin Smith drops reelection campaign amid accusations of petition fraud https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041824_austin_sig_fraud/az-rep-austin-smith-drops-reelection-campaign-amid-accusations-petition-fraud/
Republican state representative and Turning Point Action member Austin Smith has dropped his Arizona reelection bid after being accused of personally forging more than 100 petition signatures to get on the 2024 ballot.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 05:11:13 JST Tucson Sentinel Leaked documents detail House GOP strategy to send competing abortion measures to 2024 ballot https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041624_gop_abortion_measure/leaked-documents-detail-house-gop-strategy-send-competing-abortion-measures-2024-ballot/
Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives are mulling several possible abortion proposals to send to the ballot this November to compete with an abortion rights initiative - proposals that would place increased restrictions on the procedure.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 11:04:18 JST Tucson Sentinel GOP thwarts attempts to repeal Az’s 1864 abortion ban https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041024_gop_abortion_legislature/gop-thwarts-attempts-repeal-azs-1864-abortion-ban/
Republican lawmakers in the Arizona legislature blocked multiple efforts to repeal the near-total abortion ban from 1864, saying they need more time to consider the repercussions of doing so.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 02:35:08 JST Tucson Sentinel Planned Parenthood will offer low-cost vasectomies in Phoenix https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040324_vasectomy_growth/planned-parenthood-will-offer-low-cost-vasectomies-phoenix/
Planned Parenthood Arizona is now offering vasectomy services in Phoenix after demand for the procedure at the Tucson clinic was overwhelming, with nearly half of all appointments booked by Valley residents.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 02:52:42 JST Tucson Sentinel Mounting research shows COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including significant drops in IQ scores https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/032124_covid_brain/mounting-research-shows-covid-19-leaves-its-mark-brain-including-significant-drops-iq-scores/
From the very early days of the pandemic, brain fog emerged as a significant health condition that many experience after COVID-19, and four years later, there is now abundant evidence that being infected with SARS-CoV-2 can affect brain health in many ways.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 06:24:15 JST Tucson Sentinel More than 75% of voters use early ballots. Every Az House Republican voted to take that away. https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/030124_early_ballots/more-than-75-voters-use-early-ballots-every-az-house-republican-voted-take-that-away/
House Republicans have approved a bill that would upend the way that Arizonans vote, ending no-excuse early voting by mail, by far the most popular way to cast a ballot in the state.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 03:57:50 JST Tucson Sentinel Researchers call for more abortion studies to be retracted https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/022824_abortion_retraction/researchers-call-more-abortion-studies-retracted/
Health and science experts published a commentary in the British Medical Journal calling for the retraction of four older abortion-related studies that, despite documented flaws, have influenced major anti-abortion decisions over the past 20 years.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 04:09:40 JST Tucson Sentinel Arizona in critical need of blood donations for sickle cell disease patients https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/022324_sickle_cell/arizona-critical-need-blood-donations-sickle-cell-disease-patients/
Arizona currently has a one- to two-day supply of donated blood, barely half of the standard supply, a critical shortage for Arizonans who need frequent blood transfusions because they have sickle cell disease.
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Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 06:17:26 JST Tucson Sentinel Mexico is suing U.S. gun-makers for arming its gangs — a U.S. court could award billions in damages https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/021924_mexico_guns_lawsuit_op/mexico-suing-us-gun-makers-arming-its-gangs-us-court-could-award-billions-damages/
The government of Mexico is suing U.S. gun-makers for their role in facilitating cross-border gun trafficking that has supercharged violent crime in Mexico, and the demand for $10 billion in damages could drive several of the nation’s largest firearm manufacturers into bankruptcy.
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