Notices by Tucson Sentinel (tucsonsentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com), page 3

Arizona officials struggle to straighten out voter rolls after proof-of-citizenship mixup https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020325_voter_rolls/arizona-officials-struggle-straighten-out-voter-rolls-after-proof-of-citizenship-mixup/
Because of a 20-year-old government foul-up, about 200,000 Arizona voters will need to come up with proof of their citizenship soon in order to protect their full voting rights, and they might not even know about it yet.
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Finchem revives election conspiracies in Arizona Senate committee https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/013025_finchem_conspiracies/finchem-revives-election-conspiracies-arizona-senate-committee/
Arizona’s Senate Judiciary and Elections Committee advanced three bills Republican state Senator Mark Finchem says will improve election security, though his reasoning for the bills includes unproven and widely debunked theories of mass voter fraud.
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Native writer Kimberly Blaeser to give Thursday reading at UA Poetry Center https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/012825_blaeser_poetry/native-writer-kimberly-blaeser-give-thursday-reading-ua-poetry-center/
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 orders ban foreign aid, rescind federal funds guidance for abortion https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/012825_foreign_aid_ban/trump-orders-ban-foreign-aid-rescind-federal-funds-guidance-abortion/
President Donald Trump has reinstated a policy that bans foreign aid workers from offering information about abortion, and doubled down on an existing domestic policy that bans federal funding for abortion.
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Judge rebuffs effort to postpone Mexico's lawsuit vs. Arizona gun dealers https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/012725_mx_gun_lawsuit/judge-rebuffs-effort-postpone-mexicos-lawsuit-vs-arizona-gun-dealers/
A federal judge rejected a motion to stay a lawsuit against five Arizona gun stores, allowing the suit filed by the Mexican government to move forward while a similar action waits on a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
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Judge grants Az’s request to temporarily block Trump’s birthright citizenship order https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/012325_birthright_block/judge-grants-azs-request-temporarily-block-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order/
A federal judge in Seattle on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship in a case brought by Arizona and three other states.
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Native activist Leonard Peltier granted clemency as Biden leaves office, to serve rest of sentence at home https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/012025_peltier_commuted/native-activist-leonard-peltier-granted-clemency-as-biden-leaves-office-serve-rest-sentence-home/
In one of his final acts while in office, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence for activist Leonard Peltier, who has already served 49 years in prison in the shooting deaths of two federal agents during a standoff at Pine Ridge in 1975.
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KVOA losing local TV weathercasters as chain owner cuts stations across U.S. https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/011925_kvoa_weather/kvoa-losing-local-tv-weathercasters-as-chain-owner-cuts-stations-across-us/
Broadcast TV chain Allen Media — which owns Tucson's Channel 4 KVOA — is cutting the ranks of local weathercasters across the country to consolidate operations at the company's Weather Channel hub in Atlanta.
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Tucson will build $86.7 million facility to turn wastewater into drinking water https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/011625_water_reclaimation_agreement/tucson-will-build-867-million-facility-turn-wastewater-into-drinking-water/
Tucson city officials and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials signed an agreement Wednesday to build a $86.7 million water-purification facility to turn wastewater into drinking water.
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Trump’s return puts Medicaid on chopping block https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/011325_trump_medicaid/trumps-return-puts-medicaid-chopping-block/
Under President Joe Biden, enrollment in Medicaid hit a record high and the uninsured rate reached a record low, but Donald Trump’s return to the White House — along with a GOP-controlled Senate and House of Representatives — is expected to change that.
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Court affirms $5M judgment against Trump in E. Jean Carroll sexual assault case https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/123124_trump_assault/court-affirms-5m-judgment-against-trump-e-jean-carroll-sexual-assault-case/
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a New York jury’s finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll in an upscale Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
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Tucson suing Air Force over PFAS 'forever chemicals' could have broad implications https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/122124_tucson_pfas_suit_op/tucson-suing-air-force-over-pfas-forever-chemicals-could-have-broad-implications/
The legal kerfuffle between the city of Tucson and Davis-Monthan Air Force Base over PFAS could be big. Like, Supreme Court big. I'm talking legal-podcasters-hair-on-fire big.
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BP agents involved in fatal shooting of Tohono O'odham man named in lawsuit https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/121324_border_agents_named/bp-agents-involved-fatal-shooting-tohono-oodham-man-named-lawsuit/
Three Border Patrol agents involved in the fatal shooting of a Tohono O'odham man in front of his home in 2023 were identified in legal filings on Friday.
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AI enters Congress: Sexually explicit deepfakes target women lawmakers https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/121324_congress_deepfakes/ai-enters-congress-sexually-explicit-deepfakes-target-women-lawmakers/
More than two dozen members of Congress have been the victims of sexually explicit deepfakes — and an overwhelming majority of those impacted are women, and there is currently limited policy to restrict its creation and spread.
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Quash your warrants at Tucson City Court next Friday https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/112724_warrant_quash_event/quash-your-warrants-tucson-city-court-next-friday/
If you’ve got a warrant — or you think you have a warrant — for failure to appear, unpaid tickets or other offenses in the city, you can go to Tucson City Court next week to get it quashed and make plans to straighten out your situation.
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Trump’s victory spells doom for federal criminal cases https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/110724_trump_criminal_cases/trumps-victory-spells-doom-federal-criminal-cases/
With his return to power, Donald Trump will be able to outright end his case of attempting to overturn the 2020 election, as well as an ongoing appeal of Trump-appointee U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal in his classified documents case.
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With control of White House & Senate, Republicans poised to upend U.S. climate policy https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/110624_gop_climate_policy/with-control-white-house-senate-republicans-poised-upend-us-climate-policy/
The results of the election promise to upend U.S. climate policy: In addition to returning a climate denier to the White House, voters also gave Republicans control of the Senate, laying the groundwork for attacks on everything from electric vehicles to clean energy funding.
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Claytoonz: Taking out the Bannon https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/103124_claytoonz_bannon/claytoonz-taking-out-bannon/
Just when Trump is crying that his supporters are not Nazi trash, Steve Bannon is released from prison.
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How ‘La Catrina’ became the iconic symbol of Day of the Dead https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/102823_la_catrina_icon_op/how-la-catrina-became-iconic-symbol-day-dead/
La Catrina is Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada’s most recognizable creation, and the the icon of Day of the Dead, Mexico’s annual fiesta in honor of the deceased that takes place annually on Nov. 1 and 2.
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Arizona judge Humetewa honored with annual Chief Standing Bear award https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/102924_humetewa_award/arizona-judge-humetewa-honored-with-annual-chief-standing-bear-award/
U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa, from Arizona and a member of the Hopi Tribe, was honored as the recipient of the 2024 Chief Standing Bear Award for Courage.
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