http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/category/politics politics news from TucsonSentinel.com - Tucson's independent nonprofit online news en Copyright 2012 2012-02-04T07:23:02+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_az_printed_notices/publishers-lawmakers-wrangle-over-printed-public-notices/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_az_printed_notices/publishers-lawmakers-wrangle-over-printed-public-notices/ 01:34:00Z Nicole Gilbert With budgets tight and the world increasingly connected by the Internet, state lawmakers and publishers are wrangling over whether the future of public notices should include paying for ads to run in newspapers. 2012-02-04T01:34:48+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_az_parks_funds/bill-protect-state-parks-revenue-moves-ahead/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_az_parks_funds/bill-protect-state-parks-revenue-moves-ahead/ 01:17:00Z Jessica Testa A bill that would protect Arizona State Parks revenues from budget sweeps and allow the agency to use the money for operations took its first step Thursday in the state House. 2012-02-04T01:17:59+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_naco_drug_arrests/12-arrested-alleged-drug-smuggling-ring/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_naco_drug_arrests/12-arrested-alleged-drug-smuggling-ring/ 00:19:00Z Janet Rose Jackman Twelve people were arrested after being charged with participating in a drug-trafficking organization that allegedly smuggled as much as $15 million in marijuana and cocaine into the country over the past year. 2012-02-04T00:19:56+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_buckmaster/buckmaster-legislation-would-create-new-pima-bonding-authority/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_buckmaster/buckmaster-legislation-would-create-new-pima-bonding-authority/ 22:49:00Z Buckmaster Show Today on Buckmaster - Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry is the Friday Focus Newsmaker. Then, it’s the Reporters’ Roundtable featuring Sarah Garrecht Gassen of the Arizona Daily Star and Dan Shearer of the Green Valley News. Plus, Weekend Watch with Matt Russell, “The Culinary Cruiser.” 2012-02-03T22:49:46+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_supreme_court_1070/supreme-court-hear-sb-1070-case-april/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_supreme_court_1070/supreme-court-hear-sb-1070-case-april/ 21:15:00Z Dylan Smith The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, SB 1070, on April 25. The justices will hear an appeal by the state of an appeal’s court ruling that upheld an injunction blocking much of the law. 2012-02-03T21:15:22+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020312_mex_juarez_police/juarez-police-officers-hiding-after-cartel-threat/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020312_mex_juarez_police/juarez-police-officers-hiding-after-cartel-threat/ 19:33:00Z Simeon Tegel Even by Ciudad Juarez’s grim standards, a threat from a Mexican drug cartel to kill an officer a day until the city’s police chief steps down is being seen as an unusually terrifying escalation in the violence. 2012-02-03T19:33:37+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_borderpatrol_sentence/man-gets-3-years-being-us-illegally/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_borderpatrol_sentence/man-gets-3-years-being-us-illegally/ 18:46:00Z Janet Rose Jackman A 27-year-old Guatemalan man was sentenced to more than three years in jail for illegal re-entry of felon, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Friday. 2012-02-03T18:46:30+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_az_gop_poll/poll-romney-leads-gop-pack-az/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_az_gop_poll/poll-romney-leads-gop-pack-az/ 17:41:00Z Janet Rose Jackman Mitt Romney is showing a sizable lead over his competitors among Arizona’s Republican voters, according to a poll released Thursday. The former Mass. govern leads the pack with 48 percent, followed by Newt Gingrich with 24 percent. 2012-02-03T17:41:11+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_kelly/jesse-kelly-enters-race-fill-giffords-cd8-seat/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_kelly/jesse-kelly-enters-race-fill-giffords-cd8-seat/#When: 10:21:000 Dylan Smith Updated: Jesse Kelly is running to fill the congressional seat left vacant by the resignation of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, he announced Friday. Pushing a 10 percent flat tax, he said will run in both the upcoming special election, and the CD2 election in the fall. (with video) %2012-%02-%03GMT%17:%21:%00%Q http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_occupy_tucson/occupy-tucson-sets-up-camp-deanza-park/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_occupy_tucson/occupy-tucson-sets-up-camp-deanza-park/ 14:13:00Z Dylan Smith Occupy Tucson members set up tents at DeAnza Park, just north of downtown, Thursday night. Tucson now has the longest-running uninterrupted anti-corporate protest in the nation, an organizer said. 2012-02-03T14:13:40+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_boehner_birth_control/boehner-obamas-birth-control-order-unconstitutional/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_boehner_birth_control/boehner-obamas-birth-control-order-unconstitutional/ 06:15:00Z Global Post The White House was on the defensive Thursday over its requirement that church-affiliated employers cover birth control after House Speaker John Boehner called the order unconstitutional. 2012-02-03T06:15:54+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_holder_fast_furious/holder-accused-obstructing-fast-furious-probe/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_holder_fast_furious/holder-accused-obstructing-fast-furious-probe/ 02:22:00Z Victoria Pelham House members accused Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday of stonewalling their probe of Operation Fast and Furious, and threatened him with contempt unless the Justice Department hands over thousands more documents. 2012-02-03T02:22:01+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_sitton_congress/sportscaster-sitton-enters-cd8-scrum/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_sitton_congress/sportscaster-sitton-enters-cd8-scrum/ 02:04:00Z Dylan Smith UA sports announcer Dave Sitton is seeking the Republican nomination to fill the congressional seat vacated by Gabrielle Giffords, he said Thursday. 2012-02-03T02:04:21+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_loughner/loughner-still-incompetent-trial-hearing-set/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_loughner/loughner-still-incompetent-trial-hearing-set/ 01:26:00Z Dylan Smith A psychologist says accused Jan. 8 gunman Jared Loughner is still incompetent to stand trial. While Loughner’s mental state is improving, he should remain in a prison hospital for another four months, she said. His attorneys agreed. 2012-02-03T01:26:58+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/020212_scorpionsinmymailbox/scorpions-my-mailbox/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/020212_scorpionsinmymailbox/scorpions-my-mailbox/ 00:15:00Z Roberto De Vido Donate to Jan PAC! Get a “free” book! 2012-02-03T00:15:12+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_kids_truck_beds/bill-ban-children-from-truck-beds-resurfaces/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_kids_truck_beds/bill-ban-children-from-truck-beds-resurfaces/ 00:12:00Z Sara Smith While attempts to bar minors from riding unrestrained in pickup truck beds have failed for years at the Legislature, state leaders have three new reasons to act: Three teenagers killed in recent months after being thrown for pickups, a lawmaker said. 2012-02-03T00:12:02+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_coyote_guilty/coyote-found-guilty-human-smuggling/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_coyote_guilty/coyote-found-guilty-human-smuggling/ 23:25:00Z Janet Rose Jackman A 26-year-old Mexican man was found guilty of human smuggling Wednesday for bringing a group of illegal immigrants across the border in November. 2012-02-02T23:25:04+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_occupy_tucson/occupy-tucson-set-up-camp-deanza-park/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_occupy_tucson/occupy-tucson-set-up-camp-deanza-park/#When: 16:17:000 Janet Rose Jackman Updated: Some Occupy Tucson members plan to regroup at a city park when they put up tents and plan to sleep at DeAnza Park, but the City of Tucson says members face arrest. %2012-%02-%02GMT%23:%17:%00%Q http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_media_execs_pacs/media-execs-firms-giving-conservative-super-pacs/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_media_execs_pacs/media-execs-firms-giving-conservative-super-pacs/ 22:40:00Z Corbin Hiar News companies and their executives donated more than $350,000 to conservative super PACs in 2011, according to financial disclosure forms filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission. 2012-02-02T22:40:15+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_borderpatrol_drugs/bp-agents-seize-680000-pot-heroin/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_borderpatrol_drugs/bp-agents-seize-680000-pot-heroin/ 22:03:00Z Janet Rose Jackman Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents seized nearly $680,000 worth of heroin and marijuana in separate incidents Wednesday, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said. 2012-02-02T22:03:51+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_gop_defense_cuts/kyl-mccain-propose-bill-stop-defense-cuts/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_gop_defense_cuts/kyl-mccain-propose-bill-stop-defense-cuts/ 21:36:00Z Lillian Rizzo Republican senators proposed a plan that would spare the U.S. military from nearly $500 billion in automatic spending cuts next January by reducing the federal workforce instead. 2012-02-02T21:36:23+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_buckmaster/buckmaster-irs-cracks-down-identity-theft-tax-fraud/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_buckmaster/buckmaster-irs-cracks-down-identity-theft-tax-fraud/ 21:09:00Z Buckmaster Show Today on Buckmaster - We kick off the show with Democratic Candidate for US Senate Don Bivens. Then, we talk about the IRS crackdown on identity theft with Brian Watson, Special Agent with the Department of the Treasury. Also, Marana Mayor Ed Honea on his town’s new one-stop business center. Plus, attorney Don Loose has an update on the state’s medical marijuana law. 2012-02-02T21:09:25+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/roadhazards/report-road-hazards-graffiti-other-issues/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/roadhazards/report-road-hazards-graffiti-other-issues/ 21:05:00Z TucsonSentinel.com Is your drive home less than smooth? Use our mapping tool from SeeClickFix to report everything from potholes and graffiti to broken streetlights and overgrown weeds and keep watch over your neighborhood 2012-02-02T21:05:01+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_soccer_riots_egypt/officials-fired-after-egypt-soccer-riots-that-killed-74/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_soccer_riots_egypt/officials-fired-after-egypt-soccer-riots-that-killed-74/ 20:00:00Z Lillian Rizzo Egyptian Football Association officials, along with officials in Port Said, have been fired following the riots after Wednesday’s soccer match between Al Masry and Al Ahly, in which 74 people died. 2012-02-02T20:00:21+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_az_campuses_vets/greater-support-sought-vets-az-campuses/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_az_campuses_vets/greater-support-sought-vets-az-campuses/ 17:37:00Z Devin McIntyre A Republican lawmaker wants to build on a new state law that allows community colleges and universities to be certified as “veteran supportive campuses.” 2012-02-02T17:37:39+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/020212_ua_campus_guns/ua-president-guns-will-do-nothing-make-our-campus-safer/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/020212_ua_campus_guns/ua-president-guns-will-do-nothing-make-our-campus-safer/ 17:35:00Z Eugene G. Sander I have been a gun owner for all my adult life, and am fully supportive of the right to own a gun. However, having faculty, staff or students bringing weapons into classrooms and other campus activities will do nothing to make our campus safer. 2012-02-02T17:35:38+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_brewer_books/brewer-pacs-biggest-expense-buying-her-book/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_brewer_books/brewer-pacs-biggest-expense-buying-her-book/ 17:06:00Z Dylan Smith The biggest expense reported by Jan PAC, Gov. Brewer’s political action committee, is the purchase of copies of the governor’s book, financial reports show. 2012-02-02T17:06:36+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_red_cross_fine/red-cross-hit-with-10m-fine-over-bad-blood-handling/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_red_cross_fine/red-cross-hit-with-10m-fine-over-bad-blood-handling/ 16:39:00Z Lena Groeger The FDA has hit the American Red Cross with a nearly $10 million fine for safety violations, lax oversight and faulty testing of its blood services. The fine is just the latest of more than a dozen the Red Cross has racked up in the last decade. 2012-02-02T16:39:38+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_electric_cars/farley-drivers-electric-vehicles-should-help-pay-roads/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_electric_cars/farley-drivers-electric-vehicles-should-help-pay-roads/ 16:26:00Z Ivy Morris A Democratic state lawmaker is proposing that owners of electric vehicles pay a penny-per-mile tax for each mile they drive. “One of the only ways we pay for our roadways is through gas tax. We need to find a way of closing that loophole.” (with videos) 2012-02-02T16:26:08+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_manufactured_homes/slow-moving-regulation-hurting-manufactured-home-builders/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_manufactured_homes/slow-moving-regulation-hurting-manufactured-home-builders/ 16:03:00Z Salvador Rodriguez The director of engineering for a Phoenix-based manufactured-home company told Congress on Wednesday that a federal agency’s inefficient handling of regulations has contributed to an 80 percent drop in construction in his industry since 2000. 2012-02-02T16:03:44+00:00