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Posted Jun 24, 2022, 5:35 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
While many Arizona Republicans were celebrating Friday's Supreme Court decision, Arizona Democrats and abortion activists were quick to condemn the ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.... Read more»
Posted Mar 29, 2022, 7:02 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
The city of Tucson is moving ahead with their plans to create a Labor Standards Unit under the control of their Business Services Department. Advocates for Prop. 206, the $15 minimum wage ballot initiative, have said the policy requires a department to enfroce labor law and that this new unit may not cut it. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 9, 2022, 3:41 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
Tucson city leaders are planning to end the COVID mask mandate for city buildings on March 14 and take steps to bring back in-person meetings. The discussion of easing COVID mitigation policies follows moves made by Pima County a few days earlier. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 6, 2021, 4:07 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
Environmental activist Kevin Dahl was sworn into office Monday, representing Ward 3 on the Tucson City Council. The Democrat hopes to confront big problems like climate change and affordable housing by acting locally his ward's Northwest Side neighborhoods. ... Read more»
Posted Nov 8, 2021, 5:26 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
While the results of Tucson's City Council election held up from the early numbers reported last week, and an initiative to raise the minimum wage easily passed, a proposition that would increase the salaries of the mayor and City Council fell short, after it was passing in the first count.... Read more»
Posted Nov 2, 2021, 10:27 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
Someone has got to hold our Democratic incumbents accountable and it’s probably time to stop the expecting the heat to come from the Right. It may have to come from the Left; at least around Tucson.... Read more»
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Updated Nov 3, 2021, 5:42 pm
Paul Ingram, Bennito L. Kelty & Dylan Smith/TucsonSentinel.com
Democrats easily ran the table in Tuesday's Tucson City Council elections, and an initiative to boost the minimum wage for workers in the city easily passed. A measure to increase the salaries of Tucson's mayor and councilmembers was narrowly winning, by just more than 100 votes.... Read more»
Posted Oct 12, 2021, 11:23 am
Ulysse Bex
/Cronkite News
Arizona projects got $110 million last year and will get another $159 million in the fiscal year that started this month, or more than 9% of all funding nationally under the Great American Outdoors Act for those two years. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 4, 2021, 11:33 am
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
The results of the primary election seem more like a warm glass of milk and a “Friends” marathon than the sort of turbulent circus the last couple of elections have been. Tucson voters just want quiet.... Read more»
Updated Aug 3, 2021, 10:24 pm
Dylan Smith & Paul Ingram/TucsonSentinel.com
Incumbent Tucson Councilman Steve Kozachik fended off two challengers in Tucson's Ward 6 Council primary, with Kevin Dahl prevailing as the choice of Democrats for the open seat in Ward 3.... Read more»
Posted Jul 30, 2021, 10:41 am
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
Tucson residents in Wards 3,5 and 6 will have until 7 p.m. on Tuesday, August 3 to hand in ballots in the City Council primary election. If you still have yours, don't mail it back — drop it off in person to ensure that it's counted.... Read more»
Posted Jul 12, 2021, 9:05 am
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
La lista de candidatos postulando para la nominación democrata en el carrera del ayuntamiento esta llena con experiencia. Las candidatos son inteligentes, apasionados y listos con sus ideas de que es bueno para Tucson. ... Read more»
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Posted Jul 8, 2021, 1:38 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
Good news for Tucson voters about the city primary election: Y’all have real choices. Each of the Democrats vying for office come in knowing the difference between a general fund and an enterprise fund. And the challenges they want to address are real.... Read more»
Posted Jul 2, 2021, 4:20 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
Midnight on Tuesday, July 6, is the deadline to register to vote in the upcoming Tucson primary election — double-check your registration online even if you're already signed up.... Read more»
Posted Apr 14, 2021, 10:38 am
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Arizona State Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Tucson will have an election after all this year, shutting down a challenge that would have forced the city to move to even-year elections under a state law.... Read more»
Posted Dec 29, 2020, 12:02 pm
Claire Chandler
/Cronkite News
In August, Biden called the Grand Canyon an “irreplaceable jewel” and blasted the Trump administration’s uranium mining plan, saying he would focus instead on developing clean energy. ... Read more»