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Posted May 15, 2022, 1:05 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
No, Republicans, "crazy" isn't a prerequisite for making life hard on Democrats, as Supervisor Steve Christy proves with some smart bird-dogging. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 20, 2022, 2:18 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
Local leaders in Southern Arizona came together Wednesday to throw their support behind the Environmental Justice for All Act, a congressional bill that aims to treat pollution in communities of color as a civil rights violation and create local funding for environmental cleanup. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 16, 2022, 3:54 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
Pima County Supervisors Matt Heinz and Steve Christy — hardly a buddy movie in the making — both have questions about how the county's former top executive was able to retire with no one knowing.... Read more»
Posted Nov 16, 2021, 11:24 am
Genesis Sandoval
/Cronkite News
Arizona lawmakers joined hundreds on the White House lawn Monday as President Joe Biden signed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that includes billions of dollars for road, transit, environmental cleanup and other projects in the state. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 12, 2021, 6:19 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
Tucson will see new bridges, roads, buses and trains because of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that passed by a 69-30 vote in the Senate earlier this week, Tucson Mayor Regina Romero and U.S. Senator Mark Kelly said on Wednesday. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 12, 2021, 9:16 am
Gene Moreland & Paul Ingram/TucsonSentinel.com
Pima County has asked Tucson Water to treat new discharges into the Santa Cruz River for PFAS, a chemical linked to cancer risks, after the city utility announced plans to pump millions of gallons of water from the Tucson Airport Remediation Project.... Read more»
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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»
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 Jun 21, 2021, 3:15 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The state of Arizona will provide $2 million to help Tucson Water restart a treatment plant shut down because of severe groundwater contamination near the Tucson International Airport from PFAS firefighting foam used by the military.... Read more»
Posted Jun 9, 2021, 9:54 am
Alyssa Marksz
/Cronkite News
City officials said they will indefinitely suspend operations at the Tucson Airport Remediation Project water treatment plant to keep it from being overwhelmed by an underground toxic chemical plume containing high levels of the chemical PFAS that could be moving toward the plant.... Read more»