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Posted Mar 11, 2022, 10:17 am
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
Tucson's Cherrybell postal operation has been defying death for so long, it should be a Marvel franchise. The odds of it staying open just improved with the U.S. Postal Service measure passing Congress.
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Posted Feb 23, 2022, 9:14 am
Jennifer Shutt, Ariana Figueroa & Jacob Fischler/Arizona Mirror
Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress on Tuesday called on President Joe Biden to impose severe sanctions on Russia after the country declared a broad section of eastern Ukraine independent before sending troops into the region. ... Read more»
Posted Nov 15, 2021, 4:29 pm
Laura Olson, Ariana Figueroa & Jacob Fischler/Arizona Mirror
President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law his $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill during a ceremony at the White House packed with some 800 supporters, heralding what he said was a “truly consequential” spending bill that will improve Americans’ day-to-day lives. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 10, 2021, 12:20 pm
Jacob Fischler
/Arizona Mirror
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a sweeping bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, a milestone for one of President Joe Biden’s priorities after months of negotiation led by and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Rob Portman of Ohio.... Read more»
Posted Aug 5, 2021, 8:15 am
Lori Robertson
/FactCheck.org
Both Republican Rob Portman and Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, the senators who negotiated a bipartisan infrastructure bill, have claimed the legislation is “paid for” - but a budget watchdog group says the bill only pays for about half of the $548 billion in new spending.... Read more»
Posted Jul 22, 2021, 7:42 am
Brandi Buchman
/Courthouse News
After weeks of negotiations between the White House and Senate on President Joe Biden's proposal to beef up U.S. infrastructure, a test vote gauging willingness to debate the $1 trillion package failed.
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Posted Jun 2, 2021, 10:58 am
Robert Farley
/Factcheck.org
Despite a stubbornly high unemployment rate of 6.1% in April — representing 9.8 million people who say they are actively looking for work — many employers are reporting that they can’t find people to hire, and economists disagree whether a too-generous unemployment supplement is the cause.... Read more»
Posted Jan 17, 2017, 12:19 pm
Arren Kimbel-Sannit
/Cronkite News
Executives of the online classifieds site Backpage.com refused to answer questions from a Senate committee investigating claims that the site facilitated child sex trafficking through its adult ads section. The hearing last week came one day after the site – whose former owners Michael Lacey and James Larkin co-founded the Phoenix New Times – removed its “adult” ads pages because of what it called unconstitutional censorship.... Read more»