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Posted Apr 28, 2022, 2:28 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Former Santa Cruz County Assessor Felipe Fuentes pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud after he accepted thousands of dollars in cash, as well as the use of a 17-acre ranch parcel, in exchange for manipulating the value of land-holdings in the county.... 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 Apr 10, 2022, 4:41 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
Sahuarita, which doesn't have its own municipal water utility, wants to control its hydrated future and is taking some interesting steps to reach that promised land.... Read more»
Posted Apr 2, 2022, 4:20 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry is retiring six months after a nasty bike accident. As one era ends, supervisors are set to consider making Jan Lesher a permanent replacement.... Read more»
Posted Mar 26, 2022, 8:05 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
Santa Cruz County may get land for a park, as some smell conspiracy. Sahuarita is set to lose one tenant at their tech manufacturing facility but will gain another.... Read more»
Posted Mar 11, 2022, 2:26 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
Pima County supervisors will tweak their drinking-on-the-job policy and review COVID payouts, while the first signs of a housing boomlet may be sprouting. ... Read more»
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Posted Feb 25, 2022, 4:32 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
Local governments are wading into dicey political territory with potentially unpopular agenda items on water rate hikes, raises for elected leaders and payouts of unused COVID leave.... Read more»
Posted Feb 18, 2022, 10:20 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Tucson City Council is slated to vote on incentives for a development of a 199,000 sq. ft. hangar at Tucson International Airport that will provide 50 jobs. Plus more in a quick look at what's planned for local government meetings this week.... Read more»
Posted Jan 28, 2022, 2:17 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
Pima County supervisors are expected to approve starting each meeting by acknowledging the people who called our valley home before European settlement. Plus more local government action in the Tucson agenda.... Read more»
Posted Jan 14, 2022, 2:01 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Pima County Board of Supervisors is off and running in 2022, tackling cash bail, tax increases and indigenous acknowledgment. Other governing bodies doing light public business are still ramping up after the holidays.... Read more»
Posted Oct 4, 2021, 10:09 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
When the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission meets Monday to make the first changes to its grid maps, it will do so armed with the opinions of dozens of people who attended the recent meetings to make recommendations about how the state’s new districts should look.... Read more»
Posted Sep 22, 2021, 5:12 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Among rural counties, Santa Cruz County has one of the highest vaccination rates in the U.S. after the county managed to fully vaccinate more than 87.7 percent of its total population. Among those eligible for vaccination, including children 12 and older, the county has a vaccination rate at nearly 100 percent, according to the CDC.... Read more»
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Posted Sep 21, 2021, 10:22 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Supervisors from Arizona's four border counties — Pima, Cochise, Santa Cruz and Yuma — have asked officials to allow rural hospitals to transfer critically ill patients to larger regional facilities because providers are "nearing collapse" due to patients infected with COVID-19.... Read more»
Posted Aug 18, 2021, 5:09 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Pima County has vaccinated 563,402 people since the COVID shot program began in December 2020, covering about 54 percent of all county residents and 62 percent of those eligible for the vaccine. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 3, 2021, 1:01 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Despite calls for the removal of concertina wire since it was strung in Nogales and other areas by National Guard troops in 2018, officials are seeking a new contract to maintain and extend "tactical infrastructure" along the border.
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Posted Jun 15, 2020, 12:51 pm
Ramon Valadez & Sharon Bronson/Special to TucsonSentinel.com
Two Pima County supervisors signed a letter to Gov. Doug Ducey declaring that he must allow counties and cities to mandate face masks be worn in public to stem the spike in coronavirus cases in Arizona.... Read more»