Tucson Politics

  The federal judge's inherent powers supersede federal Civil Rules of Procedure, the 9th Circuit panel found.

  After months of anxiety over the presidential contest, Arizona Democrats basked in a far more optimistic vibe as the party’s national convention opened Monday.

  The Hualapai Tribe filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management on August 16 challenging its approval of the The Big Sandy Project.

  In the last several years, increases in online access, new technology, and the rise of encryption are contributing to growing online sexual exploitation of children. – part of a growing trend that authorities contend should put parents on alert.

  U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani and his Democratic challenger, Kirsten Engel, have agreed to a televised debate later this month. Plus other scheduled debates in the Sentinel political calendar:

  To meet a deadline in Arizona law, the Pima County supervisors are meeting Monday to put the final stamp on property taxes. Plus, they'll look at a new heat ordinance, while Pima College is getting ready for another round of accreditation reviews. Plus more in local government meetings.

  Since April 2023 — when protections that had blocked states from disenrolling Medicaid beneficiaries during the pandemic expired — states have disenrolled more than 24 million people, but the ‘unwinding’  coincided with moves in more than a dozen states to expand health coverage.

  Even though the water level on Lake Powell rose half a foot this year, the Bureau of Reclamation announced that Lake Mead is projected to be in a “shortage condition” in 2025 — meaning Arizona, Nevada, and Mexico will see cuts in how much water they can use from the Colorado River.

  The arguments of the anti-abortion group that is attempting to stop an abortion rights initiative from being put to voters this fall are “nonsense,” according to the campaign supporting the Arizona Abortion Access Act.

  Conservationists sued Arizona’s governor and director of water resources, demanding they revoke a guaranteed water certificate from a 7,000-home development project they say will illegally siphon groundwater from the last free-flowing river in the Southwest.

  The recent Supreme Court decision overturning City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, allowing local governments to again enforce urban camping ordinances, is of great importance locally. Simply put, it could add more tools that effectively address a 300% increase in unsheltered homelessness since 2018.

  The Make Elections Fair Act, that would amend the Arizona Constitution to create an open primary system, gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot, a judge ruled Thursday.

  The words “unborn human being” will be printed in the description of an Arizona abortion rights initiative in a pamphlet sent to all registered voters, the state Supreme Court ordered in a split decision, reversing an earlier ruling from the trial court.

  Construction from the SunZia transmission line project has created "extensive erosion" and environmental damage because the company has failed to install control measures, according to a letter sent to Southern Arizona lawmakers and federal officials.

  The Az Supreme Court said a GOP ballot referral that would make it a state crime for migrants to cross the southern border can go before voters in November, rejecting a claim from opponents that the proposal violates a constitutional provision limiting ballot questions to a single subject.

  Service workers rallied at major airports in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Phoenix on Tuesday and called for immediate action from employers to ensure their safety in the workplace, joined by laborers in fast food, retail, and the farm sector this week to demand on-the-job heat protections.

  Voting in Arizona’s July 30 primary went smoothly around the state, with no major technical or logistical issues - but there were disruptions Monday in two of the state’s largest counties, as their boards of supervisors moved to certify the results.

  An anti-abortion group is hoping the Arizona Supreme Court will step in and block voters in November from deciding whether to amend the state constitution to include a right to abortion.

  A federal appeals court overturned the conviction of a Mexican man found guilty in 2019 of first-degree murder for his role in a firefight near Nogales, Ariz., that killed Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010.

  Tucson's Alvaro Enciso places hand-made crosses to mark where migrants and their dreams of the future died in Southern Arizona's desert. He considers himself an artist, not an activist.

  Álvaro Enciso, de Tucson, coloca cruces hechas a mano para marcar dónde murieron migrantes en el desierto del sur de Arizona, y con ellos, el sueño de un mejor futuro en Estados Unidos. Se considera un artista, no un activista.

  This weekend brings a showdown between the sole Republican on the Pima County Board of Supervisors, Steve Christy, and his Democratic challenger, Visit Tucson executive Vanessa Bechtol.

  A state judge ordered the Arizona Legislature to rewrite its description of a ballot initiative she said is misleading to voters because it selectively focuses on one part of the measure over another.

  Arizona’s Initial Proposals for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program was approved by the U.S. Department of Commerce, allowing the state to request access to more than $993 million to deploy or upgrade high-speed Internet networks across the state.

  Voters in November will be able to decide whether to amend the Arizona Constitution to guarantee the right to abortion after the Arizona Abortion Access Act collected around 578,000 valid signatures, significantly more than the nearly 384,000 it needed to qualify for the ballot.