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Should District School Budget Overrides Be Approved

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Arizona Is Building Again. Keep It That Way.

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Commentary: Televising an execution wouldn’t be justice. It would be a snuff film dressed up as spectacle.

Executions are conducted like rituals, at least in Arizona. The witnesses are ushered in as solemnly as at a funeral and seated as precisely as guests at a wedding: government officials, families of the victims, guests of the soon-to-be decedent, journalists. A disembodied voice announces over a speaker that the...

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Commentary: The true cost of mass deportation isn’t just the price tag

As a college student in South Phoenix and someone who was once undocumented myself, I know deportation is not an abstract political talking point. I have watched friends and neighbors disappear from our community after being deported and the lasting damage that separation leaves behind. A neighbor shared how her...

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Fewer Students, Smarter Schools: Stewarding Public Resources for Student Success

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How France Could Easily Unravel Canada

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Commentary: Can Warren Petersen win over Latino voters with his Spanish-speaking pitch?

Republican Warren Petersen is making a play for Latino voters with a Spanish-language digital ad featuring state Rep. Lydia Hernandez, his Mexican-born wife and other Latinos. The 30-second ad is Petersen’s attempt to show that his conservative politics can draw Latino voters — and that Hernandez can help him do it...

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All Arizona As Tucson Or New Mexico: Dems’ 2026 Political Objective

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The Reason Many Tucsonans Fly Out Of Phoenix

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Ninth Annual AZ Drug Summit Unites For Solutions

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You can’t strengthen Arizona schools by dismantling the team behind our teachers

During my time in the Air Force, fighter pilots were the golden boys. In combat, they were the tip of the spear. But they never fought alone. They depended on aircraft maintenance crews, airfield managers, security forces, civil engineers, personnel specialists and countless other support personnel. Everyone had a...

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Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates To Reduce Inflation

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Looking For Good Bread In All The Wrong Places

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Kris Mayes Didn't Pass a Hemp Ban. She Issued One Anyway.

The Legislature would not hand hemp THC to licensed dispensaries. Mayes did it with a letter, a raid next door, and a $20,000-per-item threat. She wants another term.

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Nearly 6,700 Arizona homicides remain unsolved. The victims’ families deserve better.

September is National Cold Case Month and on Sept. 20, my cousin Loretta Lynn would have turned 65 years old. Instead, my family has spent nearly four decades waiting for the identity of who killed her. On June 14, 1988, I was traveling in Europe when I picked up a pay phone and received the […]

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Tucson’s Good, Bad and Ugly Economy

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Rename Mar-a-Lago and Return It to Spain

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They Called It a Children's Bill of Rights. Parents Were Optional.

Oscar De Los Santos signed a bill that would have let a child get confidential pregnancy, mental-health, and drug care with or without a parent. Junelle Cavero signed it too. Catherine Miranda did not have to.

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Sobering Thoughts in Tucson on Labor Day

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Candidates Are Learning They Don’t Have to Debate

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The parent caregiver ‘savings’ Arizona is chasing don’t exist — unless care disappears

Want to save hundreds of millions of dollars on care for children with significant disabilities? There’s a remarkably effective way: just don’t provide all of the necessary care. We wouldn’t call it that, of course. We’d call it “savings.” That distinction is at the heart of Arizona’s increasingly contentious...

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You Bought This Bridge

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Why Stop with Suing Meta?

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Arizona’s ESA Program: Fix It Or Lose It