Tucson Politics

  In Arizona – home to roughly 34,000 federal employees – President Donald Trump’s orders could impact a massive workforce of health care professionals and the individuals who rely on their services.

  A low percentage of funding going directly to Amphi school classrooms is as much a function of the denominator as numerator — and if that doesn't make sense, maybe poorly funded Arizona public schools are to blame.

  Arizona national parks and forests are already feeling a strain on resources after President Donald Trump’s executive order for a federal hiring freeze and extensive firings.

  Interior Secretary Douglas Burgum’s plans to “unleash” industrial exploitation of public lands seeks to gut public land stewardship principles enshrined in law and in the time-honored American tradition of bipartisan conservation.

  A coalition of 20 Democratic attorneys general  - including Az Attorney General Kris Mayes - are suing the Trump admin over “unlawful” mass terminations of probationary employees in the federal government, a directive the coalition says was carried out without required legal notice.

  Signs reading “Justice for Emily Pike” and “No More Stolen Sisters” stood out among the hundreds of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people gathered at Encounter AZ church in Mesa for a candlelight vigil for San Carlos Apache teen Emily Pike, who was murdered in February.

  Az Secretary of State Adrian Fontes violated state law by giving the public only 15 days to comment on a draft of his elections rulebook, casting some doubt on which set of instructions will apply to this year’s all-mail local elections, one of which is currently taking place in Pima County.

  Arizona’s Senate Republicans couldn’t find the votes they needed to recommend that State Route 260, which runs through rural areas between Cottonwood and Show Low, be renamed “Donald J. Trump Highway.”

  A report by Democrats details how many people in each state would lose access to Medicaid if Republicans in Congress were to cut the program by one-third — a scenario some GOP lawmakers have floated as an option to help pay for tax cuts.

  Touting the $100 billion expansion TSMC announced, President Donald Trump boasted that he’d lured the chipmaker not with subsidies but with a threat of tariffs on imported semiconductors - though the next evening, Trump told Congress he wants the CHIPS Act overturned.

  Arizona’s Republican legislators are taking another crack at voting law changes, after the Democratic governor vetoed their recent attempt to make the state’s elections more like Florida’s.

  If you haven’t yet sent back your Proposition 414 ballot, Tucson election officials say it's too late to mail it but you can drop it off in person on or before Election Day on Tuesday, March 11.

  A corrections officer at the Pima County jail who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault of an inmate last August was sentenced to three years on probation Wednesday.

  Mesa Democratic Sen. Eva Burch announced late Wednesday afternoon that she would be resigning next week, citing partisan gridlock and the low pay state lawmakers receive.

  The attorneys general of Arizona, Minnesota, New Mexico and Oregon vowed at a town hall in Phoenix Wednesday evening that they would continue to fight back against sweeping federal cuts being made by President Donald Trump and his ally, Elon Musk.

  An Arizona man caught stealing a security fob from a Maricopa County election center will serve six months in prison followed by three years of supervised probation.

  The organization Reproductive Freedom for All Arizona and Democratic legislators gathered at the state Capitol to voice opposition to recent bills that would restrict reproductive rights.

  Arizona’s open meeting laws require that city councils, school boards and other governmental bodies authorize litigation in public votes, after the Arizona Court of Appeals invalidated the City of Flagstaff’s lawsuit against Desert Mountain Energy.

  Members of the nonbinary and transgender community urged Arizona lawmakers to vote no on a proposal that they say would lead to further violence against their community and erasure of their identities -t hough the bill passed out of committee along party lines.

  Most of the candidates running for the Tucson City Council had raised less than $1,000 in contributions as of Feb. 22. In Midtown Ward 6, Democrat Miranda Schubert was leading in fundraising, while in Ward 5 on the South Side, Democrat Selena Barajas had the biggest bankroll.

  A lawsuit, filed by the mother of a 29-year-old man who died during a struggle with Tucson police in March 2020, can move forward, a federal judge ruled, rejecting claims of "qualified immunity" for seven of the officers involved.

  Updated: The federal building in Downtown Tucson may soon be up for sale, with the GSA listing hundreds of government buildings across the country for "disposal." But early Wednesday, the federal agency pulled down the entire list, replacing it with a "coming soon" notice.

  Sentineled by people carrying upside-down American flags—a symbol for distress—hundreds of people marched through Downtown Tucson on Tuesday night.

  While Trump administration officials promised a sweeping immigration crackdown, enlisting a range of federal agencies to pursue people in the interior of the U.S., data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, shows "little evidence" arrests and removals have increased.