Tucson Politics

  The Arizona Supreme Court will decide whether a measure that voters overwhelmingly approved to require disclosure of most anonymous campaign spending is constitutional — and, in the process, it could potentially reshape free speech jurisprudence in the state.

  A coalition of western Apaches returned to federal court in Arizona Wednesday to try again at stopping the construction of a copper mine that would destroy a 2,400-acre holy site in the Tonto National Forest.

  A coalition of Arizona,15 other states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over claims it unlawfully withheld billions in congressionally-approved funding previously slated for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

  Tucson’s Loft Cinema is among dozens of organizations nationwide to lose federal grant money from the National Endowment for the Arts in the past week after the Trump administration set its sights on gutting the agency.

  The creation of the Turquoise Alert System cleared its final legislative hurdle on Wednesday when it passed the state House of Representatives unanimously

  Clarence Boykins, an Air Force veteran and longtime advocate for Tucson’s Black community, died Sunday, May 4. He was 82.

  The Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that potential major cuts to Medicaid under consideration by Republicans could mean states would have to spend more on the program, reduce payments to health care providers, limit optional benefits and reduce enrollment.

  The same legislative Republicans who have accused Arizona’s governor of appointing unqualified people to head state agencies are trying to nix qualification requirements for their own appointments to a litany of state boards and commissions.

  Public education advocates say they’ll work to kill a Republican effort to add private school vouchers to the Arizona Constitution by tying them to renewing funding to increase teacher pay — even if that means forfeiting millions in public school funding.

  The Rhode Island District Court temporarily blocked the implementation of an executive order that sought to dismantle three federal agencies “well past the studs,” eliminating programs they are bound by the law to carry out.

  Former Arizona lawmaker and University of Arizona Vice President George Cunningham died on Tuesday. He was 80.

  Starting Wednesday, U.S. airports will begin asking for a Real ID or another form of approved federal ID to travel on domestic flights, though U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem says you're still probably fine without one for now.

  Parents of transgender youth who receive gender-affirming care from Tucson's El Rio clinic were told it will no longer offer hormone prescriptions for anyone under 19 in order to adhere to a Trump administration order.

  A Pima County commission is asking for public comments on eight candidates to fill a vacancy on the Superior Court created by the retirement of Judge James E. Marner.

  Attorney David Miller, who has worked as both prosecutor and defense attorney in juvenile justice in recent years, was appointed Tuesday to a vacant seat in Pima County Justice Court.

  The Arizona Department of Transportation will host an open house this week to share details of a plan to rebuild Interstate 10 from Kino Boulevard to Country Club Road.

  Two years after Arizona officials revealed a $2.5 billion Medicaid fraud scheme that targeted Native Americans seeking treatment for addictions, the state has recovered just a fraction of the taxpayer funds lost to fraud.

  After Vail School District voted to allow an LDS seminary on district property, questions arose about how it’s even allowed, though religious conservatives have pushed to expand release-time programs nationwide, arguing there is no need to separate religion from daily education.

  New York Attorney General Letitia James and 19 other state attorneys general  - including Az Attorney General Kris Mayes - announced they are suing the Trump administration and its Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for gutting the agency’s manpower.

  Carmen Heredia, the director of Arizona’s embattled Medicaid agency resigned this week, just as she was expected to face questions from lawmakers about her handling of a massive fraud scheme that largely targeted Native Americans.

  The trial to determine whether Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby conspired to interfere in the duties of the Secretary of State’s Office when he refused to certify the results of the 2022 election has been pushed back from May to September.

  Gov. Katie Hobbs once again thwarted Republican efforts to facilitate mass deportations in Arizona, vetoing legislation that would have made it easier for federal immigration agents to arrest people while at the same time blocking elected officials from preventing discriminatory actions.

  A 24-year-old Guatemalan woman and her newborn baby were released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Saturday afternoon after public outcry over her detention by federal officials at Tucson Medical Center.