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1 week ago | 
azluminaria.org | Becky Pallack |John Washington |Audrey Nielsen
If elected to Congress to represent Southern Arizona, Republican candidate Jimmy Rodriguez would have to ask his probation officer’s permission to travel to Washington D.C.. Or he would have to get a court order that would update the rules of his federal probation. Rodriguez is on probation after he pleaded guilty to felony fraud in 2023 for falsifying federal loan applications for his business. In 2024, a federal judge sentenced Rodriguez to five years of probation.
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1 week ago | 
azluminaria.org | Becky Pallack |John Washington
Half of the people vying for a seat in Congress in a special election don’t live in the Southern Arizona district they want to represent. District 7 stretches along the U.S.-México border and includes parts of six counties: Pima, Santa Cruz, Yuma, Cochise, Maricopa and Pinal as well as four sovereign tribal nations: the Cocopah, Pascua Yaqui, Quechan and Tohono O’odham.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
azluminaria.org | Carolina Cuellar |Rafael Carranza |Becky Pallack |Yana Kunichoff
El congresista Raúl Grijalva, el principal estadista político de Tucson y mentor de una generación de líderes en el sur de Arizona, falleció el jueves por la mañana debido a complicaciones del tratamiento contra el cáncer. Tenía 77 años. Su muerte fue anunciada mediante un comunicado de prensa de su oficina. Grijalva, quien representa el Distrito 7 de Arizona, anunció su diagnóstico de cáncer a principios de abril de 2024,“Grijalva libró una larga y valiente batalla”, decía el comunicado.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
azluminaria.org | Shondiin Silversmith |Becky Pallack
A spiritual walk and candle vigil are planned for 5 p.m. Friday, March 14 in Tucson. The Pascua Yaqui Tribe announced the event to “come together to honor Emily’s life, her spirit, and the justice she deserves.” See event details. This article was originally published in Arizona Mirror.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
azluminaria.org | Beth Schwartzapfel |Becky Pallack
This article was originally published by The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for The Marshall Project’s newsletters, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Facebook. Attorneys for the federal prison system agreed last week to pay $95,000 to a transgender woman who had alleged in dozens of lawsuits that she had been abused and mistreated in its custody by both fellow prisoners and staff.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
azluminaria.org | Becky Pallack
The governing board of Pima Community College voted this week to demolish a row of 1950s motels in a historic district along the northern edge of its downtown campus, saying they have exhausted other options for the properties. But they will “make every effort” to preserve the neon signs in front of the motels, board member Greg Taylor said in the motion.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
myheraldreview.com | Becky Pallack
While ballots in the race he was running for were still being counted, a Democratic candidate for the Arizona state Senate was killed in a car crash. John McLean, 68, was driving near Broadway and Houghton Road on Tucson’s east side Friday morning when 27-year-old Michael Martin Creel ran a stop sign and crashed into the passenger side of McLean’s vehicle, according to a Tucson Police Department press release. McLean died at the scene. kAm%!s D2:5 rC66= H2D :>A2:C65 2E E96 E:>6 @7 E96 4@==:D:@?
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
azluminaria.org | Becky Pallack
While ballots in the race he was running for were still being counted, a Democratic candidate for the Arizona state Senate was killed in a car crash. John McLean, 68, was driving near Broadway and Houghton Road on Tucson’s east side Friday morning when 27-year-old Michael Martin Creel ran a stop sign and crashed into the passenger side of McLean’s vehicle, according to a Tucson Police Department press release. McLean died at the scene.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
azluminaria.org | Becky Pallack
Por JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated PressPHOENIX (AP) — El demócrata Ruben Gallego se convirtió en el primer senador latino de Arizona tras derrotar a Kari Lake, y evita que los republicanos amplíen aún más su mayoría en el Senado. La victoria de Gallego continúa una serie de éxitos demócratas en un estado que era tradicionalmente republicano hasta que Donald Trump fue elegido para la Casa Blanca en 2016.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
azluminaria.org | Becky Pallack
By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated PressPHOENIX (AP) — Democrat Ruben Gallego has been elected Arizona’s first Latino U.S. senator, defeating Republican Kari Lake and preventing Republicans from further padding their Senate majority. Gallego’s victory continues a string of Democratic successes for the Senate in a state that was reliably Republican for those seats until Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.
