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Yana Kunichoff

Tucson

Reporter at AZ Luminaria

Covering community resilience for @AZLuminaria via @report4america ⛰️ I love mountains and the library 📕

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  • 1 day ago | azluminaria.org | Yana Kunichoff

    Tucson is considering ending financial support for a low-income preschool program amid a dire budget crunch. The cut was put forward in a presentation on the proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget at Tuesday’s city council study session. The scholarships were created by the Pima County Board of Supervisors in the spring of 2021 to help low-income families access early childhood education. The county provided most of the funding but local cities including Tucson, Marana and Oro Valley also contribute.

  • 1 week ago | azluminaria.org | Yana Kunichoff |Carolina Cuellar

    La ex candidata republicana a alguacil del condado de Pima, la teniente Heather Lappin, presentó una notificación de reclamo por 2 millones de dólares, el primer paso antes de una posible demanda, alegando que el sheriff Chris Nanos tomó “medidas disciplinarias injustificadas” y abusó de las propias políticas del departamento “con el propósito específico de influir en las elecciones”.

  • 2 weeks ago | azluminaria.org | Yana Kunichoff |Carolina Cuellar

    Former Republican Pima County sheriff candidate Lt. Heather Lappin has filed a $2 million notice of claim, the first step ahead of a possible lawsuit, alleging that Sheriff Chris Nanos took  “unwarranted disciplinary actions,” and abused the department’s own policies “for the specific purpose of influencing the election.”Nanos placed Lappin on leave from her department job in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign for sheriff, along with union leader Sgt. Aaron Cross.

  • 2 weeks ago | myheraldreview.com | Yana Kunichoff

    Brenda Sánchez joined the Southeast Arizona Health Education Center in Nogales as an undergraduate intern. She went straight to work on a project that was close to her heart: helping community health workers support farmworkers in Arizona’s borderland communities. That was 2018. Sánchez helped develop the Agua Limpia Health Curriculum, a training for community health workers to address water quality in a local Cochise County farmworker community.

  • 2 weeks ago | azluminaria.org | Yana Kunichoff

    Brenda Sánchez se unió al Southeast Arizona Health Education Center en Nogales como pasante universitaria. Comenzó a trabajar de inmediato en un proyecto cercano a su corazón: ayudar a los trabajadores de salud comunitarios a apoyar a los trabajadores agrícolas en las comunidades fronterizas de Arizona. Eso fue en 2018.

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RT @jbwashing: Tucson residents living in mobile homes are dying of heat at disproportionate rates. @Yanazure and I dug deep into the data…

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RT @DiannaNanez: "Family still hasn’t told Yesenia’s other two children — 8 and 14 years old — what happened to their mother and siblings.…

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RT @jbwashing: Venezuelan mom pulled over for driving too slowly in Tucson. Two of her four kids were in the backseat. State troopers calle…