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"The Decameron" by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

What "The Decameron", a Medieval Italian masterpiece, can tell us about life during a pandemic.

Mar 25, 2020 Also on Arizona Spotlight: Why a Tucsonan named Taylor chose to get involved in the conflict in Syria; and Frank Figliuzzi speaks on putting Taylor's story in context with U.S. foreign policy.
The lights are on, but not everybody’s home. Congressional offices, like many around the nation, are turning to teleworking to help stem the spread of the coronavirus.

Capitol Hill offices adapt to teleworking

Mar 24, 2020 Arizona lawmakers, like the rest of Congress and much of the nation, are learning to telework in the face of COVID-19.
The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station.

Corporation Commission member urges 2050 clean energy target

Mar 24, 2020 The member of the Arizona Corporation Commission wants utilities to use 100% clean energy by 2050.
Arizona State Capitol Executive Tower

Gov. Ducey expands unemployment access and extends tax deadline in Arizona

Mar 20, 2020 The governor announced Friday the state was loosening unemployment requirements and lining up state and federal tax deadlines.

Arizona extends school closure through April 10

Mar 20, 2020 The schools superintendent said leaders are also working to waive requirements for statewide tests.
The Rialto Theatre on March 17, when Tucson declared a local emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

City of Tucson restricting gathering places, making changes to transit

Mar 18, 2020 The city declared a local emergency as it joins communities all over working to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.
An envelope containing Pima County's vote-by-mail ballot.

Arizona opts for Biden in presidential preference election

Mar 18, 2020 The former vice president made a clean sweep of Tuesday’s primaries.
File image of a row of lockers in a school.

Arizona closing schools due to COVID-19 concerns

Mar 15, 2020 The governor and the superintendent of public instruction announced schools will be closed through at least March 27.

Emergency voting in Pima County going ahead, recorder says

Mar 13, 2020 The recorder's office says wipes and hand sanitizer are available for those casting early ballots.
U.S. Congressman Paul Gosar in Phoenix, Arizona, Oct. 3, 2019.

U.S. Rep. Gosar says he, staff have quarantined themselves

Mar 9, 2020 A Capitol physician said "several" members of Congress had contact with a person who subsequently developed the illness caused by the new coronavirus.
Sen. Bernie Sanders took several swipes at his rival for the Democratic nomination for president, former Vice President Joe Biden, noting that Biden supported the Iraq War and the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Sanders reaches for inclusiveness, slams Biden at Phoenix rally

Mar 9, 2020 Democrats and Republicans expect Arizona to be up for grabs in the November general election.
A toppled saguaro in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on Dec. 21, 2019.

Groups offer support for conservationists challenging border wall construction

Mar 9, 2020 Local governments, archaeologists and others have filed briefs supporting a challenge to the waiver of laws for border wall construction.
Gov. Doug Ducey is sworn in for his second term, Jan. 7, 2019, in this still image of a live stream of the event.

Constitutional amendment would give Arizona a lieutenant governor

Mar 6, 2020 The governor and lieutenant governor would run on a single ticket, impacting the order of succession.
The Arizona state Capitol on March 3, 2020.

Checking in on the 2020 Arizona Legislature

Mar 5, 2020 The path forward for some legislation is clearer with the session roughly halfway over.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador shows the ticket he purchased for the presidential airplane raffle.

Feminists decry Mexican president's airplane raffle

Mar 5, 2020 Some said the raffle is a smoke screen to overshadow a women’s strike protesting an increase of hate crimes against women.
A sunset in Rocky Point, Mexico.

Accusations fly between Rocky Point neighborhood, local government

Mar 4, 2020 Tensions have been simmering between the government and the Las Conchas community, which counts affluent Arizonans among its members.

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