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Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Mark Kelly hits the campaign trail in Tucson. February 23, 2019

Candidate wants to go from space to the Capitol

Oct 6, 2020 Mark Kelly is hoping to unseat Sen. Martha McSally.
Sen. Martha McSally takes the oath of office for the U.S. Senate, January 4, 2019. Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath while McSally's niece, Ella, held the bible. McSally borrowed the bible for the University of Arizona Special Collections. The copy of the New Testament was recovered from the body of an unknown sailor killed during the bombing of the U.S.S. Arizona in Pearl Harbor.

McSally looks for win in Senate race

Oct 6, 2020 The former House member hopes to avenge her 2018 U.S. Senate loss.
Educators march in downtown Tucson in 2018 calling for better teacher pay and education funding in Arizona. This year's Proposition 208 aims to make up for lagging education funding in the state by taxing the wealthy.

After two years, measure taxing the wealthy to fund education is on the ballot

Oct 5, 2020 The business community opposes the Invest in Ed Act, which would fund education through a tax on high earners.
Organic marijuana being grown at an Arizona farm for processing into medical marijuana.

Arizona voters to consider another recreational marijuana bill

Oct 2, 2020 The new bill has criminal justice elements not present in a similar bill that was narrowly defeated in 2016.
Adults in the Tucson Jewish Community Center's day program for people with disabilities swimming at the J Sept. 3, 2020.

People with disabilities face both unique and common challenges during pandemic

Oct 1, 2020 Educators and service providers discuss how the pandemic has impacted community members with disabilities in Arizona.
Letters mailed from around the country to Tucson. September 2020

Tracking the speed of mail as the election nears

Sep 28, 2020 The pandemic-driven rise in voting by mail has raised questions about the ability of the U.S. Postal Service to handle ballots.
File image of a voter registration form for Arizona.

Army veteran hopes to unseat congressional veteran

Sep 22, 2020 Brandon Martin hopes to win Arizona’s Second Congressional District.
Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick takes question from her constituents at a town hall. (May 29, 2019)

Congressional veteran hopes for another term

Sep 21, 2020 Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick is running for her sixth term in the U.S. House.
Barbara Tobiasson pictured at her home at the Swan Lake Estates mobile home park on Aug. 31, 2020.

'Feels like the end of the world': Tucson grapples with record heat during pandemic

Sep 3, 2020 The desert community has faced both soaring temperatures and life under the coronavirus, as some work to mitigate the impact of a warmer future.
Pat Shoneck and Eileen Green ride in a golf cart at the Swan Lake Estates mobile home park, a 55+ park where Shoneck lives.

Heat, COVID-19 and isolation put mobile home parks at risk

Sep 2, 2020 Ten percent of metro Tucsonans live in manufactured housing. But residents there face risks made worse by COVID-19 and record heat.
An electric transmission line.

A 'collision of crises' is leaving thousands in Tucson struggling with electric bills

Sep 1, 2020 Record heat, unemployment and a pandemic are adding to household financial troubles.
Lute Olson in March 2009.

Remembering Lute Olson

Aug 30, 2020 The former UA basketball coach is dead at 85.
Then-U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake speaking in Phoenix, 2016.

Former Republican Senator Flake endorses Biden

Aug 24, 2020 The former US Senator said, “decency shouldn’t be that hard.”
A Pima County vote-by-mail envelope.

Arizona’s long history with voting by mail

Aug 21, 2020 Arizona voters have cast ballots by mail for nearly three decades.
An image of the group of Cuban asylum seekers and the letter they sent from the La Palma Correctional Center in Eloy.

Asylum seekers describe self-harm, faulty COVID-19 response at ICE detention center

Aug 20, 2020 As a federal report faults ICE's complaint-handling process in detention, a letter from Eloy describes a facility on the brink.
The radio station in the Pascua Yaqui Tribe's reservation, which formerly housed the tribe's early voting site.

Pascua Yaqui Tribe continues effort to restore former early voting site

Aug 20, 2020 The site established in 2010 was closed down by the Pima County Recorder's Office about a month before the 2018 primary.

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