PHOENIX – The mistrust in Arizona’s Nov. 3 presidential election and the months-long audit it spawned is quickly spreading across the country, with politically driven efforts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan and Texas, the executive director of Secure Democracy said Wednesday.

PHOENIX – Some households have suffered serious threats to their health that went beyond COVID-19 over the past 18 months: domestic violence.…]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:45:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONytAdQKdkVYE5VjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxynhNE1Vuqmnn9ye8UNv30 Isaac Asimov once inadvertently summed up the essence of right-wing talk radio when he wrote about what he called “the cult of ignorance in the United States.” There is “a strain of anti-intellectualism” in our culture and politics that is “nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” For the past few weeks, I have been out on the road in the morning, listening to crackpot radio, to which I am sadly addicted.…]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxynhNE1Vuqmnn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxynhNE1Vuqml1cWWor9YPv Let’s say that you’re involved in a series of coin tosses and you have a certain amount of money with which to wager. On each toss of the coin, you wager half of the money in your possession.…]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxynhNE1Vuqml1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxqcjG67cgyzHn9ye8UNv30 ]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxqcjG67cgyzHn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxynhNE1VuqmuT5HJgy6HUf President Joe Biden finally came down on the unvaccinated last week. Biden announced a plan requiring anyone working for a company with more than 100 employees who hasn’t been vaccinated to be tested weekly to ensure they are not COVID-positive.…]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxynhNE1VuqmuT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxynhNE1VuqmiejEQ2Mq9rY The delta wave of COVID cases may be hitting a plateau in Southern Arizona but health officials warn that hospitals remain crowded. “We appear to be plateauing or perhaps starting to go down,” said Dr. Francisco Garcia, director of the Pima County Health Department.…]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxynhNE1VuqmiejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxqcjG67cgyzKCY3L745TL_ Despite increasing legal access to medical and recreational cannabis in states across the U.S., veterans face unfair treatment and stigmatization because the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs refuses to recognize marijuana as a viable treatment option. While the VA has embraced the federally illegal status of the drug, agency policy does not allow discrimination against veterans who acquire medical cards in states where it is allowed, although those who do get their MMJ cards do so with their own resources and at their own risk outside the purview of the Veterans Health Administration.…]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxqcjG67cgyzKCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxqcjG67cgyzJs0ohxaO6Yr Back in my misspent youth, my eyes lit up when I saw a sportsbook had opened at the Vina del Mar resort down in Rocky Point’s Old Port. It seemed like a little slice of heaven—a dark cavern filled with banks of TVs where my older brothers and the rest of our crew would hunker down to place bets in the morning and watch games in the afternoon, after we returned to the hotel after a day on the Las Conchas beach.…]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxqcjG67cgyzJs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONydCgvWhHRrScb1naedg1wr ]]> Wed, 15 Sep 2021 22:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONydCgvWhHRrScb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONybndb0NdugJ5VjH6qdYdAk

State officials, Arizona refugee resettlement agencies and community groups are preparing for the arrival in the coming weeks of thousands of people evacuated last month from Afghanistan. 

The International Rescue Committee in Phoenix, a refugee resettlement agency, welcomed 18 Afghan evacuees on Aug. 29.…]]> Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:45:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONybndb0NdugJ5VjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONyZRfdV9jE6oJs0ohxaO6Yr ]]> Wed, 15 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONyZRfdV9jE6oJs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxfsijZ2Kr0wXn9ye8UNv30

Nestled against the foothills of Estrella Mountain Regional Park, a nearly 3,000-square-foot house sits on an allegedly vacant lot.…]]> Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:45:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxfsijZ2Kr0wXn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONyTG16jq9crrezdsCmHakzH ]]> Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONyTG16jq9crrezdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONwiBhxj1rUDFHn9ye8UNv30 ]]> Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONwiBhxj1rUDFHn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONy-DFGzA9my2ClmFkX7M1Jw

In the not-so-distant past, adults were expected to set the example for children.…]]> Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:45:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONy-DFGzA9my2ClmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxEVYGhYtlflHn9ye8UNv30 ]]> Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gJWlhQazONxEVYGhYtlflHn9ye8UNv30