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Proposition 208 on the 2020 Arizona ballot.
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If This Year’s Arizona Ballot Initiatives Pass, How Soon Do They Take Effect?

Arizonans will vote on two ballot initiatives in the 2020 election: one to legalize recreational marijuana, and one to impose a tax surcharge on high earners to boost education funding. A recent Monmouth poll shows these initiatives have popular support: 56% of voters said they support Proposition 207 — also known as the Smart And Safe Arizona Act, which would legalize and regulate marijuana. Sixty percent of voters said they support Proposition 208, also known as the Invest In Education Act. If these initiatives pass, how soon until they are law?
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Q&AZ: There Are Dozens Of Arizona Judges On My Ballot. How Do I Know Who To Vote For?

On Maricopa, Coconino, Pima and Pinal County ballots this year, voters will have to choose whether justices on the state Supreme Court, judges on the Arizona Court of Appeals, and judges of the Superior Court get to keep their jobs. In these retention elections, the judges run unopposed: voters decide whether the judge should keep their seat but don't choose between multiple candidates. A KJZZ listener wanted to know how to make sense of all the judges listed on her mail-in ballot and decide which judges she wanted to vote to retain.
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A jacket owned by George W. Biggs, a former Tuskegee Airman who died recently at the age of 95.
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Arizona Native And Tuskegee Airman George Washington Biggs Remembered At State Capitol

Fighter jets from Luke Air Force Base flew in a low missing-man formation over the state Capitol on Friday morning to honor the life and service of Maj. George Washington Biggs, an Arizona Native who served as one of the youngest Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. Biggs, who died in September at the age of 95, was born in Nogales, joined the military in 1943 at the age of 18, and served during World War II, as well as during the Korean and Vietnam wars. Biggs came from a long line of Black m
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Former Republican Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, a Vietnam veteran, endorsed Biden over Trump.
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Military Times Poll: Support For Trump Among Military, Veteran Community Declining

More than 10% of adults in Arizona served in the armed forces, and they might not be the reliable Republican voting bloc they had been in previous years. Among active duty troops, President Trump’s disapproval rating is now higher than his approval rating ever was with that group. Trump’s approval rating in the military community peaked at 46.1% in 2016. As of August 2020, his approval rating among active-duty troops dropped to 37.8%, while his disapproval rating climbed to 49.9%.
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The Little Woody, a neighborhood bar in Arcadia, opened for the first time in months - but large nightclubs violating COVID restrictions threaten it.
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Neighborhood Bars Hope Big Nightclubs Follow The Rules To Prevent A Third Arizona Shutdown

On their first night back open, staff at The Little Woody, a neighborhood in Arcadia, said things went smoothly. Guests wore their masks, and for the most part, stayed at their tables. The bar reached 50% capacity later in the evening, and LaFlash had to hold customers at the door. A few miles away in Old Town Scottsdale, though, at least two nightclubs were found flouting the rules, according to the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control. The actions of the big clubs threaten the business of small bars like The Little Woody.
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Soldiers from the Arizona National Guard's 253rd Engineer Battalion stand in formation before being dismissed after their year-long Middle East Deployment at the Papago Military Reservation on January 11, 2020.
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Amid Iran Tensions, 150 Arizona National Guard Troops Return From Middle East Deployment

After spending the past year deployed to various locations in the Middle East, more than 150 members of the Arizona Army National Guard's 253rd Engineer Battalion returned home to Phoenix. Most of these 150 soldiers made up the headquarters company for engineering units in the Middle East. For security reasons, the soldiers weren't allowed to talk about what countries they actively served in.
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'Remember Pearl Harbor' — 78 Years Later, Arizonans Haven't Forgotten

Just before 8 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the home to the American Pacific Fleet. At the end of the day, close to 2,500 American servicemen were dead. The USS Arizona was at the bottom of the harbor. Nearly 200 American aircraft were destroyed. The Americans were catapulted into World War II. The rallying cry "Remember Pearl Harbor" echoed throughout the nation and motivated 16 million Americans to military service, and th
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Pima County Sheriff's Deputy Seen Tackling, Pinning Down 15-Year-Old Quadruple Amputee

Video footage has surfaced showing a Pima County sheriff's deputy tackling and pinning down a 15-year-old boy with no arms or legs. The teen lived in a group home near Tucson. In September, staff at the group home called police, saying the teenager was being disruptive and had knocked over a trash can. The deputy is seen pinning the boy and yelling at him, inches from his face. The officer wasn’t wearing a body camera, but another teen who recorded the video presented it to the Pima County Pub
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Phoenix Sikh Community Donates 550 Trees In Honor Of Sikhism’s Founder

Members of the Phoenix Sikh community donated 550 trees, worth more than $60,000, to the city of Phoenix. Nov. 12 marks the 550th anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism. Guru Nanak is known for establishing tenets of Sikhism, including environmental stewardship. The Sikh faith is the fifth largest in the world. There are more than 500,000 Sikhs in the United States, and more than 4,000 in the Phoenix area. “Guru Nanak very much believed in the oneness of the earth, the
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Bullhead City Called Arizona's Most Affordable Place To Live

A western Arizona city is one of the most affordable places to live in the state, according to third quarter data contained in the Cost of Living Index. Bullhead City had an overall affordability index of 91% — which means it costs about 9% below the national average to live there. The city’s administrative analyst Sheila Betts says the prices bring people to the area. "The survey shows that our residents enjoy low cost gas prices, food, housing, compared to other areas that are like metropol
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Arizona Soldier Killed As Military Training Deaths Outpace Combat Deaths 4-to-1

One of the three soldiers killed in a training accident at Fort Stewart in Georgia on Sunday is a Peoria native. Twenty-one-year-old Pvt. 1st Class Antonio Garcia was killed when the vehicle he was riding in rolled over into water, according to Maj. Gen. Tony Aguto, commanding general of the 3rd Infantry Division. “A Bradley Fighting Vehicle from the 1st Armored Brigade Combat team was involved in a training accident when it rolled off a bridge and was submerged upside down in a stream on Fort
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