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An empty classroom at Gridley Middle School in Tucson. November 2020.

Education notebook: Vaccines for educators and improved COVID-19 metrics not quite enough to reopen schools

A look back at this week's education stories in Southern Arizona and the state.
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S.

Virus variant from United Kingdom found in Arizona

3 people in the state have tested positive for the new strain
The Tucson Skyline. October 23, 2019.

News roundup: Biden brings changes to AZ, Navajo Nation hits 1K COVID-19 deaths

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Jan. 29.
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Arizona feelings about COVID-19 are based on politics

A new poll shows politics equals COVID reactions in the state.

AZ weekly unemployment continues to be a mixed bag

The two major programs in the state are heading in the opposite direction.
A Centers for Disease Control illustration of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Arizona reports 203 more virus deaths as toll passes 13,000

Case numbers are beginning to peak, relieving pressure on hospitals
Downtown Tucson, Oct. 23, 2019.

News roundup: State distributes 500K vaccines, better communication promised between feds and local health departments

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Jan. 28.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich in Phoenix, January 2019.

In letter to DHS, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich opposes Biden's deportation moratorium

The letter follows a 14-day stay against the order issued in Texas this week
Flashing lights on top of a police car.

Pima County deputies arrest 48 for illegal street racing

Racers were using a county road near Tucson International Airport as a racing strip
Janine Petty, deputy state elections director, performs logic and accuracy tests on Pima County's vote tabulation machines on Feb. 18, ahead of the 2020 presidential preference election.

Republicans want to change election verification counts

The mandatory hand count number would be raised.
A health care worker holds a vial of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine at a distribution event at Tucson Medical Center on Jan. 15, 2021.

More than a half-million COVID-19 vaccines distributed in AZ

The rate of second dosages is still slow.
Downtown Tucson, Oct, 23, 2019.

News roundup: Health officials say keep up safety measures, UA scientists test Mars drone

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Jan. 27.
Oak Flat, east of Superior, Arizona. A company proposes to build one of the world's largest underground copper mines at this location.

Lauren Redniss on "Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West".

Also on Arizona Spotlight: The hidden history of Tucson's Barnum Hill; living with dementia during the pandemic; and a short story read by Aurelie Sheehan.
The Bighorn Fire burns in the Santa Catalina Mountains on June 16, 2020.

Arizona's 2020 wildfire season among worst in past decade

2,520 wildfires burned across the state, 82% human caused
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S.

Arizona report 5,918 additional COVID-19 cases, 195 deaths

State remains a national coronavirus hotspot
COVID19

Arizona reports 4,748 virus cases one year after 1st case

The Department of Health Services announced the state’s first case on Jan. 26, 2020

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