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On March 13, 1997, what is considered to be Arizona’s most infamous UFO story happened. On a mild springlike evening the string of amber orbs appeared as if by magic, a celestial sleight of hand that would in the coming weeks make headlines across the nation. Although little more than an atmospheric curiosity at the time, the hovering and evenly spaced balls of light would soon become known as the Phoenix Lights.

Those who accepted the explanation that it was military flares dismissed the controversy with logical precision, while people who saw it as an otherworldly encounter claimed the truth has been shrouded in lies and disinformation.

In the ensuing years, the Phoenix Lights would change outlooks, minds and even a few lives. What hasn’t changed is the mystery that still hovers.

Lynne Kitei, a Phoenix resident, could barely believe what she saw when she witnessed and recorded the lights, six evenly spaced orbs moving in a direct line over Phoenix.

Kitei, who worked as a physician at the Arizona Heart Institute, dedicated herself to investigating the phenomenon after this experience and eventually resigned from her medical career to devote herself to researching and discussing the Phoenix Lights full-time.

Over seven years, Kitei compiled extensive notes and interviews, eventually publishing a book detailing her findings. Yet, she didn’t find a definitive answer to the lights’ origin other than educated speculation.

“It’s never been about me; it’s about the data,” Kitei said. “To present it I had to come forward, to tell people what I know.”

The sighting, witnessed by hundreds if not thousands, prompted widespread speculation and media attention. Even government officials became involved, though their responses ranged from ridicule to dismissal.

While the military eventually attributed the lights to flares dropped during training exercises, some remain skeptical of this explanation, including Kitei and other experts who analyzed the footage. The enduring mystery of the Phoenix Lights continues to intrigue and divide opinions, leaving questions unanswered about what truly occurred that night.

Former Republic reporter Scott Craven contributed to this article.

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A third westbound lane was added along U.S. 60 between 163rd and Loop 303, and a second right turn lane was opened for westbound travelers switching to 163rd Avenue from Grand Avenue.

ADOT also installed a right-turn green arrow signal so drivers can make a right onto northbound 163rd Avenue as southbound travelers turn left onto Grand’s eastbound lanes.

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For those traveling around Surprise, getting caught in traffic along U.S. 60, where it bottlenecks between R.H. Johnson Boulevard and 163rd Avenue, is an all too familiar occurrence.

Residents like Rebekah Massie have sat in traffic for about half an hour just to move a few miles.

Conditions are certainly worsened in the mornings and early evenings when people are headed to or coming home from work.

“And if there’s an accident, forget about it,” Massie said, citing instances where lanes were shut down because of a collision.

Such an occurrence happened Feb. 9 when a crash involving two semi-trucks and a car closed a stretch of the 60’s eastbound lane from just before 10:30 a.m. until about 3 p.m.

“Friday, I had errands to run in the afternoon,” she recalled. “I couldn’t get out (of the traffic).”

With Surprise continuing to see rapid population and employment growth, state transportation and city officials have been exploring ways to give commuters some much-needed relief through that 1.7-mile stretch of U.S. 60, or Grand Avenue.

There’s “a lot of development happening northwest of Loop 303 and there’s one point of egress, that’s where it connects with our state highway system,” Arizona Department of Transportation spokesperson Steve Elliott said.

Since the 2020 census, the population in Surprise grew by 7.7%, based on 2022 estimates. That trend is expected to continue, with the county projecting the city’s population to grow by more than 51% in 2030.

Meantime, traffic along U.S. 60, between Loop 303 and 163rd Avenue, grew by nearly 32% over five years from 2017.

An ADOT feasibility in 2022 proposed a list of short- and long-term fixes. In December, ADOT completed some of those immediate road improvement projects.

Down-the-road fixes Massie has been vocal about her concerns with the traffic, starting the website The Grand Failure and launching a petition urging officials to address the congestion. Though traffic was “significantly worse” before ADOT completed its short-term fixes, she said, “there’s still work to do” and conditions are “still nowhere near acceptable.”

That’s where Maricopa County voters can come in. This November, they will decide again whether to extend a half-cent countywide sales tax for transportation projects through Proposition 479.

If passed, the proposition would serve as a continuation of the 20-year tax that voters first approved in 1985 as Proposition 300 and renewed in 2004 as Proposition 400. The extended tax would go toward numerous projects, including completing Loop 303 and State Route 24.

Proposition 479’s passage could also provide ADOT the roughly $133.8 million in funding needed to complete the long-term fixes in Surprise. Those include proposals to construct a Grand Avenue overpass at 163rd Avenue, as well as improve the interchange at U.S.

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Surprise growth, by the numbers The ongoing population and employment growth Surprise is seeing has made it difficult for ADOT and the city to manage the increased traffic needs, Elliot said.

“It is a challenge when you have development that happens quickly,” he said.

U.S. Census Bureau estimates from 2022 put Surprise’s population at around 154,198, up from the 143,148 tallied in the 2020 Census.

By 2030, Surprise’s population is anticipated to reach 234,579, according to the Maricopa County Association of Government’s latest projections.

Over five years from 2017 to 2022 — ADOT’s latest available data — the average annual daily traffic count of vehicles increased around U.S. 60 and Loop 303 area in Surprise. ADOT’s data also includes projections for vehicle traffic in 2042.

U.S. 60, from 163rd Avenue to Loop 303: h 23, 935 vehicles in 2017 h 31,526 vehicles in 2022 h 40,019 vehicles in 2042 (projected) U.S. 60, from Loop 303 to R.H. Johnson/Sunrise Boulevard: h 21,139 vehicles in 2017 h 30,539 vehicles in 2022 h 48,069 vehicles in 2042 (projected) Loop 303, from Bell Road to U.S. 60: h 23,013 vehicles in 2017 h 41,772 vehicles in 2022 h 65,751 vehicles in 2042 (projected) For the stretch between 163rd Avenue and Loop 303, that increase represented a 31.7% increase. From Loop 303 to R.H. Johnson Boulevard, vehicle traffic increased by about 44.5%.

As for the Bell Road to U.S. 60 stretch, that saw the biggest jump in vehicle traffic over the same period, increasing by 81.5%.

Shawn Raymundo covers the West Valley cities of Glendale, Peoria and Surprise. Reach him at sraymundo@gannett.com or follow him on X @ShawnzyTsunami.

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“Any of our friends, any of our business associates who are coming down here get an impression of not just our community, but our ranch when they come down to 86,” Owen said. “And also, 286 runs through the National Wildlife Refuge. So not only is trash on the highway unsightly and ugly to look at, but it also is dangerous for the wildlife.”

Owen started the event with a small amount of people, but the numbers gradually grew year after year. Nine years ago, she expanded the event to become a yearly occurrence with the goal of cleaning all 45 miles of the highway in just one day and gave it the name “All the Way to the Border.”

She said she has to nag people to come out and help, but once they participated in the clean-up, they realized how fun of an experience it is.

“If you look at the pictures of the volunteers along the road, you will see that everybody is laughing and smiling and pranking around with their trash grabbers and their bags,” Owen said. “I always say when I talk to folks at the beginning: we have different politics, we’re going to vote for different presidents, we have different ideas about how public lands should be used and cared for, but none of that matters.”

“We’re picking up trash on 45 miles of highway, and you can’t make that anything other than a good experience,” she added.

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Twenty years ago, Melissa Owen and her husband came down to the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge to look for volunteer work, and she thought that it had the most beautiful land she had ever seen.

She was captivated by the landscape of the refuge, which is a 117,000-acre haven that houses endangered plants and animals located about 75 miles south of Tucson and 7.5 miles from Sasabe and the border, and she wanted to start a life out there surrounded by the lush grassland and rolling hills.

“When I came down here, I just thought this was possibly the most beautiful place in the world,” Owen said.

“And so, my husband and I looked and looked and looked and finally a ranch came up and we just sort of held hands and took the jump and bought it. And that was 20 years ago in April.”

Owen and her husband now lead their lives at their ranch and the two miles outside of it that they adopted, dedicating themselves to conserving the wildlife that surrounds them. They don’t graze cattle, and they don’t allow hunting. Rather leave their 640 acres open for the wildlife to inhabit. Many people might not love the secluded and quiet qualities of the ranch, but Owen said it’s perfect for her.

“It wouldn’t suit everyone, but I don’t mind,” Owen said. “People ask me if I get lonely and I say, well, I have dogs and horses. So no, I don’t get lonely.”

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Owen’s love of nature and emphasis on wildlife conservation encouraged her to do something more to protect the land. She was in charge of volunteer work before she moved out to the ranch and wanted to use those skills to help clean up the land around her.

She started organizing highway cleanup events for State Route 286 in 1995. The highway, which runs from the U.S.-Mexico border at Sasabe to about 25 miles west of Tucson, serves as more than just a road for Owen. She said she views it to be a vital part of her ranch.

She wanted to make sure it was as clean as could be for any visitors as well as the creatures living there.

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Arizonans, get ready: Voting for the state’s first major election of the year is about to begin.

Republican and Democratic voters will select their choice of their party’s presidential nominee during the upcoming presidential preference election.

Republicans will choose from nine possible nominees, including former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. Democrats will see seven candidates on the ballot, including President Joe Biden.

Independents are not eligible to vote in the presidential preference election unless they change their party affiliation.

Early ballots will be mailed on Wednesday, marking the start of the voting period. That’s right after the voter registration deadline, which falls on Tuesday.

Election day is March 19 — but if you plan to get an early start on voting, here’s what to know.

Will I get an early ballot?

If you a registered Republican or Democrat and you are on the Active Early Voting List, you will automatically be sent a ballot in the mail to vote in the presidential preference election.

Remember: Independents aren’t eligible to vote in this election and won’t receive a ballot.

I’m out of town. Will my ballot be forwarded?

No, your ballot will not be automatically sent to your temporary address. Arizona law does not allow official election materials, such as ballots, to be forwarded by the U.S. Postal Service.

If you need a ballot forwarded, you should contact your county recorder.

How do I return my ballot?

Once you receive your ballot, you can return it by mail, drop it off at a secure ballot drop box or voting location, or vote a replacement ballot in person.

Some overseas voters have the option of receiving and returning their ballots electronically.

How do I return my ballot by mail?

If you’re mailing back your ballot, you should put it in the mail no later than seven days before election day to ensure it is delivered on time. For the upcoming presidential preference election, that date is March 12.

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day to be counted.

Postage is prepaid and does not require a stamp.

What if I miss the deadline to mail back my ballot?

You can still vote by dropping off your ballot at a drop box or vote in person at a polling location.

How do I return my ballot via drop box?

If you receive a ballot by mail, you can return it by dropping it off at a secure drop box.

Most Arizona counties offer at least a handful of these boxes. Some are located inside polling places and are only accessible when those sites are open.

Others are located outdoors and are available for voters at all times.

To find ballot drop boxes in your area, check your county recorder’s website.

Is voting by mail or drop box secure?

Yes, both methods are safe and secure.

Only registered voters may request a ballot in the mail, and each voter must sign the outside of their ballot envelope. Those signatures are checked by election workers before a ballot is counted.

Penalties are steep for tampering with mail, which dissuades theft. The U.S. Postal Service began replacing some outdated boxes last year with ones more re-

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we asked a different question about each candidate’s age back in the fall, there was already a wide gap in concern about Biden compared with Trump.”

Most voters who think Trump will be replaced cited his legal troubles while a few mentioned his health.

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WASHINGTON – With House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., showing no indication he plans to bring up new legislation addressing the southern border or foreign aid soon, lawmakers are taking matters into their own hands in hopes of rallying their colleagues behind a Plan B. For example, Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., co-chair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus and Don Bacon, RNeb., are slated to release a bill providing aid to U.S. allies, including Ukraine and Israel.

The legislation would also include a variant of former President Donald Trump’s signature “remain in Mexico” policy, which required those seeking humanitarian asylum to stay in Mexico while they waited for hearings with U.S. immigration judges.

The moderate Republicans worked with a pair of House Democrats, but Fitzpatrick declined to tell reporters whom they collaborated with Thursday.

The bill is an alternative to the Senate’s now-dead $118 billion deal that would have enacted sweeping changes to the nation’s border and immigration policies, along with sending resources to U.S. allies. That deal quickly fell apart after House Republican leaders – along with most GOP lawmakers – declared the bill dead on arrival because they argued the border provisions were not strict enough.

Fitzpatrick and Bacon’s bill largely follows the spirit of the Senate deal – that is, tying border changes to foreign aid – but excludes certain provisions.

The proposal, for instance, does not include humanitarian assistance to Gaza or economic aid to Ukraine. Those omissions could immediately alienate progressive Democrats, who have strongly pushed for humanitarian assistance in any Israel aid package. It also risks turning off many lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who have called for further American assistance to Ukraine.

But Fitzpatrick told reporters on Thursday he will “commit to an open amendment process” that will allow leaders to propose their own changes to the legislation.

Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., chair of the New Democrat Coalition, said the group has been in communication with “colleagues on both sides of the aisle” about its immigration and border framework. J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP

On the border and immigration front, the New Democrat Coalition, a group of almost 100 centrist Democrats, unveiled their own framework on Thursday to address the crisis on the southern border.

Included in the proposal is an increase in funding for the Department of Homeland Security; permanent residence for “Dreamers,” or undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children; asylum reform; and other potential plans.

The chair of the moderate coalition, Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., said at a news conference that the group has been in communication with “colleagues on both sides of the aisle” about the framework and that they are “open to a conversation about how to get all of this done.”

“We are the raging centrists,” said Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., a member of

the group. “This is a framework, and it’s reaching out a hand to offer to our Republican friends to come over and work with us and reach bipartisan solutions.”

But when asked about Fitzpatrick and Bacon’s separate plan, Kuster said it appears to only have “narrow fixes.” She questioned whether it would garner significant Democratic support, underscoring the longtime difficulties Congress has faced as it tries to pass any sort of border and immigration reform.

“It’s a math problem, right? I don’t know that they will get the votes that they need,” Kuster said.

The two efforts from the House’s most moderate lawmakers points to the particular political standstill Congress finds itself in. Members are attempting to address the crisis on the southern border while simultaneously supporting U.S.

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for would-be operators of “psychedelicassisted therapy centers as a health care institution.” Entities that apply would require at least 51% ownership by someone who’s lived in the state for at least four years. Each facility would employ a medical director who’s gone through at least 132 hours of specialized training.

The bill would establish a new, 12member Psilocybin Advisory Board within the state Department of Health Services that would oversee clinic operations. The state health agency would be tasked with developing rules for the program.

Anyone 21 or older could sign up for a session. Only whole mushrooms could be used, not synthetic psilocybin. Patients wouldn’t need to suffer from any particular condition to sign up for a session. Clinics couldn’t be located near a K-12 school in most cases. Patients would have to consume their entire allotment of mushrooms at the clinic during a supervised session and would not be allowed to take any home.

Obtaining or growing mushrooms must not violate the federal Controlled Substances Act, according to the law.

For now, that means the source likely would be Sue Sisley of the Scottsdale Research Institute, who holds a federal license to cultivate them for research. A company could operate a clinic as part of a research program, the law states.

“The bill creates a federally legal system for accessing federally legal psilocybin mushrooms,” Sisley said.

allies, both issues described by Democrats and Republicans alike as urgent matters.

After the collapse of the Senate’s emergency spending deal, senators passed stand-alone legislation for foreign aid and national security without the border provisions. Johnson and House Republicans railed against the move immediately.

But Johnson has said he sees no need to quickly consider the Senate’s latest bill, telling reporters on Tuesday he was focused on averting a government shutdown. Part of the federal government’s funding expires on March 1.

He also called for new legislation to address the southern border, despite already rejecting the initial deal senators worked on for months to marry foreign aid and border security goals.

B The group had traveled to the U.S.Mexico border from India. They spoke limited English but managed to convey that some in the group had been traveling for nearly six weeks, flying to Europe before making their way to northern Mexico.

Wingo directed them to one of six new water stations that Humane Borders installed along the border fence in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

Since the summer, this park became one of the busiest areas along the entire southern U.S. border, with agents picking up hundreds of migrants each day.

“In 2 minutes, they (smugglers) can cut the wall, people come through and then they take off. And then Border Patrol finds the people, finds the hole, and then calls the welders, and so it’s a constant circle,” Wingo said.

A few hundred yards away from the water station where the group of migrants from India waited, farther down along Puerto Blanco Drive, a dirt road that rings the rugged desert landscape of the national monument, U.S. Border Patrol agents set up a station over the summer.

Large brown military tents poked out from the towering saguaros that provide shade for migrants picked up by agents and waiting to be transported.

Every day on Arizona State Route 85, dozens of white vans carried up to 15 people, and large white buses with the capacity for 50 more, take migrants from Organ Pipe to the Ajo Border Patrol Station for processing.

In 2023, Border Patrol agents encountered more than 617,000 migrants at the Arizona border. The Sonoran Desert once again became the busiest corridor for migrant crossings along the entire U.S.-Mexico border. The volume was so high there were not enough agents and buses to process them. It would take hours to pick up a single group.

In his experience doing runs several times a week, Wingo said, the migrants crossing at Organ Pipe wait to be picked up by border agents at the water stations next to the fence. But he worries for the migrants who evade border agents and instead trek into the arid, rugged desert.

Even though the number of migrants crossing has gone up, there has not been a corresponding increase in the number of migrant deaths.

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Illicit use of mushrooms rising Positive media coverage of psilocybin mushrooms and wider acceptance of their medical benefit have likely increased their illicit use, according to recent studies.

Joseph Palamar, an assistant professor who researches public health at New York University Langone Health, published an article in the medical journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence earlier this month showing that psilocybin mushroom seizures nearly tripled from 2017 to 2022.

“I suspect that many seizures that have taken place in states or cities with more liberal psychedelic laws have been related to people unlawfully selling shrooms,” Palamar told The Republic.

“More liberal laws are often associated with law enforcement simply looking the other way.”

Arizona DEA spokeswoman Jodie Underwood confirmed that Arizona is among the states seeing more seizures.

“Historically, DEA Arizona investigations have not routinely encountered psilocybin, yet over the last couple of years we have seen an increase,” she said in a written statement. “These incidents involved the seizure of other illicit drugs such as fentanyl, methamphetamine, marijuana etc.”

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ting that can cost $1,000 for a single trip.

Shope and Mozell told The Republic that like it or not, new psilocybin mushroom policy is on its on its way to Arizona. The clinical use bill will help Arizona keep control of the industry, which could get out of hand if out-of-state operators launch a ballot measure. Arizona law makes changing successful ballot measures difficult, requiring a threequarters supermajority of legislators.

Even then, the change must “further the purpose” of the measure.

Arizona’s in the “infancy” stage of the psilocybin market, Shope said. He wants to take advantage of opportunities that were missed when advocates of medical marijuana put up a ballot measure in 2010 that voters approved.

“I’d like to think we all have the best intentions here of trying to lay this out as properly as possible,” he said. “It gives us an opportunity a year from now if something’s not working to go ahead and fix it.”

Gary Smith, president and co-founder of the Arizona Cannabis Bar Association, has been studying the mushroom market. He is convinced an initiative that would decriminalize mushrooms or legalize their clinical use is inevitable.

While he backs Shope’s bill, he also said it will “create a black market” because of the high cost of the treatment.

“You can grow these under your bed in a shoebox for pennies,” he said. “Once the public finds that out, it’s game over.”

The psilocybin mushroom industry would likely never be as large as the billion-dollar cannabis market.

A 2022 study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse showed that 44% of Americans aged 19 to 35 used cannabis products in the prior year, while 8 percent used psychedelic drugs of all kinds, including psilocybin mushrooms, LSD and MDMA.

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Users of psilocybin mushrooms, also known as “magic mushrooms,” often report poignant insights and revelatory thoughts about themselves while under the influence. Researchers have found for decades that mushrooms and other psychedelic drugs can be useful in treating alcoholism, depression and other health conditions.

Recent studies have shown a single mushroom trip could produce months of significant mental benefits for depression patients and several years of relief for people in distress from lifethreatening cancers.

Tribal societies around the world have used psilocybin mushrooms and other psychedelic drugs for thousands of years for medicine, or in religious ceremonies. The modern psychedelic mushroom businesses sometimes incorporate shamanism or indigenous spiritual beliefs in facilitator training and patient sessions. Scientific studies of psychedelic experiences rely on answers patients give on a Mystical Experience Questionnaire, which asks whether the participant “experienced eternity or infinity.”

In 2020, Oregon and Colorado voters approved the mushrooms for clinical use. Several cities, including Detroit and Seattle, have decriminalized them. California Gov. Gavin Newsome vetoed a decriminalization bill in October, but the state is considering legalizing the therapy. While Colorado’s program isn’t yet operational, Oregon now has an array of businesses similar to those Arizona is considering in which people schedule mushroom experiences in a clinical set-

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ing the anxiety of terminal illnesses.

“I think it’s building a path to making this part of the fabric of Arizona,” Humble said. He added that once Arizonans get comfortable with the idea of clinical use, another law could decriminalize the mushrooms.

Owen said she is proud of the event and the impact it has. She has seen all different types of people come to visit the land she loves, but she wishes more people in the state would come to help as well, not only for this event but with the wildlife refuge as well.

“We have visitors from all over the world who come here, but yet folks in Tucson kind of just don’t. And one of the things I like about this event is that it gets folks down here, and they see the refuge and how beautiful it is, and then they come back to visit. So, I would like this event to encourage people to visit the National Wildlife Refuge.”

The Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge has many volunteer opportunities, including maintenance of trails and campsites, helping on handyman projects, leading nature walks, presentations to schools and other groups, and more. Details about volunteer opportunities at the Refuge as well as the numerous species kept there can be found on their website.

Owen hopes she can continue to get more and more people to come down to help conserve a place that she feels is special.

“I seriously think this is one of the most beautiful places on earth, and I’m not kidding about that,” Owen said.

“We don’t have a Grand Canyon, we don’t have snow-topped mountains.

It’s grassland, but it’s absolutely beautiful.”

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Mushrooms within the conservative wheelhouse.

“We’re talking about the freedom to choose your health care plan with something that has been, I think, proven to be of help to some people,” Shope said. “At the end of the day, I think that’s the basis of conservatism — the choice to be able to do something like that.”

Shope told The Arizona Republic he crafted the bill after talking to lobbyists from the Psychedelic Association of Arizona, including mental health lawyer Josh Mozell. He said he was also impressed by a news report about claims made by Bob Parsons, the billionaire founder of domain-name giant GoDaddy.com, on the health benefits of psychedelic experiences.

Parsons, who lives in Scottsdale, spoke in favor of the bill and his success in treating his PTSD with psychedelic drugs at Tuesday’s hearing. A veteran of the Marine Corps, Parsons told the panel he left the Vietnam War with mental scars that disrupted his family life and led to two divorces. Curious about psychedelics after other treatments failed, in 2018 he spent three days in Hawaii for guided trips on LSD, psilocybin mushrooms and ayahuasca. He’s since donated millions of dollars to psychedelic research.

“The change is remarkable and the downsides, none,” Parsons said, adding that it would be a “renaissance” if Arizona passed the bill.

Shope’s bill has only a few outspoken critics.

Deborah Geesling, a member of Arizona Mad Moms, a group that lobbies for help for people with serious mental illness, registered in opposition of the bill. She worries that use of psilocybin mushrooms on people with or predisposed to mental illness could make their conditions worse.

“There hasn’t been enough research,” she said. “Who stands to benefit from this?”

Committee members voted 7-0 to advance the bill for a vote by the full Senate. If successful there, it will then move to the House. Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs hasn’t yet taken a position on it, spokesperson Christian Slater said.

The trajectory of magic mushrooms as a commercial enterprise appears similar to that of recreational cannabis, which is now legal in about half the states. It all began with proponents touting the benefits of medical marijuana.

Will Humble, executive director of the Arizona Public Health Association, said the Shope bill seems like a first step in creating a larger industry for the future. He and his organization, which represents a wide range of health care professionals, support the bill because of studies showing its usefulness in eas-

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The poll, conducted between Feb. 8 and Feb. 12, found that 48% of voters think it is very or somewhat likely that Biden will be replaced as the Democratic nominee.

By comparison, the poll found that 32% of voters think it is very or somewhat likely that Trump will be replaced as the Republican nominee.

The voters who think Biden will be replaced generally cited concerns about his age, physical health and mental stamina.

Questions around Biden’s age and acuity have only increased after special counsel Robert Hur released a scathing report that portrayed the president as a “well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”

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The act of cleaning up an entire highway in a day sounds like a daunting task, but Owen said there are ways to make it easier. The event is under the umbrella of the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Adopt a Highway Program, where volunteers can apply to adopt a section of the highway and keep it litter-free.

Owen said that about 13 miles of the highway have been adopted, which means there is a substantial chunk of it that she doesn’t have to account for.

Owen said she encourages her volunteers to adopt a mile, so it is easier to clean the entirety of the highway.

Two-way stretches of a highway can be adopted from ADOT for a minimum of two years. Details about how the process of cleaning up the road works can be found online at azdot.gov.

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the remaining miles to different groups of volunteers to cover as much ground as possible. This year, a group of more than 100 volunteers cleaned up 37 miles of the highway and gathered 261 bags of trash as well as a pickup truck carrying old tires, coolers and couches on Jan. 27.

She said the event has cleaned up all 45 miles of the highway before, but this year’s amount of litter was more than usual because there’s been more activity on the border lately.

Plastic water bottles and beer cans are the most common pieces of junk picked up, but Owens has seen an array of items ranging from clothes, necklaces, and coolers, and one time, she even saw a cannonball get picked up from the side of the highway.

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Survey: Health workers see disparities At a Pennsylvania hospital, a Black nurse said her emergency room colleagues routinely withheld pain medication from Black patients who sought relief from sickle cell disease.

In Montana, a phlebotomist said fellow health care workers often made “ignorant comments” about the hospital’s Native American patients.

Both of these accounts surfaced in a report last week from the Commonwealth Fund and the African American Research Collaborative, based on interviews with thousands of workers who shared their experiences at hospitals and health facilities under the condition they not be identified in the groups’ findings.

Researchers surveyed 3,000 health care workers in what authors described as a first-of-its-kind effort to quantify whether employees see discrimination within their workplace. The five categories of health facilities included hospitals, nursing homes, outpatient care such as urgent care centers, mental health and addiction treatment centers and community or school health centers.

Nearly half of health care workers at these facilities witnessed discrimination against patients in their workplace. Younger and Black or Latino health care workers were more likely than their older or white counterparts to say they noticed discrimination against patients.

Among the key findings in the survey: 52% of U.S. health care workers said that racism against patients was a major problem. In addition, employees at health facilities with a higher percentage of Black or Latino patients witnessed higher rates of discrimination. At hospitals with a majority of Black patients, 70% of workers said they witnessed discrimination against patients based on their race or ethnicity. For hospitals with mostly Latino patients, that figure was 61%.

The report’s findings show that discrimination against patients is a problem, said Dr. Laurie Zephyrin, a senior vice president for advancing health equity at the Commonwealth Fund who co-authored the report.

“It is something that needs to be addressed,” Zephyrin said. “It is something that not only affects patients but also affects health care workers. It creates stress.”

Doctors not involved in the report said the effort to quantify discrimination in health care settings is important.

Dr. Yolanda Lawson, a Dallas obstetrics and gynecology specialist, is president of the National Medical Association, which represents Black physicians. She said the report validates what many physicians and other health care workers know to be true – that discrimination and bias exist in health care settings.

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for us to recognize it or call it out.”

The phone and online survey was conducted from March 14 through April 5, 2023. It collected replies from more than two dozen types of health care workers, including doctors, nurses, dentists, medical assistants, dental hygienists, physician assistants, mental health workers and administrators.

The survey “oversampled” Black, Latino and Asian and Pacific Islander health care workers to ensure a large enough sample size to yield a smaller margin of error, said Henry Fernandez, chief executive officer of African American Research Collaborative and lead author of the report.

Among other findings, the report’s authors said the generational divide among health care workers was telling, with 59% of workers younger than 40 facing stress due to discrimination compared with 26% of workers 60 or older. Younger workers were more aware of discrimination or more likely to see signs of it.

Fernandez said this finding should be a pivotal area of focus, especially as the health care industry hires and trains young workers to address chronic workforce shortages.

The report suggested several fixes to address discrimination in health care, including training medical staff to spot discrimination and requiring nursing, medical and other health schools to provide classes about discrimination. Another proposal: create a method for patients and health care workers to anonymously report discrimination.

Hospitals and other facilities also should examine how they treat non-English speakers. Latino health workers said patients who speak languages other than English are not always treated equally, the report said.

Another finding from the study has also resonated for many: Nearly half of the health workers surveyed said their colleagues are more accepting of white patients when they advocate for their care than of Black patients.

Zephyrin said differing treatment for patients who advocate for themselves is concerning. In an ideal setting, patients should be encouraged to ask questions

and notify a supervisor when a doctor or nurse isn’t responding to their needs, Zephyrin said.

But the report suggests that when patients attempt to advocate for themselves, they may be treated differently based on their race.

Lawson, the Dallas specialist, said when she was in her third year of medical school, she noticed how some doctors talked over patients and failed to listen to their concerns. As a student, she was with a group of other medical students, young doctors and a teaching physician at a Veterans Administration hospital.

The doctor instructing the students and resident doctors described the medical care at the bedside of an elderly Black veteran. The veteran was confused by what the doctors were discussing, and nobody took the time to explain any of it to him, Lawson recalled.

As the group of resident doctors and medical students rounded to the next patient, the man held out his hand for Lawson, the only Black person in the group.

“He asked, ‘What did they say?’ ” Lawson said.

She explained details of his treatment for multiple chronic conditions. It’s a lesson she retained and applied throughout her professional career – and one she relays to young doctors.

“You talk to the patient. You include them in their care,” Lawson said. “That’s all I really hope for, (that) everyone who interfaces with the health care system is respected.”

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Warren and Jayapal sent letters to each of the companies following up on the FTC’s warning. Three of the 10 companies did not say the flagged drugs were improper but did take them off the list, including several types of epinephrine injectors (often known by the brand name EpiPen) and inhalers.

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Now that former President Donald Trump has been socked with a combined $536.8 million in losses from two damaging courtroom defeats, the question is: Will his opponents ever see a dime of the money?

The Republican presidential frontrunner and his business trust were ordered to pay $453.5 million in penalties and interest on Friday, after a New York judge ruled Trump had spent years fraudulently inflating the value of real estate holdings, including his own Trump Tower penthouse and his private club in Florida.

And last month a federal jury in Manhattan ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million to writer E. Jean Carroll in a defamation case stemming from Carroll’s allegation that he sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s.

Trump won’t ‘go gently’ Trump says both cases were political hit jobs aimed at stalling his campaign for the GOP nomination, and he’s vowed to appeal.

“Donald Trump is going to fight this to the end and is going to try and delay and delay until the last possible moment,” said George Arzt, a veteran New York political consultant.

“There is no chance that he is going to go gently.”

But that won’t stop New York Attorney General Letitia James, who sued Trump for real estate fraud, or Carroll and her lawyers from trying to seize their awards upfront, experts say.

Defendants in Trump’s position quickly become vulnerable to collection actions even during an appeal − unless they can secure what’s called an appeal bond or place a cash deposit with the court that, with interest, typically exceeds the amount of the judgment.

In the real estate fraud case, that

‘Taking his assets’ If Trump pursues an appeal without getting a bond or placing a deposit with the courts, Carroll and James would normally be allowed to go after the money right away.

That “would mean liquidating bank accounts, taking his assets, not just in New York, but any place in the United States,” Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor who has practiced law in New York for about three decades, told USA TODAY. “It’s a really bad outcome, which is why most people and most companies, if they take an appeal, try to figure out a way to put up the undertaking, to stay the judgment, during the course of the appeal,” Epner said.

But even getting a bond or depositing the cash can be no easy feat when facing the kind of legal judgments Trump is up against.

Will he face a cash crunch?

While the state of Trump’s finances remains somewhat opaque, third-party estimates peg the real estate and reality TV titan’s net worth at well above the hefty New York judgments. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his fortune at $3.1 billion last year, while Forbes reported it at $2.6 billion.

That surplus might suggest Trump can comfortably pay. But his actual financial comfort level likely has more to do with how much cash he has on hand.

And very few companies – even wellcapitalized ones – have several hundreds of millions of dollars simply lying around, Epner said.

“If you are a business, you want to have your assets at work, in real estate, in operating companies, in things that are going to be paying you more than the amount of interest you can get by putting it into a bank,” Epner said.

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Which means Trump will probably feel the pinch, even if he is a billionaire several times over.

“A nine-figure number, coming on top of the $83.3 million number in the E. Jean Carroll case, is going to put a very severe cash flow crunch on Donald Trump,” Epner said.

100%, plus interest Carroll’s $83.3 million win against Trump came from a New York federal court that has discretion over what kind of deposit or bond to require from Trump in order to block Carroll from collecting during his appeal. That court typically also requires 100% of the judgment, plus interest. After Trump lost an earlier case against Carroll to the tune of $5 million, he left a deposit exceeding that amount with the court while he pursued an ongoing appeal.

In both cases, it’s possible for a court to block the winning parties from swiftly going after the money. But if that doesn’t happen and Trump can’t find the cash, he could be hounded by Carroll

Carroll lawyer Roberta Kaplan has already pledged to go after the full amount in the $83.3 million defamation case.

“Even if he doesn’t have the cash on hand, he has plenty of assets, and he may have to sell his assets to pay us, but we’re going to get the money,” Kaplan said on “CBS Mornings.”

“If he can’t get an appeals bond, then he has to put up an undertaking in the court itself, and that ordinarily is cash,” Epner said.

‘Avoid bankruptcy at all cost’ Filing for bankruptcy is still an option. That’s what former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani did in the wake of a $148 million court loss in a separate defamation suit brought by two Georgia election workers. Filing for bankruptcy triggers an automatic pause on efforts to collect from the debtor.

But filing for bankruptcy would have major downsides.

“I think Trump would avoid bankruptcy at all cost because if he were to file, the bankruptcy court allows super broad discovery into his financial affairs, with the help of subpoena power, and I think he would not want that,” said Albert Togut, a lawyer with 45 years of experience in bankruptcy law.

“In the same manner that Trump didn’t want to disclose his taxes when he was running for president or when he was president, I can’t imagine that he would ever want a trustee with federal court powers to be looking into his affairs,” Togut told USA TODAY.

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Calif. floods worsen homelessness crisis Storm poses safety risk, threat of displacement Kayla Jimenez, Cybele Mayes-Osterman and Elizabeth Weise USA TODAY

SAN DIEGO – Record rains soaked California’s cities last week, exacerbating a homelessness crisis and endangering thousands of people who are living without consistent shelter.

Amid a deluge of rain on Feb. 4, staffers at Los Angeles’ Midnight Mission homeless shelter opened their doors and dining room to more than 100 unhoused people living on Skid Row. “People are freezing to their core, so being able to come in and sleep, get clean with showers and dry clothes is a big deal,” said Georgia Berkovich, a spokesperson for Midnight Mission.

“For people on the street, once your clothes are wet it’s over.”

The Southern California deluge hit unhoused people particularly hard because the region doesn’t usually get this drenched.

New York gets more than 45 inches of rain a year on average, while Chicago gets 36 inches. In contrast, Los Angeles typically gets about 14 inches of rain a year, and San Diego just over 10 inches.

These historic storms dumped half of that amount, 7 inches, in just two days – Feb. 4 and 5 – according to the National Weather Service.

Because of that, homeless communities in cities like New York and Chicago have more experience – and infrastructure – to combat the deadly effects of storms. In Southern California, it’s a different story.

The Midnight Mission shelter typically sees about 30 people on a normal night, Berkovich said. But the numbers increased more than threefold as an unprecedented 6 inches of rain devastated homeless encampments across the city during a storm that brought record-setting rainfall to California.

It also brought hundreds of landslides and mudslides in California, leaving devastation for some of the more than 181,000 people experiencing

People cross the street under heavy rain Feb. 5 in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, one of the largest populations of homeless people in the U.S. The Southern California deluge hit unhoused people particularly hard because the region doesn’t usually get this drenched. DAMIAN DOVARGANES/AP

homelessness across the state – especially for those living outdoors. Mayors from Los Angeles and San Diego both declared evacuation warnings for people living in low-lying and flood-prone areas.

The rains turned dry areas wet, trickles into streams and streams into torrents. Many unhoused people in Southern California find places to camp that are hidden away to avoid police sweeps, which can mean along riverbeds that are typically dry or shallow, under bridges and in tunnels – all areas that were swamped during the storms.

Service providers told USA TODAY that an influx of people need dry, clean clothes and a warm place for refuge.

And even more people are displaced after the floods ruined their homes. Now, they’re in desperate need of resources to help people facing life-or-death circumstances.

This record-setting winter is particularly difficult for people who are unhoused in San Diego, said Father Joe’s Village Deacon Jim Vargas. The organization helps people experiencing homelessness in San Diego with meals, shelter, ponchos and other resources they need year-round and during the storms.

“We’re fortunate and blessed to be able to provide additional spots for people who need it,” Vargas said. But even facilities used for sheltering people from the rain during the storm have incurred damage.

“A couple of weeks ago from today we were hit with extremely heavy rain and flooding,” he said Monday. “A couple of our buildings were flooded, including our health center, which was very, very challenging.”

Officials statewide also opened up additional resources to help unhoused residents cope with the dangerous conditions.

“We know the severe impact that weather can have on our communities, and we are making sure Los Angeles is prepared on behalf of our residents, including the unhoused Angelenos living on our streets, to get through this storm,” said Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass before the storm system hit the city.

Camps, shelters devastated In Los Angeles, unhoused people huddled under makeshift tarps and overhangs to escape the rain, photos in

the Los Angeles Times show. On Wednesday, a pregnant woman who had been living in a storm drain was rescued near Anaheim.

Many people lost their belongings, clothes and tents to the rain’s damage, Berkovich said. And the sudden cold weather patterns can create fatal health risks for people who live outside.

Soaked clothing and bedding draws heat from the body rather than holding it in, putting those who live outside at risk.

“It’s so strange. In L.A. we have this great climate, but people die of exposure to weather on our streets all the time,” Berkovich added.

At least 14 people died from hypothermia on the streets of Los Angeles in 2021, The Guardian reported. And more unhoused people died from freezing temperatures in Los Angeles than in New York in 2019, the Los Angeles Times reported.

“And as it gets rainier, more people can develop hypothermia,” Vargas said Monday.

Volunteers offer support Rob and Amy Reardon saw the emotional toll that the flood took on unhoused people in San Diego firsthand.

They’ve worked with the San Diego Regional Office of the Salvation Army for 26 years. On Jan. 22 when torrential rains flooded city streets, Amy Reardon said that she had “a lot of people come in during the first week who just would sit down and start to cry.”

Rob Reardon said apart from the pressing need for material help, mental health support for victims of the disaster was in huge demand.

“It’s kind of like a triage counseling session,” he said of the response at the emergency centers.

Both said they feared the flooding over the last few weeks would exacerbate the already dire need for more mental health support for San Diego’s unhoused population.

“We’re all trying to do our part, but the resources are very slim, and in some places nonexistent,” Rob Reardon said.

The flooding, he said, could “overwhelm the resources that are already in place.”

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Despite diagnosis, Charles Super Bowl highlights ‘Black national anthem’ highly unlikely to abdicate Song used often during Civil Rights Movement

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Grammy and Golden Globe winner Andra Day will perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at the Super Bowl on Sunday, a distance of a century-plus and thousands of miles from where it was first performed.

Here’s how the song’s writer, James Weldon Johnson, described its debut, according to the book “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

“A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate (former President Abraham) Lincoln’s birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercises. I wrote the words and he wrote the music. Our New York publisher, Edward B. Marks, made mimeographed copies for us, and the song was taught to and sung by a chorus of five hundred colored school children,” he said.

Johnson went on to describe how it went beyond the brothers and spread across parts of the country.

“Shortly afterwards my brother and I moved away from Jacksonville to New York, and the song passed out of our minds. But the school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children.

Within 20 years it was being sung over the South and in some other parts of the country. Today the song, popularly known as the ‘Negro National Hymn,’ is quite generally used.

“The lines of this song repay me in an elation, almost of exquisite anguish, whenever I hear them sung by Negro children.”

Now known as “The Black National Anthem,” it was used prominently by the NAACP during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, according to the NAACP. James Weldon Johnson was born in

Andra Day will perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at Sunday’s game in Las Vegas. The song, written by two brothers from Florida, was used prominently by the NAACP during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, according to the NAACP.Andra Day will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the Super Bowl. ROBYN BECK/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Jacksonville in 1871. Educated at Atlanta University, he was the first Black person to pass the bar exam in Florida, according to Emory University. And he was the first Black person to serve as the United States consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua.

He eventually joined the NAACP staff, becoming executive secretary. After retiring from his position as head of the NAACP in 1930, he joined the faculty of Fisk University as a creative writing professor.

He died in 1938.

J. Rosamond Johnson was born in Jacksonvillein 1873 and began playing piano at 4 years old. He later studied at the New England Conservatory, according to the Library of Congress.

He composed music throughout his life, including two musicals in New York City.

During World War I, he received a commission as a second lieutenant in the 15th Regiment. After the war, he toured and even played a part in the original production of “Porgy and Bess” in 1935. He died in New York City on Nov. 11, 1954, according to the Library of Congress.

If cancer were to cause Britain’s King Charles III to abdicate the throne, the move would be wholly unexpected and virtually without precedent and would represent a push into uncharted waters.

Many royal experts are blunt in their skepticism. “It’ll happen 10 minutes after hell freezes over,” said Majesty magazine Managing Editor Joe Little.

Carolyn Harris, royals expert and history instructor at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Education, suggests only scandal would prompt the move: “In Britain, you don’t see peaceful abdications.”

What’s more, the powerful legacy of the late Queen Elizabeth II’s shining serve-unto-death example, and the complexity of engineering an abdication, also would prove obstacles for such a development.

But still, if the unthinkable were to happen, “King Charles III likely wouldn’t be seen often in public,” said Harris. He would focus on his health, and little more, she said.

The king would have to be severely incapacitated to decide to abdicate, considering “the examples of his mother and father to keep calm and carry on,” Harris said.

The only other British king to abdicate in recent memory is Edward VIII in 1936, who passed the throne to his brother George VI, Elizabeth’s father.

If Charles were to take this unexpected step, “another complication is that he is the king of 14 Commonwealth realms, and they’d all have to be on board with an abdication,” Harris said.

“There’s a statute that says the United Kingdom can’t make changes to the monarchy without consulting all the countries, so you’d be looking at meetings with prime ministers of Canada, New Zealand and beyond before this could happen.”

Abdication is not nearly as uncommon in other monarchies, experts say.

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complications; Emperor Akihito of Japan in 2019, for health reasons; and King Juan Carlos I of Spain in 2014, for personal reasons.

The other option facing Charles would be to pass his duties on to his eldest son through the Regency Act, which serves to protect the monarchy should the king or queen become truly incapacitated.

The provision harks back to the 18thcentury Regency period and the socalled madness of King George III, who had acute porphyria, which brought on hallucinations, nausea and pain. His duties were assumed by his son, the prince regent, who ultimately became King George IV. “It’s never been invoked in modern times, but should that happen, the Prince of Wales (William) would take over the major functions of his father,” Little said. “But honestly, depending on (Charles’) condition, it is just as easy for him to continue functioning as king but perhaps without the public appearances.

“Charles has waited so long to be king, considering how long his mother lived and ruled, and now this has befallen him (less than) two years into his reign,” Little said. “He’s stoic. He will carry on.”

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According to The Guardian, Elmore believes the thieves stole the tower to make money off selling the metal.

The GM told the Guardian that around six months ago, a different station that was close by had an AC unit, copper pipes, and other materials stolen. Elmore is not sure if the two are connected.

When speaking with the media outlet, Elmore added that Jasper has always supported its local stations.

“The sad part is that Jasper has always been a radio town,” he told the Guardian.

The station has started a GoFundMe to help recover the cost of the tower.

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So far, the station has raised $766 out of the $60,000 required.

“This is a major setback for a small operation like ours,” said Elmore in a statement. “But I have faith that we will uncover the culprits. This is a federal crime, and they will realize it wasn’t worth it.”

On the station’s website, it reports that it was trying to work with the FCC for temporary authority to continue business as usual on FM radio while they rebuild their tower and get back onto the AM side of the radio But Thursday morning, the FCC told them they would not be allowed to broadcast. While the station does have an FM transmitter and tower, the FCC said they would have to go off the air since it isn’t allowed to operate on the FM side of things while their AM station is off-air, The Guardian reported.

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It’s unclear how long the rebuild process will actually take, Alabama news outlet WSFA reports. According to a statement given to WSFA by the radio station, they did shut down their FM tower, but the station will continue to its broadcast online.

The Guardian says Elmore is still hopeful that more will be revealed, either on surveillance video from the poultry factory or a witness who worked at the plant and saw what happened.

In the station’s statement, they confirmed that the Jasper Police Department is investigating the tower theft.

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“I have tried all weekend to figure it out, and I just can’t,” Brett Elmore, the general manager of WJLX’s AM station in Jasper, Alabama, said in a statement last week.

“I have been in the radio business, around it all my life and then in it professionally for 26 years, and I can say I have never heard of anything like this. I can say I’ve seen it all now.”

According to the statement, Elmore learned about the theft of WJLX’s tower on Feb. 2. A landscaping company went to the tower, which was located in a wooded area behind a local poultry

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His death has removed President Vladimir Putin of his greatest political foe who organized mass anti-Kremlin protests and crusaded against corruption. It has also deprived the Russian opposition of its most well-known politician and sparked a search for Navalny’s body, which his team said was not being returned to his family until official tests are done.

An official note handed to Navalny’s mother stated that he died at 2:17 p.m. local time Friday, said Kira Yarmysh, Navalny’s spokesperson. She added that an employee of the prison colony said that Navalny’s body was taken to the nearby city of Salekhard as part of a probe into his death.

Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, wrote on X that Navalny’s mother had been told by prison officials that her son had perished due to “sudden death syndrome” when she arrived at his former penal colony Saturday with one of the politician’s lawyers.

Russia’s Investigative Committee, Yarmysh said, informed his team that the body would not be handed over to his relatives until those investigations had been completed.

Navalny’s death has left many young Russians reeling from the loss of who they described as their last hope for a liberal democratic Russia.

Navalny, who first rose to prominence as an anti-corruption blogger, captured the attention of liberal Russians for leading the 2011 “white ribbon” protests against Putin’s decision to return to the presidency after serving six years as prime minister.

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Navalny was serving several prison sentences, including a more recent 19year sentence on “extremism” charges that a court handed him in August. He had been imprisoned since January 2021, when he returned to Moscow just months after he was poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in a botched assassination attempt.

Though Navalny had never won an election, his allies and supporters frequently insisted that if he survived imprisonment and outlived the Putin regime, he could become president and set the country on a decidedly different political path.

His death, exactly one month before Russia’s 2024 presidential election, dashed the aspirations of a generation that never even had the chance to cast a ballot for Navalny.

“This just reaffirms the harsh reality my parents warned me about,” Dasha said. “Returning to a country led by individuals willing to resort to murder holds no appeal.”

“What has happened to Navalny is even more proof of Putin’s brutality,” Biden said during a news conference Friday. “No one should be fooled.”

Yana, 21, decided to leave her hometown in Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Now in Israel, Yana said that she has rarely thought about returning home, but when she did it was always because of Navalny.

“He was this symbol of childish bravery,” she said.

“I’d always think, ‘If Lesha will become president, I might consider coming back,’” Yana added, referring to Navalny by a diminutive of his first name.

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Dasha, a Russian student studying in Los Angeles, said she planned to return to Russia in the summer to visit family.

Now, she feels “a sense of dread” about the upcoming trip.

Dasha, and other Russian citizens interviewed by USA TODAY, agreed to speak on the condition they were only identified by their first name due to concerns of retaliation against them and their family members back home.

Dasha said that she viewed Navalny “as the last courageous voice standing in a landscape of fear and repression.”

“Navalny symbolized the beacon of hope for me and Russia’s future,” she added.

Matthew, a recent college graduate living in Moscow, said in Russian that he and others his age viewed Navalny as “the most striking example of open opposition in modern Russia.”

While the news of Navalny’s reported death did not immediately spark massive public protests in Russia’s largest cities – likely due to repressive laws that forbid protests – videos circulating on Telegram, a social media channel, showed hundreds of people in major cities laying flowers at makeshift memorials in honor of Navalny.

Some videos also showed Russian police officers arresting some mourners, but it is unclear how many arrests had been made.

Matthew said that while he is personally still struggling to process Navalny’s death, when the “realization comes, the fact of his death is discouraging, takes away hope, and puts you into a stupor.”

Matthew, however, said that Russians like him won’t give up on their dreams for political change in Russia.

“Navalny says that in the event of his death to not give up hope,” Matthew said, referring to a 2022 documentary about Navalny’s recovery from the assassination attempt.

“Hope lives in each of us,” he said.

“We must take care of our family and friends, engage in our own personal development, and never run away from somewhere but follow the goal – like Navalny did.”

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Even in 1936, the company now known as Mayo Garden Centers was deemed “the oldest ‘one-man company’ in Knoxville,” by the Knoxville News-Sentinel. For nearly 150 years, Mayo has been a landmark stop for garden products, outdoor equipment and furniture.

Mayo Garden Centers is so deeply rooted in Knoxville history that May 18 is designated as “Mayo Seed Company Day” in Knox County.

Daniel “D.R.” Mayo founded the business in 1878. His legacy has carried to a fifth generation of Mayos running the business, helmed by great-grandson Claxton Mayo Jr. and great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth Mayo Cox. The story of how plant seeds sprouted one of Knoxville’s oldest family-owned businesses began in a small storefront on Gay Street.

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Musky fishing is, in Paul’s words, a “bourgeoisie” sport due to high prices for baits that are difficult to use. Plus, it takes forever to catch a musky, also called the fish of 10,000 casts.

Originally from Huntington, West Virginia, and the son of a musky fisherman, Paul moved to Alcoa nearly 20 years ago for the fishing.

He’s a muskie guide, co-owner of the app Musky 360, and holder of Tennessee’s state musky record.

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Normally, fishermen need three lures to catch a musky: a light, medium and heavy weighted one, each getting to a certain depth. Paul’s Titan lure combines all three weights into one lure with an interchangeable weight. It’s a one-stop shop that’s easy Want to to use for $31.99. try it out?

Paul said baits are typically $50-$100.

The Titan’s smaller companion, the Titan Jr., was named one Check out of the best new products at the 2023 European Fishing Tackle Tennessee's Trade Exhibition. “It’s accessible, which has been my thing,” guide to all Paul said. “Making it accessible, making it where I don’t want things fishing people to feel like they got hosed.”

Time, effort and money are all things you’d want to save if you’re going to dedicate 10,000 casts to one fish that will just be used for a trophy photo before its release.

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Investing in a family (and fun!) business Chris is the audiovisual teacher for Karns High School. Sarah works and earns shares in the business. It’s a great way for her to learn about things like sales and customer service.

Chris said he and Sarah keep the machines filled and in top condition, making them hasslefree for businesses.

Chris hopes the business will do well enough to give Sarah a lifelong income. She should have her shares and full ownership of Wade Amusements by the time she graduates from Halls High School.

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It’s a father-daughter project Chris Wade hopes will be profitable for him and his youngest daughter, Sarah Wade.

The duo (mostly Dad) purchased 10 Mega Mini claw machines from overseas and together they formed Wade Amusements. The mini claw machines are being placed all over Knox County.

“We’ve always loved the claw machine, and we’re pretty good at it, too,” said Sarah. Added Chris: “These machines are perfect for businesses that look to add a fun and interactive element to their establishment that won’t take up much space.”

Check out the uniquely local Knoxville questions we’ve already answered, and then send us yours!

New details regarding the real-life story of “The Blind Side” was not on my 2023 Bingo card, but the conservatorship of former NFL player Michael Oher inspired a uniquely Knoxville question: “Are there really bodies buried under Neyland Stadium?”

Perhaps you remember tutor Miss Sue (played by Kathy Bates) suggesting as much in her attempt to sway Oher to sign with Ole Miss.

“They work with the FBI to study the effects of soil on decomposing body parts,” she said about the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, according to a quote on IMDb. “They have lots of body parts − arms and legs and hands from hospitals and medical schools. And do you know where they store them?

Right underneath the football field.”

Just like the 2009 film itself, this scene is at least inspired by truth. But Dawnie Wolfe Steadman, director of UT’s Forensic Anthropology Center, said “bodies” were never beneath the gridiron.

“However, hundreds of skeletons of individuals were stored in East Stadium Hall within the east side of Neyland Stadium at one time,” she said via email.

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The school’s anthropology department moved into South Stadium Hall in 1971. Ten years later, the donation program began, with skeletons being cleaned and housed in East Stadium Hall beneath the stadium’s east-side stands. Each person whose remains were stored there volunteered to donate their body to the Forensic Anthropology Center, Steadman

Angie Alford and her husband were at a restaurant when a young woman with two active toddlers sat down in a nearby booth, seeming overwhelmed and stressed. Angie and her husband watched as a young man who was eating alone nearby anonymously paid the woman’s bill.

“When the young mother was told that her meal had been paid for, she almost cried,” Angie said. “It was such an act of unexpected kindness, especially in the times we live in where many folks are quick to anger and irritation. This young man made a difference that day. For her and for us.” — Brenna McDermott

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Chris Wade, right, and daughter Sarah own Wade Amusements. PROVIDED BY CHRIS WADE

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Daniel “D.R.” Mayo, an Arkansas cotton planter, moved to Knoxville to be with his bride-to-be and opened a grocery store on Gay Street. He began carrying garden and field seeds, which was rare for grocery stores at the time.

“The demand for seeds grew so rapidly, that Mr. Mayo turned it into a seed store exclusively,” the News-Sentinel reported in 1936. D.R. Mayo’s Seed Co. was created.

Mayo’s Seeds store originally opened on Gay Street in 1878 before moving to the 419 Wall Ave. location, pictured Dale Mayo began working in his father’s here, in the 1920s. Construction of the TVA headquarters in the 1970s took Mayo’s downtown location and the store as a boy, doing small tasks and gradually wholesale seed and retail business moved to the Bearden store, which had opened in the 1950s. becoming familiar with the business. He took PROVIDED BY MAY GARDEN CENTER over by himself in 1916 when D.R. died. After having been on Gay Street for over 40 years, Dale moved to a storefront on Wall Avenue in the early 1920s, where the TVA Towers are now.

“The business was well known thruout the (East Tennessee territory), and still is,” the News-Sentinel reported in a 1930 profile on Dale. “It was, in fact, the first seed store in this part of the country.”

Claire Mayo became the first woman to steer the business after husband Dale died in 1934. Although she didn’t work in the store, she incorporated the business, served as its president and hired management until her sons were old enough to take over duties.

But when brothers Dan Mayo and Claxton Mayo Sr. were serving in World War II, it was sister Varina Mayo who stepped in. The “Southern belle” was just 28 and had no experience in the seed industry or running a business. She opened and closed the store every day, even turning a profit during wartime.

It also was Varina who suggested splitting the wholesale and retail sides of the business when the two brothers had different visions for the company’s future. A Bearden location was added in 1949, and by 1953, inventory exJohn Allen, an employee of the Mayo Garden Center on Kingston Pike panded “ranging from farm tools and insectiin the Knox Plaza shopping center, sets out the store’s display of snow cides to tropical fish and canaries.” sleds on Jan. 9, 1997. NEWS SENTINEL ARCHIVE The company formally split in the early 1990s as Mayo Garden Centers and Mayo Seed LEFT: Varina Mayo was 28 and had no experience when she had to run Co. At its height, the family business had four the family business in 1943 when her brothers were serving in WWII. “We locations. The seed operation closed in 2019 didn’t know we would win the war; we didn’t know if anybody would and the garden center in Powell shut its doors come back,” she later recalled to Knox News. Varina is pictured here in 2023. around 1937. She died in 2018, a week before turning 103. PROVIDED Mayo made the decision last year to shift from selling heavy equipment like lawnmowers and power generators to focus on outdoor garden supplies and patio furniture.

“We’re going to be able to sell items that Mayo Garden Centers has grown people want that will make them enjoy their Mayo Garden Centers, one of Knoxville’s oldest home experience more,” Cox told Knox News family-owned businesses, through the years at the time.

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Feds target pollution from smoke, vehicles Tighter restrictions could mean more no-burn days Brandon Loomis Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

New and stricter federal air quality rules to limit soot pollution will likely require more no-burn days in metro Phoenix, local environmental officials say, and it could complicate economic development efforts.

The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced that it had finalized a major clampdown on fine particle pollution, also known as PM 2.5, or particulate matter that is less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter. These tiny specks of pollution — generated by fire, vehicular travel and industry — lodge in human airways and are especially harmful to people experiencing or susceptible to heart and lung conditions.

The new maximum for compliance by local communities will be 9 micrograms per cubic meter of air, down from 12. It’s a standard that Arizona’s largest county, Maricopa, currently can’t meet but will have time to try.

It will likely mean more winter days in coming years when the Maricopa County Air Quality Department bans burning in residential fireplaces or backyard burn pits, with the potential for tickets that start at $50 and escalate with each infraction. Wood burning is the biggest contributor to bad PM 2.5 days in the Phoenix area, said Ari Halpert, the department’s communications director.

“This is going to have to be a public, community effort,” she said. “We’re all in this together.”

When air readings call for it, the county enforces no-burn days through both patrols and investigations of neighborhood smoke reports, Halpert said. Ideally, she said, officials rely more on education and public support for health considerations.

New standards could affect highway projects, development The county reports average readings from seven monitoring stations to the EPA, and compliance — “attainment” in federal lingo — is judged every three years. The averages of the last two years

Air pollution is seen over a hazy downtown Phoenix on Jan. 2, 2020.

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have met the old standard, but not the new one, Halpert said.

If 2024 readings don’t pull the average into attainment in a given county, the state will have to develop a plan for reducing pollution. Such a plan could involve more burn bans, higher fines, troubles getting highway projects approved and funded, or imposition of new industrial pollution controls, Halpert said. The latter could influence cost-benefit analyses of companies looking to open shop in Arizona.

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality would not make a state official available for an interview on Wednesday and did not answer an email about what challenges the new standard might create. A department spokeswoman emailed a statement saying that PM 2.5 levels are trending downward in Arizona and that the new standard “triggers requirements for Arizona to determine whether there are any areas in the state that are not meeting this new standard, attainment of which must be demonstrated by 2032.”

EPA’s announcement included a list of counties both in and out of compli-

ance with the new standard of 9 micrograms per cubic meter, based on 20202022 data. In Arizona, only Pinal (12.4 micrograms), Maricopa (10.5) and Santa Cruz (10.2) were out of compliance.

The federal agency said tightening the restriction is expected to prevent up to 4,500 premature deaths and 290,000 lost work days, with $46 billion in net health benefits in 2032. Every dollar spent to meet the standard could bring as much as $77 in health benefits by then, the EPA said.

“This final air quality standard will save lives and make all people healthier, especially within America’s most vulnerable and overburdened communities,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a written statement.

Should power plants draw more scrutiny?

In Maricopa County, some of the worst air quality readings are in poorer areas of southern and western Phoenix, Halpert said.

Although fires and fireworks contribute to pollution in the Phoenix area, as

they did around New Year’s Day this year, on rare occasions such spikes are considered “exceptional events” and don’t count in the county’s average readings, Halpert said. Natural events such as weather-induced dust storms also get stripped out. However, if extended periods of burning or fireworks elevate pollution they are included in the annual averages.

The new standards will save lives but won’t do enough to account for daily spikes in pollution, said Sandy Bahr, the Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon Chapter director. Fossil fuel-powered electric plants should get more scrutiny for their role in harming Arizonans’ health, she said.

“Soot pollution causes harmful impacts to our health, whether generated by diesel engines or burning coal or gas, and is especially harmful to those most vulnerable — young children, the elderly, and those with other underlying health issues,” Bahr said in an emailed statement. “EPA’s updated National Ambient Air Quality Standards for particulate matter are a long-overdue step that will protect communities, including mine, by curbing the most dangerous and deadly effects of toxic soot pollution like cancer, asthma, and heart disease.”

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, by contrast, has issued a report saying that the new standard will put nearly 30% of U.S. counties in “permitting gridlock,” in large part because of smoke from wildfires. Its analysis of last year’s pollution nationwide suggested that 43% of PM 2.5 pollution came from wildfires. The wildfires on their own would have tipped half of all counties into noncompliance, according to the Chamber.

For online information about Maricopa County’s air quality program and rules, or to report a violation on a designated no-burn day, visit Maricopa.gov/ aq.

Brandon Loomis covers environmental and climate issues for The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. Reach him at brandon.loomis@arizonarepublic.com.

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spoken publicly, on shows broadcast on Telemundo and Univision, about the importance of recognizing Afro-Latino pride and diversity in her industry.

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Ulises grew up in Saint Thomas speaking Spanish and English and with the customs and traditions of her Dominican parents.

Once graduated she from high school in Saint Thomas, she decided to embark on a new path to the mainland in search of fulfilling her dreams in the modeling industry. She made her way to New York City before agreeing to move to Phoenix with her husband.

At first, she did not feel very confident about the change because she was not very familiar with the culture of that state and it felt like a very isolated place, as opposed to the big city and her home island. After much thought, she decided to take the risk.

Ulises attended the University of Phoenix where she earned her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, stepping away from modeling for a time to focus on her studies and her new career focus. But her social circle never stopped urging her to return to modeling.

Little by little, Ulises rejoined and resumed her lifelong dream. Soon she began to collaborate with different companies, one of the first being Goodwill.

Still, the transition from the Caribbean to the desert was not an easy one.

Speaking Spanish in front of people in Arizona caused heads to turn in her direction and looks of amusement. She felt watched and confused. Is it really that strange to see someone like this speaking in Spanish? Someone with dark skin and voluminous, curly hair, an Afro-Latina?

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Since the ballpark along Center Street was vacated, a year later the Oakland A’s moved from Phoenix to Mesa.

A spur of development Brady said the baseball team is part of the city’s brand and has helped attract economic development.

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study, in 2020 a total of 6 million AfroLatino adults were reported living in the United States. This represented 2% of the total adult population in the country and 12% of the Latino adult population. According to another study by the Pew Research Center, 4 in 10 dark-skinned Latinos in the United States have reported experiencing discrimination from another Latino.

Building a community of her own Those looks and whispers from people were what motivated Ulises to create her biggest project to date: Mujeres of All Shades, a space founded on faith, fashion and community in Phoenix.

Within this movement that she launched in 2021, Ulises’ mission is to make society understand that, within the Latino community, there are folks of all skin tones, regardless of ethnicity.

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A Republican lawmaker in Arizona wants the state’s electoral votes in 2024 to go to the GOP nominee for president — before voters know for certain who will be on the ballot in November’s election.

Democrats, who are in the minority in the Arizona Legislature, appeared poised to vote against the idea. But it also got strong pushback Wednesday from other Republicans.

The legislation, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Rachel Jones of Tucson, also “urges” Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs to sign an “election reform bill” that would ban early voting and require the hand-counting of ballots.

House Concurrent Resolution 2055 would have no effect if approved by the Legislature, other than to make the declaration and request to Hobbs. But Rep. Jacqueline Parker, R-Mesa, the GOP chair of the nine-member House Committee on Municipal Oversight and Elections decided to table the bill for “later” after it was clear it would not pass.

“Wouldn’t we be guilty of exactly what we accused the other side of doing?

Stealing an election,” Rep. Alex Kolodin, R-Scottsdale, said during the hearing while criticizing the bill.

Jones’ bill declares the state Legislature has “full and complete plenary authority over the manner of presidential elections in the state” and maintains “recent past presidential electors have been selected by voters.” The last time a state Legislature appointed presidential electors was in the 19th century.

The declaration goes on to say the Legislature should resolve to change the presidential election “by appointing Arizona’s eleven presidential electors to the Republican primary winner to offset the removal of a Republican candidate from the primary ballot of Colorado and Maine.”

Her wish reflects the mindset of some Republican lawmakers who are still focused on alleged conspiracy theories about the results of the 2020 presidential election. Arizona voters rejected former President Donald Trump by over 10,000 votes in 2020, but some of the state’s Republican leaders haven’t been able to accept the fact.

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to enact several laws in the last few years that assert the Legislature’s authority over voters in appointing presidential electors.

Arizona Sens. Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern, plus former state Republican Party chair Kelli Ward and her husband, are under investigation for declaring falsely they were electors for Trump in 2020 despite the election results.

The two lawmakers and other Arizona Republicans have held for years that the Legislature, not voters, hold “plenary” — or absolute — power over elections. They believe that allows the body to override judicial constraints in elections and appoint presidential electors. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the idea of the “independent legislature” last year, ruling that state courts could apply “state constitutional restraints” in elections.

Kern introduced his own official declaration this year “that the Legislature, and no other official, shall appoint presidential electors.” His Senate Concurrent Resolution 1014 has so far failed to get a hearing.

Josh Barnett, a 2022 Republican candidate for Congress who campaigned on election conspiracy theories, spoke in favor of the resolution. He said it was about “protecting” voters like him.

“So, you’re arguing that we should go ahead and just appoint electors now and ignore the results of the election. Is that what I’m understanding?” Rep. Justin Heap, R-Mesa, asked Barnett.

“Ignore the results of another illegally run election,” Barnett answered.

After some more back-and-forth, Heap asked: “Then why do we even have an election at all?”

None of the four Democrats on the panel were likely to vote for Jones’ bill, meaning the loss of one Republican vote would have killed it. Parker didn’t say when the legislation, a strike-all amendment to another bill, would be heard again.

In explaining her bill, Jones, who was elected in 2022, told the panel the 2020 and 2022 were “illegally administered” and “people on both sides of the aisle do not trust our elections.”

She didn’t respond to requests from The Arizona Republic about her bill.

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She also aims to empower women, help them be authentic in their style and embrace their identity.

“I wanted to find a way for us to be one community,” Ulises said. “We all look a little different, we come from different countries, but at the end of the day the Latino culture is the same.”

At Mujeres of All Shades, in addition to being an image consultant, Ulises grows a professional network. Normally these are women who are starting their projects or ventures and through this platform they manage to have a greater reach. Stylists, models, manicurists, photographers, lawyers, health and life coaches, real estate agents and many other women-identifying professionals are a part of this network.

In 2023, Ulises’ local efforts were recognized when she was awarded Univision’s Premio Lo Nuestro for “Outstanding Afro-Latina.” She has also

For Ulises, conversations about diversity within Latino culture are still lacking, usually because those conversations are deemed uncomfortable for folks. But according to Ulises, those conversations are needed to educate everyone, especially future generations. This is precisely what she does with her daughters Yoelianny, 11, Alianny, 9, and Leilianny, 4, who, like her, are also bilingual.

Ulises has made it a tradition to take her girls to the Dominican Republic — her husband’s birthplace — every summer and stay for one to two months.

Aside from the connection they continue to build with their roots, this trip helps them reaffirm the motto that everyone is different: different skin tones, hair textures, sizes, figures and that, of course, there are people who look like them.

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It’s the same thought behind Mujeres of All Shades, and she is hoping to take these conversations to as many countries as possible. But Arizona, she said, “has been the pillar.”

The desert and its people brought a discomfort that she had never experienced before, but she turned it into conversations and grew it into a community that was sorely needed in Arizona.

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Iowa St. tops Kansas, continues home streak

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Sabalenka repeats as Aussie Open champ John Pye ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: WOMEN'S AP TOP 25 ROUNDUP

Clark scores 38, lifts Iowa past Nebraska ASSOCIATED PRESS

No. 5 Iowa 92, Nebraska 73: Caitlin Clark had 38 points, 10 rebounds and six assists to lead host Iowa (19-2, 8-1 Big Ten) over Nebraska (13-7, 5-4).

Clark, the nation’s leading scorer at 31.7 points per game, had the 53rd double-double of her career. She was 12 of 22 from the field, including 8 of 15 on 3pointers. Kate Martin had 16 points and Sydney Affolter added 12 points for Iowa. The Hawkeyes, who had their 15game winning streak snapped in last Sunday’s overtime loss at Ohio State, pulled away in the second half after struggling to make shots in the first half.

Nebraska made just one of its first 11 shots to open the game, but the Huskers took advantage of cold shooting by the Hawkeyes to take a 31-27 lead late in the first half. Iowa, which started the game with a 9-0 run, went five minutes without a field goal in the first quarter.

No. 4 Kansas State 67, BYU 65: Gisela Sanchez led host Kansas State with 18 points as the Wildcats outlasted BYU. Serena Sundell scored 14 points for Kansas State (20-1, 9-0 Big 12) and Gabby Gregory added 10. Lauren Gustin led BYU (12-9, 2-6) with 25 points and 21 rebounds.

No. 10 Texas 67, Cincinnati 50: Shaylee Gonzales had 13 points and six rebounds while subbing for Madison Booker at point guard, and host Texas (19-3, 6-3 Big 12) beat Cincinnati (10-9, 2-6). Aaliyah Moore had 16 points for Texas, which bounced back nicely after a 91-87 loss to Oklahoma on Wednesday

Iowa guard Caitlin Clark passes around Nebraska forward Natalie Potts on Saturday in Iowa City, Iowa. CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/AP

night. Taylor Jones added 13 points, nine rebounds and seven blocks.

Reagan Jackson and A’rieal Jackson led Cincinnati with 10 points each.

No. 17 Gonzaga 73, San Francisco 54: Yvonne Ejim scored 21 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, Maud Huijbens had her first career double-double and Gonzaga defeated host San Francisco for the Bulldogs’ 14th-straight win.

Brynna Maxwell was 5-of-8 shooting with four 3-pointers and scored 20 points for Gonzaga (20-2, 7-0 West Coast Conference). Ava Keita had 14 points for the Dons (8-12, 4-3).

No. 24 West Virginia 84, Iowa State 78: JJ Quinerly scored 22 of her careerhigh 31 points in the second half, including West Virginia’s last 11 points, and made a critical defensive play in the last minute as the host Mountaineers (17-2, 6-2 Big 12) defeated Iowa State (12-7, 6-3). The Cyclones were down 79-76 and had the ball as the final minute approached. West Virginia had the offense stymied and when Emily Ryan drove to the basket, Quinerly tied her up for a held ball turnover. Quinerly then hit a jumper on the ensuing possession and added three free throws to ice the game.

At 3:33 and 2:06 of the fourth quarter, she hit 3-pointers when Iowa State was within two points.

Kylee Blacksten and Lauren Fields both had 14 points for the Mountaineers and Jordan Harrison had 13 with six assists and three steals.

Audi Crooks matched her career high with 25 points for the Cyclones, who have lost three straight games.

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Aryna Sabalenka reacts during the Australian Open final against Zheng Qinwen on Saturday in Melbourne. Sabalenka won 6-3, 6-2. ANDY WONG/AP

said. “For the second time, it’s just such a relief.”

Only two things slowed down Sabalenka’s progress Saturday to her second Grand Slam singles title.

In the third game of the second set,

with Zheng serving, the match was interrupted after an activist started yelling out. The match continued after the man was escorted out by security.

Then, when she was serving for the match, Sabalenka had three champion-

ship points at 40-0 but missed two with unforced forehands errors and another with Zheng’s clever drop shot.

After giving Zheng a breakpoint chance, she bounced the ball away behind her in disgust. But she recovered her composure to win the next three points.

Sabalenka is the first woman since Victoria Azarenka in 2012 and ’13 to win back-to-back Australian Open titles, and the fifth since 2000 to win the championship here without dropping a set – a group that includes Serena Williams.

She credited her support team for keeping her on track, and making sure she enjoyed the moment. Sabalenka made a habit of slapping and autographing the bald head of her fitness trainer, Jason Stacy, before each match in Australia.

After the final, Stacy, wearing a shirt with the message “Simplicity is the key to brilliance” printed on the back, held the trophy on the court as Sabalenka huddled with her team in a victory celebration.

A decade after Li Na held the Australian Open trophy aloft, Zheng made her best run in nine majors to date. She said during the tournament that she felt well-supported in Melbourne because of the big Chinese community. And that played out for the final, where the flags waved and she had the crowd behind her.

But she was playing an opponent ranked in the top 50 for the first time in this tournament.

It was the second time in as many majors their paths had met in the second week; Sabalenka beat Zheng in the U.S. Open quarterfinals last year.

Zheng’s push to the final was two rounds better than her previous best run to the quarterfinals in New York last September.

She was the first player in four decades to advance through six rounds without playing anyone ranked in the top 50 – and was only the third in the Open era to reach a major final without facing a seeded player.

The step up against No. 2-ranked Sabalenka proved too much.

“I didn’t perform my best. That’s really pity for me, because I really want to show better than that,” Zheng said. “I think I can learn more with the loss today. And then I just hope next time I can come back as a better tennis player and come back, yeah, stronger.”

Glenn wins US figure skating crown Dave Skretta ASSOCIATED PRESS

Amber Glenn thought she’d thrown away her chances of winning her longsought U.S. figure skating title when, after landing a dramatic opening triple axel Friday night, the 24-year-old from Texas fell apart over the second half of her program.

Then she watched Isabeau Levito collapse right behind her.

The defending champion fell three times during her own free skate, drawing an audible gasp from a rapt crowd in Columbus, Ohio. And when Levito’s score was read, Glenn’s tears of anguish turned to tears of joy. Her score of 210.46 points was enough to crown her the nation’s best for the first time, a full decade after she reigned as the U.S. junior champion.

“I mean, utter shock,” Glenn said. “It was definitely not the performance I would have liked to have had tonight, and I know both Isabeau and I are capable of so much more. But just the shock that all my hard work has paid off.”

Levito finished with 200.68 points, falling to third behind Josephine Lee, whose winning free skate gave her the silver medal.

In the men’s event earlier Friday, Ilia Malinin made one of the toughest combinations in skating look easy and was rewarded with 108.57 points, giving him the biggest lead after a short program under the current scoring system in nationals history. The 19-year-old Grand Prix Final champion, performing his “Malagueña” program, opened with an effortless quad toe loop, then landed the quad lutz-triple toe combo, before making a triple axel look like a skip across the ice. Upon hearing his scores, Malinin flashed a black-and-gold towel that read “Quad God” – his all-too-fitting nickname.

“I was definitely relieved after the performance, especially after some boot malfunctions the past few weeks,” said Malinin, who went back to an old pair this week. “I was really grateful that I was able to get out there.”

The national championships continue Saturday with the pairs free skate

Amber Glenn competes during the women’s free skate at the U.S. figure skating championships Friday in Columbus, Ohio. SUE OGROCKI/AP

and the free dance.

The defending U.S. champion, Malinin is the only skater in the world to land a quad axel in competition. He did not have the four-and-a-half rotation jump listed in his planned free skate for Sunday, but there is always a chance that he pulls it out.

“I’ll have to see how I’m feeling just mentally and physically,” Malinin said.

“I think it will all depend on how I’m feeling and I guess what my point of view is, or how I feel about it going into the free.”

Max Naumov, the 2020 junior national champion, was a distant but surprising second after his opening quad salchow made up for a problem on his triple axel. He received 89.72 points in his quest for a podium spot after finishing fourth last year.

As usual, Jason Brown brought down the house at Nationwide Arena despite a fall on his opening triple axel. The 29year-old fan favorite, who skipped most of the season to stay healthy and prepare for nationals, recovered to land a triple flip and triple lutz-triple toe combo while skating with his customary flair to “Adios” by the British composer Benjamin Clementine.

Brown earned 89.02 points as he seeks to become the oldest man on the podium since Todd Eldredge won in

2002.

“It’s crazy that the people I competed against are coaching people at this event,” Brown said. “That, to me, blows my mind, and the level of skating just continues to be elevated year after year, and I think that is incredible.”

Incredible is an apt way to describe what transpired in the women’s free skate. Glenn, who trailed Levito by less than half a point after their short programs, landed a huge triple axel to open her program, a jump that very few women are willing to attempt. She followed with triple flip-triple toe and triple loopdouble toe combinations, and a triple salchow, all of which appeared to have her cruising toward a national title.

As if on cue, the late-program mistakes that have held Glenn back for years surfaced again. She short-

changed a jump sequence by doing only a double lutz, and finished with a single flip, and those two mistakes cost her a huge amount of points.

“I saw my choreographer and said, ‘I’m so sorry,’” Glenn said later. “I didn’t do nearly what she had for me in this program.”

Glenn watched from off the ice as Levito fell on her opening triple lutz-triple toe combo, then appeared to get back on track by nailing her next three jumping passes. But then came a fall on her triple flip, and another on her triple loop, and by the time she spun to her finish in the middle of the ice, Levito was burying her face in her hands and fighting back tears.

When the scores were read, Levito was left in third place and Glenn had replaced her as the U.S. champion.

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Don’t write off Djokovic after Aussie loss Howard Fendrich

It might be tempting to see some tidy symbolism and greater significance in Novak Djokovic’s loss to Jannik Sinner in the Australian Open semifinals.

The end of the thirtysomething Djokovic’s 33-match winning streak at Melbourne Park. The end of his bid for an 11th championship there and 25th Grand Slam trophy overall. The breakthrough for the twentysomething Sinner, an upand-coming talent who will now get to play in his first major final, against Daniil Medvedev on Sunday.

Then again, that was the sort of passing-of-the-torch oversimplification some folks found in Djokovic’s loss to another kid, Carlos Alcaraz, in last year’s Wimbledon final. And what happened a couple of months later? Djokovic claimed the U.S. Open title as part of a 19-match unbeaten run.

So don’t be too quick to write off the 36-year-old from Serbia this time, either, as he essentially told the world himself after bowing out 6-1, 6-2, 6-7 (6), 6-3 against Sinner on Friday.

“Doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s beginning of the end, as some people like to call it,” the No. 1-ranked Djokovic said. “Yeah, let’s see what happens in the rest of the season.”

At first glance, that seems like a bit of a warning to the rest of the tour. A few moments later, Djokovic sounded more contemplative and somewhat less sure of what’s to come, saying: “I just hope that I’ll get a chance to come back, to play at least another time and go through the emotions once more.”

Either way, his takeaway from this particular afternoon was that he played quite poorly – “Everything, you know, was just subpar” – against an opponent who showed off some of his best tennis and was, in a word, “flawless.”

That’s a fair assessment.

There might not be a much larger meaning, even if Djokovic entered the day a combined 20-0 in semifinals and finals at Melbourne Park. And even if No. 3 Medvedev vs. No. 4 Sinner (they’re scheduled to get started Sunday at 7:30 p.m. local time, which is 3:30 a.m. ET)

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represents the first Australian Open men’s final without at least one of Djokovic, Rafael Nadal or Roger Federer participating since Marat Safin defeated Lleyton Hewitt in 2005.

For Medvedev, a 27-year-old from Russia who won the 2021 U.S. Open, this will be his sixth Grand Slam final – and first against someone other than Djokovic or Nadal. Medvedev moved on by coming back to eliminate Alexander Zverev 5-7, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5), 6-3 in a semifinal that came after Sinner-Djokovic.

“Obviously it means so much to me to beat Novak here in Melbourne,” said Sinner, a 22-year-old from Italy who lost to Djokovic in the Wimbledon semifinals last July and has now won three of their past four matchups, “but … I know

that the tournament is not over.”

It was remarkable to see Djokovic, the greatest returner of his generation and perhaps ever, unable to make a dent on Sinner’s serve. Consider: This was the first completed match in a Grand Slam career spanning more than 400 contests that Djokovic did not manage to earn a single break point.

Another unusual sight was all of the miscues coming off Djokovic’s racket.

He finished with nearly twice as many unforced errors as Sinner, 54 to 28.

Djokovic hadn’t lost a match at the Australian Open since 2018 – a span of 2,195 days – because he collected four championships in a row there and didn’t compete at Melbourne in 2022, when he was deported from the country for not being vaccinated against COVID-19.

For all of those fascinated by numbers, the loss to Alcaraz at Wimbledon was Djokovic’s first setback there since 2017 – a span of 2,195 days – because he had collected four championships in a row there; no one competed at the All England Club in 2020, when that tournament was canceled amid the pandemic.

He, for one, was not interested in drawing too many conclusions Friday.

“I’m kind of hot-headed right now,” Djokovic said. “After the match, it’s very difficult to reflect on things in a more profound way.”

Good advice to anyone ready to dismiss his chances moving forward.

AP Sports Writer John Pye in Melbourne, Australia, contributed to this report.

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LPGA Tour BRADENTON, Fla. — Benton McDede crawled for the first time Saturday morning at Nelly Korda’s house. The McDede family, Korda’s caddie Jason and his wife, LPGA player Caroline Masson and their nine-month-old son, are houseguests this week along with Korda’s close friend Megan Khang.

“Milestones at my house,” said Korda, beaming.

Home events are rare for players on the LPGA, and Korda is experiencing it for the first time this week at the LPGA

Drive On Championship at Bradenton Country Club where she has led all three rounds. The 25-year-old Korda, who was born down the street from the club, has asked fellow players for their tickets all week to accommodate the requests she’s received.

Korda even spotted the wife of her first coach tending the ropes as a volunteer on Friday.

“I was losing teeth during our practice sessions,” she said of how far they go back.

An eight-time winner on the LPGA and Olympic gold medalist, Korda last won on tour in November 2022. She got off to a slow start on Saturday, missing a string of birdie putts inside 10 feet in gusty winds on demanding Donald Ross greens. While her parents live a mere 15 minutes away (Korda is about

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Matthieu Pavon extended his arms, turned to the crowd and gave a thunderous fist pump.

Pavon, who not even four months ago was ranked 228th in the world, was brilliant down the stretch Saturday at the 2024 Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego, California. His birdie putt on the 72nd hole at Torrey Pines’ South Course gave him his first PGA Tour victory after a thrilling final hole.

The 31-year-old Frenchman, a rookie who earned his card thanks to his top-10 finish in the DP World Tour standings last year, is now a PGA Tour winner. He conquered Torrey Pines, shooting 3-under 69 on Saturday to capture his second victory in the past three months, the other coming at the Spanish Open on the DP World Tour.

He’s the first player from France to win on the PGA Tour.

In Saturday’s final round, Pavon bogeyed his opening hole before rallying with four birdies in the final six holes on the front nine.

Consistent play highlighted his back nine. His seemingly lone mistake, a wayward tee shot on the par-3 16th into a greenside bunker, he escaped trouble with a huge par putt while Stephan Jaeger, who led heading into the final round, missed a shorter birdie putt to keep the gap at two.

On the 17th, Pavon missed a short par putt to drop his first shot since the opening hole and made his lead only one standing on the 18th tee. Nicolai Hojgaard, who was one shot behind Pavon, striped a tee shot down the fairway while Pavon’s ball drifted left into a bunker.

The lie was terrible, and he pulled his second into the left rough. Facing a thick lie, he smashed the ball and it landed roughly 20 feet from the hole before moving back within 10 feet. Meanwhile, Hojgaard was on the green in two.

Hojgaard’s eagle putt narrowly missed, leaving 3 feet for birdie, but Pavon knocked in his birdie to hold off Hojgaard.

Pavon’s recent stretch of hot play includes a T-7 at his Tour debut at the So-

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No. 21 BYU 84, Texas 72: Noah Waterman and Jaxson Robinson scored 17 points apiece to lead host BYU (15-5, 3-4 Big 12) to a victory over Texas (14-6, 3-4).

Fousseyni Traore had 16 points, six rebounds, and two blocked shots, and Richie Saunders and Spencer Johnson added 11 points apiece as the Cougars snapped a two-game losing streak. BYU shot 64% from the field and outscored Texas 40-26 in the paint.

Dylan Disu led the Longhorns with 19 points. Chendall Weaver added 15 points and Max Abmas 12.

Wyoming 79, No. 24 Colorado State 76 (OT): Mason Walters scored at the buzzer to force overtime and Akuel Kot completed a four-point play in the final minute of the extra period, leading host Wyoming over Colorado State. Sam Griffin scored 24 points to lead the Cowboys (11-9, 4-3 Mountain West), who trailed by 11 points with 1:11 remaining in regulation.

Isaiah Stevens finished with 17 points and nine assists, Patrick Cartier added 19 points and Colorado transfer Nique Clifford added 13 points and 12 rebounds to lead Colorado State (15-5, 3-4).

MELBOURNE, Australia – In the back of her mind Aryna Sabalenka didn’t want to be, in her words, that player who wins a major title and disappears.

Winning her first Grand Slam crown in Australia a year ago gave Sabalenka the confidence she could do it again.

Losing the U.S. Open final last September gave her the extra motivation.

Sabalenka ensured she wasn’t a onehit wonder by clinching back-to-back Australian Open titles with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Zheng Qinwen on Saturday in a one-sided women’s final that contrasted sharply with her comeback three-set victory here over Elena Rybakina last year.

“I just wanted to show that I’m able to be consistently there and I’m able to win another one,” she said.

“So compared to last year, it’s a completely different me. Compared to the U.S. Open, once again, it’s a different me; I’m more controlled and kind of like don’t let the rest of the things come to my mind.”

In 2022, Sabalenka struggled so badly with her serve in tense moments that she doubted she could win a major. Now she’s relying on it to break down opponents. She didn’t serve a double-fault in the final, and she didn’t face a break point.

No. 2-seeded Sabalenka set the tone with big, deep forehands and converted service breaks early in each set against the 21-year-old Zheng, who was making her debut in a Grand Slam final.

The journey and the destination were equally important for Sabalenka.

In the semifinals, she avenged her U.S. Open final loss to No. 4-ranked Coco Gauff with a straight-set win. That followed straight-sets wins over 2021 French Open winner Barbora Krejcikova in the quarterfinals and Amanda Anisimova in the fourth round.

“I’m definitely a different person and a player and I have more experience playing the last stages of the Grand Slams,” Sabalenka said, reflecting on the last 13 months. “There was some tough moments for me losing the U.S. Open final – that loss actually motivated me so much to work even harder.”

And that, she said, gave her more confidence in her game and more selfbelief.

“The first one is always special because I feel like it’s more emotional,” she

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116-111 victory in five overtimes at Texas A&M on Jan. 23, 2008. Emanuel Miller scored 21 points and Micah Peavy added 18 for TCU (15-5, 4-3).

No. 18 Utah State 90, Boise State 84 (OT): Darius Brown II scored 19 points, Ian Martinez had 18 and Utah State beat host Boise State 90-84 in overtime. Great Osobor had 14 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists for Utah State (18-2, 6-1), which earned its second straight win.

Josh Uduje had 18 points on perfect shooting from the field, and Isaac Johnson finished with 13 points and 11 boards.

Tyson Degenhart scored 24 points for Boise State (14-6, 5-2).

No. 20 Texas Tech 85, No. 11 Oklahoma 84: Chance McMillian scored 27 points to help Texas Tech (16-3, 5-1) beat host Oklahoma (15-5, 3-4) and solidify the Red Raiders’ hold on first place in the Big 12. Pop Isaacs had 18 points, including 13 in the second half when the Red Raiders overcame a nine-point deficit.

Otega Oweh had 14 points and Milos Uzan and Sam Godwin each scored 13 for the Sooners, who shot 47.5% for the game and 42.3% from 3-point range.

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No. 14 Marquette 75, Seton Hall 57: Oso Ighodaro scored 21 points, David Joplin added 20 and host Marquette (15-5, 6-3 Big East) beat Seton Hall (13-8, 6-4) for its fourth consecutive win. Marquette got just seven combined points from leading scorers Tyler Kolek and Kam Jones, but the Golden Eagles broke open a close game by outscoring Seton Hall 45-28 in the second half.

Jaden Bediako led Seton Hall with 18 points, one off his career high. Dre Davis added 13 points.

TCU 105, No. 15 Baylor 102 (3OT): Jameer Nelson Jr. scored a season-high 30 points, including the go-ahead shot with 10 seconds left in the third overtime, and TCU rallied for a victory over host Baylor.

Baylor freshman Ja’Kobe Walker hit a tying 3-pointer with 0.6 seconds left in the first overtime, but the Bears lost for the first time in four games at brand new Foster Pavilion. Baylor had a 10-point lead in the second half and a four-point edge in the third OT. Freshman Yves Missi scored a season-high 25 points, and RayJ Dennis had 24 points and 10 assists in the first three-OT game for the Bears since a

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No. 23 Iowa State 79, No. 7 Kansas 75: Tre King had 21 points and nine rebounds, and host Iowa State (16-4, 5-2) knocked off Kansas (16-4, 4-3) on Saturday. Iowa State improved to 13-0 at home this season while enhancing its status as a Big 12 contender.

Keshon Gilbert scored 16 points for the Cyclones, and reserve Curtis Jones had 15 points.

Hunter Dickinson led Kansas with 20 points and 15 rebounds. Kevin McCullar Jr. had 16 points on 5-for-18 shooting, and Johnny Furphy finished with 15.

No. 3 North Carolina 75, Florida State 68: RJ Davis scored 24 points and freshman Elliot Cadeau scored a seasonhigh 16 points to help North Carolina (17-3, 9-0 ACC) rally from an eight-point deficit early in the second half and beat host Florida State (12-8, 6-3).

Primo Spears scored 15 points on 6 of 15 shooting, drilling 3 of 4 3-pointers, for Florida State.

No. 4 Houston 74, Kansas State 52: Jamal Shead scored 17 points, J’Wan Roberts added 14 points and six rebounds and host Houston (18-2, 5-2 Big 12) beat Kansas State (14-6, 4-3) to extend its winning streak to four games.

Cam Carter scored 16 points and Arthur Kaluma and Dai Dai Ames each added 11 points for Kansas State, which lost its second straight.

Mississippi State 64, No. 8 Auburn 58: Josh Hubbard scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half and Cameron Matthews had 14 points and 11 rebounds as host Mississippi State beat Auburn.

DJ Jeffries made 3 of four free throws in the final 11 seconds and grabbed 12 rebounds to help seal the win for Mississippi State (14-6, 3-4 SEC). Shakeel Moore scored 12 points and Tolu Smith added nine points and eight rebounds. Johni Broome scored 14 points and Jaylin Williams added 10 to lead Auburn (16-4, 5-2).

No. 10 Illinois 70, Indiana 62: Terrence Shannon Jr. made six free throws in the final two minutes to help host Illinois survive a scare from Indiana. Indiana tied the game at 62 with 1:29 left on a basket by Mackenzie Mgbako, but Illinois scored eight straight points to pull out the victory. Marcus Domask led Illinois (15-5, 6-3 Big Ten) with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Luke Goode and Coleman Hawkins each had 11 points. Malik Reneau, who scored 21 points for Indiana (12-8, 4-5), fouled out with 3:02 left. Xavier Johnson had 14 points and Mgbako had 12 points.

No. 12 Duke 72, Clemson 71: Tyrese Proctor hit two free throws with 1 second left to help host Duke hang on to beat Clemson. Freshman Jared McCain had 16 of his 21 points after halftime for the Blue Devils (15-4, 6-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), while Proctor had 18 points. P.J. Hall had 19 points and 10 rebounds for the Tigers (13-6, 3-5), including two free throws with 7.4 seconds left that had Clemson on the verge of only its fifth win ever in Cameron Indoor Stadium – with the last coming in the 1994-95 season.

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How many Arizona hotels did Forbes recognize?

Forbes recognized 12 Arizona hotels in its 2024 ranking: seven in metro Phoenix, three in Tucson and two in Sedona.

Five hotels received four stars and the remaining six were recognized as Recommended Hotels.

However, only one Arizona hotel received five stars: the Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain in Marana, near Tucson. Forbes has recognized the hotel as a five-star property since 2015.

Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North has been recognized as one of Forbes’ four-star properties since 2002, the longest of any Arizona hotel on the list.

The Phoenician has appeared on the list each year since 1992, but with different ratings; it’s been classified as a four-star property since 2003.

All 12 hotels were also recognized on last year’s Forbes list, though two were downgraded. The Canyon Suites at The Phoenician in Phoenix is now four stars, and Hacienda del Sol Guest Ranch Resort in Tucson is now a Recommended Hotel.

But a lower rating doesn’t necessarily reflect diminishing quality, since all the properties on Forbes’ list are being singled out for outstanding luxury experiences, Frasier said. What sets a five-star hotel apart from a four-star or Recommended Hotel is the consistency of the service.

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ot Dubai. Not Paris. Increasingly, those who love luxury travel are heading to Wyoming for its growing crop of secluded, all-inclusive guest ranches immersed in majestic natural beauty. h From shelling out $15,000 a night to call Reid Creek Lodge your home away from home to reserving an entire ski mountain at Brush Creek Ranch for a cool $8,500, prepare to dust off any former ideas you had about luxury travel. h Here are three Wyoming guest ranches that’ll make you click your spurs with delight.

Reid Creek Lodge, a window into the American West Located on a working ranch outside the small town of Douglas, Reid Creek Lodge is about a three-hour drive north of Cheyenne. Here, for $15,000 a night, you have the run of an 8,000square-foot lodge, complete with a private staff, to include a chef and concierge. The spacious lodge boasts seven bedrooms and accommodates up to 22 people.

As a guest on this stunning 300,000-acre ranch, you can tour the barns (so remote, it’s nearly an hour’s drive from one barn to the next) and ride award-winning quarter horses.

Animals are everywhere. In addition to thousands of cattle, you’ll see wild elk, deer, antelope, waterfowl, and the occasional black bear.

Your concierge will plan your day, based on your interests. Like to fish? You’ll be escorted to a private lake, all equipment provided. Feel like exploring? Enjoy stargazing with a local astronomer or go foraging for edible plants with an expert. Attend private painting classes or enjoy a peaceful picnic surrounded by nature. If you’re here for adventure, your team can take you rock scrambling, off-roading, e-biking, hiking, or canoeing, among many other recreational activities.

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Cocina Chiwas and Glai Baan restaurants in Phoenix made USA TODAY’s list of best restaurants in the country.

The USA TODAY Restaurants of the Year 2024 list features 47 restaurants from finedining establishments to counter-service seafood shacks. USA TODAY Network food journalists from across the country pooled their expertise to select the list, which includes the places they know, love and recommend.

Cocina Chiwas was selected for its light interior and attention to details, from the handmade plates and bowls and tables to the Northern Mexican cuisine.

“It’s an amazing feeling. We appreciate all the love. You know, we are trying to really put Arizona on the map as much as we can with our food and showcase the regionality of the

Brooks Lake Lodge, once a Yellowstone National Park stopover About 90 minutes from Jackson is another top-notch Wyoming guest ranch: Brooks Lake Lodge. This all-inclusive resort and spa, which just celebrated its 100th anniversary, is where pioneer-era Western intersects with luxury.

Brooks Lake Lodge is so remote that, in the wintertime, guests must pre-arrange to be picked up via snowmobile or snow coach or be escorted on skis to cover the final five miles to the lodge. While there is Wi-Fi available here, you’ll want to put your devices away and immerse yourself in the natural beauty.

Like Reid Creek, Brooks Lake Lodge offers personalized itineraries, so you can be as adventurous or as relaxed as you desire. This Wyoming guest ranch is packed with history, originally built as a stopover for people traveling to Yellowstone National Park. Open year-round, the lodge’s maximum number of guests is 26 in the winter and 36 in the summer, with a one-to-

one staff-to-guest ratio.

A taste of adventure at Brush Creek Ranch Almost a two-hour drive from Laramie, in Saratoga, you’ll find Brush Creek Ranch, which operates three all-inclusive guest ranches set on 30,000 acres of private wilderness: Lodge & Spa, Magee Homestead, and French Creek.

Brush Creek is also a working cattle ranch, with Wagyu cattle for the resort’s culinary program.

Food is a major highlight at this Wyoming guest ranch, with elite chefs who utilize hydroponic gardening, farmstead cheesemaking, distilling, butchering, and more. You can learn all about these culinary practices with hands-on experiences at one of Brush Creek’s epicurean retreats.

“In addition to mastering technique, guests will leave with an understanding of our holistic approach and ongoing relationship with the land that will inspire their own culinary practices long after their experience,” says Mike Williams of Brush Creek.

There’s plenty to do at Brush Creek Ranch to work up an appetite. This Wyoming guest ranch offers 600 acres of private skiing and a full menu of recreational activities, from fly fishing to ice fishing, depending on the season.

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h Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain, Marana.

Forbes 4-star hotels in Arizona h Canyon Suites at The Phoenician, a Luxury Collection Resort, Phoenix. h Enchantment Resort, Sedona. h Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North. h L’Auberge de Sedona. h The Phoenician, a Luxury Collection Resort, Phoenix.

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Forbes recommended hotels in Arizona

How does Forbes rate hotels?

Forbes says it classifies luxury hotels into three categories: h Five star recognizes outstanding properties with “virtually flawless service and amazing facilities.” h Four star means a property of exceptional quality and high levels of service. h Recommended properties are identified for “consistently good service and facilities.”

Forbes’ website says “highly trained inspectors” visit every hotel and resort they recognize, staying at least two nights and assessing the hotel based on more

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As a young man looking to carve out a niche for himself on the Arizona punk scene as the ‘70s were coming to a close, Glenn De Jongh and his fellow Spiffs could often be found on the campus of

Arizona State University disseminating flyers for their gigs while wearing nothing but garbage bags.

It got the kids out. And by 1980, they’d managed to convince Clyde Shields, the original owner of the legendary Phoenix club the Mason Jar, to pay for the recording of their first and only record, an EP called “Don’t Waste

Your Money on This Garbage.”

They also landed a song called “Little Teaser” on FM rock powerhouse 98 KUPD’s “Damn Straight” compilation.

Reuniting the Spiffs, Box of Cherries and the Einsteins A lifetime later, De Jongh, who pre-

h Hacienda del Sol Guest Ranch Resort, Tucson. h Arizona Biltmore, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, Phoenix. h El Conquistador Tucson, A Hilton Resort. h JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa. h Royal Palms Resort and Spa, Phoenix. h Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass, Gila River Indian Reservation.

Michael Salerno is an award-winning journalist who’s covered travel and tourism since 2014. His work as The Arizona Republic’s consumer travel reporter aims to help readers navigate the stresses of traveling and get the best value for their money on their vacations. He can be reached at Michael.Salerno@gannett.com. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter: @salerno_phx.

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add the opening of the new Tulum airport, in Quintana Roo, which will make the Riviera Maya much more accessible. It is very likely that in 2024, we will see great deals to destinations such as Cancun, Tulum, and Mexico City. h East and Southeast Asia: The U.S. and China began taking affirmative steps to increase frequencies and routes between the two countries for the first time since the pandemic began. The lack of routes and frequencies over the past three years has been the main reason for keeping costs so high to East and Southeast Asia from the U.S. With the reinstatement of some pre-pandemic frequencies and routes, plus the announcement of new routes, such as between Japan and the U.S., we should see – for the first time in three years – some competitive offers to travel to South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan or Indonesia. h Spain and Portugal: The launch of new routes to cities such as Madeira or Faro in Portugal from the east coast, plus increases in frequencies and new routes between Spain and the U.S. should continue to be elements that have effects on competitive prices in 2024.

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At a concert promoting the KUPD record, the Spiffs’ onstage antics caused the PA to be shut down midsong when fights broke out as concertgoers hurled objects at the band.

“Half the album was kind of punkish and the other half was rock,” De Jongh recalls.

“So KUPD does this concert at Firebird Lake.

There’s several thousand people, 5,000 I guess - 400 Harleys, a lot of black shirts saying AC/DC and like 100 little punk rockers in the middle of the crowd wearing polka dots and bright colors, right? It was the begin-

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Richard Roper charms, surprises with ‘This Disaster Loves You’ ASSOCIATED PRESS

Turner Classic Movies’ 31 Days of Oscar event continues this morning and into the early evening with a lineup featuring more films costarring men who won or were nominated for Best Supporting Actor: Romeo and Juliet (1936, nomination for Basil Rathbone), Friendly Persuasion (1956, nomination for Anthony Perkins), Quo Vadis (1951, nominations for Leo Genn and Peter Ustinov), Cool Hand Luke (1967, win for George Kennedy) and The Dirty Dozen (1967, nomination for John Cassavetes). Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films featuring Best Supporting Actor winners: Topkapi (1964, Ustinov); Adaptation

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Richard Roper, whose debut novel “Something to Live For” (2020) featured a character seeking the aspiration of the title, is back with “This Disaster Loves You,” about another man whose story is not quite what it seems.

Brian owns a pub on the English coast, purchased with his wife more than a decade ago.

He worked at a London insurance agency before that, while his wife, Lily, edited a magazine.

They bought The County Arms in Thrupstone, U.K., in 2007, refurbished it, and as the online review that prefaces the book says, turned it into a “charming pub” with “lovely wine and local beers, too.”

The story opens in 2017 with Brian waking up, alone, in the apartment above the pub, and we learn that Lily disappeared seven years ago.

No note, didn’t take her phone, just vanished.

From then on it’s a pretty rapid back-and-forth between the present and the past, as we are treated to the major beats of Brian and Lily’s relationship, beginning with their meetcute in 1995 on Primrose Hill, to their happiest days as young lovers in London and then owners of their “dream pub.”

When Brian reads a series of Tripadvisor reviews from someone called PinkMoonLily1970 and traces them back to the time of Lily’s disappearance, he sets off on an adventure. The

goal, of course, is to find Lily, but it naturally becomes a voyage of self-discovery as well.

Roper writes fluid, readable prose, as charming as The County Arms: “In the flush of youthful love, there I was removing half a Twix from between the pages of an A to Z street map and feeling like the luckiest man in the world,” is how Roper describes the first time Brian rode in Lily’s white Renault Clio.

Or Brian’s inaugural meeting of Lily’s parents, Forbes and Verity, who inhabit a different level of British society: “I found myself making lots of nervous jokes about how I wouldn’t know what fork to use with my quail at dinner, and how we should have brought a bottle of the ’52 with us rather than the ’58.”

As Brian’s search for Lily takes him from Bath to Stonehenge to other places worthy of online reviews, he meets a fellow traveler named Tess, a New Zealander separated from her husband after 22 years.

Tess provides someone for Brian to open up to and allows Roper to deftly change the tone of the book.

By the end, all the details of Brian and Lily’s story are satisfyingly filled in, and we’re dropped off as readers back at The County Arms, which just might earn another five-star review again in the future.

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Dear Abby: I recently reconnected with an acquaintance who has now become a dear friend. I have at least one meal a week with her and her family. I suffer from misophonia, and they are always quite in tune, asking if the volume is too loud on the TV or whatever.

However, while we are eating, there is a lot of lip-smacking and open-mouth chewing by my friend and her 17-yearold daughter. I love them, and I try to ignore it, but it’s extremely difficult. I remember my friend doing this 20 years ago when we were teenagers.

I know it’s not my place, but is there anything that can be said? I worry about this girl heading off to college soon with such deplorable table manners. They are otherwise wonderful, amazing friends.

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De Jongh’s next band, Box of Cherries, was more on the rap-metal side of things. They ended up winning a Z-Rock Battle of the Bands at the Electric Ballroom,

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Dear Abby: My husband and I have been married 32 years. I cannot remember the last time he asked me about my day, let alone my life, without a prompt from me. I feel ignored and emotionally neglected. After years of this treatment, I’m no longer willing to tolerate it.

He doesn’t engage with me verbally unless he has a question or a complaint.

If I laugh out loud at something I am reading, he never asks what’s funny. We do love each other, but we have very different personalities. I respect his introversion, and he respects my need for social engagement. His career demands very long hours, and I understood that from the start. We have been living parallel lives most of our marriage.

Our children are grown and out of the house. He is a good man. He tells other people how much he loves me and how beautiful I am, but he doesn’t say it to ME. I try to engage him in basic small talk and hug him every day, but he doesn’t respond or take the initiative.

Years ago, he volunteered that he wasn’t seeing someone else. I am not, either, but I do have a standing offer from an old flame who does talk with me and does tell me how fine I look. I would never disrespect my husband by having an affair, but maybe it would get my juices flowing again. Is there anything to salvage here?

Dissatisfied in Texas Dear Dissatisfied: An affair might get your juices flowing again, but not with your husband, so I don’t advise it. You and your husband may love each other,

Box of Cherries was more of a rap-metal band

The Einsteins were closer in spirit to the Spiffs than Box of Cherries.

“In 1994 or 1994, when I heard Green Day for the first time, I told the guys ‘Look, I’m cutting my hair. I’m bleaching it blond. I’m writing a power-pop-punk record right now. You’re either with me or not,’” he recalls.

“The next day, the bass player, who had long black hair down to his (expletive), comes in with a green mohawk.”

De Jongh spent a year and a half in Nashville working on an Einsteins record that got shelved before changing direction again with the Bob Band.

“I said ‘OK, (expletive) this. I’m too old.’ So I started playing casinos. I put together a bubblegum band that played every bubblegum song that no band would dare play. ‘Yummy Yummy Yummy.’ ‘Chewy Chewy.’ ‘Hanky Panky.’ Every Monkees hit. Dave Clark Five. Herman’s Hermits. We were a hit. We played every casino in town like magic.”

That led to eight years on the cruise ships from 2003-2011.

“I didn’t even have a place to stay on land,” he says.

“I’d be off a ship for two weeks. ‘Hey can I sleep on your couch?’”

In recent years, he’s been doing a musical bingo game on Wednesday nights at Casey Jones Grill in Phoenix called Songo.

But he’s looking forward to spending a Sunday reliving the memories of his chainsaw-wielding youth.

“People have been asking me to play again,” he says.

“So I figured I would do one more.”

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ning of that phase.”

Enter the Spiffs, who took the stage in garbage bags.

“The guys in the dressing room go, ‘We can’t wear this (expletive), man. We’re gonna get the (expletive) kicked out of us.’ I go ‘C’mon!’ And they go, ‘Alright, but don’t play our punkiest stuff first.’”

So De Jongh walked out and launched immediately into “Kill You,” their punkiest number.

“People were allowed to bring in Igloos with sandwiches and stuff, and after two songs, people started throwing ice cubes at us,” De Jongh says.

“After a few songs of this, I got sick of it. I stopped the band right in the middle of a song. And I said, ‘You guys are making yourselves look like (expletives). If you’re gonna throw (expletives) at me, at least hit me.”

That’s when people started throwing sandwiches and even more ice, inspiring De Jongh to flip them off.

“A fight breaks out,” he says. “That’s when they turned the power off. True story. It was fun.”

By 1981, the Spiffs had broken up.

Since hooking up with Fervor Records, which specializes in licensing material to TV shows and movies, the Spiffs had their music used on “Criminal Minds” and “L.A.’s Finest.”

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In the last three years, we have seen spectacular prices from almost all over the U.S. to the Iberian Peninsula. I anticipate that in 2024 we will see excellent prices, including in peak seasons, such as the Christmas season.

An interesting fact is that Kayak.com forecasts that domestic flight prices could drop by up to 16% by 2024.

If this prediction comes true, it will be an excellent opportunity to do tourism to other states, and even territories. For example, visiting Puerto Rico is very likely to be cheaper in 2024 due to the increase in routes and frequencies that have occurred in recent months, including flights to the island from new routes such as Denver; Austin, Texas; Cleveland; New Haven, Connecticut; St. Louis; or Fort Myers, Florida.

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where one of the judges worked for Warner Bros. Records.

“We had three meetings at Warner about producers and things but it ended up that I was too old,” De Jongh says.

“I was in my 40s. The guy at Warner goes, ‘Look, we invest several million dollars. We expect three good albums and a long duration from our bands and we just think you’re too old. We love your songs. We listened to all 12 of them. But I just can’t get it done.’ So that didn’t happen.”

The album Box of Cherries ended up releasing (not on Warner Bros.) ended up getting a fair amount of college airplay.

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The Spiffs, whose original lineup featured De Jongh, guitarist Don Doiron and the late Steve Golladay on drums, got together in 1979.

Their sound, as captured on “Don’t Waste Your Money on This Garbage,” which Fervor Records reissued in 2018, is on the soulful British pub-rock side of power-pop played with the reckless abandon of punk.

It sounds like it was made by people wearing skinny ties beneath their garbage bags.

“I mean, give me some Joe Jackson,” De Jongh.

Their live shows often featured actual chainsaws, which De Jongh admits was not the smartest thing he’s ever done.

“I’d start it up and chop up an amplifier,” he says. “If somebody had stuck their arm out, I could’ve cut them.

I was just a wild, uncontrollable (expletive).”

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Glai Baan was chosen because of its cozy vibe with string lights inside and out, a charming patio along with flavorful Thai street food and inventive cocktails.

Chef and owner Pornsupak “Cat” Bunnag was pleasantly surprised when she heard the news. “Oh really? Thank you!” she said.

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“This gig is probably my last because I’m just burnt out from singing on cruise ships for eight years,” he says. “It sucked the music soul right out of my body. If I ever hear the song ‘Margaritaville’ again, I’ll probably just vomit.”

And lest you wonder how he plans to get that many former bandmates in the same room to rehearse, that’s not an issue.

“No rehearsals,” he says. “I just told everybody, ‘Listen to the record. We’ll play it exactly like that.’ So that’s what’s gonna happen.”

Billed as Glen’s Best of AZ Bands Reunion Show, the Feb. 18 concert at Copper Blues Desert Ridge in Phoenix will also feature De Jongh, a former bandmate of the great Bob Welch of Fleetwood Mac, paying tribute to Welch in a band assembled just for this occasion.

Also scheduled to perform are Lucy LaMode of Killer Pussy; Jetzons keyboardist Brad Buxer; Bob Welch bassist Kevin IChrist; Gary Brazzese, who drummed for Glen Campbell; Winston Watson of Gentlemen Afterdark, who also spent a decade drumming for Bob Dylan; the Palomas, Eva Bush, Dwain Miller of Keel and more.

De Jongh says, “Everyone I called has said, basically, ‘(Expletive) yeah, man. Let’s do it one more time.

This will be fun.’”

Twelve luxury resorts in Arizona ranked strongly in Forbes Travel Guide’s 2024 Star Awards, which was published on Wednesday, Feb. 7. The hotels were touted for their outstanding guest experiences.

Forbes Travel Guide, which describes itself as “the global authority on luxury hospitality,” awarded five-star ratings to 544 nationwide properties, including 340 hotels. The survey also honors outstanding restaurants, spas and ocean cruise ships.

“What discerning travelers consider luxury can vary, and opinions about hotels are readily available online,” said Amanda Frasier, president of ratings for Forbes Travel Guide, in an interview with The Arizona Republic. That’s why she finds it important to offer a fair and unbiased survey that evaluates properties based on guest experiences and the value of what consumers pay for.

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Woman mortified by her snoring doesn’t know what to say to New Guy she’s dating Dear Carolyn: I’m a middle-aged hetero woman who has been divorced for many years. I gained 20 pounds over the past couple of years due to hormone imbalance (thanks, menopause!).

I’ve also recently discovered that I snore.

Over the past few months, I would sometimes wake myself up during the night with a single “snort.”

I downloaded an app that records sounds while I’m sleeping, and to my dismay, I learned that while it isn’t horribly loud, there’s no denying I snore.

Why this has become a problem now is that I started dating New Guy about four months ago.

Although we’ve been intimate, we’ve so far had only two sleepovers. I have never been super comfortable sleeping with someone overnight, so I try to keep those at a minimum. But now that I know I snore, I can’t bear the thought of an overnight visit.

So what do I say to New Guy? Do I apologize for probably snoring during our two overnight visits?

I don’t want any more overnights now – I’m so embarrassed – but he deserves to know the reason.

I’m under a doctor’s care for my menopause symptoms and working on losing the weight, but I don’t know what to do in the meantime.

For reference, my ex-husband snored so badly we had to sleep in separate rooms, so I know how unbearable it can be.

Anonymous Anonymous: My goodness, are you always so tough on yourself?

You have a body. It’s changing with time. You’re working on mitigating whatever negative effects you’re able to mitigate within reason, or at least by your definition of it.

So what else are you supposed to offer anyone beyond that? At some point, every one of us becomes a love-it-orleave-it adventure.

You snore, he loves it or leaves it, at least till you and your doctor address underlying causes. (ASAP.) And stop dodging. My advice upon winning this and other corporeal jackpots is to own your humanity, out loud: “I just figured out that I snore. I hope you find that adorable.”

If you can’t imagine being so frank,

then my advice prerequisite is to work toward crossing that honesty threshold.

Learn to accept yourself before you worry about whether anyone else accepts you.

You might be surprised by how much of the hard work of relationships is behind you once you complete that first step.

Never forget, too, that all our faults, real or perceived, are filters. You don’t want someone who can’t get past your less-than-smoking-hot traits.

The man who sees your faults as a small price to pay for the joy of being close to you, and about whom you feel the same? That’s the right fit for you both.

And the only way to find out whether you have it is to let your snort flag fly.

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Defunding police, an idea that rose out of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, gained new steam in the summer of 2020 following the murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis and Black Lives Matter protests that erupted across the country.

A number of cities, in mostly progressive places like Los Angeles, Portland and Austin, took steps to divert funding from the police department to social services such as helping the homeless.

The decisions wreaked varying degrees of havoc with spikes of homicides and other crimes.

The most extreme version, perhaps, occurred in San Francisco, where a progressive district attorney was elected and took up reforms that included fewer prosecutions of crimes and more leniency for offenders.

The backlash since, however, has been strong and swift. Cities that diverted funding from police have since restored the money — and then some.

But Arizona is not California, Oregon, Minnesota or Austin, Texas.

Even activists who favor cutting funding of law enforcement and the judicial system – some wanting to abolish the police force entirely – would say their efforts to pressure and persuade

Answer this question before we ban ‘defunding police’ Among the latest responses to the “Defund the Police” movement is a bill that forbids Arizona cities and towns to reduce their police budget from the previous year — or risk losing their state shared revenue.

House Bill 2120, sponsored by firstterm lawmaker David Marshall, RSnowflake, passed its first hurdle out of a committee on Monday by a party-line 8-7 vote.

The proposal raises interesting issues, including whether it’s legally permissible to essentially mandate where and how municipalities direct their resources.

But the prevailing question for legislators before they advance the bill further is this: What problem is it intended to solve?

Just what problem is it intended to solve?

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“If it bleeds, it leads.” So goes the old maxim explaining why media outlets focus on the negative.

As an Arizona State University editing professor told me back in the day, traffic flowing smoothly won’t impress readers; it takes a seven-car pileup to do that.

But reporters can carry this pessimistic tendency to excess. When issues can be framed as a “glass half-full,” they’re often cast as “depleted container raises worries about thirst, death, experts say.”

I’ve seen this most recently from our

Never thought I’d write these words on this keyboard, but we need to start thinking and acting like the people of San Francisco.

Yes, San Francisco.

Arizona needs to adopt the vibe of the City by the Bay, the same metropolis that brought us flower children, Haight-Ashbury and the craziest, dope-hazed politics in America.

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have found no meaningful support with policymakers.

Just ask the metro Phoenix groups that have been critical of police, such as Puente, or Poder in Action or Mass Liberation.

Voters in Maricopa County twice rejected a progressive Democrat for county attorney, in 2020 and 2022, who had supported moving millions of dollars from the Phoenix police budget to fund mental health services.

In Tucson, arguably the liberal bastion of the state, the progressive City Council rebuffed calls in 2020 and 2021 by activists to slash the police budget.

The council did devote more money to bolster community safety by way of additional social workers, a housing first director and a racial equity assessment.

And Tucson, as did Phoenix, created civilian positions to help with non-patrol police work. Phoenix did so in large part because of a staffing shortage and recruitment struggles.

If anything, police budgets stand a better chance at growing rather than shrinking.

Technology — witness body cameras and their resulting needs for higher costs to review, code and store camera footage — and perennial considerations for new tools will almost assure that more money will be directed toward police.

And to say nothing, in Phoenix’s case, of additional reforms that may emanate from the ongoing Department

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envied street cars and Victorian homes.

Because something magnificent is happening in San Francisco that needs to happen in Arizona.

The political moderates are on the march, and they’re winning.

Yes, moderates. Those people impossible to rally to any cause have been aroused and are roaring their disapproval at City Hall and the Board of Supervisors.

They’ve had it with the latest wave of nut cases who took over city politics, especially during the pandemic, and they’re organizing with a vengeance.

They’re building a movement that will not stop until it has taken back the city, county and school board, and have established government of the sane people, by the sane people, for the sane people.

So can we.

Our problem is slightly different than theirs.

Their loons and crackpots are on the progressive left.

Our loons and crackpots are on the populist right.

But it’s all the same problem, really.

They’ve got too many people with power living in an alternate reality detached from common sense. And so do we.

In San Francisco that problem is expressed this way, “We need to address the root causes of crime.”

In Arizona, it’s “The election was stolen.”

In San Francisco, the goofballs installed revolving doors in the jails.

In Arizona, the goofballs wasted months investigating an election that wasn’t rigged.

Stories in The Wall Street Journal and Politico last Thursday and Friday describe how the political moderates in San Francisco, led by Asian Americans, are

State Rep.-elect David Marshall speaks at a Kari Lake campaign event at Social Tap in Scottsdale. PATRICK BREEN/THE REPUBLIC

Besides, puddles are fun to stomp in.

Even better, after soaking our western neighbor, the clouds had enough mojo to deliver rain and snow across our parched state.

According to the Maricopa County Flood Control District, the area has received up to 6 inches of rain so far this year. I even stomped in a puddle or two.

As a result, Salt River Project reservoirs are now 83% full as of press time, a 4% increase from this time last year.

And that doesn’t account for the snow-

building organizations outside of government to take on the progressive leadership.

The activists are mostly Democrats, as are most of the voters in California, where Democratic Party voter registration is roughly double that of Republicans or independents.

In that state, Asian Americans are the fastest growing ethnic minority — having increased by 25% over the last decade to make up 17% of the population.

One of those Asian American organizers, Kanishka Cheng, who came to this country as a child from Sri Lanka, could have been speaking for all of Arizona when she said, “In San Francisco, politics has become so extreme that extreme is now the norm.”

In San Francisco, the moderates finally grew tired of all the shoplifting and car break-ins and fentanyl-fueled sidewalk contortionists. They got tired of prosecutors more interested in protecting criminals than their victims.

They could no longer abide school board members who wanted to erase meritocracy and George Washington, the father of the country. They especially couldn’t stand those progressive fantasies commanding all the attention when schools were flagging on reading and math or refusing to reopen as COVID-19 receded.

In a landslide election, they recalled three members of the San Francisco school board.

Then they cast their lines for left-wing District Attorney Chesa Boudin. They snagged him in a recall election and tossed him out of government into the woke waters of academia, where he can swim with all the other flounders.

In California, the problem is concentrated in the Democratic Party.

In Arizona, the problem is concentrated in the Republican Party.

One of the major goals of San Francisco moderate activists is to take back control of the major political party in the city

If anyone doubts the existence of a two-tiered justice system, just look a Charles Ryan. During a drunken police standoff at his luxury home, Ryan pointed a loaded weapon at police officers.

If he had been a man of color or lived in a lower-income area, he would have been immediately shot dead by the police, no question. Instead, this wealthy, elderly, white male and former Arizona prison director received a measly two years’ probation.

Give me a break!

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HB 2120 is unsurprising in that it reflects a penchant by some Republican lawmakers to intrude in matters of local control. We have seen it with public transit, housing, short-term rentals, red-light cameras and other areas.

Marshall and supporters of his bill see it as a preemptive strike, a disincentive for cities and towns to even contemplate the idea of reducing police financial support.

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drugs, to illegally come into this country.

However, now that this open border has become a real issue in the 2024 election, we hear the phony Democrats blaming you know who, Donald Trump and those pesky “MAGA” voters.

The Republican House passed bills that would have closed the border, but it was the Democrats in the Senate that would not allow these bills to come to the floor to be voted on. It is time for Mark Kelly and the other Democrat senators to stop blaming others and start protecting the people of their state by voting to close the border.

They may have to do the right thing for a change and go against the Biden administration, but take a stiff drink and just do it.

Jacqueline Graham, Maricopa

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pack building up north.

The National Weather Service in Flagstaff reports 45.9 inches of snow in the past two weeks alone. Arizona Snowbowl has received 144 inches this ski season.

This is all great news for Arizona, since our glass is 83% full and could end up overflowing. Although we received less rain than Los Angeles, at least we have reservoirs. Californians might be grumpy because they believe storing water is somehow a bad thing.

There used to be a time when sensible Arizona Republicans could ignore the far-right antics of the party. But the present crop is causing so much deep-tissue damage to the brand that the brand is losing elections. and replace extreme Democrats with moderate Democrats.

Likewise, that should be the goal of Arizona Republicans — to take back control of their state party.

For the last half-decade, the Arizona GOP has been so busy botching things that it has handed to the Democrats the governor’s office, secretary of state, attorney general and Arizona’s two U.S. Senate seats. The two chambers of the Legislature, once dominated by Republicans, are on the verge of flipping to the other party.

Extremism did that.

And now Arizona, a state in which Republicans still outnumber Democrats by more than 200,000 voters, is run largely by the Democratic Party.

That’s a problem if you still believe in limited government, lower taxes, less regulation and law and order.

Fortunately, the Democrats who have won office in Arizona have proven mostly moderate in politics and temperament. If they gain all the levers of power, however, the temptation will be high to push mainstream Democratic initiatives that are further left than the Arizona population.

In San Francisco, the major corporations, meaning high tech, are helping to fund the outbreak of moderation after

Needless to say, the League of Arizona cities and towns finds the legislation objectionable.

Residents of cities and towns, too, should find HB 2120 objectionable.

It presumes they cannot speak to their own community’s needs on policing and public safety.

And it usurps their voice should they exercise it.

Reach Abe Kwok at akwok@azcentral .com. On X, formerly Twitter: @abe kwok.

For years, California’s leaders have prioritized environmental doomsaying over sound water management. In the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the keystone of California’s water system, this has allowed billions of gallons to flow into the Pacific Ocean instead of being captured and stored.

Ostensibly, this was to protect a 2inch-long fish named the Delta smelt, though the collapse of the species has continued despite governmental intervention. By not topping off their remaining reservoirs, residents avoid watering their lawns and Central Valley farmers tend to dusty fields.

Instead of reversing this wasteful policy, Gov. Gavin Newsom is looking for new dams to destroy, targeting the Eel River, Ventura River and Malibu Creek.

The last large dam in California was built more than 40 years ago. Voters approved $2.7 billion to create new water storage, but that was a decade ago and nothing has been built.

Any new solutions are liable to be stuck in court for years due to the state’s lawsuit-happy environmental groups.

For California, maybe the reservoir is half-full. Thankfully, Arizona’s leaders have provided several options to keep the rain that falls. As the state grows, more storage will be essential.

Jon Gabriel, a Mesa resident, is editor-in-chief of Ricochet.com and a contributor to The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. On Twitter: @exjon.

growing frustrated with the social erosion in the city.

“San Francisco, to some extent, has gouged its own eyes out,” said Garry Tan, CEO of startup incubator Y Combinator, which gave birth to Airbnb and DoorDash.

He told the Wall Street Journal he got involved in local politics because the school curriculum was abandoning basic learning.

The son of struggling Asian immigrants, he had attended public school and used his education to rise high in the tech world. “Being able to study algebra in middle school allowed me to be a computer engineer,” he told The Journal. “Tech gave me everything I have, and I desperately want people from any background to be able to access that.”

Arizona’s national populists who now run the state Republican Party have lost three election cycles in a row. If they lose a fourth and Trump loses the White House, it will be harder to argue that national populism has a future.

The larger Republican voting base will likely become more receptive to a new direction and be ready to do the trenchwork to reform the party.

That is the key to success, said Chris Larsen, co-founder of the U.S. tech firm Ripple, who with other tech entrepreneurs have spent millions on the movement. “Things got to a point where we said, ‘Enough is enough, we’re getting involved in the muck,’ ” he told The Journal.

There used to be a time when sensible Arizona Republicans could ignore the farright antics of the party. But the present crop is causing so much deep-tissue damage to the brand that the brand is losing elections.

If that is to change, Arizona Republicans who believe in conservatism can find the answer in a left-wing city whose politics they’ve long despised.

Phil Boas is a columnist for The Arizona Republic. Email him at phil.boas@ arizonarepublic.com.

A bill to allow anyone with a concealed weapons permit to carry their guns on our public university campuses is making its way through the Arizona legislature. The bill, Senate Bill 1198, relies on the lack of public awareness of the permitting process in Arizona.

The truth is, the Department of Public Safety no longer has any role in establishing and overseeing any training requirements. No live fire training is needed. Permits are available online that can be completed in as little as an hour. There are currently more than 450,000 active Arizona permits, with zero transparency into the qualifications of those who have them.

Arizona recognizes concealed weapons permits from all 50 states, so our laws apply to anyone in the country with a concealed weapons permit. With university campuses already experiencing protests and unrest, adding concealed weapons to the mix is dangerous and irresponsible.

Meg Pradelt, Tucson

Retired Arizona Corrections Director Charles Ryan pauses in the courtroom after pleading no contest to a disorderly conduct charge in a plea agreement at Maricopa County Superior Court on Nov. 14 in Phoenix. Ryan faced felony charges stemming from a 2022 encounter in which police say he fired a gun inside his Tempe home and pointed a firearm at two responding officers during a three-hour standoff. ROSS D. FRANKLIN/AP

Where was Kelly on the border?

Where has Mark Kelly been for the past three years, as the citizens of Arizona and the entire nation has been begging the Biden administration to close the open border? President Biden dis-

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terest rates and an expected ramp-up in earnings to support additional modest gains for stocks,” they added.

Even the presidential election cycle might give a further boost to keep the market moving higher. This is the tendency of stocks to rally during presidential-election years and years like 2023 that precede them.

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dictable alternatives. That is especially true since index funds, which try to replicate the performance of market indicators like the Standard & Poor’s 500, also typically charge lower shareholderborne expenses than actively managed rivals. Lower costs magnify that edge.

The indexing benefits are nothing new, though the Morningstar study provides new insights. For example, indexing giant Vanguard reported that 82% of its nearly 220 bond and stock index funds beat their actively managed peers over the 10 years ending June 30, 2023.

Actively managed funds are those in which a manager is trying to select stocks, or bonds, that outperform the market.

In short, identifying stocks likely to outperform isn’t easy, even for professionals. “Individual investors should remember that if well-resourced professional money managers struggle to get half their picks right, the odds for amateurs are long, too,” Shannon wrote.

Some indicators point to further stock market gains Despite the sharp stumble on Tuesday over lingering inflation worries, the stock market has been performing well

of late, and that might bode well for the rest of the year.

One favorable sign was the Standard & Poor’s 500 index closing above 5,000 for the first time on Feb. 9. When major round-number milestones like this are breached, investors tend to climb on board, contends Adam Turnquist, an investment strategist for LPL Financial.

He looked at nine prior milestone breakthroughs for the S&P 500 spanning several decades and concluded that stocks tend to continue rising. Of the last nine that he examined (when the S&P 500 broke through 100 through 500, then 1,000 through 4,000), the index usually kept going, posting an average return of 10.4% over the subsequent 12 months. Investors seem to get excited by the publicity, with many becoming fearful of missing out on the rally, Turnquist said.

The stock market registered a modest gain this past January, and that too could point to 2024 finishing on the plus side, said Turnquist and Jeffrey Buchbinder, LPL’s chief equity strategist, in a separate commentary. This is known as the “January barometer,” and it’s a bullish sign.

“Over the course of the year, we expect easing inflation, stable or lower in-

The mutual fund industry is celebrating the centennial of the first such portfolio in the U.S., when Massachusetts Investors Trust first opened its doors in 1924. Few financial innovations have had more of an impact since then, especially for middle-class investors.

More than 116 million Americans rely on funds to pursue their financial goals, whether saving for education, homeownership, retirement or something else, noted the Investment Company Institute, the fund-industry trade organization. “Funds are the original and greatest democratizing force in global financial markets,” the group said.

Mutual funds and their close cousins, such as exchange-traded funds, provide accessibility and flexibility to enter the stock or bond markets. They can help investors gain stakes in other areas, including money-market products, real estate, precious metals or foreign assets.

They are diversified, professionally managed, inclusive and affordable to people with even a few thousand dollars to invest, or less.

Funds also have become more efficient over time, sharing greater cost savings and economies of scale with their investors. They have become mainstays in workplace 401(k) plans, Individual Retirement Accounts, college-saving 529 programs and more.

Collectively, funds counted $25.5 trillion in assets at the end of 2023.

Reach the writer at russ.wiles@ arizonarepublic.com.

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Reqs BS+1 yr exp. Will accept BS+12 graduate-level credit hrs. Send resume to emily.leatham@arraytechinc.com.

Must reference job title & code.

Bar-S Foods Co.,

in Scottsdale, AZ, has one opening for a Director Software Development & Engineering. Build and lead an efficient team in the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of applications, reports, middleware, and interfaces that support business processes. Accountable for the strategy, evaluation and implementation of standards and procedures which support the enterprise’s application infrastructure aligned to strategic technology vision. This is a telecommuting position with remote worksite. May telecommute/work from home from any location in the U.S. For full job description or to apply, send resumes to alake@bar-s.com.

Responsible for performing profssnl chemcl mechncl planarization (CMP) process engg rsrch, dsgn, dvlpmnt, modification, & evaluation. Req Master’s deg in Chem Engg, Elect Engg, Mech Engg, Physics, Chem, Materials Sci or rel fld. Exp may be gained while in grad school. Please email resume to P_Resumes@tsmc.com and reference Job #3163.

in Chandler, AZ. Integrate & verify System on Chips (SoC) for ARM processor based Micro Processing Units (MPUs). Use hdwr description languages (HDL) to design hdwr & verify designs. Requires Master’s degree. Email resume to Microchip Technology at Avi.Sterbenz@microchip.com. Must list job title & code in subject line.

CS TECHNICAL SUPPORT ENGINEER 3

ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY. VARIOUS LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE.

ASML US, LLC, a lithography development and manufacturing company for the semiconductor industry has the following position(s) available Chandler, AZ: CS Technical Support Engineer 3. Apply w/ ref# C7323081, email resume to USACareers@ASML.com, Attn: Leslie Pressel. EOE AA M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Arm Inc., a multinational semiconductor and software design company, has an opening in Chandler, AZ for Senior Validation Engineer (ENG80): Work as a team member of post-silicon validation and characterization of latest silicon process node of a best-in-class mobile SoC processor. Ref. job code and email resume to ARM-RecruitAd@arm.com.

Intelligent Manufacturing Engineer (Multiple Positions), TSMC Arizona Corporation, Phoenix, AZ.

Electrical Engineer 3,

Black & Veatch Corporation, Phoenix, AZ. Prepare a variety of moderately complex electrical engineering deliverables, including drawings and specifications, for water and wastewater treatment facilities. Telecommuting is permissible within a reasonable commuting distance from the Phoenix, AZ office. Submit resume on-line at www.bv.com, click on Careers Link. Must reference Req. #: 102090 for this specific position.

Equal Opportunity Employer–Minority/Disabled/ Veterans/Females.

Ensre tht core infrstrctr of fctris cn cooprte wth the prdctn executn sys (Siview) & the matril cntrl sys (MCS) oprton to imprv prdctn effcncy & effctvly meet org objctvs. Req a bach’s deg in indstrl engg, Mnfctrng, Prdctn Engg, indstrl Mngmnt, Comp Sci, Mech & Autmton Engg or rel, + 2 yr of exp in an engg role; OR a master’s deg or foreign equiv in indstrl engg, Mnfctrng, Prdctn Engg, indstrl Mngmnt, Comp Sci, Mech & Autmton Engg or rel. Exp may be gaind whl in grad school.

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M-F/8-5/40hr/wk. Apply knowledge of transportation engineering to complete Design Concept Reports, Traffic Impact Studies & Strategic Transportation Safety Plans; assist w/ proposals, budgets & AutoCAD designs; develop traffic simulation models, using Vissim, Vistro & Synchro for alternate scenario evaluation; use crash data to determine crash patterns using QGIS & Arizona Crash Information System; apply statistical analysis techniques & software (R, Spss) for traffic data analysis, forecasting & crash data analysis to determine crash patterns, trends & hot spots; perform Evacuation Route Mapping & VMT Analysis; utilize Warrants 10, AZ811 Utility Info. & FHWA USLIMITS2 in projects. Req.: M.S. in Civil, Environmental & Sustainable Engineering.

Submit resume w/ ad copy to: Mike Blankenship, Greenlight Traffic Engineering, LLC, 14050 N. 83rd Ave., Ste. 290, Peoria, AZ 85381.

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Junior Drafter, Architectural, Phoenix, AZ: Utilize knowledge of architectural design concepts to develop detailed drawings for designing lateral bracings, roof framing, and foundations for single and two storied residential houses.

Prepare drawings in line with building codes. Work closely with Architectural Design Associate/Project Manager addressing city’s comments and revisions made by builders. Work with AutoCAD, Revit, STAAD Pro, MicroStation, Civil 3D, RISA 3D, EnerCalc, Inventor. Reply to: Felten Group, Inc., 18325 N. Allied Way, Suite 200, Phoenix, AZ 85054

Lead Data Scientist, Circle K Stores Inc. Tempe, AZ:

Develop, deploy, and validate advanced analytics/machine learning models in the areas of retail merchandising and other areas as needed to derive business value. International travel required up to 5%; Domestic travel required up to 5%. Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week.

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OSIsoft, LLC

seeks Software Developer II (Scottsdale, AZ) to recognize, articulate, and make tech decisions around multiple dimensions (scaling, reliability, performance, maintenance, etc.) that have an impact on your team.

REQS: Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Chemical, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics or a related field. Applicants interested in the position should submit a complete resume in English to leticia.garcia@aveva.com Req. # LOP-SDII. EOE.

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Senior Software Development Engineer in Test at GoDaddy.com, LLC in Tempe, AZ will dvlp Quality Engg infrastructure & components using cutting edge web technologies including JavaScript & NodeJS to redefine the future of GoDaddy’s digital presence business by delivering compelling user experiences for our website builders. Telecommuting permissible.

GoDaddy’s compensation may vary based on an individual’s qualifications at the time of the offer. The annual base salary range is $116,000 - $226,000 per year. Reqs a Bachelor’s deg in Comp Sci or a related field plus 5 yrs of exp as a software developer or related occupation. 5 yrs of exp must include 3 yrs of exp with each of the following: building automation frameworks & services; UI automation; JavaScript; NodeJS; Jenkins CI/ CD; & Webservice automation. Send resume to resume@godaddy.com. Ref 2053 in subject line.

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Manager Engineering R&D, NVH Performance Vehicle & Lab Test for Nissan North America Inc. in Stanfield, AZ. To monitor eng & bus process, vehicle issues & rprts. Review safety rltd files & report issues to committee mem. Confirm, update & maint eng database info. Identify potential improv & implement new dptmt processes, sys & track.

Estab cust. Focused quality targets & new tech to support brand image. Prv market perspective f/ quality & design rltd issues. Ensure vehicle systems incidents are reported & verify resolution, incl prod & field countermeasures are obtained. Supervise & provide leadership, coaching, guidance, training & staff dvlpmt; plan & evaluate employee performance; recommend merit increases, transfers & promotions. Must have a Bachelor degree in Mech Eng or rltd Eng discipline & 5 yrs as Engineer or rltd position.

Experience must include working w/ auto technology, auto product knowledge, rltd info.

Systems, PQ & rltd legal processes; coaching & mentoring lesser experienced eng & advanced knowledge of word processor, spreadsheet, other PC appl. To create specialized app or prd of a highly tech nature. 20% day & overnight travel (dom/int’l.) Send resume to Jessica Whetstone, 1 Nissan Way, Franklin, TN 37067.

Employer: Song Lynn Vietnamese Rest.

Lynn Chavez, 2755 N 91st Ave, #150-160, Phoenix, AZ 85037 Cook, Fulltime position, in Phoenix, AZ. Cut, sauté, fry and grill vegetables, meat, steak, and fish, prepare food in accordance with portion and quality standards, follow procedures to ensure security and proper storage of meat, fish and protein, and all equipment. Prepare in advance food, beverage, material and equipment needed for service. Minimize waste in butchery and maintain control to attain forecasted food cost. Adhere to regulations concerning FSMS/HACCP, health and safety requirements. Maintain sanitation standards in food prep, clean and re-set working area.

Supervise dining room and cafeteria attendants, kitchen and bartender helpers.

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Region Technologies has openings for Website Tester position in Phoenix, AZ. Reqs US Assoc of Science Degree in CS/CIS or Technology to test apps using HTML/CSS/ Bootstrap/JavaScript/ReactJS/SQL/3D Anim/Selenium/Adobe to simulate real-world user behavior; identify problems with navigation; record data; track website performance; design & edit videos; set up podcasts; 3D modeling using Cinema 4D/Blender. Send resume to careers@regiontechnologies.com w/ ref no 2024-25 & ref this ad.

Savvas Learning Company, LLC in Chandler, AZ

seeks a Senior Software Developer (multiple openings) responsible for architecting, designing, developing, testing, and advancing sophisticated next generation software applications.

Remote work is permitted within a reasonable commuting distance of the Chandler, AZ office. Send resume to Nicole Brocato at nicole.boudreaubrocato@savvas.com and reference job title.

Scrum Master

sought by CFG (Phoenix, AZ) to drives successful adoption imp’tion of Agile &Scrum principles w/in Arch & Eng division. 40 hrs/wk. Must have Mas deg in IT Mgmt / rltd field & 1 yr exp in role / rltd position. Emp will also accept Bach deg in same fields followed by 3 yrs progressive in role / rltd position.

May telecommute from any US location. Visit https://jobs.citizensbank.com & apply online (Job ID 31192) or mail resumes ref Job ID 31192 to Marilyn Perry, Citizens Financial Group, One Citizens Bank Way, JCC110, Johnston, RI 02919.

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SENIOR APPLICATIONS ENGINEER 1 ASML US, LLC, a lithography development and manufacturing company for the semiconductor industry has the following position(s) available Phoenix, AZ: Senior Applications Engineer 1, Telecommuting permitted. Domestic and International Travel may be required up to 30%. Travel expenses paid by employer. Apply w/ ref# C7267642, email resume to USACareers@ASML.com, Attn: Leslie Pressel. EOE AA M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Senior Engineer II – Product (SPE-JJP)

in Chandler, AZ. Support Mixed Signal Product line which includes DACs, ADCs & Voltage Reference devices.

Lead cross functional New Product Dvlpmt teams. MS+2yrs rltd exp.

Email resume to Microchip Technology at Avi.Sterbenz@microchip.com. Must list job title & code in subject line.

Software Engineer, TSMC Arizona Corporation, Phoenix, AZ.

Dsgn, dvlp, & test regional sftwr systms or apps for sftwr enhncmnts to meet the bus needs. Req Bach’s deg in Comp Sci, Comp Engg, Elect Engg, Sftwr Engg, Info Tech, Info Systms or rel fld + 6 mths exp in sftwr engg role. Please email resume to P_Resumes@tsmc.com and reference Job #6734.

Sr. Cloud Engineer

wanted by GBT US LLC in Scottsdale, AZ. Performing admin & ops of overall Red Hat OpenShift solutions for customers, incl dvlpmt of solution dsgns, implem plans & documentation.

Must have a Bachelor’s deg in CS, Computer Engg or a rltd field plus five (5) yrs of rel exp. May work from home within commuting distance to office. $125,278-$170,000/yr. Pls e-mail resume to: job.application@amexgbt.com & refer to: Job Req. J-65793

Sr. Manufacturing Engineer, TSMC Arizona Corporation, Phoenix, AZ.

Dsgn, dvlp, test & evaluate intgrtd systms for mngng indstrl prdctn procsss of semiconductor fabs. Req. Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Manufctrng Engg, Indstrl Engg, Engg Mgmt, Math, Statistics, Tech Mgmt, or rel + 1 yr exp in engg role. Please email resume to P_Resumes@tsmc.com and reference Job# 0836.

Technical Staff Engineer – Design (TSED-KR)

in Chandler, AZ. Dvlp analog design content that performs Overvoltage/Undervoltage detection.

Dvlp analog design content that enables auto-sense features for the voltage reg.

MS+5yrs rltd exp. Email resume to Microchip Technology at Avi.Sterbenz@microchip.com. Must list job title & code in subject line.

CASHIER

Receive payment/issue receipts/ refunds after tabulating prices. Process returns. Maintain checkout areas, etc.

Job site: 207 N HWY, 89A Sedona, Arizona 86336. The salary per year $28,330.00. Send resume to the following address: GS COSMETICS 207 N HWY, 89A Sedona, Arizona 86336.

CASHIER Receive payment/issue receipts/refunds after tabulating prices. Process returns. Maintain checkout areas, etc.

Job site: 250 N HWY 89A Sedona, Arizona 86336. The salary per year $28,330.00. Send resume to the following address: GS COSMETICS 250 N HWY 89A Sedona, Arizona 86336

CASHIER Receive payment/issue receipts/ refunds after tabulating prices. Process returns. Maintain checkout areas, etc.

Job site: 7220 E Main Street Scottsdale, Arizona 85251. The salary per year $28,330.00. Send resume to the following address: GS COSMETICS 7220 E Main Street Scottsdale, Arizona 85251.

CDC Pools, Inc.

has multiple openings for Construction Workers in Chandler, Arizona. This is a pool construction and renovation position, focusing primarily on remodeling of swimming pools at both commercial and residential worksites.

Workers use hand and power tools to prepare surfaces for pouring, forming and finishing concrete plaster. Dig trenches to lay PVC pipes and run water from pump to pool and then fill the trenches back up with dirt. 98% travel to construction sites within Maricopa and Pima counties, 2% travel to construction sites within all other Arizona counties. For full job description or to apply, please contact Justin@cdcpools.com.

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for elderly patients. A Golden Retreat Care Home. 18330 W. Marconi Ave., Surprise, Z 85388

Lead Agricultural Equipment Operator Case Grande, AZ

Demaray Harvesting and Trucking, LLC seeks lead agricultural equipment operators to provide year-round attention to agricultural harvest equipment and activities on farms and facilities in Arizona and at various locations throughout the United States.

Position requires significant travel.

Housing is provided. Must have 2 years’ experience maintaining and/or operating large machinery (agricultural or similar). Must be able to lift and carry 60 lbs. Submit applications at demarayharvesting.com or email resume to tim@demarayharvesting.com

Senior Business Analyst at GoDaddy.com, LLC in Tempe, AZ will work with the Services team & Product Managers to gather analytic reqmts, dsgn actionable KPIs & share analytic insights to drive business & product improvements. Telecommuting permissible.

GoDaddy’s compensation may vary based on an individual’s qualifications at the time of the offer. The annual base salary range is $86,133 - $167,000 per year. Reqs a Master’s deg in Analytics or related field plus 2 yrs of exp as a business analyst, data analyst, or related occupation. 2 yrs of exp must include 2 yrs of exp with each of the following: using SQL to discover, aggregate & extract data; Tableau or Google Analytics; supporting business analyses with data visualizations; context switching between technical & business discussions; & analytical techniques including trend analysis, forecasting, & experiment dsgn. Send resume to resume@godaddy.com. Ref 2033 in subject line.

Engineering/IT Data Center Technician Lead

Drive all phases of Storage Engg; incl architecture, implmtn, support, & performance engg for our enterprise Storage platforms. Work w/ key tech’l & business stakeholders to determine data & storage reqmts & create solutions to meet reqmts. Perform root cause analysis, monitor system availability, troubleshoot storage & cloud related issues, diagnose & resolve problems, recover processes affected during down-times, dvlp system modifications, h/ware & s/ware configurations/ upgrades/ maintenance, perform monitoring & tuning, change mgmt, create tech’l & procedural documentation, & disaster recovery participation. Perform all aspects of SAN administration incl planning, installation, upgrading, patching, tuning, support, & troubleshooting.

Ensure the availability, reliability, scalability, & manageability of the data storage environment. Validate tech’l solution architectures of array storage & provides time, cost, & delivery estimates versus performance trade-offs. Perform Storage allocations, switch related tasks. Perform all support tasks incl tuning, troubleshooting, maintenances.

Contribute & dvlp best practices, methodologies, templates & documentation. Conduct performance mgmt & Capacity Planning for infrastructure components. Perform Root Cause Analysis for the Storage & Infrastructure related issues.

Provide Recommendations for the Improvement of the Infrastructure. Work w/ Storage & Backup team customers for cross functional tasks. Responsible for test planning & execution. Follow policies & procedures for change & incident management. Stay current on industry trends & new technologies & recommend future initiatives. Reqs: Bach’s Deg (or foreign equiv) in n Comp Sci, IT, Engg, or a closely related field + 4 yrs of delivering enterprise tech’l support & engg exp.

Also reqs 4 yrs of SAN or Storage dsgn exp. Also reqs 4 yrs of enterprise backup exp. The role may presently be performed remotely in the State of AZ, but this is subject to change.

Apply online at www.republicservices.jobs or submit resume to Republic Services, S. Bogan, 18500 N Allied Way, Phoenix, AZ 85054. Ref: EG-CI0V-24.

• 5 years of experience as Team Leader of Technical Team or Date Center Technician Lead.

• At least 4 years of experience managing technical teams.

• At least 5 years of infrastructure experience in a combination of capacity planning, demand and supply management, production planning, operations planning, or infrastructure management.

• Technical lead experience working with cross-functional teams on large-scale data center projects and initiatives.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or Education in computer science or engineering. 1 month training in Namecheap specific Datacenter infrastructure.

• Deep knowledge of enterprise-level server, storage, network, power and cabinet installation, initial configurations, and troubleshooting.

• Experience managing multiple projects within the same time schedule.

• Willingness to adjust hours as required by the business to include being onsite for extended hours during emergency situations; should be located no more than 30-60 minutes away from Phoenix NAP Datacenter (Phoenix area).

• Ability to lift 50 lbs.

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Waste Management Phoenix open is full of waste.

The Thunderbirds and city of Scottsdale should be ashamed of the event they allowed to get out of control. The millions of dollars raised is not worth the embarrassment this city will have to endure.

This event is no longer safe and I am hoping the PGA finds a new location for the tournament.

This is no longer a signature event on the PGA tour, and I hope they go a step further and find a new venue. The city of Scottsdale no longer deserves to be promoted as a premiere destination.

In fact, the culture in this city was on full display this weekend for America to watch.

My programs will no longer accept Thunderbird grants and participation in WM events will be suspended. I hope the city of Phoenix separates itself from this event as well (its WM pre-qualifier is at Aguila Golf Course).

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AZECONOMY You might think that professional money managers are highly skilled at picking stocks that outperform, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

A new analysis from researcher Morningstar found that 90% of mutual fund managers over a recent 10-year stretch picked more losing stocks than winners, with success determined by whether the stocks beat or lagged an appropriate market index — not whether they generated an actual gain or loss. In other words, a manager could fill a portfolio with a bunch of laggards yet still generate a positive overall return, especially in a fast-rising market. In fact, that scenario seems to be common.

The study looked at stock-picking success or “hit rates” across several fund categories and found that higher rates helped but didn’t guarantee superior performance. Even when managers have a hot hand initially, they usually struggle to keep up that momentum.

“Picking winning stocks is easier said than done,” wrote Jack Shannon, a Morningstar senior equities analyst who conducted the study.

What does boost returns is finding and hanging on to a relatively few big winners, Shannon determined. That is, making large, high-conviction bets on eventual outperformers is the way to go, assuming those decisions bear fruit.

One conclusion from this study is that you should be skeptical any time a professional, or just a friend, brags about his or her stock-picking prowess.

Another is that many managers show hot hands from time to time, yet this momentum tends to fizzle.

A third is that index funds, which own a fairly stable assortment of stocks without trying to pick outperformers among them, can represent more pre-

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Thankfully, drought conditions ended in nearly all of the Golden State, thanks in part to a recent dayslong drenching. What a relief!

Well, not for the Times. Their recent headlines include: h “The terrifying forces that created a California monster storm” h “After 5 days, the rain has stopped.

In its wake, 9 dead, a trail of destruction” h “L.A. staved off disaster this time.

But our luck is running out as extreme weather worsens” Oh, lighten up, Angelenos. Drought is a drag and the rain helped fixed it. You don’t need to throw a pool party, but at least admit that for now, you no longer need to import drinking water from Fiji.

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With home prices and rent up dramatically since the start of the pandemic, a growing number of Americans are looking for ways to cut their monthly housing expenses.

One common solution? Roommates.

The rental marketplace Zillow on Feb. 8 announced the option to search for individual room listings. A beta testing mode for the feature first launched in certain markets in November, and there are already an estimated 10,000 single-room listings nationwide. “(The room feature is) a way for us to expand the affordable selection to our renters, in addition to providing more optionality for landlords and homeowners, potentially, to help offset mortgage costs,” said Lily Ferguson, the senior product manager at Zillow who was behind the room-for-rent launch.

David Smith, a 33-year-old based in New York City, lived in a four-bedroom apartment with a rotating cast of roommates between 2012 and 2018. Since it was Smith’s name on the lease, he said

Zillow’s app now features a “Room” filter under the “Home Type” drop-down menu. The feature is now available nationwide. PROVIDED BY ZILLOW

each time a roommate moved out, he was tasked with finding a replacement.

If he failed to move fast enough, he risked paying double his $1,000 monthly share of the rent.

“It’s a stressful process, especially when there’s months remaining in the

lease. That’s something that I couldn’t afford covering on my own,” he said. “So you’re in need of somebody, but you don’t want it to be just anybody.”

In 2019, about one-third (32.2%) of U.S. adults lived in “shared households” with at least one adult resident who was

not the householder’s partner or spouse, according to census data. This figure includes adult children living with parents and adult roommates but does not count those ages 18-24 who areenrolled in school.

Since then, housing has only become more expensive. A report from Zillow says the income required to comfortably spend the recommended 30% of income on rent for the median renter is up 40.6% since pre-pandemic times, to $79,264.

And despite positive economic indicators like waning inflation and a resilient labor market, Americans say they are struggling in the current economy.

That’s pushing more renters to find roommates.

Adding in roommates can also help make mortgage payments more affordable for homeowners, who face a 30year fixed mortgage rate of more than 7%.

Zillow’s app now features a “Room” filter under the “Home Type” dropdown menu. Renters can search for a room in a single-family rental, condominium or townhome based on budget, lifestyle and preferred location.

The feature is available nationwide but is especially popular in larger cities like Los Angeles, Boston and Atlanta.

New Diamondbacks player pays $9.3M for mansion Catherine Reagor

5 1⁄2 bathrooms. The Santa Barbara-style house also comes with an office, a teen room, a basement built for entertaining, a wine room, two kitchen pantries and an outdoor kitchen. An LLC named after the address of the property sold it.

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This Naples, Fla., compound, owned by the Donahue family, has made national headlines as the most expensive home listed for sale in the U.S.

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A professional athlete and coaches were among the buyers and sellers of metro Phoenix’s priciest homes at the end of January. In addition to the new Diamondbacks pitcher buying a new home, the head coach for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury purchased a Paradise Valley house from Tiger Woods’ former golf coach.

Most expensive home in US has competition

$9,750,000 The Delaware LLC Besertbd paid cash for a new 8,543-square-foot Paradise Valley mansion with five bedrooms and

3-house gated property in same compound goes on market USA TODAY NETWORK – FLORIDA

NAPLES, Fla. – A posh Port Royal compound in Naples, Florida, has made national headlines as the most expensive home for sale in America.

A story about the listing first appeared in the Wall Street Journal, offered up as an exclusive to the publication by the seller’s agents. News – and marketing – has spread since then to other national and local media.

The price tag for the property: $295 million.

While it’s technically the most expensive listing for sale, there is another offering that could match it, with the combination of three other legacy properties that hit the market in the same neighborhood last year that would cost the same.

“This is probably one of the top two or three oceanfront properties in the whole state of Florida.”

Robert McEwan Real estate agent

Known as Gordon Pointe, the gated compound stretches a little over 9 acres. It includes about 708 feet of beachfront and Gulf of Mexico views, 952 feet of bay views, an “exclusive and extremely rare” yacht basin, measuring 231 feet and a T-shaped dock for up to six boats.

There is not just one, but three houses on the property, built over time. There is also the potential to redevelop the site, with a larger family

$8,500,000 The Kimbrell Family Trust paid cash for a new 6,870-square-foot Paradise Valley house with five bedrooms and six bathrooms, an office, a bar next to the kitchen and a casita. BJBG LLC sold the home.

Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez and his wife, Catherine, paid cash for a new 7,716-square-foot Paradise Valley house. He signed a fouryear, $80 million contract with the Diamondbacks in December. He previously played for the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers. The house with six bedrooms and 6 1⁄2 bathrooms comes with mountain views, a bridge entry to the motor court, stained ceiling beams, an

$5,300,000 The Delaware LLC called DKMND Family paid cash for a new 6,098-square-foot Fountain Hills house with six bedrooms

and 6 1⁄2 bathrooms. Built by Golden Heritage Homes, the house has 12-foot sliding glass doors, a pool with a fire feature, an elevator and balconies off the upstairs suites. The Haugher Group LLC sold it.

$4,700,000 Nathan and Lyndsey Tibbetts purchased a 5,560-square-foot Paradise Valley home. He is the head coach of the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury. The house has five bedrooms and 5 1⁄2 bathrooms, double dishwashers and a farm sink in the kitchen, and a backyard with a sports court, a putting green with sand traps and a chicken coop. Henry and Suzanne Haney were the sellers. He is a former coach of golfer Tiger Woods.

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Questions: My wife and I live with our 2-year-old son in an apartment complex. Recently, in our apartment complex, there was a gang fight with several shots fired. We were terrified, especially about the possibility of additional gang shootings. We notified the property manager and moved out immediately, and we have been staying with my wife’s sister until we can find another apartment. We just received an email from our former landlord’s attorney stating that we had no right to move out of the apartment and that we will owe rent until the landlord can find another tenant. Do we have to pay any more rent?

Answer: You had a right to terminate the lease with five days’ notice and move out of your apartment because you had a reasonable belief of imminent danger to the health and safety of you and your family. See A.R.S. § 33-1361. Therefore, you should not have to pay more than five days’ rent.

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more than $174 million. A price that was unheard of then. It’s still for sale.

The beachfront property, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, is expansive, stretching more than 8.5 acres, making it a rarity, too.

More of a rarity: Neighboring property is up for sale on both sides, with the potential to carve out an even larger one-of-kind estate on Naples’ highly coveted Gordon Drive. Combined, they would cost $295 million and span more than 15 acres, with 812 linear feet of beach frontage.

While ownership is under different names, an internet search reveals the three properties are tied to the DeGroote family. The family’s patriarch, Michael DeGroote Sr., a Canadian billionaire, entrepreneur and philanthropist, died in 2022.

Since Hurricane Ian, Naples has seen other trophy properties come to market at eye-popping prices.

The uber-luxury home market wasn’t as hot last year, as it was in 2022.

However, 2023 still brought a few whopping sales.

The most expensive home sold last year fetched $46.8 million – also in Port Royal. The purchase price for the furnished single-family estate was the highest ever paid for an off-beach residential property in the neighborhood, and all of Collier County.

Collier County’s record home price still stands at $62 million – set in 2022.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the current U.S. home sale record was set in 2019 for a penthouse purchased by Citadel’s Ken Griffin on Billionaires’ Row in Manhattan. He paid $240 million.

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These kinds of sales don’t happen very often, so there really is no history to go by, on what and when.”

There’s no question in his mind that the property will find a buyer, due to its secluded and scenic location at the end of Gordon Drive.

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Port Royal has long been known as a playground for the rich.

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repare for a plague of Beetles. Microbuses, too. h Volkswagen, the German brand that rode the success of a single modest car to become a global giant, is celebrating 75 years of sales in the United States. From the original VW Bug to Microbus camper vans, Grateful Dead concerts, dizzying highs and devastating lows, America has been vital to VW. The brand is celebrating its past and promoting its future with everything from special events to a Super Bowl commercial and a pair of new EVs. The first pair of Type 1 Beetles to reach the U.S. were hoisted off the Holland America Westerdam, a freighter out of Rotterdam, in New York, on Jan. 17, 1949. VW’s factories in Wolfsburg, Germany — still corporate HQ today — took a pounding in World War II. Repaired under the occupying British Army, resuming production of civilian vehicles was a postwar priority to get the German economy back on its feet.

“Over the past 75 years, Volkswagen has grown from a pair of Beetles into part of America’s cultural fabric,” VW of America Senior Vice President Rachael Zaluzec said. “As we celebrate 75 years, we will celebrate the real people and real-life moments that have made Volkswagen.”

Initially, Americans barely noticed the cars, which had already earned the nickname Kafer — “Beetle” in Germany.

Dutch businessman Ben Pon had a hard time making an impression as U.S. automakers flooded the market with the first new vehicles developed since ending production of military goods.

“The Volkswagen Beetle was very much the spiritual successor to the Model T, offering inexpensive, reliable transportation — and not much more,” said Matt Anderson, transportation curator at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. “ ‘Iconic’ is an overused word, but it applies to the VW Beetle which, for decades, symbolized a non-Detroit mindset to buyers and builders alike.”

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Volkswagen established an American subsidiary to organize its dealers, advertising and parts availability in 1955. In 1959, as American cars entered a decade of growth from modest 1950s sedans to relative giants, VW launched a trend-setting advertising campaign that would last for decades with a 1959 ad, from the agency Doyle Dane Bernbach, that declared “Think small,” touting the Beetle’s size, efficiency and ease of maintenance.

The brand added models, most notably the Bus — a van that shared its rearengine layout with the Beetle. The two vehicles became synonymous with affordability, youth and nonconformity.

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They were joined by a small wagon and the beautiful Karmann Ghia coupe and convertible, designed by the famous Ghia studio in Italy and built by German coachbuilder Karmann. The lineup also included the practical Squareback small wagon and Fastback, a hatchback.

By the end of the 1960s, VW was the leading import brand in the U.S. Second place was so distant that whoever was in it didn’t matter.

Building cars in the States By the 1970s, VW’s popularity and sales convinced the bosses in Wolfsburg to build cars in the U.S. The company bought an unfinished plant in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, from Chrysler, which was in dire financial straits.

VW Manufacturing of America opened its doors in July 1978, years before the first Japanese assembly plant opened. Rather than the beloved Beetle or Bus, the factory’s first product was the Rabbit, a functional and brilliantly engineered hatchback.

VW continued to import cars throughout the ’70s and ’80s, including its first sports car, the Scirocco, and the Dasher and Quantum, renamed versions of the European Passat sedan and wagon.

Westmoreland added production of the Rabbit GTi sport compact and a compact pickup based on the Rabbit.

Despite soaring fuel prices due to energy crises, the plant struggled as American buyers struggled with VW’s transformation from quirky bargains to more sophisticated vehicles.

Westmoreland built 1.1 million vehicles before closing in 1988.

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Christened the New Beetle and rushed into production, the car was a sensation when sales began in 1998. It remained a mainstay of VW’s lineup through 2019.

From diesel disaster to an electric microbus In addition to the New Beetle, Volkswagen sold a wide range of cars in the 2000s. It also joined the SUV craze with the compact Tiguan, which hit U.S. roads in 2008. At the same time, VW broke ground on a new assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The $4.3 billion plant began production with the Passat midsize sedan in 2011, adding the Atlas midsize SUV. At the same time, disaster struck.

The powerful and efficient diesel engines that had helped VW build a

reputation for combining performance with efficiency and clean operation were found to have cheated on emissions tests. VW eventually paid billions in fines, repurchased hundreds of thousands, and created the first nationwide electric vehicle charging network to make amends.

Chattanooga became a center for EV and battery production. Its first EV, the ID.4 midsize SUV, went on sale in 2022.

An electric sedan, the ID.7, will join it in production later this year.

Also this year, VW will launch U.S. sales of the ID. Buzz, an electric minivan designed to recall the beloved Bus. The automaker has also revived the Scout brand name for a line of U.S.-built electric SUVs and pickups. Sales should begin in 2026, and rumor has it the automaker will reveal a prototype this year.

The Beetle triumphs, again VW sales languished in much of the ’80s and ’90s, sometimes dipping below those of its more expensive corporate stablemate, Audi. Executives in Germany considered abandoning U.S. sales, but remained determined to succeed in the market that had once been their pride and joy.

The Beetle came to the rescue again, first as a retro-concept car that inspired tears in the audience when it debuted as the Concept 1 at the 1994 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

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Why am I so tired all the time?

There are many possible explanations for extra tiredness during the day; it can be as simple as lack of sleep to more serious health conditions.

One of the easier problems to solve is the quantity and quality of your sleep. Adults should average seven or more hours per night. Getting up for frequent bathroom breaks, being interrupted by a partner, child or pet, sleeping restlessly, snoring or an uncomfortable environment can affect the quality of your sleep.

When people say they’re always tired, they’re most often talking about fatigue versus being sleepy. Fatigue refers to a lack of energy, whether from a lack of sleep or metabolic, environmental or psychological disturbances.

Causes can include thyroid dysfunction, diabetes, inadequate nutrition, heart issues, medication side effects, hormonal disturbances or mood disorders, according to Singh.

Our society often views tiredness “as a trophy,” Singh says. Hustle culture rewards a “rise and grind 24/7” mentality where work and productivity come before sleep. But feeling this tired is not normal, even if we normalize it.

Start by talking to your primary care doctor or a sleep specialist. Make sleep a part of your annual visit conversation and see them if you’re not satisfied with the quality of your sleep, Singh says.

“When was the last time you actually had a detailed blood test and a primary care evaluation about your

health? Not illness, but health,” Dr. Singh says.

Though it can be tempting to self-diagnose or get advice from “Dr. Google,” Singh advises seeking a professional opinion. Sleep specialists and primary care doctors know your unique medical history and have better tools to pinpoint a diagnosis, whether it requires a sleep study, behavioral therapies or medication adjustments.

Don’t simply do it yourself.

“DIY on your faucet is OK, but a DIY on your health? I don’t know about that,” Singh says. “That could lead to some consequences.”

Potential underlying conditions You may be waking up tired because of poor quality of sleep or a more serious condition like sleep apnea.

You can improve your sleep quality by making changes to your pre-bedtime rituals, Dr. Hal Alpert, a boardcertified sleep medicine specialist, previously told USA TODAY. Here’s what Alpert recommends: h Establish a consistent bed and wake-up time h Limit naps to a total of 30 minutes per day h Wind down with meditation, a warm bath or shower, reading or listening to calming music h Use your bedroom only for sleep and sex h Keep a pen and paper by your bed to write down any restless thoughts keeping you awake h Avoid alcohol, food, caffeine and

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here’s a place where “volcanoes steam, salmon run, bears forage, and craggy mountains reflect in shimmering turquoise lakes.” h Life goes on the way it has for thousands of years, and “people and culture still depend on the land and water,” Chelsea Niles, program manager for Interpretation, Education and Partnerships at Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, told USA TODAY. h It sounds almost

too good to be true, but Lake Clark is very real. It’s just not easy to visit. h Here’s what travelers should know about the park in southwest Alaska, the latest in USA TODAY’s yearlong national park series.

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eaching for another cup of coffee? Find yourself dozing off at work? You’re not alone. The 2020 Sleep in America poll found that 44% of Americans feel sleepy two to four times per week, and 58% say feeling sleepy impacts their mood. h Americans are tired, but talking about it can create a cultural change, says Dr. Abhinav Singh, the director of the Indiana Sleep Center, a medical review expert at Sleep Foundation and author of “Sleep to Heal.” h “It’s the foundation of health,” Singh says. “It doesn’t require a fancy gym membership, it doesn’t require organic food. ... Proper sleep is pretty free.”

Watching for signs of fatigue Singh says to be on the lookout for any of these fatigue symptoms, which may be a sign of an underlying condition: h Morning drowsiness h Drowsiness while driving h Frequent bathroom breaks at night h Rapid weight gain and difficulty losing weight h Focus issues h Mood changes h Headaches after waking up Untreated sleep apnea can lead to higher blood pressure, diabetes and increased risk of stroke and heart attack, according to Singh.

electronics before bed h Exercise regularly If your sleep quality is top-notch but you’re still waking up tired, contact your primary care doctor.

“If you sleep seven, eight hours, you’re expected to feel more refreshed and awake and energetic. If that doesn’t happen, then something’s going on,” Singh says. “Whether it’s a lack of energy that you feel or excessive sleepiness, we have to sort that out.”

Sleep apnea is a common disorder where breathing is interrupted regularly during sleep. Obstructive sleep apnea, the most common type, happens when the throat muscles relax and block the flow of air, signaling a lack of oxygen to the brain and waking the person up.

Why do I get tired at 3 p.m.?

Frustrated by the afternoon slump?

Don’t worry – it’s a normal part of our circadian rhythm. Our alertness levels typically dip after midnight and after lunchtime.

Singh recommends a 20-25-minute period of quiet time to get back to your day feeling refreshed – a meditation or nap can help.

However, if you find yourself “napping” for hours at a time, it might be an indicator of a larger sleep problem. At that point, it’s not a nap but a sleep period, meaning your body has time to go through the sleep stages several times.

What is special about Lake Clark?

ulation and millions of annual visitors.”

According to the park’s website, “Lake Clark was established to protect a region of dynamic geologic and ecological processes that create scenic mountain landscapes, unaltered watersheds supporting Bristol Bay red salmon, and habitats for wilderness dependent populations of fish and wildlife, vital to 10,000 years of human history.”

That human history continues to this day.

“Lake Clark is ‘peopled wilderness’ where people come together, traditions are passed, and place is still celebrated by many after thousands of years of inhabitation,” Niles said.

How deep is Lake Clark?

Lake Clark’s namesake lake reaches a depth of 870 feet, according to the park’s website.

Spanning 128 square miles, Niles notes it’s the sixth-largest lake in Alaska.

Other lakes in the park and preserve are not as deep.

Can you swim in Lake Clark?

Who are the Native people of Lake Clark?

The Dena’ina people call Lake Clark home and have for millennia, according to the park’s website, which adds that Yup’ik and Sugpiaq peoples also lived on the land.

In a video on the park’s website, Lake Clark’s cultural anthropologist Karen Evanoff, who is Dena’ina, said, “We still live a subsistence lifestyle. We get a lot of our food from the land, and there’s much more to it, though.

“There’s a spiritual component.

There’s values and beliefs and a whole way of life that revolves around living from the outdoors.”

Niles noted that Lake Clark’s original name, Qizhjeh Vena, means “a place where people gather lake” in Dena’ina.

Can you drive into Lake Clark National Park?

No. Like several other national parks in Alaska, Lake Clark is not on the road system. Located about 120 miles from Anchorage, most visitors arrive by small plane, according to the park’s website, which shares a list of authorized air taxi

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companies.

“The reality is that it can be costly to visit, but the cost will depend on the experience someone is looking for,” Niles said. “Do you want to camp or stay in a full-service lodge? Do you want to have a guided bear viewing or fishing experience, or are you hoping for a solo hike through the wilderness?”

She noted the cheapest way to see the park is virtually, through the park’s website and other online resources.

“With recognition that a visit to Lake Clark is cost-prohibitive for many, we make (a) notable effort to provide an exceptional digital visitor experience,” she said, adding travelers who do visit Alaska can see parts of the park from miles away. “You can actually see the park all the way from Anchorage to Homer. Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is located across the Cook Inlet in the viewshed of over 40% of Alaska’s pop-

“Technically yes, but it’s very cold,” Niles said. “More often, we see people paddling or boating. Being on water in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is challenging in any case, and we ask visitors to be proactive about their safety.”

Visitors are encouraged to watch the weather, because lake conditions can shift quickly and small waves can turn into white caps within an hour.

“The frigid water and windy, wet weather are unforgiving,” Niles added.

Fun facts about Lake Clark

A red fox surveys the land at Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.

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The park and preserve span more than 4 million acres, which is larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, according to Lake Clark’s website.

Within Lake Clark’s borders are four places on the National Register of Historic Places, three designated National Wild Rivers, two National Natural Historic Landmarks and a National Historic Landmark. There are also two active volcanoes on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Mount Iliamna and Mount Redoubt, Niles said.

Up to 3.1 million sockeye salmon migrate into Lake Clark’s namesake lake each year and “the actions, policy, and advocacy of this land impacts fisheries on a global scale,” according to Niles.

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de-icing materials, consider how these materials can damage plants in close proximity to locations where you plan to apply de-icing materials. Although salt and de-icers are sometimes necessary for safety in

winter, they can have toxic effects on both plants and waterways.

Salt damage to plants The most popular de-icer is rock salt, or sodium chloride, which is the same as table salt.

It is popular because it works well at freezing temperatures, is inexpensive and widely available. The problem is that sodium chloride is very corrosive and easily damages plants that retain their foliage year-round, such as boxwood, hemlock, yews and other evergreens. Buds of deciduous trees can also be damaged by salt.

There are two types of damage from de-icers that are typically applied to roads and walkways: salt spray and soil-borne salt. Salt spray can travel up to 1,000 feet from salttreated streets and roadways by fast-moving traffic and winter winds. Salt in this spray pulls water out of the foliage of plants and also from the buds of deciduous trees. Salt spray is especially damaging in the late winter and early spring when leaf buds are beginning to swell. Often the leaves and flowers on the side of the tree or shrub facing the road do not open or are stunted because of the salt spray.

Soil-borne salt damage occurs when the de-icer from a road or walkway accumulates in the soil from salt-laden runoff as snow and ice melt. The amount of salt that accumulates is affected by the type of soil and its drainage.

Soils that are higher in clay can hold more salt than sandy soils. Unlike a salt spray, soilborne salt injury develops slowly over time and causes many complications for plants.

Salts absorb and bind tightly with water, preventing roots from absorbing water. The salt can even pull water from the roots of plants, creating a drought-like condition. At higher concentrations, sodium will compromise the absorption of essential nutrients such as calcium, magnesium and potassium from the soil. Plants damaged by salt become

more susceptible to insects and diseases. Diagnosing soil-borne salt damage can be difficult because symptoms are similar to those caused by insects and disease.

Effects of salt on water quality Surface water can also be negatively affected by the application of de-icers. A teaspoon of salt contains enough chloride to pollute five gallons of water. When temperatures warm and ice and snow melt, salt and de-icers eventually flow into streams, ponds and lakes through runoff, storm drains and drainage ditches. This causes waterways to become more saline over time, which negatively affects aquatic species that are sensitive to salt.

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Minimizing salt damage to plants To minimize salt damage to plants and water, try using anti-skid products, such as sand, instead of salt when possible. Calcium chloride, potassium chloride, and magnesium chloride de-icers are less harmful to plants than rock salt when used as directed.

Consider moving plants away from areas where salt spray or salt-laden runoff accumulates. Alternatively, install plants that are salt-tolerant and avoid salt-sensitive species.

If your plants have been damaged by soilborne salt, applying gypsum (calcium sulfate) in the spring will replace the accumulated sodium ions from the rock salt in the soil. Gypsum will not change the pH of the soil. Gypsum has the added benefit of improving the texture of clay soils. Apply gypsum at a rate of 40 pounds per 1,000 square feet. You can also add organic matter to the affected soil and avoid using inorganic fertilizers. The soil can also be drenched to remove the salt. Six inches of water will leach out 50% of the salt.

Salt-tolerant trees can be planted as a screen to protect sensitive trees from salt spray. Often a windbreak or sound barrier of arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis) is planted along a street or driveway. Arborvitae may not do well as they are salt-sensitive. Instead, plant a row of eastern red cedars (Juniperus virginiana), which tolerate both salt spray and soil-borne salt. Red cedars are also deerresistant, while arborvitae are attractive to deer. Other salt-tolerant evergreens are inkberry holly (Ilex glabra), blue spruce (Picea pungens), and mugo pine (Pinus mugo).

Mike Hogan is Extension Educator, Agriculture and Natural Resources and Associate Professor with Ohio State University Extension.

working and retired Americans, one from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), and the other from the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies. h Sixty-two is a point in life that many of us would term middle age: hardly a moment to hang it all up. Medicare doesn’t kick in until 65. Average life expectancy is 77.5. Our sitting president is 81.

Few of us plan to retire at 62. The average over-50 worker expects to retire at 67, according to the Transamerica study. Twothirds of older employees plan to retire after 65, or not to retire at all.

Want to work until 70?

Good luck with that The hard truth: We don’t always get to retire when we want. The reality of retirement in America is a “radical departure” from what workers envision, Transamerica reports.

Many people imagine easing out of employment on their own terms. But actual retirement tends to arrive abruptly and unexpectedly, triggered by declining health or corporate downsizing. The new year has brought a cascade of layoff announcements from big companies like Amazon, Citigroup, and Google.

“Often, it does appear that it’s out of their hands,” said Catherine Collinson, CEO of the Transamerica Center, a research nonprofit.

In the Transamerica survey, 56% of retirees said they retired sooner than they had planned. A much smaller share, 7%, retired later than expected. Only 37% retired on their own schedule.

Why do so many people retire earlier than they had planned?

Why do so many of us retire sooner than we had hoped? Simply put: Life happens.

In the Transamerica report, nearly half of those who retired earlier than planned blamed their health: physical limitations, illness or disability. Roughly two-fifths blamed their jobs: They were laid off, downsized or lured into early retirement, or they were no longer happy at work.

“You see it now, with a lot of companies laying people off,” said Howard Hook, a certified financial planner in Princeton, New Jersey. “Are a lot of those people going back to work? Some may; some may not.”

The Transamerica survey, conducted by The Harris Poll in December 2022, covered 2,546 workers ages 50 and over, and 2,104 retirees. The EBRI survey, conducted in January and February of 2023, covered 1,320 workers and 1,217 retirees.

Collinson said the Transamerica findings mirror those of prior surveys.

“We’ve seen this for years,” she said. “We ask retirees why they retired sooner than planned and, by and large, it’s due to either personal health issues or employment-related issues. They may get laid off, bought out, reorganized, and it’s extremely difficult for older workers to find work.”

Younger workers “tend to be more optimistic about their ability to retire at 65 or sooner,” not because they have to, but by choice, Collinson said. “And then, as people get closer and closer to retirement, the realities set in, and then we see increasing numbers expecting to work longer and retire at a later age.”

Transamerica found a five-year gap, 67 vs.

62, between when older workers expected to retire and when retirees actually retired.

Working past 60 may be harder than you think The reason? Older Americans may underestimate the odds of remaining in the workforce into their 60s and beyond.

“Job availability, health, changes a lot once you get above 55,” said Craig Copeland, director of wealth benefits research at EBRI, a research and education nonprofit. “Many can lose their job in a downsizing or reorganization, or they get a chronic illness, a heart attack, or a stroke, and that means they have to retire.”

In the EBRI survey, three-quarters of workers said they expected to continue working for pay in retirement. Yet, only 30% of retirees said they had ever done so.

In the Transamerica survey, nearly half of older workers said they expected to “transition” into retirement, gradually reducing their hours or pivoting to a less demanding job. Only 13% of retirees said they had transitioned into retirement. More often, workers retired abruptly, never to work again.

“When you’re 60 or 62, you’re not going to back into work in the same position and earn the same kind of money,” said Brent Weiss, co-founder of Facet, a consumer financial technology company. “When we’re 55 or 60, it’s very easy to say, ‘I’m going to work parttime.’ But when you’re in your 60s, where do those part-time jobs exist?”

There’s a lesson here, financial experts say, for those of us who have not yet taken the gold watch.

3 lessons for retirement planning

nomenal in a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader costume! h And she’s not alone. According to AARP, “Last year, those 55 and older had over 4 million cosmetic procedures.”

h Takeaway 1: It’s never too early to start planning for retirement. Studies repeatedly show many Americans lack both retirement plans and retirement savings.

Why cosmetic surgery?

An estimated 41 million baby boomers are still working, making up a quarter of the total U.S. workforce.

A recent report by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons finds “many older Americans are growing concerned about rejuvenating their faces.”

It seems looking vigorous in the workplace, or having a face that matches their toned bodies, might be two reasons why seniors are undergoing procedures.

Additionally, ASPS President Jeffrey E. Janis, MD, FACS, notes “the widespread use of smartphone cameras (and ‘selfies’) may also be a factor.”

Here’s what to do next

“Most of them don’t sit down and actually figure out when they can retire,” said Howard Hook, a certified financial planner in New Jersey.

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h Takeaway 2: When you sit down to write a retirement plan, err on the conservative side. “Set a date that you want to retire, and then maybe take three years off of it, and that should be where you should shoot for,” said Craig Copeland, director of wealth benefits research at EBRI.

osing a job in your 50s is a devastating moment, especially if the job is connected to a long career, ripe with upward mobility. It’s as scary and troublesome as unchecked credit card debt or an expensive chronic health condition. h This is one of the many reasons why I believe our 50s can be the most challenging decade of our lives. h Even assuming you can clear the mental challenges in losing your job, the financial and administrative obstacles can leave you feeling like a Rube Goldberg machine.

Income, health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, bills, expenses, short-term savings and retirement savings are all immediately important in the face of a job loss. Never mind your Parent PLUS loans, financially dependent aging parents and boomerang children, which may all be lurking as well.

Layoffs have been in the news this month. Several big-name companies have already announced 2024 job cuts, including Amazon, eBay and Google.

It remains to be seen whether this year will play out like 2023, which yielded more than 300,000 layoffs, according to Forbes, which tracks major announcements.

In the tech sector, at least, job cuts are fewer this year than last. Another layoff tracking site, Layoffs.fyi, reports that 76 tech companies had announced 21,370 layoffs through late January. By contrast, 277 firms had laid off 89,709 workers through January 2023.

But some economists foresee more layoffs to come, amid talk of a possible economic slowdown later in 2024.

Say you hope to retire at 70.

Make a plan that assumes you retire at 67. Once you reach that age, Copeland said, “if you still have your job, you still have your health, everything past that should be gravy.” h Takeaway 3: Don’t get too caught up in the numbers.

We’ve already seen that we may not get to choose when we retire. It’s also hard to project how much money we’ll save by then, given the imponderables of investing.

Instead, experts say, focus on broad retirement goals: Save for retirement from an early age. Take full advantage of an employer’s 401(k) match. Save more aggressively once you reach midlife. Pay down debt.

“Numbers change, right?” Hook said. “We try to get clients to understand that the trend is more important than the actual numbers. If the trend is that you’re saving a significant amount of money, that’s more important.”

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When does your income stop?

From the shocking moment people learn their job is no longer their job, the word “triage” must flash in bright lights like an obnoxious sign in Times Square.

This is more challenging than you might think. Like a pickpocket bumping into you right before he grabs your wallet, the distraction is the problem that takes your focus away from the real problem.

Triage is hard to do, because of the emotion that arrives with the dirty deed.

The mind immediately begins to race to sources of money and relief. Unfortunately, that relief is often found in the wrong place.

The first thing you should do is identify the exact day your job income stops arriving. That’s how much time you have to defuse the bomb. Your fuse may come in the form of a severance package, or work you’ve performed but haven’t been paid for yet.

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When do benefits kick in?

Next – and by next, I mean five minutes later – explore your eligibility for unemployment benefits, then file for them if you’re able. In some states, severance pay affects your immediate eligibility for unemployment benefits. In other words, you can’t file for unemployment until your severance payments go away.

Assuming you can’t just retire at this moment, which you probably can’t, you must secure fresh employment income quickly. But “quickly” is relative to the length of your fuse. I’ve witnessed too

Addressing the effects of aging As people age, their skin loses elasticity and volume.

Procedures like BOTOX injections or dermal fillers can help reduce wrinkles and fine lines, making seniors look and feel more youthful.

Additional procedures such as “tummy tucks” or liposuction can help seniors feel better about their bodies and improve self-esteem.

CoolSculpting is a non-invasive version of liposuction that uses cold temperature to reduce targeted fat deposits in the body.

Other procedures, like micro needling, electric current stimulation and even light wave therapies stimulate collagen production and make the skin appear firmer and tighter.

AARP notes that while most seniors opted for minimally invasive procedures in 2022, “fixing (drooping) eyelids was the most common operation (102,354), followed by facelifts (81,543) and dermabrasion (33,840).”

many people miscalculate the length of their fuse.

If you’re able to get back to work quickly, the initial job loss plus severance pay ends up enhancing your financial life. If you take too much time, by your choice or that of the cosmos, “boom.”

The next move is much more hands-on and must be performed the day you find yourself without a job.

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What nonessentials do I cut?

Grab your bank statement, a marker and a calculator. As much as you want to pretend it’s business as usual, you shouldn’t. Identify expenses that don’t make sense if you don’t have a job. Circle them. Add them up. Resolve to eliminate them for the time being, and maybe permanently. Though this won’t necessarily lengthen your fuse, it could lessen the severity of a potential “boom.”

The idea of diving into your spending habits on the day you lose your job is no fun. But when else will you have such a powerful reason to do so? You won’t. It’s better than dipping into your assets to fund your lifestyle.

Peter Dunn is an author, speaker and radio host. The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY.

Considerations before surgery Seniors opting for surgery should choose a board-certified plastic surgeon with experience performing cosmetic procedures for older individuals.

It is important for older adults to disclose their medical history, medications and health conditions to ensure their suitability for specific procedures.

Cosmetic surgery recovery can be more challenging for seniors. Complications or slower healing might necessitate the hiring of a temporary, private-duty caregiver postsurgery. And while some procedures may be covered by insurance, most will require out-of-pocket payment.

Many older adults choose to undergo cosmetic procedures to maintain or enhance their youthful appearance and improve their quality of life. Doing so, however, requires careful consideration of the provider’s experience, your medical history and recovery time. With thoughtful research, seniors can take advantage of today’s cosmetic procedures to look and feel their best.

Brenda Lyle is a Certified Care Manager and Certified Dementia Practitioner with One Senior Place, Greater Orlando.

Editor’s note: This column was originally published in February 2019. It has been updated to reflect current news.

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