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IT’S TIME TO VOTE
September 18, 2022
Chandler sees no threat of water supply BY KEN SAIN Arizonan Managing Editor
LAST DAYS TO VOTE!
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NEWS ............................ 20 Meet the Kyrene, Tempe Union board candidates.
GETOUT ........................ 51
New Taqueria Factory aims to please with tacos.
REAL ESTATE ................................ 40 COMMUNITY .............................. 41 BUSINESS ..................................... 44 OPINION ...................................... 48 SPORTS ......................................... 50 CLASSIFIEDS ................................. 52
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rizona author Edward Abbey wrote “Desert Solitaire” as a tribute to the Colorado River and the excellent canyons it carved in Southern Utah before Glen Canyon was flooded by a new dam near Page in the 1960s, creating Lake Powell. His novel, “Monkey Wrench Gang,” plotted blowing up that dam, freeing the canyons hidden underneath that water. Turns out Abbey only needed to wait a
Simone Kjolsrud, Chandler’s water resource advisor, said the city is in good shape as far as its water supply is concerned and despite new cuts in Arizona’s share of Colorado River water. (David Minton/Arizonan Staff Photographer)
Despite big settlement, Kyrene, TU press vaping suit
few decades: The drought did what his fictional band of eco-terrorists could not. The water levels of both Lake Powell and Lake Mead are at record lows since the dams were constructed to supply energy and drinking water for most of the Southwest. Earlier this month Mexico and the seven states that share that water were told by the U.S. government it’s time to get serious about conserving what’s left.
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Finding hope
BY PAUL MARYNIAK Arizonan Executive Editor
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$428.5 million tentative settlement by one of the leading manufacturers of vaping products does not impact a similar lawsuit filed by Tempe Union and Kyrene school districts. The settlement tentatively agreed to by JUUL Labs, Inc., with nearly three dozen states last week was characterized by the New York Times as a “fight for survival” by the company “over marketing and sales practices that they contend set off the nation’s teenage vaping crisis.” Kyrene and Tempe Union in 2020 joined a separate class action lawsuit with 80 other school districts and individuals over similar issues that could go to trial in a federal court in San Francisco this November, spokespersons for both districts said last week. The districts are not spending any money to prosecute the case and
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Four months after he tried to take his life, Hamilton junior Caden Clark has found hope. He’ll be playing this week in the 2022 PURE Insurance Championship, a PGA Tour event taking place at Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill Golf Course and airing live on the Golf Channel. His comeback from his mental health struggle is detailed on page 50. (David Minton/Arizonan Staff Photographer)
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