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On Friday, June 14, the Westward Look Resort on the northside will host the 17th Annual World Margarita Championships. The event spotlights the best food and libations in the Southern Arizona region.

Oro Valley’s March 31 termination of a $410,000 operating agreement with Visit Tucson has heightened activity and amplified conversation about ways to attract travel-related business to the community.

Surrounded by the landscape of Tucson’s Santa Catalina Mountains, Westward Look Resort & Spa unveiled its new executive leadership team.

In today’s newsletter: Why a purported solution to concerns about voter fraud may create a whole set of new problems instead. An electoral systems expert explains how

Some states welcome the scrutiny, others do not

The unelected community leaders of the thriving port of Alexandria by the mid-1760s joined other cities in the colony of Virginia to oppose taxation by the British parliament. And a few years after the Americans declared independence in 1776, local landowners ousted Alexandria's trustees from power and elected men (but no women) to a representative…

A recount of votes for Newark School Board confirmed the tie between Mark Christenberry and John Ault, giving Christenberry the win by a coin toss.

The Licking County Board of Elections flipped a coin to decide a Newark School Board seat, pending a recount. Granville and Hebron will have recounts.

The Lib Dem fightback comes to Brexitland Liberal Democrats are performing well in Leave-heavy neighbourhoods in north-east England, while struggling in Cornwall, their old stomping ground. In 1970s England, independent candidates regularly won local government elections. Whether in Wivenhoe, Witney or Whitby, established parties were often nowhere to be seen. It was an ode to the power of personality politics at the time, and reflected a valuable feeling of hyper-local “connectedness”: y...

>> some prison authorities see all this added muscle as a potential security threat, but others see benefits to having weights on the yard. >> i think the important thing for inmates is to keep them occupied. thats what we try to do here at the institution. >> john ault was warden at anamosa state penitentiary at the time we shot there. >> any time you can have inmates participate in some type of meaningful activity it makes their time easier and staffs time much easier. i would much rather have...