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This week, The Show is kicking off our election coverage with a conversation about the 2020 election and how it might impact this year’s midterms.But first, we thought we’d look back at some much earlier Arizona elections as chronicled in the state’s historic newspapers.Sativa Peterson is a senior producer for The Show and a former newspaper librarian. The Show spoke with her

FIFTY years ago in the spring of 1971, long before the advent of mobile phones, emails and texts, the country’s communications were threatened with chaos when postal staff voted for a national strike. Unable to agree a pay deal with the Post Office, members of the Union of Post Office Workers downed envelopes, parcels and everything else and walked out, bringing the bulk of the UK’s postal services to a complete halt. Fortunately in south Worcestershire a band of rather unlikely heroe...

The Grand Army of the Republic once was powerful

Bridget Dowd/KJZZ The Arizona Research Library is home to more than four million pages of historic state newspapers. Last month, KJZZ honored Arizona on the 108th anniversary of its statehood with its Untold Arizona series. But the addition of the 48th state was far from the only story filling the pages of Arizona newspapers in 1912. Through our Q&AZ reporting project, a listener asked us to explore those headlines. So I took a walk through the state archives to dig them up. Sativa Peterson is ...