Revisit stories from the Saguaro Land series, exploring life in the Sonoran Desert. Hear from a longtime photographer, find out how an artist makes dye from non-native plants and explore the desert in bloom. That and more on The Show.
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Lawsuit accusing AZ Republican candidate of breaking residency rules was dismissed. Who paid for it?Republican candidate Michael Way has been in court defending himself against allegations that he broke the residency rules for state candidates. Way voted in North Carolina in 2021 and 2022, even though Arizona law requires a lawmaker to have been a resident here for at least three years when they run. Camryn Sanchez, field correspondent on KJZZ’s Politics Desk, joined The Show to talk about this.
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It made national headlines when Surprise mom Rebekah Massie was arrested at a city council meeting in August. To put it into context, The Show spoke to Gregg Leslie, executive director of First Amendment Clinic ASU.
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Last year, Gov. Katie Hobbs announced her administration terminated state land leases for Fondomonte in Butler Valley, Arizona. But, not all of them. And now they’ve applied for a new well on its La Paz County property, according to documents obtained by Arizona Public Media.
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Kay Siebler is an English professor at the University of Omaha in Nebraska, and Lexi Locket has been performing burlesque in Phoenix for a decade. They’re part of a long history of performers who have worked against the dominant culture of the day.
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Louis Carlos Bernal was a pioneering Chicano photographer who dedicated much of his career to chronicling the lives of Mexican Americans in Tucson and the Southwest. Bernal’s work is the subject of a new exhibition at the UA’s Center for Creative Photography, which opens this weekend. It’s called “Retrospectiva,” and curator Elizabeth Ferrer joined The Show to talk about how she has been working on it for decades.