Cronkite News Service has ceased production for the spring term. We will resume in late August. Our final stories are posted on the News Digest filed today. We also call your attention to our Divided Families package, an in-depth look at families divided by the U.S.-Mexico border.
Here is the Cronkite News Service lineup for Thursday, May 1. Cronkite News Service stories and photos are posted online at http://cronkitenews.asu.edu. As the week progresses, this digest lists spot news, stories offered for use throughout the week and features suggested for weekend use. If you have questions or would like to receive the daily news digest by e-mail, please contact Steve Elliott at 602-496-0686 or steve.elliott@asu.edu.
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Headlines:
- Weekend Special: Groups try to harness Hispanics’ political strength
- Weekday Special: As Arizona grows older, compulsive hoarding a concern
- Weekday Special: First-term members of Congress face tough fights
- Special Project: An in-depth look at the border and families it divides
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A Cronkite News Service Weekend Special
IMMIGRANT-RIGHTS GROUPS SHIFTING TACTICS AS NOVEMBER APPROACHES
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By DANIEL J. QUIGLEY
Cronkite News Service
PHOENIX _ Eighteen people are waiting and watching TV in the lobby of Immigrants Without Borders, an advocacy group that helps with residency and citizenship applications, when Elias Bermudez walks in.
Speaking Spanish, Bermudez, the group’s founder and director, says he’s looking for registered voters to sign a petition for an opponent of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. But he also wants those in the lobby to know this: Together with Hispanics around Arizona, they have political power.
“The most positive thing we can do is make sure everybody who is a U.S. citizen is registered to vote and everybody who is registered to vote comes out to vote,” Bermudez says.
“Even if you’re not this country legally, there are many things you can do in November,” he says. “You can adopt a citizen, a friend or someone you work with and make sure they vote in the election.”
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ARIZONA’S FIRST-TERM MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FACE TOUGH CHALLENGES
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By LAUREN PROPER
Cronkite News Service
TEMPE _ After working in Washington during the week, U.S. Rep. Harry Mitchell is out on a Saturday morning, delivering a charge as volunteers supporting Democratic candidates head out to knock on doors.
“What you all represent is change,” he says.
Over the next two hours, Mitchell shakes dozens of hands before heading to an afternoon meeting with members his advisory council on veterans’ issues. The meeting runs an hour late, and he isn’t able to catch any of a Phoenix Suns playoff game as he heads to a Starbucks for an interview.
“It’s always busy,” Mitchell says. “Every night when I come home it’s busy, and come September it will be very busy.”
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AS ARIZONA GROWS OLDER, HOARDING BY ELDERLY AN INCREASING CONCERN
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By NORA AVERY-PAGE
Cronkite News Service
PHOENIX (Wednesday, April 30) _ Stacks of magazines lining the walls. An overwhelming stench from too many cats in too small a space. A freezer in the bathroom containing meat purchased years ago.
David Helgeson, a psychologist and professor at Arizona State University’s West campus, is sometimes called to evaluate the elderly in their homes. And this home showed the telltale signs of compulsive hoarding.
Sometimes associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder, compulsive hoarding is a particular concern for older people because it can be a side effect of dementia or stem from a struggle for control or the tendency among those who lived during the Great Depression to hold onto things.
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Wednesday, April 30 – 20:30
DIVIDED FAMILIES: AN IN-DEPTH REPORTING PROJECT
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A young mother whose son is already beginning to forget his father. Two men who have searched for their missing brother for years. Border Patrol agents who toil miles from their families. These are the some of the people whose lives and whose families are divided by the U.S.-Mexico border. Supported by a grant from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, a group of advanced students in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University set out in fall 2007 to do a semester-long reporting project on divided families. The result, based on more than 30 trips to the border, deep into Mexico and to various parts of Arizona, is being made available to Arizona newspapers via Cronkite News Service. We commend this package to your attention and recommend it for use in your print and online editions.
This advisory begins with a publishable intro about the overall project and an editor’s note that can be included with individual stories. Below that are abstracts and links to each story. Links to photos are at the bottom of each story. This package, which is posted in its entirety at http://cronkitenews.asu.edu/dividedfamilies, is designed so newspapers can run individual stories in print, but we encourage Cronkite News Service clients to carry the entire package in their online editions. Please note there are more photos and also video available. We can mail a disc.
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Tuesday, April 29 – 21:00
STUDENTS DEMONSTRATE AT CAPITOL TO SUPPORT ONLINE EDUCATION
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By DANIEL RAVEN
Cronkite News Service
PHOENIX (Tuesday, April 29) _ About 800 students, parents and teachers marched and carried signs on the Capitol lawn Tuesday to protest funding cuts to distance learning programs proposed during closed-door budget meetings.
Organizers said students from 11 of the state’s 14 distance-education participated.
“I feel like they’re targeting us because we’re not in a building,” said Adriana Moerkerken, a Tucson resident who brought her three children. “If they’re going to cut education, they should cut it in all schools.”
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Tuesday, April 29 – 17:15
BILL ON RURAL WATER ADEQUACY GOING NOWHERE AT STATE LEGISLATURE
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By GRAYSON STEINBERG
Cronkite News Service
PHOENIX (Monday, April 28) _ A state senator has failed in his attempt to let rural county supervisors vote by simple majority instead of unanimously to adopt standards allowing them to deny new developments with water supplies deemed inadequate.
Sen. Tom O’Halleran, R-Sedona, said SB 1403, which didn’t reach committee, would help rural areas prepare to manage water before the next economic boom begins. He said he would try to revive the legislation next year.
“I think it’s imperative we start to act sooner than later and be realistic about our water-management needs,” O’Halleran said.
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OTHER BILLS AT LEGISLATURE DEALING WITH RURAL WATER
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By Cronkite News Service
Two bills moving at the Arizona State Legislature promote greater disclosure of water supplies for new developments:
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Here are Cronkite News Service stories that moved from April 21-25. If you have questions or would like to receive the daily news digest by e-mail, please contact Steve Elliott at 602-496-0686 or steve.elliott@asu.edu.
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GOVERNOR GETS BILL WITH DRUNKEN BOATING, DUI PROPOSALS
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By DANIEL RAVEN
Cronkite News Service
PHOENIX (Thursday, April 24) _ The House on Thursday approved and sent to the governor a measure that combines bills to toughen penalties for boating under the influence and make several changes to drunken driving laws.
House Speaker Jim Weiers, R-Phoenix, is the sponsor of HB 2395, which was changed through a strike-everything amendment in the Senate to include provisions of bills by Sens. Linda Gray and Jim Waring, R-Phoenix.
“I’m very proud to be able to offer this,” Weiers told House Transportation Committee, which held a special meeting Thursday to approve the Senate changes and send the bill to the House floor.
The House endorsed the measure on a 35-15 vote. All votes against were cast by Democrats.
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Thursday, April 24 – 19:02
PROVISIONS OF DUI-RELATED BILLS CONSOLIDATED IN HB 2395
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By Cronkite News Service
Here are bills whose provisions are included in HB 2395, which consolidates measures related to driving and boating under the influence:
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Thursday, April 24 – 17:48
ARIZONA 9-11 MEMORIAL DESIGNERS GLAD FLAP IS OVER, AT LEAST FOR NOW
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By DANIEL J. QUIGLEY
Cronkite News Service
PHOENIX (Thursday, April 24) _ It’s been months of frustration for Eddie Jones and two other artists who designed the Arizona 9-11 Memorial.
First, a state commission decided to remove two phrases from the tribute outside the Arizona State Capitol. Then came legislation to remove 12 more.
That legislation failed, and Jones hopes it stays dead.
“I’m delighted. I think the whole thing was ridiculous from the very beginning,” he said. “It’s unfortunate such a benign statement was politicized.”
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Thursday, April 24 – 16:53
PHRASES TARGETED FOR REMOVAL FROM ARIZONA 9-11 MEMORIAL
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By Cronkite News Service
Here are phrases targeted for removal from the Arizona 9-11 Memorial outside the State Capitol in Phoenix. Numbers before phrases are dates:
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Thursday, April 24 – 16:45
A Cronkite News Service Weekend Special
MESA MUSEUM FEATURING MILITARY PLANES PUTS HISTORY IN FLIGHT
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By JEREMY THOMAS
Cronkite News Service
MESA _ Like sentinels frozen in time, hulking bombers and sleek fighter jets stand side-by-side in a hangar at Falcon Field, reminders of campaigns fading now even for those who once flew and fought.
For many air combat veterans and aircraft enthusiasts, the search for the past ends at the home of the Arizona wing of the Commemorative Air Force. It’s a place where vintage warplanes are not only displayed but maintained and flown.
“You can go to the Smithsonian Institute and some of the other aviation museums and you can look at the aircraft, but you can’t go in them and see them fly,” said Rick Senffner, the Arizona group’s wing leader. “For the public, it’s a way to get a history lesson shown to them in real life. The aircraft aren’t just sitting static in a museum somewhere.”
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Wednesday, April 23 – 19:09
INFORMATION ON THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE MUSEUM
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By Cronkite News Service
Here is information on the museum operated by the Arizona wing of the Commemorative Air Force:
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Wednesday, April 23 – 19:08
BILL: PUT CAMPAIGN FINANCE INFORMATION FOR LOCAL RACES ONLINE
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By GRAYSON STEINBERG
Cronkite News Service
PHOENIX (Wednesday, April 23) _ A state senator wants to shine a little more light on election candidates by making local governments put campaign spending reports on the Web.
Sen. Linda Gray, R-Phoenix, said her legislation would give citizens better insight into where candidates’ money comes from.
“It’s important for people to have that easy access to who’s contributing and how they are spending their campaign funds,” Gray said.
SB 1024, which has passed the Senate and is awaiting action by the full House, would require cities and counties with Web sites to post campaign finance reports for races ranging from school board to mayor to county supervisor to Superior Court judge.
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Wednesday, April 23 – 18:10
KEY FACTS ABOUT BILL ON POSTING CAMPAIGN FINANCE FORMS ONLINE
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Here are key facts about SB 1024, sponsored by Sen. Linda Gray, R-Phoenix:
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Wednesday, April 23 – 18:09
PROPONENTS: GOOD SAMARITAN DEFIBRILLATOR LAW WILL SAVE LIVES
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By DANIEL RAVEN
Cronkite News Service
PHOENIX (Tuesday, April 22) _ When someone suffers cardiac arrest, timing is everything. That’s the reasoning behind legislation signed into law this week that will exempt good Samaritans from civil liability when they use automated external defibrillators to help those who suffer heart attacks.
Supporters say the measure will save lives because people won’t have to worry about lawsuits when faced with having to use AEDs, which are bolted to the walls in schools and many office buildings.
“We wanted to make sure that anyone who acts to help somebody won’t have to worry about any liability,” said Sen. Barbara Leff, R-Paradise Valley, sponsor of the bill signed Monday by Gov. Janet Napolitano. “No one should ever hesitate to save somebody’s life.”
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Tuesday, April 22 – 18:06
TIPS FOR USING AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS
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The American Heart Association, American Red Cross and other organizations provide the following instructions for using automated external defibrillator (AEDs):
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Tuesday, April 22 – 15:39
