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Journalists’ roundtable: 4-28-23 – Arizona PBS

Camryn Sanchez, Howie Fisher, and Laurie Roberts join Arizona Horizon host Ted Simmons on Sanchez vs. Rogers, the Tamale controversy and the Bible controversy, the Cochise County election, officials’ Medicaid and education budget concerns, and more. We discussed the latest top news stories of the week.

Sanchez vs Rogers

Camryn Sanchez, a reporter for the Arizona State Capitol Times, discusses Sanchez vs. Rogers, and Laurie Roberts explains how the incident happened. “We have a young reporter working. She’s a professional journalist,” Roberts said. “She’s conducting a perfectly legal inquiry into whether a state senator lives in her legislative district.” [Sanchez] Finding her documents reveals that this particular Congressman, Wendy Rogers, who claims to live in a mobile home in Flagstaff, northern Arizona, has lived in the Tempe home for a long time, at least 10 years. discovered. She bought Chandler a $750,000 house and signed a deed saying she now lives in Tempe.

The Arizona Capitol Times disputes this and has an attorney.

tamale controversy

Governor Hobbs recently vetoed a bill dealing with the sale of tamales. “Funnily enough, the matter passed overwhelmingly in both the House and Senate, but then the governor decided, ‘Oh, well, I don’t know,'” Fisher said. “And in a very ridiculously worded refusal, she said she was worried about a kitchen infested with rodents and bugs. , are you basically saying our kitchen is infested with rodents? No, it wasn’t a great move,” Fisher said.

Camryn Sanchez
howie fisher
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