Arizona&#8217;s Supreme Court sent part of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kari-lake" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kari Lake</a>&#8216;s appeal of her 2022 governor&#8217;s race defeat back to a trial court for review while refusing to hear the rest of the claims.
The remaining piece of the legal challenge concerns how Maricopa County, which includes the capital of Phoenix and is Arizona&#8217;s most populous county, performed signature verifications for early ballots.
<a href="https://twitter.com/jeremyduda/status/1638706398493306883" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An order</a> from the high court late Wednesday said the superior court and Arizona Court of Appeals made an &#8220;erroneous&#8221; decision to reject the claim because of their focus on election procedures rather than the application of those procedures in last November&#8217;s contest as cited in Lake&#8217;s claim. Lake now faces the challenge of establishing that mail-in votes were affected &#8220;in sufficient numbers to alter the outcome&#8221; of last November&#8217;s election.
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My statement on the Arizona Supreme Court ruling in favor of our case ⤵️ <a href="https://t.co/pxo8j0Ubs2">pic.twitter.com/pxo8j0Ubs2</a>
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&#8220;I am thrilled that the Supreme Court has agreed to give our signature verification evidence the appropriate forum for the evaluation it deserves,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1638971176088387584" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lake said in a statement</a>.
The Arizona Supreme Court order, signed by Chief Justice Robert Brutinel, also called on Lake&#8217;s team to file a reply to the defendants&#8217; motions for sanctions in regard to the assertion of there being &#8220;the undisputed fact that 35,563 unaccounted for ballots were added to the total of ballots at a third party facility.”
The order said the &#8220;record does not reflect&#8221; such a claim and noted the motions of sanctions &#8220;will be considered in due course.&#8221;
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The AZ Supreme Court is refusing to hear 6 of 7 claims brought by <a href="https://twitter.com/KariLake?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KariLake</a> regarding her loss to <a href="https://twitter.com/katiehobbs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@katiehobbs</a>, and is reminding a 7th, which alleges Maricopa County violated signature verification procedures for early ballots, back to trial court. <a href="https://t.co/bB8K0CQ8ns">pic.twitter.com/bB8K0CQ8ns</a>
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Lake, a former journalist who made election integrity a top priority of her campaign, sued after the results showed that she lost the November contest to Democrat Katie Hobbs by roughly 17,000 votes in the governor&#8217;s race. Hobbs was sworn in as governor in early January.
Lake&#8217;s 2022 election complaint raised allegations of misconduct and illegal votes with issues ranging from mail-in ballots, chain-of-custody, and problematic ballot printers. Maricopa County officials <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maricopa-county-arizona-officials-apologize-vote-tabulator-problems-say-7-ballots-affected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a> issues with the election, but insisted <a href="https://www.azfamily.com/2023/02/17/appeals-court-denies-kari-lakes-election-contest-2022-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">every valid vote</a> in the contest had been counted.
After Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/24/kari-lake-loses-lawsuit-over-her-defeat-in-arizona-governors-race.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threw out Lake&#8217;s challenge</a>, the appellate rejected the case in February, <a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2023/02/16/kari-lake-loses-election-challenge-appeal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing</a> that voters were &#8220;able to cast their ballots, that votes were counted correctly, and that no other basis justifies setting aside the election results.&#8221;
Throughout, Lake said she would not give in, vowing to take her case to the high court.
Two other Republican candidates, <a href="https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/abe-hamadeh-arizona-judge-rules-against-gop-attorney-general-candidate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abe Hamadeh</a> and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/finchem-lawsuit-sanctions-2022-election-arizona-7e7567bdbe90f4c4ab6d4567a128bd0f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Finchem</a>, who ran for attorney general and secretary of state, respectively, also received unfavorable rulings in their legal challenges seeking to challenge their losses.
In the months since the November election, media reports have said Lake is <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/kari-lake-is-considering-senate-run-making-some-republicans-nervous-85a80081" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mulling a Senate bid</a> and former President Donald Trump is considering her as a <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/03/07/trump-kari-lake-vice-president-candidates-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">possible vice presidential running mate</a>.

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Arizona Supreme Court Gives Kari Lake’s Signature Verification Claim A Shot

Arizona Supreme Court Gives Kari Lake's Signature Verification Claim A Shot

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) revealed why she stopped going to what she called &#8220;dumb&#8221; Democrat luncheons with &#8220;old dudes&#8221; sitting around &#8220;eating Jell-O&#8221; and everyone bragging about themselves.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kyrsten-sinema">46-year-old</a> former Democrat-turned-independent reportedly told GOP lobbyists that &#8220;caucus lunches&#8221; were a total waste of time and nothing she had any interest in attending again, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/23/sinema-trashes-dems-gop-00088461">POLITICO</a> reported.
&#8220;Lunches were ridiculous. … Old dudes are eating Jell-O, everyone is talking about how great they are,&#8221; Sinema said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t really need to be there for that. That&#8217;s an hour and a half twice a week that I can get back.&#8221;
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&#8220;The Northerners and the Westerners put cool whip on their Jell-O, and the Southerners put cottage cheese,&#8221; she added as she continued to poke fun at members of her former party.
Sinema also made it clear she wasn&#8217;t caucusing with Democrats and explained that she spends her days doing more &#8220;productive&#8221; things for her constituents.
&#8220;I&#8217;m formally aligned with the Democrats for committee purposes,&#8221; Sinema said. &#8220;But apart from that I am not a part of the caucus.&#8221;
&#8220;I spend my days doing productive work, which is why I&#8217;ve been able to lead every bipartisan vote that&#8217;s happened the last two years,&#8221; she added.
Sinema declared in December that she was leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an independent.
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&#8220;Arizonans – including many registered as Democrats or Republicans – are eager for leaders who focus on common-sense solutions rather than party doctrine,&#8221; Sinema wrote at the time in an opinion column published in <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2022/12/09/sen-kyrsten-sinema-of-arizona-why-im-registering-as-an-independent/69712395007/">The Arizona Republic</a>.
&#8220;But if the loudest, most extreme voices continue to drive each party toward the fringes – and if party leaders stay more focused on energizing their bases than delivering for all Americans – these kinds of lasting legislative successes will become rarer,&#8221; she added.
&#8220;It&#8217;s no wonder a growing number of Americans are registering as independents. &#8230; When politicians are more focused on denying the opposition party a victory than they are on improving Americans&#8217; lives, the people who lose are everyday Americans,&#8221; Sinema continued. &#8220;I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington.&#8221;

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Kyrsten Sinema Reveals Why She Stopped Going To ‘Dumb’ Democrat Luncheons

Kyrsten Sinema Reveals Why She Stopped Going To 'Dumb' Democrat Luncheons

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-kelly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sen. Mark Kelly</a> (D-AZ) refused to back Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kyrsten-sinema" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kyrsten Sinema</a> (I-AZ) over the weekend when asked about her leaving the Democratic Party late last year.
Kelly was asked about Sinema during a Sunday interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; with Jake Tapper.
Tapper mentioned how Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) indicated that he believes Sinema needed to be supported because of her &#8220;independent spirit.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you agree with him?&#8221; Tapper asked. &#8220;Or do you anticipate supporting whoever the Democratic nominee for that Senate seat would be?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I&#8217;m not going to get ahead of Senator Sinema. She hasn&#8217;t made an announcement,&#8221; Kelly responded. &#8220;What she has said is, she doesn&#8217;t want to be focused on politics right now. I have worked with her very closely over the last two years, I mean, really in a very positive way. She&#8217;s very effective in the United States Senate. We have got a lot done. And I look forward to doing that over the next months and the rest of this year.&#8221;
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Arizona Democrat Senator Mark Kelly says nice things about his &quot;independent&quot; fellow Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema — but won&#39;t say if he&#39;ll back her for re-election in 2024. <a href="https://t.co/kSayDDpn4d">pic.twitter.com/kSayDDpn4d</a>
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<blockquote>JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: Lastly, sir, your fellow Arizona Senator, independent Senator Kyrsten Sinema, her term ends in 2024.
Your fellow Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said on the show that &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;I would think that she needs to be supported again, yes,&#8221; because of her &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;independent spirit&#8221; &#8212; unquote.
Do you agree with him? Or do you anticipate supporting whoever the Democratic nominee for that Senate seat would be?
SEN. MARK KELLY (D-AZ): Well, I&#8217;m not going to get ahead of Senator Sinema. She hasn&#8217;t made an announcement.
What she has said is, she doesn&#8217;t want to be focused on politics right now. I have worked with her very closely over the last two years, I mean, really in a very positive way. She&#8217;s very effective in the United States Senate. We have got a lot done. And I look forward to doing that over the next months and the rest of this year.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-democratic-advisor-explains-why-sinema-left-party-and-why-it-might-backfire-anyway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Top Democratic Advisor Explains Why Sinema Left Party, And Why It Might Backfire Anyway</a>

Democratic Senate Candidate Mark Kelly Holds Election Night Event In Tucson

Senator Mark Kelly Does Not Get Behind Senator Kyrsten Sinema When Asked About Re-Election

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Mark Kelly

Michael Irvin and his attorney held a press conference on Tuesday where they released security camera footage from inside a Marriott hotel in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arizona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona</a> where a female employee claimed that Irvin acted inappropriately toward her by making crude remarks and touching her in an unwanted manner.
Irvin and his attorney said that they filed to have their $100 million lawsuit pulled from a Texas federal court and have it filed in Arizona.
The accusations from the alleged February 5 incident at the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown led to Irvin having his scheduled appearances on NFL Network and ESPN canceled during Super Bowl week.
The woman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marriott-spills-details-of-harassment-accusation-leveled-at-michael-irvin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that Irvin had appeared to be drunk and was attempting to flirt with her, asking for her name and telling her his before asking whether she had ever heard of him. She said that she had not.
“Irvin also reached out and touched the Victim’s arm during this conversation without her consent, causing her to step back, becoming visibly uncomfortable,” Marriott attorney Nathan Chapman wrote. “Irvin then asked the Victim whether she knew anything about having a ‘big Black man inside of [her].’ Taken aback by Irvin’s comments, the Victim responded that his comments were inappropriate, and she did not wish to discuss it further.”
“Irvin then attempted to grab the Victim’s hand again and said he was ‘sorry if he brought up bad memories’ for her. The Victim pulled her hand away and tried to back away from Irvin as he continued to move towards her,” the filing continued.
It was at that point that two of the woman’s coworkers reportedly intervened, seeing that she appeared to be uncomfortable. Irvin allegedly joked that “security” had caught on to him when he saw them approaching, and reached out to shake the woman’s hand. When she returned the handshake, Irvin allegedly promised to “find her” again later on that week if she was working.
Irvin completely rejected the woman&#8217;s claims that he asked her about having a “big Black man inside of [her].”
“I don’t speak like that,” Irvin <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/cowboys/2023/03/14/michael-irvin-refiles-lawsuit-vs-marriott-in-arizona-will-release-surveillance-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Tuesday. “I’ve never spoken like that. I totally deny saying that. I totally deny saying that.”
Regarding the woman&#8217;s comment that he was going to &#8220;find her&#8221; later in the week, Irvin said, “Like I’m going to hunt her down, kidnap somebody, kill somebody?”
“Come on. Here’s the truth,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We used to say when we played football, ‘The eye in the sky don’t tell no lies.’ It’s just the truth. We talk and tell lies. But the eye in the sky don’t tell no lies.”
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Michael Irvin told me “we used to say in football…the eye in the sky don’t tell no lie.” The Cowboys Hall of Famer says this video proves he didn’t sexually assault the woman. Irvin’s legal team says his interaction with the woman backs up his innocence. <a href="https://twitter.com/FOX4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FOX4</a> <a href="https://t.co/RKu73DOKxR">pic.twitter.com/RKu73DOKxR</a>
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Irvin&#8217;s attorney, Levi McCathern, said that the woman&#8217;s accusations were &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; and that Irvin was a victim of &#8220;cancel culture.&#8221;
&#8220;There is no doubt, this woman was not offended,&#8221; McCathern said. &#8220;This is not a sexual assault, sexual misconduct, or sexual harassment. This tape is very, very clear.&#8221;

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Michael Irvin Releases Video Of Incident With Accuser In Arizona Marriott Hotel

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U.S.

The Arizona superintendent of public instruction slammed an Arizona school board after it ended a contract with a Christian university after some board members claimed the university&#8217;s religious beliefs were concerning.
On February 23, after board members attacked the university, Washington Elementary School District terminated its contract with Arizona Christian University, which permitted the district’s student teachers to gain field experience.
“My concern is when I go to Arizona Christian University&#8217;s website, [they are] ‘committed to Jesus Christ, accomplishing his will and advancements on earth as in Heaven,'&#8221; board member Tamillia Valenzuela said. &#8220;At some point, we need to get real with ourselves and take a look at who we&#8217;re making legal contracts with and the message that is sending to our community. Because that makes me feel like I could not be safe in this school district.”
According to her bio, Valenzuela is “a bilingual, disabled, neurodivergent Queer Black Latina … who loves a good hot wing (but only with the right ranch) and things that sparkle.”
She also suggested that the university&#8217;s Christian view of sexuality was a problem.
“I want to know how bringing [teachers] from an institution that is ingrained in their values so directly brings impact to three of your board members who are a part of the LGBT community,” Valenzuela continued.
School board member Kyle Clayton joined in, charging, “Proselytizing is embedded into how they teach. And I just don&#8217;t believe that that belongs in schools.”
Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, who served as Attorney General of Arizona from 2011 to 2015, fired back hard, telling <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/arizona-school-board-faces-inferno-terminating-contract-christian-university-religious-prejudice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> that the school board&#8217;s decision was wrong.
“There&#8217;s nothing more outrageous than religious prejudice. Prejudice of all kinds has been responsible, in my opinion, for almost all of the evil in the history of humankind. And the person who raised this on the school board describes herself as a ‘neuro-divergent queer.’ And when she says that she expects you to be tolerant of her” he said.
“I’m Jewish, and there’s an old Jewish expression: ‘He who expects respect, has to give respect,’” Horne added. “And this is an absolutely outrageous violation of people&#8217;s religious rights.”
“The best teachers’ preparation program in Arizona is a Christian college; it’s called Grand Canyon,” he noted. “I served 24 years on the school board, and we always want to get as many teachers from there as we could get because they were the best at preparing teachers for the classroom.”
“There’s some bad things that have developed in our society, primarily Critical Race Theory,” he continued. “I made that my number one issue in the political campaign. Everybody who voted for me knows I was against Critical Race Theory because my volunteers and I put up 1,500 signs all around the state that had my name on it and it said ‘Stop Critical Race Theory.’”
“So we who want the normal, as the governor of [Arkansas] said; there’s a battle between the normal and the crazy,” Horne declared. “Those of us who want the normal, we’ve got to organize; we’ve got to fight back, we’ve got to elect people to statewide office and local office and school board office and we’ve got to fight back and we’ve got to bring the country back to normal.”
He also said that teachers should follow state guidelines and not push their own ideology on the students.

Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona

‘Battle Between Normal And The Crazy’: State Official Fiercely Condemns School Board For Terminating Contract With Christian University

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Education

Jewish

An elderly Arizona rancher accused of shooting and killing an illegal immigrant from Mexico trespassing on his property has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.
George Alan Kelly, 74, was initially charged with first-degree murder after allegedly fatally shooting an illegal immigrant believed to be 48-year-old Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/migrant-shot-dead-arizona-rancher-held-1m-murder-charge-deported-several-times-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The migrant had been deported multiple times before he was killed, The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11723489/Mexican-migrant-shot-dead-Arizona-rancher-George-Alan-Kelly-pictured.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, most recently in 2016.
A judge late last month <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-rancher-george-alan-kelly-murder-charge-downgraded-second-degree-shooting-mexican-man" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that the murder charge would be reduced to second-degree. On Monday, Kelly pleaded not guilty during his arraignment, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/06/arizona-rancher-arraigned-in-mexican-mans-shooting-death/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Judge Thomas Fink set Kelly&#8217;s trial date for September 6, even though Kelly&#8217;s attorney, Brenna Larkin, requested a two-month continuance to interview her own experts. She also cited an additional search warrant recently executed at Kelly&#8217;s property.
Larkin told The Daily Wire that she couldn’t comment on the case to the media but did say, “we cannot try this case in the press, or in any place that is outside of the courtroom,” and that the defense is “confident that Mr. Kelly is an innocent man, based on his long history of law-abiding behavior, and based on the uncontroverted facts of this case.”
Kelly was released from prison on February 24 on a $1 million bond. His defense alleges that he only fired warning shots from his firearms into the air and not at any individuals, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/22/george-alan-kelly-being-framed-for-murder-by-traffickers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Kelly reportedly told this to investigators, saying he found Cuen-Butimea’s body on his property hours later while checking on his horse, claiming he saw men with AK-47s on the property.
Larkin said in court on February 22 that her client is being framed by human traffickers interested in “securing their route” through Kelly’s property and aiming to use his case as a warning to others who may wish to challenge them.
“Absolutely the least likely thing that happened in this case is that Mr. Kelly randomly decided to … start shooting at random people,” Larkin argued in court, saying there was a “large incentive” for witnesses to come forward and lie after “succumbing to pressure from traffickers.”
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Kelly’s arrest comes as illegal border crossings continue to increase, with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vp-harris-funnels-money-into-central-american-job-creation-in-effort-to-slow-illegal-immigration">an estimated 5.5 million migrants</a> crossing during the Biden administration so far, according to data from the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
Critics like New York Post columnist Miranda Devine pointed to the Biden administration’s failed attempts to secure the border.
“Government abandons the border, leaving elderly rancher and sick wife stuck in a lawless badlands run by cartels,” she tweeted, referring to Kelly. “So he uses his legal gun to protect himself from trespassers of unknown intent and now is in jail on $1m bail while his wife is home alone.”

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Elderly Arizona Rancher Pleads Not Guilty To Shooting Illegal Immigrant Trespassing On His Property

George Alan Kelly Pleads Not Guilty To Shooting Illegal Immigrant Trespassing On His Property

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An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arizona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona</a> teacher raised the ire of parents when she told state lawmakers that parents should not get to choose what their children learn in school.
Special education teacher Alicia Messing made the remarks at an Arizona Senate Education Committee hearing last month. She was speaking against an Arizona bill that would ban books discussing sexuality and LGBT ideology in the state&#8217;s public schools.
&#8220;I have a master&#8217;s degree,&#8221; Messing said, &#8220;because when I got certified, I was told I had to have a master&#8217;s degree to be an Arizona certified teacher. We all have advanced degrees.”
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“I have a Masters degree! We all have advanced degrees! What have parents got? Are we vetting the background of parents?” 🤡
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&#8220;What do the parents have?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;Are we vetting the backgrounds of our parents? Are we allowing parents to choose the curriculum and the books that our children are going to read? I think that it&#8217;s a mistake, and I&#8217;m just speaking from the heart.&#8221;
The teacher went on to argue that the purpose of public education is not to teach kids only what parents want them to be taught, but &#8220;what society needs them to be taught.&#8221;
Her comments sparked <a href="https://twitter.com/AFertileHeart/status/1628716715700805632" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backlash</a> on social media, with <a href="https://twitter.com/NickForVA/status/1628790687721463809" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critics</a> remarking that her statements are an &#8220;excellent endorsement for school choice&#8221; and make her sound like she &#8220;hates parents.&#8221;
The proposed <a href="https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/79379" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> she opposes would require the Arizona education department to &#8220;maintain a list of books that public educational institutions may not use or make available to students, including books that are lewd or sexual, promote gender fluidity or gender pronouns or groom children into normalizing pedophilia,&#8221; according to the bill&#8217;s <a href="https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/1R/summary/S.1700ED.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fact sheet</a>.
The bill also gives parents the right to request that books or curriculum materials be removed. The legislation also extends the public review periods for school library books and textbooks and does away with all exceptions to the curriculum approval process and school library access requirements.
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The Arizona Senate Education Committee ultimately greenlighted the bill in a 4 to 3 vote along party lines.
However, the Senate Rules Committee is still considering the bill, and it has not yet been scheduled to be heard on the Arizona Senate floor.
The bill is sponsored by state Senator Justine Wadsack (R), who herself is a mother and grandmother.
Wadsack promoted her bill as prohibiting &#8220;lewd, sexual content&#8221; in public schools.
&#8220;The Dems DENIED that this is even a problem,&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/Wadsack4Arizona/status/1626207356555251713" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a tweet a day after the Senate education committee approved her bill. &#8220;They are coming for the children by normalizing perversion.&#8221;
Parental rights in public education has become a heated issue in recent years, especially since the pandemic.
Parents have shown up to school board meetings around the country to protest what they view as inappropriate content in their children&#8217;s school libraries and curricula.
Several other states have introduced legislation to crack down on explicit content in public schools.
In March, Governor Ron DeSantis signed Florida’s parental rights bill, dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by opponents, which prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
In Texas, one lawmaker <a href="https://abc13.com/texas-laws-hb-338-bill-could-require-ratings-on-school-books-rating-like-movies/12534592/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> a bill that would require book publishers to have a content rating system — similar to the TV-rating system — for books they sell to state school districts.

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‘I Have A Master’s Degree!’: Arizona Teacher Says It’s A ‘Mistake’ To Let Parents Choose Curriculum

Arizona Teacher Says It's A 'Mistake' To Let Parents Choose Curriculum

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jordan-rips-dems-skipping-arizona-border-crisis-hearing-blasts-reckless-biden-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed</a> Democrats who would not show up for an in-person hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee in Yuma, Arizona, on Thursday regarding the southern border.
Last week, House Democrats openly dismissed the hearing as a stunt and declared they would boycott the event. House Democrats <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-dems-fume-pledge-boycott-house-judiciary-border-crisis-hearing-arizona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> “there was no consultation with Judiciary Democrats, many of whom have already committed to attending other bipartisan congressional delegation trips.”
“Instead of focusing on real solutions to a complicated problem, Judiciary Republicans will once again not hear from any federal government witnesses at their hearing, further cementing this hearing as a brazen act of political grandstanding,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) snapped. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, (D-WA), echoed, “As a result, Democrats, who have been to the border regularly the last few years, will not attend next week’s performative hearing.”
“It’s a shame that not one Democrat member of Congress would join us on this trip, despite having weeks of advance notice,” Jordan said. “It&#8217;s disappointing, but it&#8217;s not surprising.”
&#8220;I would argue it&#8217;s not a stunt,” he added. “My guess is our witnesses wouldn&#8217;t call it a stunt. What we&#8217;ve learned today from them, what we&#8217;ve seen last night on the border.”
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) called the Democrats’ decision to rebuff the invitation a “message of disrespect” to Americans.
Dr. Robert Trenschel of the Yuma Regional Medical Center, which has reportedly given over $26 million in uncompensated care to migrants in one year, commented, “It is an unsustainable model to have a hospital like ours bear the entire burden of paying for migrant health care. No business or service can survive ongoing large-scale expense without any offsetting revenue.”
Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot said Border Patrol captures of illegal immigrants have skyrocketed from 40 a day to over 1,000 a day in the last two years. “Our southern border, against all public comfort statements out of Washington, D.C., is in the worst shape I have ever seen in my career,” he <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/biden-slammed-border-yuma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a>. “When one looks at Public Safety, National Security, and Humanitarian, our southern border can only be described as the largest crime scene in the country.”
“If this administration refuses to enforce existing laws, why would anyone trust it to enforce future laws?” Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) said. “But this won&#8217;t stop us from trying. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re here today. But I&#8217;m afraid that this is going to get worse until the American people demand that these policies be reversed. &#8230; History is screaming this warning at us — countries that cannot or will not enforce their borders simply aren&#8217;t around very long.”

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Residents within a one-mile radius of a truck crash in Tucson, <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/arizona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona</a>, were ordered to shelter in place on Tuesday afternoon after the vehicle spilled a load of nitric acid.
Both directions of Interstate 10 near Kolb Road were closed as first responders mitigated the situation, according to a <a href="https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/i-10-closed-near-south-kolb-road-due-to-crash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from KGUN-TV. The Pima County Department of Environmental Quality is determining whether the radius for the shelter in place order should be expanded.
&#8220;The Department&#8217;s Hazardous Materials Response Unit, along with partner agencies, are working together to mitigate the incident,” Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesperson Raul Garcia Jr. said in a <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-traffic/2023/02/14/hazmat-situation-on-i-10-as-tanker-rolls-over-leaking-materials/69904887007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> to the Arizona Republic. “Out of an abundance of caution, first responders are working to evacuate a perimeter around the area of the incident.”
The Arizona Department of Public Safety <a href="https://twitter.com/Arizona_DPS/status/1625624676147003394" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on social media that the agency expects an “extensive closure” and asked residents to “avoid the area.”
Nitric acid is a “colorless liquid with yellow or red fumes with an acrid odor,” according to a <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/nitric-acid/default.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the CDC, and is used to manufacture fertilizers, dyes, and explosives. Exposure to the highly corrosive substance can cause “irritation to the eyes, skin, and mucous membrane,” as well as “delayed pulmonary edema, pneumonitis, bronchitis, and dental erosion.” Images <a href="https://twitter.com/TucsonFireDept/status/1625634468378836992" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> by the Tucson Fire Department indeed appeared to show yellow and red fumes emanating from the crash site.
The incident in Arizona follows a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, where a malfunctioning axle on a Norfolk Southern train caused the vehicle to crash and leak volatile industrial chemicals. Local and state authorities evacuated all residents within one mile of the February 3 crash and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/evacuation-ordered-ohio-governor-warns-major-explosion-could-send-shrapnel-a-mile-from-derailed-train" target="_blank" rel="noopener">started</a> a controlled burn of the chemicals to decrease the risk of an explosion. Vinyl chloride, a carcinogenic material, was released from five train cars in the form of massive plumes of dark smoke visible throughout eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
Emergency personnel and citizens who did not evacuate the area are enduring symptoms such as sore throats, coughing, headaches, and diarrhea in the days following the controlled burn, according to one first responder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unlike-anything-i-have-ever-seen-ohio-first-responder-says-residents-suffer-from-health-issues-after-train-derailment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> by The Daily Wire on Tuesday afternoon. Residents were told they could safely return to their homes less than one week after the controlled burn.
Beyond the release of vinyl chloride, Norfolk Southern <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/company-responsible-for-ohio-train-derailment-issues-list-of-cancer-causing-substances-released" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> the EPA that a number of other volatile industrial chemicals were spilled at the derailment site. One train car containing ethylene glycol monobutyl ether currently has an “unknown status,” according to Norfolk Southern, while the amount of ethylhexyl acrylate in another car is still “pending.”
Another train containing hazardous materials derailed on Monday morning near Splendora, Texas, after a semi-truck collided with the vehicle. Union Pacific spokesperson Robynn Tysver <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/train-carrying-hazardous-materials-derailed-in-texas-days-after-ohio-incident" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> with The Daily Wire that the company sent a hazardous material crew to examine the crashed train, which was carrying products such as paint and aerosol cans intended for retail. Although the train spilled 100 gallons of diesel fuel, none of the chemical substances were released. The derailment is presently under investigation; the semi-truck driver passed away, while crew members of the train did not experience any injuries.
Lawmakers and government officials have called for investigations in response to the Ohio train derailment. The United States has witnessed nearly 55,000 train derailments since 1975, according to <a href="https://www.bts.gov/content/train-fatalities-injuries-and-accidents-type-accidenta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, including more than 1,000 derailments in 2021 alone.

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GoFundMe has reportedly removed several fundraisers organized to raise money for the high bail set on an elderly Arizona rancher who allegedly shot and killed an illegal immigrant crossing his land.
George Alan Kelly, 73, has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly shooting an illegal immigrant believed to be 48-year-old Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/migrant-shot-dead-arizona-rancher-held-1m-murder-charge-deported-several-times-report">reported</a>. The migrant had been deported multiple times before he was killed, The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11723489/Mexican-migrant-shot-dead-Arizona-rancher-George-Alan-Kelly-pictured.html">reported</a>, most recently in 2016.
Kelly has pleaded with a judge to reduce his $1 million bail or to release him so that he could help his wife tend to their livestock, but he remains behind bars. His court-appointed attorney, Brenna Larkin, hasn’t tried to get him released or reduce his bail, the Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11731695/GoFundMe-removes-pages-set-strangers-elderly-Arizona-rancher.html">reported</a>, nor has she invoked Arizona’s stand your ground or trespassing laws. She has asked for more time to prepare, stating the scale of the case was overwhelming, according to the outlet.
Kelly has also not explained what led him to shoot Cuen-Butimea just 100 feet from the rancher’s home, or if he had encountered the man previously.
Several GoFundMe pages were set up to help raise money for Kelly’s bail, the Mail reported, but they have been shut down by the website, which has a history of deleting fundraisers for certain political causes. GoFundMe has cited a policy against fundraising to help defendants charged with “violent crimes,” and removed fundraisers for Kyle Rittenhouse, who was ultimately acquitted of killing two Black Lives Matter rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The website also stepped into controversy when it removed fundraisers for the Freedom Convoy and claimed it had information that the protest against vaccine mandates was no longer peaceful.
In a statement to The Daily Wire, GoFundMe said that its &#8220;Terms of Service explicitly prohibit campaigns that raise money to cover the legal defense of anyone formally charged with an alleged violent crime.&#8221;
&#8220;Consistent with this long-standing policy, any fundraising campaigns for the legal defense of someone charged with murder are removed from our platform,&#8221; the company added. &#8220;Donors who contributed to the fundraising campaigns for George Alan Kelly’s legal expenses have been fully refunded.”
GoFundMe has not removed fundraisers for Black Lives Matter protesters or others protesting for Left-wing causes, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gofundme-allows-fundraiser-for-left-wing-activist-accused-of-shooting-cop-has-shut-down-right-leaning-fundraisers-in-past">a fundraiser</a> for Manuel Páez Terán, who is accused of shooting a police officer during an environmental protest. Terán was shot dead by police during the encounter.
Kelly’s arrest comes as illegal border crossings continue to increase, with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vp-harris-funnels-money-into-central-american-job-creation-in-effort-to-slow-illegal-immigration">an estimated 5.5 million migrants</a> crossing during the Biden administration so far, according to data from the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
Critics, such as New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, have pointed to the Biden administration’s absent attempts to secure the border.
“Government abandons the border, leaving elderly rancher and sick wife stuck in a lawless badlands run by cartels,” she tweeted, referring to Kelly. “So he uses his legal gun to protect himself from trespassers of unknown intent and now is in jail on $1m bail while his wife is home alone.”
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Government abandons the border, leaving elderly rancher and sick wife stuck in a lawless badlands run by cartels. So he uses his legal gun to protect himself from trespassers of unknown intent and now is in jail on $1m bail while his wife is home alone. <a href="https://t.co/QwpaZX7Mg9">https://t.co/QwpaZX7Mg9</a>
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) <a href="https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1623669486330036225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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GoFundMe Removes Fundraisers For Elderly Rancher Who Allegedly Shot And Killed Illegal Immigrant Crossing His Land: Report

GoFundMe Removes Fundraisers For Elderly Rancher Who Shot And Killed Illegal Immigrant Crossing His Land

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A decades-long drought and population growth has left the Colorado River over-leveraged and in dire need of a new management plan before the water runs out for millions of Americans.
 Negotiations between seven states to reapportion the river’s water have been deadlocked for months, and the federal government is threatening to break the deadlock with its own management plan — whether the states like it or not.
The Department of the Interior has given Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming a deadline to reach an agreement twice, and each time the states blew past it without reaching consensus.
The federal government’s request is unprecedented in U.S. history. The Colorado River supplies water for roughly 40 million Americans. The Bureau of Reclamation has asked the Basin states to cut water usage by about one-third.
The latest deadline passed on Wednesday with six of the seven states agreeing on a plan to cut water usage, with only California dissenting. The Golden State put forward its own plan emphasizing its priority rights over the Colorado River that have been a part of the legal framework governing the basin for a century.
The lack of consensus increases the chance that the Bureau of Reclamation will devise its own plan and force the basin states to follow it whether they like it or not. The bureau needs a plan soon in order to model the water level of the river and its reservoirs and complete an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the basin. The EIS will inform the Department of the Interior’s long-term water management strategy.
The Colorado River has been governed under the same rough legal framework of water apportionment for the past 100 years, though it has been updated as new infrastructure has been added and court cases have been settled. The body of law that governs the basin is collectively known as “<a href="https://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g1000/lawofrvr.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Law of the River</a>.”
The cornerstone of that legal framework was set in 1922 in an agreement called the Colorado River Compact. The agreement divided the basin into upper and lower halves and guaranteed each 7.5 million acre-feet of water from the river. The Mexican Water Treaty of 1944 allotted 1.5 million acre-feet of the Colorado River to Mexico. One acre-foot is about the amount of water two or three households use in a year.
The upper basin, where the Colorado River originates, consists of parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming and is above the river’s two reservoirs: Lake Powell, behind Glen Canyon Dam, and Lake Mead, behind Hoover Dam. The lower basin states – Arizona, California, and Nevada – are located roughly below the reservoirs and can pull from them, whereas the upper basin must rely on the river’s natural flow.
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The 1922 agreement that set out the apportionment for the upper and lower basins may always have been too optimistic. The compact <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/07/11/running-dry-in-the-american-west/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimated</a> the Colorado River’s annual flows at 17 million acre-feet. In the century since, the river has averaged about 12 million acre-feet annually. The compact, we now know, was drawn up during the river’s wettest season in the past 500 years, according to Shawn Regan, vice president of research at the Property and Environment Research Center.
In addition to poor planning and population growth, the river is under stress from an extended drought that has beat down on the American West for over two decades. A study <a href="https://apnews.com/article/climate-science-west-megadrought-f02449c2db4f0ebeb1557bb39504c62d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> last year suggests that the West is the driest it’s been in 1,200 years.
“In the Colorado River Basin, the period from 2000 through 2021 has been the driest 22-year period recorded in more than 100 years of record-keeping,” Tanya Trujillo, an experienced water lawyer and Interior’s assistant secretary for Water and Science, <a href="https://www.doi.gov/ocl/colorado-river-drought-conditions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Congress in 2021. “The reservoir system was 95 percent full in 2000, but as of September 28th, Colorado River system reservoirs sit at just 39 percent, the lowest levels since they began to fill.”
The water level has continued to drop since Trujillo’s testimony. The strain is evident in the Colorado River basin’s two major reservoirs. Lakes Powell and Mead are both at all-time lows. Lake Mead, in particular, has made a number of ghastly headlines over the past year as its water level has dropped, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sixth-set-of-skeletal-remains-found-in-lake-mead" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealing</a> sunken ships and bodies weighted and sunk to its lake bed.
Officials across the seven states fear what could happen as each reservoir approaches two low-water <a href="https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2022/05/16/what-is-dead-pool-a-water-expert-explains/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">benchmarks</a>, each of which would have severe consequences.
The first and highest benchmark is known as the minimum power pool elevation: the level at which the lakes need to sit in order for their dams to produce hydropower.
The Glen Canyon and Hoover dams produce power for millions of Americans. Should that power be cut off, the worst effects could be mitigated by siphoning power from other parts of the U.S. electrical grid.
The scenario officials are seeking to avoid at all costs, which would likely have catastrophic effects, takes place at the lower benchmark, a condition known as “dead pool.” If the reservoirs reach dead pool status, no more water can flow downriver from the lakes. The effects would be disastrous for cities such as Los Angeles, which <a href="https://viterbi.usc.edu/water/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gets</a> half its water from the Colorado River, and Las Vegas, which <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/us/california-water-proposal-colorado-river-climate/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gets</a> 90% of its water from the Colorado.
Despite the urgency, officials across the seven states have not been able to agree on a way to collectively cut down water usage from the Colorado by two to four million acre-feet as the Interior Department has requested. The brunt of the responsibility to cut has fallen on the lower basin states. The upper basin states are only <a href="https://www.coloradoriverdistrict.org/imbalances-in-the-colorado-river-basin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulling</a> about half their legal allotment of water because the drought has crippled the river upstream.
The lower basin states cannot agree on how to implement the cuts. The two sides on Wednesday clashed to a large extent on California’s insistence that priority water rights, a feature of the current legal framework that give priority to claims to the Colorado River’s water made earlier, still apply.
“[D]espite big disagreements about how to approach this, we have unanimity among all seven states that very deep cuts in Lower Basin water use are needed,” University of New Mexico professor and Colorado River expert John Fleck <a href="https://www.inkstain.net/2023/02/deadpool-diaries-the-numbers-in-the-states-two-proposals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Wednesday. The two sides both presented plans based on cuts that scale up as the water level in Lake Mead falls.
“The difference is in timing,” Fleck wrote. “California’s cuts don’t kick in until later – essentially a gamble on good hydrology once again helping us avoid conflict by letting us use more water in the short term.”
Officials in Arizona, which has the second-largest water usage in the lower basin behind California, recognized California’s legal claim, but said the approach simply is not realistic.
“If you want to model cutting off most or all of the water supply of 27 million Americans, you can go through the exercise but implementing that on the ground would have the direst consequence for almost 10% of the country,” Southern Nevada Water Authority general manager John Enstminger told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/us/california-water-proposal-colorado-river-climate/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>.

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A recent report <a href="https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/infrastructure/3841874-arizona-most-popular-state-to-move-to-in-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> where Americans moved to last year — and the top places that they left. 
Allied Van Lines’ Magnet States <a href="https://www.allied.com/migration-map" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Report</a> from 2022 revealed information regarding how Americans are moving around the country. It showed that fewer people packed up and moved last year than they did the years before in 2021 and 2020. Moves in general went down in each state across the nation, which led to a 20% drop over the course of 2022.
In 2022, the top states for Americans to move to included Arizona, which led the pack, followed by South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. The major cities people wanted to move to started with Tucson, Arizona, followed by Sarasota, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; and Nashville, Tennessee. 
Americans were also leaving certain states more than others. Illinois in the top spot, with California, New Jersey, Michigan, and Pennsylvania coming in next.
The top cities that Americans got out of were New York, New York; Anaheim, California; San Diego, California; Chicago, Illinois; and Riverside, California.
Americans were most likely to move on Tuesdays during the week, followed by Wednesdays and Fridays. Most moved in June, followed by July and August.
The report noted that there were also not many major city regions that experienced a significant bump in population last year as more people decided to pack up and head to the suburbs rather than live in the cities.
Some of the cities that are seeing a major bump in residents also saw a spike in home prices because of the increase. However, the cities where people left also had high prices.
New York City’s average home costs 119% more than the average across the country. Riverside, Anaheim, and San Diego also have home prices that are more than the average. Chicago, for one, does not. Its home costs are under the national average, but that could mean that other issues like crime and cost are pushing people out of the city.
According to <a href="https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/anaheim/crime#:~:text=With%20a%20crime%20rate%20of,here%20is%20one%20in%2032." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neighborhood Scout</a>, Anaheim, California, has a crime problem as well. Its crime index notes that it is safer than just 9% of cities in the United States. New York’s crime index is <a href="https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ny/new-york/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15</a>, whereas Riverside’s is <a href="https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/riverside/crime#:~:text=With%20a%20crime%20rate%20of,here%20is%20one%20in%2025." target="_blank" rel="noopener">5</a>, and San Diego’s is <a href="https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-diego/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17</a>. Chicago’s crime <a href="https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/il/chicago/crime#:~:text=With%20a%20crime%20rate%20of,here%20is%20one%20in%2031." target="_blank" rel="noopener">index</a> is also at a 9.
All of the top cities for people to move experienced an uptick in home prices, except for Tucson.
Prior to the pandemic, the report added, the majority of Americans were buying homes fifteen miles away from their previous houses. In the present day, however, they are purchasing homes fifty miles or more away from their prior residences.
A <a href="https://www.extraspace.com/blog/moving/where-are-people-moving/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> by Extra Space Storage noted that they believe the housing market will be steadier this year, which could put many people in a situation where they are more able to move.

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