📢 There will be no Microburst next week while Jason is on vacation. We’ll see you again on June 18.
Good morning, Tucson. Here’s your news roundup for June 7, 2024.
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🌵 Former President Trump held a rally in Phoenix on Thursday.
Trump’s appearance at the Dream City Church was his first public outing as a convicted felon. He called President Biden the “worst president in history” and criticized his recent executive order setting quotas for asylum seekers. Trump also called U.S. Senate hopeful Kari Lake a “friend of mine” and an “incredible woman.”
🌵 A Maricopa County judge ruled Governor Hobbs acted illegally in appointing 13 state agency heads.
The nominees were originally set to be approved through a Senate confirmation process, but Hobbs withdrew them after Republicans dragged out the proceedings. Instead, she named the nominees “executive deputy directors” with the power to serve as de facto agency heads. The judge plans to schedule a hearing later this summer to resolve the dispute between Hobbs and the Senate.
🌵 A controversial border enforcement measure passed by the Arizona legislature will head to the November ballot.
The “Secure the Border Act” would allow state law enforcement officers to arrest undocumented immigrants who cross into the U.S. in places other than an official port of entry. The bill also contains enhanced sentencing for fentanyl dealers and requires stronger employment eligibility checks. The group Living United for Change in Arizona, or LUCHA, filed a lawsuit Wednesday, arguing that it is unconstitutional to stuff unrelated provisions into a single ballot measure.
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🌵 What are they building on Broadway between El Con and Alvernon?
A new structure going up across Broadway from Reid Park will be a Salad and Go. This will be the Phoenix-based drive-thru salad chain’s eighth Tucson location. Want us to figure out what’s being built somewhere, or what new business is moving in? Email us at mail@microburst.news.
🌵 Lastly, a fossilized poop museum called the Poozeum has opened west of Flagstaff.
According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the Poozeum is the world’s largest collection of fossilized poop. Located in Williams, Arizona, it showcases over 8,000 coprolites from a wide range of animals, including dinosaurs. Among the oddities found in the collection is a fossilized poop on a dinosaur bone.