Election access, campaign donations could be on ballot; Does Arizona need to give more to schools? 16 new eateries coming to the Valley

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State Rep. Andrés Cano, D-Tucson, speaks at a celebratory event organized by the advocacy group Healthcare Rising at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on July 7, 2022. The group collected over 500,000 signatures for a ballot measures that would limit predatory debt collection on medical debt.

A look at some of today's top stories, the weather forecast and a peek back in history.

Citizen initiatives that seek to amend voting laws, provide transparency in campaign spending and limit medical debt submitted petitions to qualify for the Nov. 8 ballot.

A trial will offer a new opportunity to hear testimony on the building, equipment and technology needs of Arizona schools.

Phoenix, Gilbert, Scottsdale and Tempe will welcome new restaurants this summer like Press coffee, Peixoto, Undertow, Xing Fu Tang and Sandfish Sushi.

Today, you can expect it to be hot, with a high near 110 degrees. Mostly clear at night, with a low near 87 degrees. Get the full forecast here.

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Today in history

  • On this date in 1972, the Nixon administration announced a deal to sell $750 million in grain to the Soviet Union. (However, the Soviets were also engaged in secretly buying subsidized American grain, resulting in what critics dubbed “The Great Grain Robbery.”)

  • In 1947, a New Mexico newspaper, the Roswell Daily Record, quoted officials at Roswell Army Air Field as saying they had recovered a “flying saucer” that crashed onto a ranch; officials then said it was actually a weather balloon. (To this day, there are those who believe what fell to Earth was an alien spaceship carrying extra-terrestrial beings.)

  • In 2010, the largest spy swap between the U.S. and Russia since the Cold War unfolded as 10 people accused of spying in suburban America pleaded guilty to conspiracy and were ordered deported to Russia in exchange for the release of four prisoners accused of spying for the West.

  • In 2016, on the first day of a two-day summit in Warsaw, NATO leaders geared up for a long-term standoff with Russia, ordering multinational troops to Poland and the three Baltic states as Moscow moved forward with its own plans to station two new divisions along its western borders.

  • In 2012, a bomb in eastern Afghanistan killed six NATO service members on a day in which a total of 29 people died from roadside bombs and insurgent attacks.

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