Lou Gum

In this episode, KAWC News director Lou Gum's final Arizona Edition, we’re joined by Chris Kline, the outgoing President of the Arizona Media Association. Over the course of his tenure, Kline has been a strong advocate for local journalism, media innovation, and the vital role a free press plays in Arizona’s communities.

Democrat Adelita Grijalva carries name recognition and a progressive legacy tied to her father in her race to become the next congressional representative from Arizona. But voters to her left and right have a choice. While some call Grijalva the frontrunner, in the latest Arizona Edition, we focus on the Republican and the Green Party candidates looking to replace the late Congressman Raul Grijalva in Congress. Daniel Butierez is a Republican making his second bid for the district seat.

From the 1940s to the 1990s the federal government detonated hundreds of nuclear devices at a test site in Nevada, spreading radioactive fallout to the winds of the American southwest. Downwind cancer victims linked to that fallout later got an apology and a path to compensation in the form of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act in 1990, or RECA but many say it wasn’t enough. How the Big Beautiful Bill passed in Congress in July expands the reach and compensation of RECA.