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AZ Briefing

YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Thu Aug 29 2024

Lorenzino Estrada | Digital Producer

Good morning, Arizona. Here’s what our reporters are working on and what you should know before you start your day.

Could a storage facility cause increased traffic and decreased property values? A group of West Valley residents think so.

More about the sudden opposition to the site that was initially approved unanimously in 2021.

Make these fully loaded, twice-baked potatoes

Twice baked potatoes are so easy and fun to make.

Robin Miller / Special for The Republic

This twice-baked potato recipe is the only one you’ll ever need. Here’s how to make the steakhouse classic with eight ingredients and an extra spud.

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Today in history

Here are just some of the events on this date in the past.

•	On this day in 1911: “Ishi,” possibly the last member of the Yahi tribe, encountered white people at a slaughterhouse in Oroville, California. Officials brought him to a museum, where he lived for the rest of his life. “Ishi” means “man” in the Yana language; he refused to share his name without an introduction by a fellow Yahi.
•	In 1957: Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first federal legislation protecting racial minorities since Reconstruction. It created a civil rights division in the Justice Department and authorized the attorney general to sue on behalf of Black people blocked from voting.
•	In 1970: More than 20,000 Mexican Americans marched through East Los Angeles, calling themselves the Chicano Moratorium, to protest the war in Vietnam and highlight the fact that Mexican Americans were dying in Vietnam at twice the rate of any other group. The Sheriff’s Department began beating protesters, sparking violence that killed three, including Los Angeles Times journalist Rubén Salazar.
•	In 1997: Marc Randolph and Reed Hasting founded an online business that rented digital video discs through the mail, Netflix – or, as they called it, NetFlix. The company originally charged by the disc and sent DVDs in striking red envelopes.
•	In 2005: Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 3 storm. Levees and storm walls failed, flooding and devastating an estimated 80% of New Orleans. The damage totaled about $108 billion in 2005 dollars. Sixteen years later, Category 4 Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana on the same date.
•	In 2008: Republican presidential candidate John McCain named Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. It was the first time a woman appeared on the GOP presidential ticket. “This is America, and every woman can walk through every door of opportunity,” she said, and joked, “the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”