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Ryan Randazzo
Politics Reporter
I joined The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com in 2007 and began covering national politics in 2023. Previously I wrote about the state's big electric companies and solar energy. I also have been shuttled around in driverless cars, dodged molten copper splashing at a smelter, stood above all three radioactive cores at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station and observed Tomahawk missiles being prepared for deployment. Prior to The Republic I worked at the Reno Gazette-Journal.