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>Gila River Health Care is committing more than $25 million through 2034 to support the branch, which will include scholarships for each of the students in the program.

>Not only is the hope to grow the number of primary care doctors on tribal lands, like the Gila River Indian Community, but also to inspire the next generation who live in those areas that a future in medicine is possible.

>As a State Senator in 2013, Biggs blocked a vote on a bipartisan bill that would have given the state more enforcement power to target the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, a polygamist religious cult in Colorado City, Arizona which was forcing girls as young as nine to marry adult men. The bill had passed the state House, but was buried by Biggs as the leader in the Senate. Republicans in the Senate and the Republican Attorney General were baffled by Biggs' move.
"Women and children suffered three years longer than they should have because he protected the bad guys," said Republican legislator Michelle Ugenti-Rita.

>Then came Jeffrey Epstein. In Congress in 2025, Biggs was one of only two members of a House Subcommittee to vote against forcing the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files, despite campaigning on transparency in the global pedophilia case.

>Fellow Arizona Congressman David Schweikert, who lost the Republican Gubernatorial primary to Biggs, said he was too extreme for independent voters and slammed Biggs for repeatedly voting "against protecting our children from really, really bad actors."

>On Sept. 22, the district is expected to hold a public hearing at Desert Mountain High School, where parents and community members will have a chance to tell SUSD officials how they feel about shuttering more schools. 

>The proposed plans would potentially affect the following campuses:
Copper Ridge School  
Cheyenne Traditional School
Laguna Prep 
Redfield Elementary School
Desert Canyon Elementary  
Desert Canyon Middle School

>Records show that Cochise Elementary, Anasazi Elementary, Chaparral High and Desert Mountain High could also be affected by possible boundary changes.

>Following President Donald Trump’s executive order to end federal diversity and equity programs, the Defense Department deleted thousands of pages honoring contributions by women and minority groups, including the Navajo Code Talkers and other Native American veterans.
Tribes condemned the action. The Pentagon restored some webpages, saying the Navajo Code Talker material was erroneously removed.
“They left their home, their sheep, their loved ones, to serve a country. They came back home and most of them have PTSD, like my dad. But they continued to do the best they can — and the Trump administration wiped them out of the map,” said Ronald Begay, 70, the oldest son of Thomas H. Begay. “It just makes your blood boil.”

>There’s no dedicated museum to honor the group. Attempts to build one on the Navajo Nation haven’t come to fruition.
New Mexico officials announced on Friday that the state would invest $20 million in a museum in Farmington.

Good for New Mexico.

>U.S. Health and Human Services, which oversees the Indian Health Service, said it’s preparing to shutter the facility as part of a broader realignment plan. It plans to merge operations handled there with the Phoenix office.
In an Aug. 10 letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., Ciscomani says closing the facility would force patients to travel farther.
The Republican congressman is the latest lawmaker to call for the facility to remain open. Democrats in Arizona’s Legislature have been calling for the same since the plan was announced in June.

>Nearly 270 Banner physicians and other practitioners are eligible to join and vote in the formation of the union: nurse practitioners, physician assistants, family medicine physicians, internal medicine physicians and pediatricians.

>The doctors say they’re organizing for better pay and to address a host of issues with their hospitals. They say administrators have placed profit above patient care and inundated doctors with administrative duties that force them to work long hours away from their patients. The doctors feel micromanaged, exhausted and disrespected.

>They say the final straw came last year, when Banner Health introduced a new policy: Administrators could dock physicians’ base pay by as much as $15,000 a year if the company didn’t meet certain revenue goals. Previously, only patient-care metrics could get a doctor’s pay cut.

>The ruling is significant because what the council adopts goes out in a brochure sent to the homes of all 4.3 million registered voters in Arizona.

>State law requires the explanation the council crafts for that brochure to be impartial, with the idea being that it is supposed to be an honest explanation of the effect of any ballot measure, regardless of claims by proponents and opponents.