Heather Land has taught Holocaust Literature, a class she developed, at Mesa’s Mountain View High School for the last nine years. She works hard to keep the semester-long senior elective
She was very proficient with one hand, Ryan said.
Over time the nerves kept growing, as did her pain. The next step was amputation of her hand and Cooper was looking forward to retirement in a few years. None of that will come to pass. She died Friday, March 5, at Banner Baywood Medical Center. She was 49.
Cooper was admitted to the hospital on February 27 after her lungs stopped. The night before, she had been ordered to work a 15-hour shift in the understaffed dispatch center despite reporting trouble breathing. She was still recovering from COVID-19, which her family believes she caught at work. Her asthma exacerbated the issues, but she was out of leave time. Yesterday, an attorney representing her husband and her estate filed a claim against the City of Phoenix alleging negligence and seeking a total of $35 million in damages.
Phoenix City Council s District 7 contenders Yassamin Ansari, Cinthia Estela talk experiences, respond to critics Jen Fifield, Arizona Republic
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Yassamin Ansari and Cinthia Estela are both daughters of immigrants who were raised with expectations to work hard and with inherent drives to succeed.
Yet the two grew up in vastly different homes and took different paths to becoming the top two contenders to represent District 7 on the Phoenix City Council. The runoff election is March 9.
As the candidates have talked about their successes on the campaign trail, their opponents have raised questions about their backgrounds.
Estela s opponents want you to believe her history is shrouded in violence and run-ins with the law, and that her temperament is ill-suited for the City Council.