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With The Recent Reform Of The County s Health System, The Cure Seems Far Worse Than The Disease.
By Emil Franzi
THE PIMA COUNTY Board of Supervisors recently voted 3-2
to surrender direct control of nearly one-third of the county s
$700 million budget. These health-related responsibilities from Kino Hospital to
Long-Term Care, from Home Health to Animal Control will be placed
in the hands of a self-selected and self-perpetuating entity called
The Pima Health Care System Commission. This new system is defined
in the resolution, which set it up as quasi-governance. There was no public debate over the move, even though it has
been coming for many months and supervisors Sharon Bronson and
The Doctor Is In-For Now.
By Chris Limberis
IT WAS IN the depths of Pima County that Dr. Richard Carmona,
the czar of the county s health system who has presided over a
$14 million loss in the last year, made a surprising offer to
his chief political benefactor, Democratic Supervisor Raul Grijalva. In the county s subterranean garage, Carmona told Grijalva the
conduit in the increasingly volatile relationship Carmona has
with Sylvia Campoy, who heads the county s health care commission that
he would step down from his $190,500-a-year job. There, near the county s bottom, 12 floors beneath the perch
that Grijalva has held for 11 years, Carmona says he told Grijalva:
Court oversight in Tucson desegregation case to end
April 24, 2021
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Federal court oversight of Tucson s largest school district is soon to end following a decades-long court fight over discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities.
A judge ruled Monday that Tucson Unified School District has an effective plan to integrate its schools and provide Black and Latino students with equal access to educational opportunities.
Changes already implemented are “moving the needle in the right direction, U.S. District Judge David C. Bury wrote in his order in a civil rights case. “It is time for the district to be released from judicial oversight and held accountable by the community.”