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Maricopa Integrated Health System (MIHS) is in the process of deciding how to spend almost $1 billion approved by the voters. MIHS recently bought and renovated a new hospital in Maryvale to expand the behavioral health beds available; the fate of the Maricopa Medical Center building is to be demolished to make way for a brand new county hospital. Both of these hospitals offer a lens into how the taxpayer-funded system has and will evolve.

If you’ve been to the grocery store lately, it’s hard to miss: Consumers are having to eat the cost of higher food bills. While overall inflation is down after hitting a decades-high last year, grocery prices were still 11.3 percent higher this January compared to the same time in 2022, according to federal data , affecting what and how much food made it to many dinner tables.