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Minnesota legislators are on the verge of approving the nation’s most restrictive use of flame-retardant chemicals in furniture and an array of household items such as textiles, mattresses and children’s products. State firefighters have been pushing for legislation that would phase out the use of 10 such chemicals, saying they are ineffective in slowing the spread of fire and contain toxins that are sickening responders. Monday’s compromise, reached among the firefighters, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and chemical companies, would phase...
Gov. Mark Dayton said Monday that he and Senate Democrats had agreed on a K-12 school funding increase that is double what Dayton originally called for, opening an even wider gulf between Democrats and House Republicans in the final week of the legislative session. Dayton upped his school spending demands after a private meeting with top DFL lawmakers. Later in the evening, Dayton and leading lawmakers from both parties resumed their negotiations, trying to bridge differences on major pieces of the two-year budget. http://ww...
The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a district-court decision Monday, rejecting a suit by a Minneapolis police officer who accused the department and former Chief Tim Dolan of trying to silence him for denouncing police misconduct. Sgt. Michael Keefe, now in the 1st Precinct, sued after he was removed as head of the department’s Violent Offender Task Force, suspended and demoted from lieutenant. http://www.startribune.com/eighth-circuit-tosses-out-case-alleging-police-corruption/303359861/?recirculation=home...
Big vehicles are back in the driver’s seat at Minnesota auto dealerships. New-vehicle sales in Minnesota rose a modest 4.6 percent in 2014 after a strong 2013 and lower gas prices shaped the market. Sales of trucks and sport-utility vehicles jumped solidly, while sales of cars, including hybrids, dropped. “Our Focus sales are off, and our trucking and SUV sales are up,” said Chuck Emick, director of sales and finance at Inver Grove Ford-Lincoln. Across the state, nearly seven in 10 new vehicles sold in 2014 was a truck or SUV. Sales of truck...
A technical problem related to the MNsure IT system means the state must rerun eligibility determinations for more than 55,000 people in public health insurance programs. There is no immediate impact for people in the Medicaid and MinnesotaCare programs, state officials said Monday, but there’s a chance some in the future will need to find a new source of health insurance. There’s also a chance the state could be at risk financially if people wrongly received coverage through the programs, which are partly funded by the federal government. htt...
The Senate passed a wide-ranging elections bill 39-28 on a mostly party line vote that would expand early voting and restore voting rights to felons once they are no longer incarcerated. The bill would automatically register eligible voters when they apply for a driver's license or state identification card or have it renewed. It would also allow 16- and 17-year olds to "preregister" to vote. A driver's license applicant could opt-out of registering to vote. Felons would have their voting rights restored as soon as they serve their sentence,...
The RCMP is apologizing for a comparison likening the Idle No More movement to “bacteria” which was made by an Aboriginal liaison officer in an internal report. RCMP spokesperson Staff-Sgt. Julie Gagnon said the comparison “is not reflective of the views and opinions of the organization.” The bacteria comparison was made in internal site report by RCMP Cpl. Wayne Russett, Aboriginal liaison for the national capital region. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/05/11/rcmp-apologizes-idle-bacteria-comparison/...
If Arizona legalizes marijuana next year, Indian tribes in the state won't have to follow the same rules. But the same goes in reverse: if the state says no to green, tribes can decide to jump on the weed train any time. In December, the Department of Justice issued a memorandum that clarified tribes' role in the marijuana world. It said they are treated the same as states, meaning they make and follow their own prohibitions. How likely is it that Arizona tribes will legalize mota before the state does, though? Not very, according to UA Indian...
In a field south of Edmonton where spring is slowly returning, a group of people celebrated Mother's Day and a mother whose murder remains unsolved. "She should be here with us celebrating Mother's Day," said April Eve Wiberg with the Stolen Sisters and Brothers Awareness movement. "She's been robbed from her family, her son, she deserves to be honoured, she deserves justice." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/murdered-aboriginal-woman-remembered-on-mother-s-day-1.3069381...
Haskell Indian Nations University (“Haskell”) is the premiere tribal university in the United States offering quality education to Native American students. Haskell’s student population averages about 1000 per semester, and all students are members of federally recognized tribes. Haskell’s faculty and staff is predominantly native. Haskell offers Associate and Bachelors degrees. Haskell’s historic campus is centrally located in Lawrence, KS in what is known as Kaw Valley. Today, after more than 130 years of existence, Haskell is experienc...
The state’s highest court will consider a challenge to more than $30 million a year in gas-tax proceeds state government pays to Indian tribes. State Supreme Court justices will hear arguments Tuesday in the long-running lawsuit by nontribal gas station owners challenging gas-tax compacts negotiated over the past decade between the state and tribes. “Huge amounts of money are going out and we don’t know if they are being used for the alleged purpose the compacts were supposed to accomplish,” said Phil Talmadge, a former justice on the court a...
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Tribal Councilor Derek Bailey was charged with five counts of criminal sexual conduct involving two alleged underage victims Monday – news that stunned and divided community members. Bailey – a former Congressional candidate and current President Obama appointee to the National Advisory Council on Indian Education – is being held without bond in Leelanau County Jail after being arraigned in 86th District Court Monday afternoon. Bailey was arrested Friday on three counts of first-degree crimi...
SUTTONS BAY — Derek Joseph Bailey's shackled walk into a courtroom formed a stark contrast to his prominent public position as a community leader. The disparity sent shock Monday through the Grand Traverse region when word spread about accusations that Bailey, 42, had sexual contact with two young girls. Bailey, an advocate for Native American rights and Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Tribal Council member, had little to say during his arraignment in an 86th District courtroom on five counts of criminal sexual conduct. h...
TRAVERSE CITY — A prominent tribal council member for the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians faces sex crime accusations. Derek Bailey, 42, awaits arraignment in 86th District Court on three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a child younger than 13. He's currently being held in Leelanau County's jail before a 3:30 p.m. hearing on the charges. http://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/tribal-council-member-faces-sex-crime-accusations/article_087a88f4-f803-11e4-887a-273c6bd22fc4.html...
A racist rant posted on social media has cost a Rapid City Regional Hospital employee her job. The video began being shared across social media over the weekend and was drawing anger on both Facebook and Twitter. Regional Health sent out a statement this afternoon saying the employee, a nurse, had been terminated and saying, "We will not stand for any type of racism or bigotry on the part of our caregivers and physicians." The statement says the video, shot outside of the workplace, clearly violates the Regional Health Code of Conduct....
A doctor servicing the community of Fort Chipewyan, Alta. (Fort Chip) has been fired and said he was given no explanation as to why. Dr. John O’Connor made international headlines when he first spoke out about elevated cancer rates in Northern Alberta communities and believed they were linked to tar sands activity from toxins leaking out into the surrounding land and water systems. A claim that was later supported by a study partially funded by Health Canada. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/05/11/alberta-doctor-found-higher-rates-c...
Graduation preparations are underway across the country with all of the excitement. There's a little more excitement than usual in Ramona at Caney Valley High School where a female student wants to show her pride in her American Indian heritage by wearing her eagle feather on her mortar board. The girl is of the Delaware tribe and Assistant Chief Bonnie Jo Griffith said that federal law states that it's legal for the student to use the feather for that purpose. Lisa Griffith, the students mother, spoke before the Caney Valley Oklahoma School...
Male survivors of Ralph Rowe, one of Canada's most prolific pedophiles, met in Thunder Bay, Ont., this week to see a new documentary about the former Anglican priest and boy scout leader who caused them so much pain. Survivors Rowe tells the story of three of the estimated 500 victims who fell under the spell of the charismatic priest who flew his own plane into remote First Nations in northwestern Ontario in the 1970s and '80s. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/survivors-of-ex-priest-pedophile-say-he-deserves-more-p...
Global sea levels are climbing at a faster rate than previously thought, according to a new analysis that underscores scientists’ concerns about the impact of melting glaciers and ice sheets near the Earth’s poles. The new research published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that the rate of sea-level rise appears to have accelerated over the past 15 years, a period in which scientists elsewhere documented a surprisingly rapidly retreat of some of Earth’s great ice masses, from Greenland to West Antarctica. http:...
