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ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has awarded $1 million in grant funding to specialty crop growers in the state to help them compete in today’s marketplace. Specialty crops include fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and horticultural and nursery crops. In 2015, specialty crops accounted for roughly 6% of all crop production in Minnesota. The MDA’s Specialty Crop Block Grant (SCBG) Program receives funding under the current Farm Bill. “These grants give farmers, producers, and researchers a way to...
Boston, Mass.– In a new survey, 45 percent of U.S. voters said they go without needed dental care because of cost or lack of insurance. But eight out of 10 respondents said they favor a way to mitigate this problem: adding midlevel dental providers, such as dental therapists, to dental care teams. Health care improvement advocate Donald Berwick strongly supports this option. “Dental therapists can offer much better access to care, for the most underserved populations, at considerably lower cost to the system,” said Berwick, former admin...
SAINT PAUL, MN-Representative Matt Grossell, R-Clearbrook, was officially sworn-in for his first term Tuesday as the legislature began the 2017 session in St. Paul. Legislators took the oath of office administered by Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court Lorie Gildea in the House Chamber. Grossell will represent District 02A which includes Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, and Lake Of The Woods County. "I'm honored for the opportunity to represent our community in St. Paul, and am ready to...
In an ironic twist, several members of the Bishop Paiute Tribe claim their own tribal council has accused them of trespass so it can take their family land for a casino. The Napoles and Williams families filed a 37-page petition against the tribal council and Tribal Court Judge Bill Kockenmeister in the Eastern District of California. “The tribal council is basically trying to carve off two lots of our family land, and are doing it because they say they can,” petitioner Ronald Napoles said in an interview. “It’s not true because they were ne...
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT DIRECTOR -- MINNEAPOLIS RED LAKE NATION URBAN EMBASSY Open: January 5, 2017 Closing: January 26, 2017 @ 3:00 p.m. PRIMARY FUNCTION: Conduct/supervise the daily operations of the Urban Embassy to provide a wide variety of community based needs to the enrolled members of the Red Lake Nation living in the metropolitan area. Full-time position w/benefits, reports to Executive Administrator; this position does have supervisory responsibility. Salary: DOQ. ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITI...
The University of Minnesota has reached agreement with Western Michigan’s P.J. Fleck on a five-year contract and is sending a plane to Kalamazoo, Mich., to bring him to campus Friday, a source close to the negotiations said. The Gophers are planning an afternoon press conference for Fleck at TCF Bank Stadium. The 36-year-old Fleck led Western Michigan to a storybook 13-0 start to the season before losing to Wisconsin in the Cotton Bowl. http://www.startribune.com/p-j-fleck-university-of-minnesota-close-to-reaching-five-year-...
Senior officials in the Russian government celebrated Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton as a geopolitical win for Moscow, according to U.S. officials, who said that American intelligence agencies intercepted communications in the aftermath of the election in which Russian officials congratulated themselves on the outcome. The ebullient reaction among high-ranking Russian officials -- including some who U.S. officials believe had knowledge of the country’s cybercampaign to interfere in the U.S. election -- contributed to the U.S. int...
The owner of the Portland Market in south Minneapolis was put into a medically induced coma, needed five plates put in his face and could lose an eye after a burglar severely beat him with a hammer at his store on New Year’s Eve. The victim, 53-year-old George Gerges and his wife, Saydee, have owned the market at 3751 Portland Av. S. for about eight years and never before had a problem until New Year’s Eve, she said in an interview Thursday. She faults in part a slow response from Minneapolis police, who did not arrive to the business unt...
CHICAGO — Four black people were charged with hate crimes Thursday in connection with a video broadcast live on Facebook that showed a mentally disabled white man being beaten and taunted, threatened with a knife and forced to drink from a toilet. The assault went on for hours, until Chicago police found the disoriented victim walking along a street, authorities said. The suspects, who were jailed, can be heard on the video using profanities against white people and President-elect Donald Trump. http://www.startribune.com/ch...
Exposure and drugs or alcohol likely caused the deaths of two men who had been reported missing before they died, authorities said Thursday. Joseph Michael Hernandez died of exposure and a meth overdose, the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office said. Hikers found the body of Hernandez on Thanksgiving Day in a wooded area of Friendly Marsh Park off Hwy. 110 and Dodge Lane. Hernandez, 35, had been reported by family and friends as missing on Nov. 7. He was last seen Nov. 11 leaving a nearby motel on foot after arguing with a friend. h...
Evening mass at the Cathedral of St. Paul had just ended Wednesday when maintenance worker Nathan Leonhardt headed to the church’s north side to begin locking up. He pushed open an inside door that led to a small stairwell and exterior doors along Dayton Avenue, and it smacked against a green plastic laundry basket at the top of the stairs. Leonhardt peeked inside to see a green, Ninja Turtles fleece blanket, white socks and a dark-colored women’s zip-up hoodie. “Didn’t really think anything of it,” he recalled Thursday. http://ww...
Minnesotans apparently were feeling lucky in fiscal year 2016, spending $1.5 billion on pulltabs, bingo, raffles and other forms of charitable gambling — or more than $275 for every person in the state. Charitable gaming sales increased 13.2 percent for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, according to the Minnesota Gambling Control Board’s annual report. That makes the sixth year in a row of increases, and the numbers continued to surge into late 2016, said Gary Danger, the board’s compliance officer. “July through November, our numbers...
Traffic fatalities on Minnesota roads remained flat in 2016 when compared with the number of motorists who died in crashes the previous year, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. Crash reports showed that 397 people were killed between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 last year, but the count is expected to rise to 412 by the time final numbers are in, the department’s Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) said. That would top the 411 who were killed in 2015. “Disappointing” is how OTS director Donna Berge...
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added 156,000 jobs in December, capping a year of slower but solid hiring and providing the last major snapshot of the economy President-elect Donald Trump will inherit from President Barack Obama. Friday's report from the Labor Department portrayed a job market that remains durable 7½ years after the recovery from the Great Recession began. Though the unemployment rate rose to 4.7 percent from a nine-year low of 4.6 percent, it did so for an encouraging reason: More people began looking for work. Because not all of...
Gov. Mark Dayton and GOP legislative leaders volleyed competing, big-ticket spending proposals Thursday that if enacted would deliver tax cuts to farmers and families paying for child care, and provide quick financial assistance to people facing steep premium hikes on their health insurance. Combined, the proposals by the DFL governor and Republicans who control the Legislature would cost the state $600 million — about $300 million each. Coming in the first week of the session, they set an early framework for negotiations and possible c...
PLACER COUNTY - The woman convicted in a 2014 mass shooting in Alturas will be sentenced to death, a jury decided Thursday. A Placer County judge will go forward with the decision at a hearing in April. Cherie Rhoades killed four people and injured two others on Feb. 20, 2014 inside the Cedarville Rancheria Tribal Office. At the time, Rhoades was about to be ousted as the tribal chairwoman. http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/northstate/jury-approves-death-penalty-for-convicted-alturas-mass-shooter-cherie-rhoades/249624232...
WASHINGTON – As part of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s nationwide tour to highlight the progress that has been made during the last eight years to restore the nation-to-nation relationship with Native Americans and Alaska Natives, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor joined leaders of the Navajo Nation today to announce that sales from the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program) have exceeded $1 billion. “The significant accomplishments we are announcing today come as a direct result of the close natio...
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council asked Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp organizers to share their plans for camp cleanup and other issues in an effort to address unsubstantiated rumors. “I think that’s what should be afforded to my community in Cannon Ball; they need to know what’s going on on a month-to-month basis,” said Councilman Cody Two Bears during a meeting between the council and camp leaders that was live-streamed on Thursday. With record snowfall, the council is looking ahead to possible spring flooding. The council express...
In December 2016, the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) denied an easement that would have permitted the company Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) to complete one of the final segments of the 1,100-mile Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which seeks to connect the oil fields of North Dakota with terminals and refineries in Illinois. The denial of ACE’s easement is undoubtedly a victory for the Standing Rock Sioux. The tribe and its allies in the #NoDAPL movement opposed the pipeline over risks to water quality, the destruction of cultural heritage and t...
The North Dakota Public Service Commission is defending its complaint against Dakota Access Pipeline in connection with the disturbance of a tribal site. The wealthy backers of the pipeline already admitted that construction crews dug up tribal artifacts and waited 10 days to notify the state. But they have insisted they can't be forced to pay a $15,000 fine because the disturbance was not intentional. The commission has since responded to the firm's attempt to avoid accountability. A December 16 memo, first reported by the Associated Press,...
A 58-year-old woman is accused of abusing her elderly mother while the two resided at the Oceti Sakowin camp last fall. Kathleen Bennett, of Las Vegas, is charged in Morton County with endangering a vulnerable adult, a felony, from Oct. 1 to Dec. 17. The alleged abuse was reported to authorities on Dec. 17, when paramedics in the camp called EMS after finding the elderly woman hypothermic in a cold and cluttered teepee, according to a police affidavit filed with the complaint. She was taken to CHI St. Alexius Health hospital, and staff found...
President Trump had the blueprint down for ending tribal sovereignty long before he went into politics. My hope was that we would be so far down his priority list that he would not get around to us. A column by my colleague Lynn Armitage tells me that was a vain hope. She quotes Deswood Tome as asserting that our statutory citizenship is different than constitutional citizenship to our detriment. That was once true in one sense. It could be taken away. It was conferred without our request and it theoretically could be taken back in a similar...
The Bad River Tribal Council Wednesday passed a formal resolution to not renew easement rights-of-way for the Enbridge Energy Line 5 crude oil pipeline through the Bad River Reservation. The resolution also called for the decommissioning and removal of the pipeline from all Bad River lands and watershed. Formerly known as Lakehead Pipeline Company, Enbridge sought renewal of rights of way with the Band for the existing line, which was first built in 1953. http://www.apg-wi.com/ashland_daily_press/news/bad-river-tribal-counci...
FOLEY, Ala. — “Owa” is the Muskogee Creek word for “big water,” but now it is also the name of South Alabama’s newest coming family attraction. On Wednesday, the Poach Band of Creek Indians announced their intention to develop a new entertainment complex in the city of Foley that will include a themed amusement park, a 150-room Marriott Town Place Suites hotel, and dozens of shops and restaurants. According to a report from The Pulse, the project is expected to have a massive economic impact on South Alabama. It is estimated to create 3,50...
With more than four times the required number of signatures needed to invoke a Tribal Referendum pursuant to Article IX of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Constitution, the Tribal Board of Directors is now constitutionally bound to submit to Tribal voters whether to "Approve" or "Disapprove" the Tribal Board of Directors actions on December 13, 2016 to rescind the delegation of authority of Sault Tribe Chairperson Aaron Payment. "While referenda can be confusing, I am urging Tribal voters to cast their ballot to disapprove the...
