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There will be no reprieve, no candy hearts, for children hoping their principal might drop plans to cancel Valentine's Day festivities at Bruce Vento Elementary in St. Paul. But if Principal Scott Masini knows his school community as well as his high-profile supporters maintained at a school board meeting Tuesday night, the disappointment will not be widespread. In the past two weeks, district leaders have been besieged with critical emails after a letter that Masini planned to send to families announcing an end to celebrations of "dominant...
An estimated 700 people packed Coffman Memorial Union at the University of Minnesota Tuesday to oppose draconian retirement cuts proposed by the Teamsters’ Central States Pension Plan. One by one the Teamsters, many of them retired, stepped to the microphone to ask the U.S. Treasury to reject the cuts and find a different solution to the sea of red ink threatening to swallow the giant retirement fund. “We worked hard for our money,” said Teamster Dennis Henderson, of North St. Paul. http://www.startribune.com/riled-teamsters...
Mayo researchers have discovered a new strain of Lyme disease that is raising concerns because it does not produce the bull’s-eye rash that typically alerts people to the condition. The culprit is a new species of bacteria found in the Upper Midwest and reported in the online medical journal, the Lancet Infectious Diseases. “It was a fortuitous discovery,” said Dr. Bobbi Pritt, director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. “We weren’t setting out to find a new organism.” http://www.startribune...
Jurors have convicted a 35-year-old St. Paul man of recruiting for his sex-trafficking ring at least seven girls and women, one of whom turned him in after she was beaten and left at a hospital. Rashad R. Ivy was found guilty Tuesday of four counts of sex trafficking, three counts of soliciting prostitution and one count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct. Ivy will be sentenced in Ramsey County District Court on May 20, when “aggravating factors” could impact the punishment he is given. The jury found those factors to be that he was the...
The next time you consider buying a lottery ticket, don’t. Stop supporting a system based on empty promises and misguided dreams. With almost three decades of lottery history in Minnesota, it is clear that the promise to provide extra funding for the environment has not been delivered. The lottery is hurting people, and the money isn’t going where we thought it would. Continuing it is immoral and unethical. The Legislature introduced us to the lottery in 1989. The idea was sold as a voluntary, supplemental source of revenue for oth...
The highest honors bestowed by the Minneapolis Police Department were presented Tuesday to a militarily trained security guard who fended off a knife-wielding attacker and saved the victim’s life in the process and to two uniformed officers who dodged bullets in a bustling downtown scene and arrested the gunmen. Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau said during a City Hall ceremony that the awards are only a “small snapshot” of the heroics she sees everyday. The chief stressed the theme of officers and civilians alike putting others’ safety a...
Authorities are still seeking help with identifying a man found dead inside a Rosemount railroad shed more than a year ago. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner released facial reconstruction images of the “John Doe” who was found inside a utility shed near downtown Rosemount in September 2014. “It’s been two years. … Somebody at some point knew his name. Now it’s about putting a face out there that somebody may recognize,” said Shawn Wilson, operations manager with the the Medical Examiner’s office. http://www.startribune.c...
Guns, drugs and motor vehicle crashes account for half the life-expectancy gap between men in the United States and other high-income countries, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. For years, it’s been known that U.S. life expectancy trails that of people in other high-income countries, despite the fact that the U.S. spends more on health care per person than any other nation in the world. American men die at 76 years of age and American women at 81, about 2.2 years earlier than their c...
A teenage driver, who defied the pleas of a passenger to stop texting while driving, has pleaded guilty to texting when she ran a red light and rammed her pickup truck into a van in Sherburne County, killing the other driver and his 10-year-old daughter. Carlee R. Bollig, 17, of Little Falls, Minn., pleaded guilty Friday in District Court to two counts of criminal-vehicular homicide in the July 21 crash that killed Charles P. Maurer, 54, of Becker, and his daughter Cassy. Once authorities had exposed as a lie the initial explanation that her...
FARMINGTON — A Navajo lawmaker is seeking authorization for the Navajo Nation to submit an application in the hopes of receiving a Promise Zone designation. The Promise Zone is a federal initiative the Obama Administration started in 2013 that focuses on people who live in high poverty in urban, rural and tribal communities. http://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/navajo-nation/2016/02/08/navajo-nation-seeks-promise-zone-designation/80013612/...
LINCOLN — Activists seeking closure of the liquor stores in the notorious border town of Whiteclay, Nebraska, disclosed Tuesday that they’ve asked President Barack Obama to intervene. Frank LaMere, a Winnebago tribal member who was among the first to complain about the beer sales at Whiteclay, said that a letter he wrote was handed to an aide of the president at his recent appearance in Omaha. http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/activists-seeking-closure-of-whiteclay-liquor-stores-ask-president-obama/article_0022b666-7951-556...
LINCOLN — A committee appointed by Gov. Pete Ricketts to explore problems associated with beer sales in the unincorporated village of Whiteclay, Nebraska, held its first meeting last week. Ricketts, who was traveling in northwest Nebraska, attended the Feb. 1 meeting. Taylor Gage, the governor’s spokesman, said previous attempts to address challenges at Whiteclay were led by outsiders, but the new committee is made up of local leaders whom the governor encouraged to “work together on local solutions.” http://www.omaha.com/ne...
With its South Louisiana homeland sinking into the Gulf of Mexico, the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians has announced plans to resettle the chronically flooded community using a $48 million grant won in the National Disaster Resilience Competition (NDRC) a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and The Rockefeller Foundation, a private philanthropy. "This award will allow our Tribe to design and develop a new, culturally appropriate and resilient site for our community,...
Wallace Coffey stepped down as chairman of the Comanche Nation on Friday after leading the Oklahoma tribe for a total of 25 years. Coffey served six terms from 1992 to 2000, 2000 to 2006 and 2012 to the present. "I am grateful to have had the opportunity to serve our people all these years," Coffey said in a press release. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/020304.asp...
Remember the song, “I Fought the Law” by The Bobby Fuller Four, and later, by The Clash? Turns out the law wins even more frequently if you’re a Native American.fought_law_law_won-300x300 A former federal prosecutor and state judge have said that American Indians get harsher penalties than other defendants convicted of similar crimes. Samuel Winder, a member of the Southern Ute tribe, points toward the Major Crimes Act of 1885 as the main culprit for the disparity. Congress passed the act after a dispute arose over jurisdiction over crime...
The high profile court case of Kevin and Tammy Goforth, where a jury found the two guilty in the death of a four-year-old girl and of causing bodily harm to her younger sister, was not the first case to negatively reflect the province's social services system. During the testimony a child protection worker said the girls lived in seven different homes before they were moved to the Goforth's home. After the jury's decisions were read, Kevin Goforth's lawyer told reporters that social services "attempted to deflect responsibility for how they...
Access to healthy food is a social justice and public health issue. But it is a concern that receives far less attention than other systemic forms of inequity — like police misconduct or mass incarceration — despite the ways food insecurity wreaks havoc on the bodies of vulnerable populations in the U.S. Money, proximity to grocery stores and even the recipes used to prepare food are often determinants for lower or higher rates of mortality, especially in urban and rural areas where access to healthy food is limited — areas often refer...
TOWER — A new and troubling addiction is becoming a scourge on the Bois Forte Reservation, just as it is attacking communities across the region, state and nation. Alcoholism has “weakened Indian Country” in the past,” Bois Forte Tribal Chairman Kevin Leecy recently said in his State of the Band speech to Band members. “Today there is another epidemic. Prescription drugs, heroin, and meth are new smallpox blankets and — if left unchecked — they will destroy our communities.” The tribal chairman said the Band will attack the “epidemic,” not...
A federal convict who escaped from a Rapid City halfway house in December was fatally shot last week during a struggle that left a tribal police officer wounded on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Raymond Walter Gassman died at the scene of the struggle last week, according to a news release from Rosebud Sioux Tribe Law Enforcement Services. The death and the officer wounding were previously confirmed by the FBI, but Gassman’s name had been withheld. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/fatally-shot-rosebud-man-was-escapee-...
An ongoing grant from the John and Sophie Ottens Foundation is supporting the recruitment of more Native American students into Northern Arizona University health programs, and also preparing physical education majors to take jobs at reservation schools. The foundation has awarded the College of Health and Human Services $16,600 for 2015-16, the third year of funding. The foundation supports the education and career goals of Native American students in becoming health professionals, teachers and social workers. http://news.n...
