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The number of paid workers' compensation claims fell 53 percent relative to the number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) employees from 1997 to 2015, according to the 2015 Minnesota Workers’ Compensation System Report, just released by the Department of Labor and Industry. Significant findings • The number of paid claims fell from 8.7 per 100 FTE employees in 1997 to 4.1 in 2015. • The cost of the workers' compensation system for 2015 amounted to $1.28 per $100 of payroll. In Minnesota and elsewhere, this cost follows a multi-year insurance prici...
Minnesota stands to lose $80 million in public health funding over the next five years under the new congressional GOP health care bill, a fact obscured in the larger debate that the measure has sparked over private insurance coverage and government health care programs for the poor. The American Health Care Act, which passed two U.S. House committees since its introduction last Monday, would cut $1 billion annually from the nation’s public health system, money that is the core source of funding for childhood immunization programs, lead poi...
A Minneapolis Health Department sweep of licensed adult entertainment establishments confirmed the presence of bodily fluids at about a dozen downtown venues, raising health and safety concerns and prompting department officials to push for updated enforcement measures. The health department sent letters to 11 business owners last week to notify them that their property had been declared a public health nuisance under Minnesota law. Another three business owners received letters saying samples collected at their establishments were suspected...
WASHINGTON — The House intelligence committee is asking the Trump administration for evidence that the phones at Trump Tower were tapped during the campaign as its namesake has charged, a request reinforced Sunday by an influential Republican senator who says the president must either come up with the evidence or retract his claim. "I think the president has one of two choices: either retract or to provide the information that the American people deserve, because, if his predecessor violated the law, President Obama violated the law, we have g...
Legislative politics hit the road Sunday as Republican and DFL lawmakers stood at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport publicly urging one another to acquiesce to their solutions to Minnesota's Real ID problem. Elected officials are running out of time to reach an agreement before a January 2018 deadline to comply with a federal law intended to tighten security of driver's licenses and other forms of identification — known as Real ID — or Minnesotans will have to use a passport, a special enhanced driver's license or some other acc...
Utah is on the verge of becoming the first state to lower the maximum legal blood-alcohol content for drivers to 0.05 percent. State lawmakers passed a measure last week to lower the limit from 0.08 percent. Currently, all 50 states have a 0.08 percent cap. http://www.startribune.com/utah-set-to-lead-nation-with-the-lowest-dwi-threshold/415990464/...
NEW YORK – During spring break, Canadian families used to pile the kids into a tour bus and head to New York to see the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center and other attractions. It was the start of the busy season for Comfort Tour, a Toronto-based company that usually brought between 200 and 300 tourists to New York in March. This year, 11 people have signed up. http://www.startribune.com/foreign-tourists-hear-horror-stories-decide-not-to-visit-u-s/415993644/...
Maranatha is back in familiar territory. The Class 1A, No. 6-ranked Mustangs advanced to the girls' basketball state tournament for the eighth consecutive year with a 79-73 victory over Lester Prairie/Holy Trinity in the Section 4 championship Friday night at Anoka-Ramsey Community College. They have been the state tournament runner-up each of the past two seasons. Sophomore guard Breianna Smestad scored 21 points to lead four Maranatha players in double figures. Senior guard Steph Lohse had a game-high 23 points for Lester Prairie/Holy...
Sheaffer said many of the protesters lived at Standing Rock reservation, the controversial site of the Dakota Access pipeline which would carry crude oil more than 1,000 miles through four states from North Dakota to Iowa. The Water Walk for Life was a walk in solidarity with those still at Standing Rock, he said. “The movement at Standing Rock, specifically, is gearing up for a whole different kind of water protection," Sheaffer said. “We’re getting ready. We’re creating a coalition, we’re creating resilience to go forward to fight for water...
“I am so saddened at the amount of prejudice on this art that brought our indigenous communities together,” Las Vegas Paiute Tribe member and activist Fawn Douglas said Saturday. But graffiti investigators with the Metropolitan Police Department are not treating the tagging as a hate crime, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Grant Rogers said. http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2017/03/vandals-deface-dakota-access-pipeline.html...
The root causes of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls epidemic — and possible solutions — are on the agenda as Manitobans head to New York for a presentation to a United Nations conference. Sheila North Wilson, grand chief of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, is one of five people that will speak about the risks facing Indigenous Canadians transitioning from life on a rural reserve to life in an urban environment. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-delegation-new-york-conference-1.4020393...
PREWITT, N.M. (AP) - A police officer from the nation's largest American Indian reservation was shot early Sunday as he responded to a domestic violence call in western New Mexico and died hours later, federal officials said. Navajo Nation Officer Houston James Largo, 27, died after being critically wounded near the small town of Prewitt, said Frank A. Fisher, an FBI spokesman in Albuquerque. The agency, which is investigating along with the tribe, said a suspect was in custody, but no other details were released. http://www...
Conservative Senator Lynn Beyak's defence of the residential school system for Aboriginal children has left a Manitoba survivor feeling hurt and calling for her resignation. "It really, really hurts me," Theodore Fontaine said on CBC's Information Radio on Friday. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/residential-school-survivor-responds-beyak-1.4019145...
I wrote a couple of days ago that the House bill doesn’t mention a word about the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. True enough. Because, it turns out, the proposed replacement for Affordable Care Act is not a complete repeal. The current law would remain in tact. “The two proposed bills do not repeal the ACA. They leave in place the ACA’s titles affecting Medicare, quality of care, program integrity, biosimilars, workforce reform, the Indian Health Service—indeed virtually all of the ACA except for its insurance affordability provisi...
A Manitoba First Nation band council that has only been in office for two days may be ousted after a new court-ordered election takes place Sunday. Roseau River is an Anishinaabe community located about 90 kilometres south of Winnipeg. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/roseau-river-election-protest-1.4021102...
With numbers from Interior Health showing 20 per cent of illicit drug overdoses occurring in people who identify as First Nations, Secwepmc elders and chiefs in B.C.'s Interior have declared a state of emergency over the fentanyl crisis. The health authority's numbers include fatal and non fatal overdoses http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-interior-elders-and-chiefs-declare-state-of-emergency-over-fentanyl-1.4019797...
WHEATFIELDS, ARIZONA – If the poster about how it’s illegal to hock federal-program-acquired baby formula on the black market doesn’t distract you, you’ll probably get an earful of other clients’ business at the Women, Infants, and Children Program office in Wheatfields, Arizona. Located inside two attached hogans south of the chapter house, the office space and the amount of equipment in storage makes it impossible to separate clients waiting in the office from clients being served by WIC staff, according to supervisor and principal nutrition...
"We exist. We resist. We rise." This powerful statement was boldly brought to the White House, through protest signs and spirit, on March 10 as part of the Native Nations Rise protests. Thousands of Native Americans from tribes across North America marched to the White House to rally for Indigenous rights and environmental protection. The protest was in response to President Donald Trump's recent actions targeting Indigenous populations. http://mashable.com/2017/03/11/native-nations-rise-protest/#lDC6nvWZESqD...
WHITECLAY, Neb. — It’s the first of the month and a steady stream of traffic rolls into this dusty village of fewer than a dozen residents. Business is brisk at the town’s grocery store and clothing outlet, and its two cafes and four liquor stores. http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/if-you-can-t-beat-em-buy-em-nearly-years/article_cdd0599c-4467-5910-ae6e-8e6fc3050897.html...
Indian country is known far and wide for honoring its Native veterans. Yet, not all tribes have equal capability to get their veteran tribal members access to VA benefits. “A lot of tribes are in remote areas, so a lot of veterans out in these spaces don’t have access to veteran’s service offices,” said Peter Vicaire (Mi’gmaw), a specialist with the VA Office of Tribal Government Relations. “Or, they choose not to work with veteran’s service officers because of cultural barriers or a cultural preference not to.” https://indianc...
Joe Fineday eats lunch in the American Indian Education room at Cloquet High School most days. He gets help when he needs it, but it's also a quiet place to plug away on homework. The 18-year-old member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa already lives on his own and is set to join the welding program at St. Cloud Technical and Community College next year. What drives him? http://www.pinejournal.com/news/4231543-credit-cloquets-high-native-american-graduation-rate-shared-students-teachers...
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BRAINERD — Whether a federal or state judge should preside over the case of two Native American treaty rights activists charged with illegally setting a gill net in a Minnesota lake in 2015 remains undecided. The Minnesota Court of Appeals remanded the matter back to Crow Wing County District Court earlier this week, after ruling the district court failed to "make factual findings and to address the submissions by the parties." The district court requested a review from the appeals court to determine courtroom jurisdiction of the netting c...
HORTON — A former Kickapoo Tribal Council official has been found guilty of fraud and misuse of tribal funds, a news release from the council said Friday. Bobbi Darnell, former treasurer for the Kickapoo Tribe, was convicted of six criminal counts. Complaints alleged Darnell and two other former tribal council officials acted to draw money from the tribe’s federal burial fund, then falsified resolutions showing the tribal council action was for a much larger amount. http://cjonline.com/news/crime-courts/2017-03-10/former-kic...
A Pine Ridge woman charged in the strangling death of another woman on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation last year pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in federal court today. Elizabeth Ann LeBeau, 24, admitted to holding down Bluebird’s hands as she was being strangled by LeBeau’s boyfriend following an argument at the man’s home in January 2016. Second-degree murder is punishable by up to life in prison. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/pine-ridge-woman-pleads-guilty-in-emily-bluebird-s-murder/article_cf681750-d30c...
