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Articles from the April 13, 2022 edition


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  • Continued partnership: Bemidji City Council holds joint meeting with Red Lake

    Apr 13, 2022

    BEMIDJI - Representatives of the Red Lake Tribal Council, along with other members of the Red Lake government, met with the Bemidji City Council in a joint session on Monday. The April 11 meeting was held to facilitate discussion about shared challenges and where collaboration and partnership can be improved. After an opening blessing ceremony, a heavy topic marked the initial conversation. Glenda Martin, Red Lake representative of Ponemah, brought forward the ongoing concern of missing and...

  • Francis E. Redroad

    Apr 13, 2022

    Francis E. Redroad October 19, 1953 - April 10, 2022 Francis G. Redroad, 68 of St. Michael ND passed away on Sunday, April 10, 2022 at his home. A Wake will be held on Monday, April 18, 2022 at the Tekakwitha Center, St. Michael beginning at 5:00 p.m. The procession to St. Michael will leave on Monday at 4:00 p.m. from City Plaza. The Funeral Service will be at 10:00 a.m. also at the Tekakwitha Center with Richard Street officiating. Burial and Military Honors will be at St. Michael's Cemetery....

  • Minnesota could face 'alarming' health care worker shortage within five years

    Apr 13, 2022

    Minnesota could face a dire health care worker shortage in the near future if the state does not do more to recruit and retain workers, according to a Health Department report released Tuesday. The report based on surveys of state health care workers found burnout could lead to "alarming" workforce losses, particularly in rural Minnesota. About one in five rural health providers said they plan to leave their profession in the next five years, with the largest projected losses to be among...

  • Minneapolis high school students walk out of class early to protest schedule changes

    Apr 13, 2022

    Several dozen students walked out of Patrick Henry High School in Minneapolis at 3:10 p.m. - their school's typical dismissal time. The group, along with students at other high schools across the city, left class early on Tuesday to protest the 42 minutes added to their school day. That schedule change went into effect this week as a way to make up for learning time lost during the teachers strike, which stretched for nearly three weeks in March. The added time, as well as tacking on an...

  • Strong winds buffet southern Minnesota, blow over semis on I-35

    Apr 13, 2022

    Strong winds from a storm that moved through the Faribault area Tuesday afternoon toppled several semitrailer trucks on Interstate 35. Later Tuesday, a line of severe thunderstorms from Owatonna to Morristown traveled through southcentral Minnesota just before 8 p.m. The National Weather Service issued tornado watches for much of southern Minnesota on Tuesday evening. A tornado watch was in effect in southcentral Minnesota until 10 p.m., and in southeast Minnesota until midnight....

  • A building in Rochester sets record for Minnesota's most expensive apartment sale

    Apr 13, 2022

    The 350-unit Berkman Apartments in Rochester fetched $536,000 per unit - a record amount for an apartment building in Minnesota - after a bidding war among investors from around the world. CBRE Investment Management paid more than $187 million to the Berkman's developers, Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors and Alatus, the firms said Tuesday. The 14-story building opened in 2020 across the street from the Mayo Clinic's St. Marys campus and less than a mile from Mayo's downtown campus....

  • St. Paul school board lifts school mask mandate

    Apr 13, 2022

    Students in St. Paul will no longer be required to wear masks in classrooms, starting Monday, as long as the spread of COVID-19 remains in check. The school board on Tuesday changed the district's mask policy, removing the mandate and allowing students and faculty to choose whether or not to don a face covering in public schools. The resolution passed 6-1 during a sometimes raucous committee of the board meeting as about two dozen demonstrators at times interrupted the proceedings. Board Member...

  • After pleas for leniency, mosque bombers receive 16-, 14-year sentences

    Apr 13, 2022

    Following a rare display of both victims and prosecutors advocating mercy, U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank sentenced two Illinois men Tuesday to 14 and 16 years in federal prison for bombing Bloomington's Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center in 2017. Frank said the "substantial assistance" of Michael McWhorter, 33, and Joe Morris, 26 - including testifying against Emily Claire Hari, their "White Rabbits" militia leader - permitted him to render penalties that each amounted to less than half of the...

  • Putin vows to press invasion until Russia's goals are met

    Apr 13, 2022

    KYIV, Ukraine - Vladimir Putin vowed Tuesday that Russia's bloody offensive in Ukraine would continue until its goals are fulfilled and insisted the campaign was going as planned, despite a major withdrawal in the face of stiff Ukrainian opposition and significant losses. Russian troops, thwarted in their push toward Ukraine's capital, are now focusing on the eastern Donbas region, where Ukraine said Tuesday it was investigating a claim that a poisonous substance had been dropped on its troops....

  • Biden: Russia war a 'genocide,' trying to 'wipe out' Ukraine

    Apr 13, 2022

    DES MOINES, Iowa - President Joe Biden on Tuesday said Russia's war in Ukraine amounted to "genocide," accusing President Vladimir Putin of trying to "wipe out the idea of even being a Ukrainian." "Yes, I called it genocide," he told reporters in Iowa shortly before boarding Air Force One to return to Washington. "It's become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being a Ukrainian." At an earlier event in Menlo, Iowa, addressing spiking energy prices...

  • South Dakota attorney general impeached over fatal crash

    Apr 13, 2022

    PIERRE, S.D. - The South Dakota House on Tuesday impeached state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg over a 2020 car crash in which he killed a pedestrian but initially said he might have struck a deer or another large animal. Ravnsborg, a Republican, is the first official to be impeached in South Dakota history. He will at least temporarily be removed from office pending the historic Senate trial, where it takes a two-thirds majority to convict on impeachment charges. The Senate must wait at...

  • Activists call for policy change after 10-year-old, other minors handcuffed by Maplewood police

    Apr 13, 2022

    Maplewood police handcuffed four minors - including a 10-year-old - for an incident they were later cleared of, igniting activists' concerns on how police handle youth. Two 12-year-olds, a 16-year-old and the 10-year-old were placed in handcuffs Monday evening about 20 minutes after they were approached by police, according to Maplewood Police Lt. Joe Steiner during a news conference Tuesday. About 20 minutes later, officers cleared the minors of the crime and released them, according to...

  • Manhunt under way for gunman in NYC subway shooting that injured at least 23

    Apr 13, 2022

    NEW YORK, April 12 (Reuters) - Police mounted an intense manhunt on Tuesday for a gunman who set off two smoke bombs and opened fire in a New York subway car, injuring more than 20 people in a morning rush-hour attack that prompted new calls to fight violence in the city's transit system. Police said the gunman was believed to have acted alone and immediately fled the crime scene. The attack unfolded as a Manhattan-bound subway train on the N line was pulling into an underground station in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood. Ten people were...

  • Court grants Attorney General Ellison's petition for court supervision of Feeding Our Future's dissolution

    Apr 13, 2022

    April 12, 2022 (SAINT PAUL) — Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that Dakota County District Court has granted his petition seeking court supervision over Feeding Our Future’s finances and operations while it dissolves. In an order filed yesterday, the Court ordered that Feeding Our Future is subject to the supervision of the Court and ordered that it take initial steps for supervision, including preparing financial statements, inventorying its assets and liabilities, and providing ongoing transparency to the Court. The Court will ass...

  • Interior Department Helps Launch Rural Infrastructure Tour, Continues Implementing Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

    Apr 13, 2022

    WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior made a series of announcements recently that underscore how the Biden-Harris administration is working to deliver results and get funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law out the door to rural and Tribal communities. Secretary Deb Haaland visited Colorado yesterday to highlight these investments and help launch the Biden-Harris administration’s Building A Better America rural infrastructure tour, which will spotlight how infrastructure investments from President Biden’s Biparti...

  • MDH report highlights need for retaining and recruiting health care workforce

    Apr 13, 2022

    Results from a Minnesota Department of Health survey confirm health care worker burnout and show workforce shortage trends are affecting a wide range of health care professionals. The report, Minnesota’s Health Care Workforce: Pandemic-Provoked Workforce Exits, Burnout, and Shortages (PDF), is the first report of its kind covering the effects of the pandemic on most of the licensed health care workforce in Minnesota. It is based on the MDH health care workforce survey, which is administered at the time of license renewal for “front-line” provi...

  • Higher Education Enrollment Down

    Apr 13, 2022

    Significantly fewer Native students have headed to higher education in the past 12 years. That's part of a broader national trend - National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data show a steady decline in the overall number of American students entering higher education since 2012 - but the drop has been much more drastic. The National Center for Education Statistics estimates that the number of Native students in American colleges and universities fell from 196,000 in 2010 to below 130,000...

  • RESPECT Act Held in Committee by Request from National Congress of American Indians

    Apr 13, 2022

    On April 6, the House Committee on Natural Resources was scheduled to hear a series of bill markups including the RESPECT Act-a Democratic-led bill that codifies the federal government and all of its agencies to consult with federally recognized tribes. However, Indianz.com reported that the bill was flagged by Democratic staff in the committee pointed to an issue that will likely be contested on the floor-the inclusion of Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs) and Native Hawaiian organizations....

  • Senecas push against New York in gaming dispute

    Apr 13, 2022

    The Seneca Nation has been engaged in a five-year long gaming dispute with New York state that got real ugly the last weekend of March. On an especially cold and wintry late March Saturday, when a good number of Senecas were happily headed to KeyBank Center to celebrate Native American Heritage Day at a Buffalo Bandits lacrosse game, the Seneca Nation’s financial world came to an abrupt, head-spinning, heart-seizing, screeching halt. New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul, a native Western New Yorker, put the screws to the Senecas by ordering the n...

  • How to Grocery Shop Amid Inflation

    Apr 13, 2022

    Shoppers are looking for ways to stretch their dollars further amid rising inflation. Food prices are up 8.8 percent compared to March 2021, according to the latest Consumer Price Index report. Carlson School of Management Professor Joe Redden is an expert in marketing strategies and consumption. He shares five ways to be a savvier shopper as stores respond to inflationary pressures. Joe Redden, Ph.D. "As prices increase, shoppers' overall budgets are going to tighten. Some items, like fresh...

  • Hiring Opportunities with Minnesota's Second Chance Workforce

    Apr 13, 2022

    Workforce Wednesday is an opportunity for Minnesota employers to come together and share their stories and strategies on how they're addressing current workforce challenges. These sessions take place the first Wednesday of every month. April's discussion focused on strategies for engaging with our Second Chance workforce, who are people with a criminal record. Here are some of the key takeaways we heard from our panel. For employers interested in engaging with our second chance workforce, how...

  • Ponemah Preschoolers visit the Sugar Bush

    Apr 13, 2022

    Ponemah Preschoolers visit the Sugar Bush...

  • Warrior Boy's and Girl's Basketball Teams' Banquet held at RLHS - P5

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Apr 13, 2022

    Warrior Boy's and Girl's Basketball Teams' Banquet held at Red Lake High School on Wednesday, April 6, 2022....

  • Ground Breaking Ceremony held at new O-Bah-Shiing Pow Wow Grounds in Ponemah - P7

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Apr 13, 2022

    PONEMAH, MN - At about 10:30 AM on Monday, April 4, 2022, a Ground Breaking Ceremony was held at the site of the new O-Bah-Shiing Pow Wow Grounds in Ponemah. Speaking at the event was Red Lake Tribal Chairman Darrell Seki, Sr., Tribal Secretary Sam Strong, Tribal Treasurer Annette Johnson, Ponemah Representative Gary Nelson and Hereditary Chief James Loud. Chairman Seki thanked President Biden and Congress for the funds Tribes received this year to help build the structure, which would be a...

  • TMC -The Movement Continues and X-Factor, Men's and Women's Champions at Warrior Challenge - P13

    Apr 13, 2022

    TMC -The Movement Continues and X-Factor, were the Men's and Women's Champions at the Red Lake Nation Warrior Challenge Basketball Tournament this weekend, which began on Friday, April 1st and ended on Sunday, April 3rd, 2022. In the Men's division, MWP-Midwest Posse took 2nd place, Plainzmen 3rd place and Lower Sioux 4th place. In the Women's division, Burning Feathers took 2nd place and Razor Sharp took 3rd place, VIDEO: https://youtu.be/gQqOezN2wNw VIDEO: https://youtu.be/TYt8XMppb1E Women's...

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