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BEMIDJI-- A symposium on climate change on Tuesday at BSU emphasized that not only are weather patterns already changing, but they're also affecting northern Minnesota—more so than other areas of the country. The convening was put on by "Climate Minnesota," a two-year public education project organized by the Will Steger Foundation, itself named for famous explorer and environmental advocate Will Steger. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/3722871-climate-change-means-more-extreme-weather-bemidji...
Backers of a professional soccer stadium who made their first appearance at the Capitol on Tuesday to press for a comparatively small taxpayer subsidy were met with stiff and bipartisan skepticism among legislative leaders. Dr. Bill McGuire, who owns the Minnesota United FC, said the group is seeking a property tax exemption and a sales tax break on construction materials for the new stadium near the Minneapolis Farmers Market. The new stadium would host about 20 professional games a year. http://www.startribune.com/politics...
April 15. Tax day, and the day upon which Vikings running back Adrian Peterson is eligible for his NFL reinstatement. The former is a definite. The latter is anything but, according to NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, who sent this e-mail reminder of Peterson’s vague timetable when asked Tuesday if the league would be removing the former NFL MVP from the commissioner’s exempt list Wednesday: “Here is what we said regarding April 15 when we announced his suspension [last fall],” Aiello wrote. “Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings was notified...
HONOLULU — Tom Gray's family has waited for more than 70 years to bring home the remains of his cousin who was killed in the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. On Tuesday, they got a step closer when the military announced it would exhume and attempt to identify the remains of almost 400 sailors and Marines from the USS Oklahoma who were buried as unknowns after the war. Gray's cousin, Edwin Hopkins, of Swanzey, New Hampshire, was a 19-year-old fireman third class on board the USS Oklahoma when the battleship was hit by nine torpedoes a...
A new office building for state senators is rising quickly from the ground across the street from the State Capitol and is on track for completion this year, but political controversy surrounding its construction continues to reverberate at the Legislature. “It’s one gorgeous view,” Rich Bistodeau, senior superintendent for construction firm Mortenson Construction, said Tuesday during a media tour of the building site. Bistodeau was standing on the third floor looking toward the Capitol in the foreground, and a sweeping vista of St. Paul in th...
Oak Park Heights police are investigating a suspicious death after discovering a body in a townhome Tuesday while conducting a welfare check requested by family members who hadn’t heard from the person. On Sunday, officers were dispatched to the housing complex on the 14600 block of 62nd Street to check on someone who loved ones were unable to reach. When the person was not found inside the home, police began a missing person investigation. http://www.startribune.com/local/east/299786651.html...
NEW YORK — Remember those declarations that teens are done with Facebook? Think again. Facebook remains the most used social media site among American teens ages 13 to 17, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. And, surprisingly, boys visit the site more often than girls. Aided hugely by smartphones and other mobile devices, 71 percent of teens surveyed said they use Facebook, with the same percentage saying they use more than one social network of seven options they were asked about. http://www.startribune.c...
Embattled St. Francis Schools Superintendent Edward Saxton, accused of inflating enrollment numbers to collect additional state dollars for his district, resigned Monday after a settlement in which he’ll receive $150,000 in back sick leave, vacation and holiday pay. Saxton had been on paid leave since January 2014, collecting $186,000 in salary over those 15 months, as the district tried to fire him, resulting in a court battle. The settlement, approved Monday night by the St. Francis school board, includes dismissal of all pending l...
A review of recent stop-and-frisk encounters between Minneapolis police and citizens found that officers rarely gave reasons for stopping and searching people without arresting them, according to a new report by the Police Conduct Oversight Commission. The study, whose findings will be presented at the PCOC’s monthly meeting on Tuesday, comes amid growing criticism of the practice, in which officers stop people they reasonably believe are committing or about to commit a crime. Critics say the practice disproportionately targets ethnic minoritie...
Fast-food employees and other low-wage workers will take to the streets in Minneapolis and other major cities Wednesday to call for a $15 minimum wage, another step in a social movement that began three years ago to press for the biggest jump ever in the wage. A group called Fight for $15, led by a national committee in New York and backed by some of the nation’s biggest unions and progressive organizations, has drummed up support for higher wages and unionization through a combination of well-timed demonstrations, social media and o...
North Dakota’s oil output declined for the second consecutive month as just one new well was completed in February and some producers pumped less oil and gas to meet flaring rules, state officials said Tuesday. “It was an unusual event,” Lynn Helms, director of the North Dakota Mineral Resources Department, said of the back-to-back monthly decline in production, which last happened in 2011. Oil production in the state likely will fall through May because of the drop in the number of drilling rigs to 91 this month, less than half the numbe...
ATLANTA — All but one of 10 former Atlanta public school educators convicted in a widespread conspiracy to inflate student scores on standardized tests were sentenced to jail time Tuesday, and the judge called the cheating scandal "the sickest thing that's ever happened in this town." Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter had delayed sentencing by a day and encouraged all to negotiate deals with prosecutors. But only two agreed to deals. In both those cases, Baxter followed the state's recommendations: He gave a former teacher a 7 p...
WASHINGTON — Bowing to pressure from Republicans and his own party, President Barack Obama on Tuesday relented to a compromise empowering Congress to reject his emerging nuclear pact with Iran. The rare and reluctant agreement between the president and the Republican-led Congress came after the White House maintained for weeks that congressional interference could jeopardize sensitive negotiations with Tehran. But lawmakers refused to back down from their insistence that Congress have a formal role in what could be a historic deal to prevent I...
MINNEAPOLIS — David L. Pyle, a longtime bureau chief, news editor and reporter during his 33-year career with The Associated Press, has died. He was 61. Pyle, who worked for the news cooperative in five states, most of it as bureau chief in Minnesota and Wisconsin, died at his home Monday in the St. Paul suburb of Apple Valley, according to his son, Christopher Pyle. The Iowa native joined AP as a newsman in Omaha in 1979. He later worked in Dallas and Providence, Rhode Island, before moving in 1991 to Minneapolis, where he spent the last t...
CHEROKEE, N.C. -- A Tribal transportation worker was killed in a head-on wreck Tuesday morning. It happened about 8 a.m. along Highway 19 in the Birdtown community. Selena Taylor was getting ready for work when she heard the wreck. She left for work, but the road near Jenkins Grocery store was blocked by police. http://www.wlos.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/cherokee-transportation-worker-killed-headon-wreck-20556.shtml#.VS5Jx_Aeroh...
Native Americans are pressuring the Obama administration to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, warning the project could infringe on their water rights, harm sacred land and violate America’s treaty obligations. Tribes sent more than 100 pages of letters to the Interior Department earlier this year raising concerns about the project, which would carry oil sands from Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast. “Literally, thousands of sacred and cultural resources that are important to our life-ways and for our future generations will potentially be...
In 1889, the acting commissioner of Indian Affairs heard about a new railroad construction project that was under way, laying track on Swinomish land about 70 miles north of the city, without permission. He fired off a telegram to a federal employee in Seattle, but it was too late. A subsequent telegram from the federal agent shows that the railway company had already built 1,130 yards. The telegram couldn't halt the railway's construction, but it was stored away by the tribe until a tribal historian dug it up decades later. And now its...
"There was a body that was found in Oregon." Melissa Skunk's aunt, Sarah, has been missing for nearly thirty years. Her family has never stopped looking, and in the fall of last year, there was a new lead. The facial composite of an unidentified body found in Oregon looked just like Sarah. As Melissa tells As It Happens host Carol Off, "Everybody in our family said "'it's her.' It's her because the resemblance was so strong. The facial features and everything." The Nishnawbe-Aski police service came and collected a DNA sample from Melissa's...
FARMINGTON — The tribe's Supreme Court has denied motions filed by Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly and the Navajo Nation Council regarding the April 21 special election. An opinion signed Monday by Chief Justice Herb Yazzie, Associate Justice Eleanor Shirley and Associate Justice by Designation William J. Platero denies the council's March 24 motion, stating it was filed too late and after a formal decision had been rendered. The high court also denied Shelly's March 31 motion because his argument is "undercut" by the fact that he holds t...
Governor Dannel Malloy has struck back at a marketing campaign mounted by supporters of an Oklahoma Indian tribe after controversy over payday loans which charged illegal interest rates. In recent weeks, billboards featuring a Native American child and the slogan: “Governor Malloy don’t take away my future” have popped up in the state, alongside a similar social media and direct mail campaign. http://wnpr.org/post/connecticut-condemns-tribal-payday-lending-campaign...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's two federally recognized Indian tribes sided Monday with the state in a dispute with an Oklahoma-based tribe and its Internet payday loan companies. The Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians contends it has been attacked by Connecticut, which has fined the tribe's chairman and its business entities a total of $1.5 million for violating the state's cap on interest rates. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Connecticut-tribes-side-with-state-in-payday-loan-6197071.php...
TULALIP — A leadership breakfast here Friday was supposed to bring Snohomish County and Tulalip tribal governments closer together. Instead, fallout from the meeting has left tribal leaders worried about getting pulled into a festering political spat at the county, one that's now acquired racial overtones. The controversy came to light in a letter County Executive John Lovick hand-delivered Monday to County Council Chairman Dave Somers. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150414/NEWS01/150419481...
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is establishing a center to promote economic development on American Indian reservations. Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota said the Center for Indian Country Development will help reservations where economic development has lagged. "We plan this to be really a center for a bunch of community development operations within the Federal Reserve and more broadly, really thinking about analysis, convening and research of various kinds, I think, to help in this area," Kocherlakota said....
MESCALERO - When the archery program was started at the Mescalero Apache School, coach Godfrey Cordova never imagined the Apache Bowbenders would bring home the first state title in MAS history. On Feb. 28, Mescalero scored well above the required 3,050 team points to win the school's first state championship in Rio Rancho. Six archers placed in the Top 10 to give Mescalero a berth in the national tournament. Dalton Hamilton tallied a score of 270 to place second overall. http://www.alamogordonews.com/alamogordo-sports/ci_27...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- An Onondaga Nation man wanted on multiple warrants still hasn't turned himself in a week after he is accused of firing a gun near firefighters and police. But a nation chief said Tuesday that nation leaders are working to resolve the situation and get 26-year-old Corey Redmond to turn himself in to the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office. "We thought he would turn himself in; that didn't happen," said Sid Hill, who is the tadodaho, or spiritual leader, of the Onondaga people. http://www.syracuse.com/crime/inde...
