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St. Paul, Minnesota (June 1, 2016) – Transportation Forward, a coalition of transportation stakeholders statewide, released a statement today on Governor Dayton's proposal for a possible special session to deal with the legislature's unfinished work on the transportation. “We are encouraged that Governor Dayton and his administration is still committed to getting long-term, comprehensive, transportation funding done this year. Given the state’s urgent transportation needs covering multiple modes (e.g. bus, rail, bicycling, walking, roads...
Kenneth "Ken" Gordon Tejohn Born: Tue., Apr. 1, 1958 Died: Mon., May 30, 2016 Visitation 7:00 PM Wed., Jun. 01, 2016 Location: Veterans Memorial Building Traditional Native Service 11:00 AM Fri., Jun. 03, 2016 Location: Veterans Memorial Building Kenneth Gordon Tejohn, age 58, of Cass Lake, Minnesota began his spiritual journey unexpectedly on Monday, May 30th, 2016 from the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ken was born in Pike Bay Township in Cass Lake on April 1st,...
A pair of Bemidji State University students, Jacob Belina and Brent Hanson, have passed “Exam P,” a notoriously difficult probability test that will start the pair down a path to becoming certified associates of the Society of Actuaries. Actuaries are professional statisticians who measure and manage risk, with a specific eye toward the potential financial implications of projected future events. Actuaries combine knowledge of mathematics, statistics and business to develop plans for measuring and managing that risk. The society says there are...
BEMIDJI, Minn. – Residents and business owners are encouraged to attend an open house on Wednesday, June 15 to learn more about the 2017 resurfacing project on Highway 38 between Itasca County Road 19 near Pughole Lake to Marcell. The open house is being held this summer in order to make it more available to summer residents in the area. It will be held from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Marcell Family Center, 49103 Highway 38, Marcell. The meeting will be held as an open house with no formal presentation and everyone is welcome to come when it’s co...
Career Development Classes June 13th - July 21st, 2016 (6 week class) $150.00 dollar incentive for completing Please see your case manager to sign up For more information please contact: Karyn Jourdain 679-3350 ext. 2605...
TEMPE, Ariz., June 1, 2016 – Arizona State University and The College Board will host the annual Native American Student Advocacy Institute (NASAI) National Conference ASU’s Tempe Campus on June 6-7. The conference brings together education professionals from throughout the nation, forming new connections, collaborating, and sharing strategies and best practices to ensure American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian students achieve academic excellence. ASU President Michael Crow will address attendees, which include K-12 and college edu...
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT COOK/ASSISTANT COOK REGIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMPLEX Open: June 1, 2016 Closing: June 22, 2016 @ 3:00 p.m. PRIMARY FUNCTION: To provide nutritious meals for inmates by ensuring a safe, clean and sanitary environment, this position does not have supervisory responsibility. Reports to Administrator, full-time position, with benefits, salary; DOQ. ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES: • Responsible for supervising the development of specifications for procurement of food, e...
NOTTOWAY, Va. -- If you follow the railroad tracks about an hour southwest of Richmond, beyond rolling green fields dotted with yellow buds of spring, down wide and winding country roads, past faded barns, some overgrown with climbing weeds and others slumping towards earth, you'll find the Nottoway County School Board Office. The central office oversees the school district's 2,200 students, more than 30 percent of whom live in poverty. For a community with such an astounding concentration of poor children, it's done a good job preparing...
Does testing make for better teaching? The first major independent research study on a closely watched licensing test for teachers that measures classroom skills, the edTPA, has some mixed answers to that question. New teachers who passed the edTPA on their first try tended to boost their students' reading achievement more than those who didn't, according to the study, conducted by the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, or CALDER. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/06/01/study-on-per...
As the school year winds down, rural districts across the country are considering ways to make their schools more sustainable, which in many cases means closure and consolidation. An Education Week video that aired Tuesday on PBS NewsHour highlighted the consolidation debate in Vermont, where voters will decide next week whether to merge many of the state's small schools. Supporters say the new, larger schools will then be able to offer more classes and extracurricular activities to students, while opponents say small schools can give students...
PLUM, Pa. (AP) — The legal and emotional casualties keep piling up in a Pittsburgh suburb where two high school teachers have pleaded guilty to having sex with students, a third is awaiting trial and a fourth is charged with trying to intimidate one student victim by pointing her out in class. The atmosphere is so poisoned in the Plum Borough School District, a largely rural, upwardly middle-class bedroom community of roughly 27,000 people, that the senior class president told the superintendent to stay away from commencement ceremonies T...
BEMIDJI — For the third time in the past five years — but the first since 2013 — the Blackduck High School baseball team earned the right to call itself the Sub-Section 8A East champions. The Drakes (13-10) beat Fosston 18-5 during a rain-soaked five-inning game Wednesday afternoon at Bemidji State. “We struggled defensively a little in the beginning but we rallied, and we’re looking forward to continuing our run,” Drakes head coach Dwight Kalvig said. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/sports/4045862-prep-baseball-blackduck-wins...
BEMIDJI — Despite conditions that were hardly ideal for baseball — a wet field, howling wind and, occasionally, an in-your-face drop of rain — offense was not at a premium during the Sub-Section 8A East baseball game between Northome/Kelliher and Win-E-Mac on Wednesday afternoon at Bemidji State. With both teams desperate to stay alive in this losers’ bracket elimination game, each team was able to put some big innings on the scoreboard. But in the end, it was Win-E-Mac’s six-run bottom of the sixth that helped them seal the 16-9 victory a...
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday proposed voluntary guidelines for the food industry to reduce salt, a move long sought by consumer and public health advocates who said the standards could eventually help save thousands of American lives. Though the guidelines are not mandatory, consumer advocates said they are meaningful because they will serve as a benchmark by which companies can be measured. More than 70 percent of sodium consumed is already in food before it reaches the table, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...
Gov. Mark Dayton said Wednesday that his price for summoning state legislators back to St. Paul is nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in additional spending over the next three years, and almost as much in additional borrowing for public construction projects. Dayton’s list of spending and bonding demands primarily benefits public colleges and universities, transit in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, economic development initiatives and the state security hospital in St. Peter, along with a handful of smaller projects, including Fort S...
Two people were found dead at a Maplewood motel Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. Maplewood Police Chief Paul Schnell said officers received a welfare check call about 2 p.m. after someone at the Northernaire Motel off W. Maplewood Drive looked into a room and saw two people “appear to be unresponsive.” Police and fire responders found a man and a woman dead. Schnell said there were no immediate signs of trauma and it’s not clear what may have led to their deaths. http://www.startribune.com/2-people-found-dead-at-maplew...
The Minneapolis school board has paid $149,000 to find the district’s next superintendent, and the bills keep coming in, according to a breakdown of costs provided by the district. The total cost is expected to reach $200,000, making the search one of the most expensive in the country in recent years. Last week the board named outgoing Anchorage Superintendent Ed Graff its preferred candidate after a search that has lasted since January 2015. http://www.startribune.com/cost-of-minneapolis-schools-superintendent-search-tops-2...
The Teamsters' Central States Pension Fund looks all but certain to fail, crushing the retirement dreams of thousands of Minnesotans and many thousands more in other states. For a calamity like this, it's important to understand how the problem came about. Forget the conventional explanations, some version of union mismanagement of assets or unanticipated bear markets. http://www.startribune.com/schafer-why-the-central-states-pension-fund-is-doomed-to-fail/381592571/...
NEWARK, N.J. – Hillary Clinton on Wednesday seized upon revelations about Trump University, the for-profit institution started by Donald Trump, calling him a “fraud” who wants to rip off the country he is running to lead. In the first minutes of her speech at a rally here, Clinton brought up newly released testimony by former employees of what she called “the so-called Trump University,” telling the crowd, “You can’t make this up.” http://www.startribune.com/hillary-clinton-calls-donald-trump-a-fraud/381584371/...
Police services must take action on missing and murdered Indigenous women before the conclusion of a federal inquiry, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations told police chiefs Tuesday. "Don't wait for the recommendations. That's two years away," National Chief Perry Bellegarde told a reconciliation-inspired gathering of Canadian police chiefs, justice officials and Indigenous leaders in a Wednesday morning address at Winnipeg's Fairmont Hotel. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/bellegarde-police-chiefs-1.361...
WINNIPEG – The National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations says police should brace themselves for some blame in the upcoming inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women. Speaking to police chiefs from across the country meeting in Winnipeg, Perry Bellegarde said fingers will be pointed during the probe. He said many will question how police handled cases and whether they do enough when an Indigenous woman is reported missing. http://aptn.ca/news/2016/06/01/police-will-get-blamed-during-missing-murdered-women-inqu...
The election season in northern Minnesota Indigenous territories was especially contentious this year. Primary election results were contested in all six Minnesota Chippewa Tribe territories. Everyone who contested lost. In the Leech Lake territory the contest went as far as the Tribal Appeals Court. At issue were key questions regarding the conduct of candidates and the use of unauthorized voting practices. Some candidates were engaged in vote buying, electioneering, voter intimidation and illegal use of absentee ballots. A completely...
Connecticut’s Department of Banking has concluded that two payday lending companies owned by the Otoe-Missouri Tribal Nation are not protected by sovereign immunity and can be pursued by the department for violating Connecticut’s lending laws. Banking Commissioner Jorge Perez concluded on May 6 that the two companies, Great Plains and Clear Creek, are not arms of the tribe and that its Chief John Shotton “does not have tribal sovereign immunity from either the financial penalties or prospective injunctive relief.” http://www...
WANBLEE, South Dakota — Federal authorities are investigating a death on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation over the weekend. FBI spokesman Kyle Loven says one person died and another was injured in Wanblee. He declined to release further details. The FBI is working with the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Oglala Sioux Tribal Department of Public Safety on the investigation. The tribe has not commented on the incident....
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are hoping to get the troubled appropriations process back on track this year, an effort that could benefit a slew of Indian Country programs. The fiscal year 2017 Interior and Environment Appropriations bill cleared its first markup last Wednesday amid bipartisan support for increases at the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service. According to Rep. Ken Calvert (R-California), the BIA budget is growing by 3 percent while the IHS is growing by 6 percent. http://www.indianz.com/News/20...
