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Minnesota lawmakers emerged Thursday after weeks of deal-making with a completed two-year state budget, one they say will be essential to lifting the state out of the fog of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Tim Walz marked the occasion at the Capitol, surrounded by nurses, doctors, business owners and students he's met over the past year responding to the health crisis. He lauded the $52 billion budget as one that will focus on those hit hardest by the uneven toll of COVID through tax breaks, direct...
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is halting federal executions after a historic use of capital punishment by the Trump administration, which carried out 13 executions in six months. Attorney General Merrick Garland made the announcement Thursday night, saying he was imposing a moratorium on federal executions while the Justice Department conducts a review of its policies and procedures. He gave no timetable. "The Department of Justice must ensure that everyone in the federal criminal justice...
NEW YORK - With Thursday's arraignment of Donald Trump's company and his longtime finance chief on tax fraud charges, New York authorities notched their first indictment in a two-year ongoing investigation of the former president. Trump and his lawyers say the Democrats who brought the case against the Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg are making a criminal case out of what should be minor disputes usually settled in civil court. Both the Trump Organization and Weisselberg have...
The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe is another step closer to getting back land the United States government seized more than six decades ago and assigned to the Chippewa National Forest. The band and the U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday announced they have signed a "Plan of Survey," which will be used to implement the transfer of 11,760 acres of land from the Forest Service to the United States of America in trust for the band. "It is with great joy and hope for the future in our hearts that we...
Minnesota counties on the hook for huge tax refunds to Enbridge - through no fault of their own - will be bailed out by the state to tune of nearly $30 million. The payments are authorized by the tax bill passed by the Legislature early Thursday. Also, another $16 million to $18 million due to Enbridge will be refunded as a part of a tax settlement the company made with the Minnesota Department of Revenue. That refund will essentially be paid through a credit to Enbridge's property taxes due in...
SALEM, Ore. - Many of the dead were found alone, in homes without air conditioning or fans. Some were elderly - one as old as 97. The body of an immigrant farm laborer was found in an Oregon nursery. As forecasters warned of a record-breaking heat wave in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada last weekend, officials set up cooling centers, distributed water to the homeless and took other steps. Still, hundreds of people are believed to have died from Friday to Tuesday. An excessive heat...
WASHINGTON - The Democratic-led House approved a sizable $715 billion transportation bill Thursday, a potential investment in roads, rail, public transit and water over five years that could serve as a marker in the negotiations over a bipartisan infrastructure package. The bill passed largely along party lines by a vote of 221-201. Just two Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the package. President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators have already agreed to a blueprint for a new...
July 1, 2021 (SAINT PAUL) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison today led a bipartisan coalition of 34 attorneys general from across the country in an amicus brief to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of North Dakota laws that regulate abusive behavior of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), which have been challenged by the PBM industry’s national lobbying association. The case, Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) v. Wehbi, was sent back to the Eighth Circuit by the U.S. Supreme Court, which vacated the Eighth Cir...
A Grand Opening event was held at the Red Lake C-Store on Thursday, July 1, 2021 from 11 AM to 1 PM. Some of the activities including free samples from Hot Stuff Pizza, a build your own sundae bar, a pizza eating contest, gunny-sack races, bouncy houses, and prizes....
A Grand Opening event was held at the Red Lake C-Store on Thursday, July 1, 2021 from 11 AM to 1 PM. Some of the activities including free samples from Hot Stuff Pizza, a build your own sundae bar, a pizza eating contest, gunny-sack races, bouncy houses, and prizes....
Highlights Senate’s failure to fund much-needed criminal prosecutors to help fight violent crime in Greater Minnesota; AG ‘baffled why the Senate refuses to help us help prosecutors in Greater Minnesota make their communities safer’ July 1, 2021 (SAINT PAUL) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison today hailed the passage of the State Government budget bill that includes a 17 percent increase to the base budget of the Attorney General’s’ Office for the new biennium (July 2021–June 2023). That increase includes additional funding for t...
WASHINGTON – The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) announced today that it has awarded more than $6.5 million in Energy and Mineral Development Program (EMDP) grants to 27 federally recognized tribes and seven Alaska Native corporations in 15 states. The funding will aid their efforts to identify, study, design and/or develop projects using energy, mineral and natural resources, which, in turn, will help them achieve economic self-sufficiency by developing and controlling their own energy production capabilities. “Having direct access to a rel...
This week showed more evidence of growing opposition to Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline as the international conglomerate continued to prove its tar sands pipeline is wrong for Minnesota. On Monday the Grammy Award-winning Indigo Girls held a free concert to support the water protectors fighting to stop the Line 3 pipeline, with Indigo Girl Amy Ray saying “This is the coolest thing we’ve ever done,” as they performed on a pontoon in the middle of the Mississippi River. Also this week journalist Alan Weisman, winner of the 2013 Los Angeles Times B...
St. Paul – More than 300,000 U.S. military veterans call Minnesota home and more than half of them are of working age. Unfortunately, veterans returning from recent military deployments face higher unemployment and more challenges entering the civilian workforce and advancing in their careers. To help raise awareness about the resources available for veterans and their spouses, as well as the many benefits of employing current and former U.S. military members, Governor Walz has proclaimed July 2021 as Hire a Veteran Month. The Minnesota D...
Saint Paul, MN – Today, the legislative session ended with important wins for construction workers, including thousands of infrastructure jobs, clean energy jobs, wage theft and OSHA enforcement. The Republican Senate blocked critical refinery safety legislation and a bonding bill was left undone, despite bipartisan support from Governor Walz and the Legislature. Joel Smith, President and Business Manager said, “LIUNA brothers and sisters have advocated relentlessly through the 2021 session. We showed up in person and virtually to make sur...
White Earth, Minnesota – Yesterday, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed the Health and Human Services Omnibus bill, HF33, into law. The bill appropriates approximately $18.8 billion dollars over the next biennium to fund the State of Minnesota’s Health and Human Services functions. Importantly, the bill included language that settles an on-going dispute between White Earth and the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) regarding billing for medication-assisted treatment programs. In 2019, DHS alleged that White Earth’s MOMS/MAT Progr...
The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) participated with the National Association of State Contractors Licensing Agencies (NASCLA) in a national coordinated enforcement effort the weeks of June 7 through 25, which included eight NASCLA state members that took part in this event across the country. In addition to their regular casework, investigators with DLI's Construction Codes and Licensing Division's Enforcement unit devoted time each day to search various online platforms for unlicensed residential building contractors...
Fayetteville, AR: The Native American Agriculture Fund (NAAF) has awarded $1 million dollars to 20 grantees serving Native youth across 115 Tribal Nations. The diverse range of grants for youth programming provides direct capital to projects impacting more than 3,500 Native youth in reservation, rural, suburban, and urban areas throughout Indian Country. The funded projects vary in focus areas such as agricultural education, sustainable agriculture activities and COVID response. All grants awarded go to support increased access to capital for...
Canadians have celebrated their country's confederation on July 1, 1867 since 1868, but this year, planned celebrations of the holiday have led to cancellations and protests due to the discovery of hundreds of Indigenous children's remains in unmarked graves at three former residential schools. "As National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, and to help mark Canada Day 2021, I encourage all Canadians to learn about our shared history and the many contributions First Nations people have...
PHOENIX - First Lady Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff visited the Isaac Middle School in Phoenix, Ariz. on Wednesday to an effort to increase Covid-19 vaccinations throughout Arizona, including tribal communities. The fact that only 40 percent of Arizona has been vaccinated led to the effort to increase vaccinations in the state. Among the guests were several Arizona tribal leaders, including Navajo Nation Jonathan Nez, Gila River Indian Community Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis, San...
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - Officials here plan to work with tribal and Native leaders following the disappearance of a plaque commemorating the burials of Indian boarding school students. The plaque recognized the loss of Apache, Navajo and Zuni students who attended the Albuquerque Indian School. It had been been placed at a park not far from the site of the former institution but it is no longer there, for reasons unknown. "Our department has been made aware of a missing plaque at 4-H Park,...
ROME — Pope Francis has agreed to meet in December with Indigenous survivors of Canada's notorious residential schools amid calls for a papal apology for the Catholic Church's role in the abuse and deaths of thousands of Indigenous children. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops said Francis had invited the delegations to the Vatican and would meet separately with three groups — First Nations, Métis and Inuit — during their Dec. 17-20 visit. The pope will then preside over a final audience with all three groups Dec. 20, the confer...
RED LAKE, MN - Red Lake Tribal Chairman Darrell Seki Sr., along with some department heads, reported to a group of tribal members and others at the Annual Red Lake State of the Band Address on Friday, May 28, 2021. It had been over a year since the last State of the Band Address was held in March 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic, medical martial law, new project developments, law enforcement, the opioid epidemic, child welfare and education were just some of the information reported on....
5 Red Lake High School Graduation held on Saturday, May 29, 2021 GRADUATES: James Allen Beaulieu III Mimi Beaulieu-Morgan Kia Nicole Birr, Ryan Joseph Blackcloud Aaron Chaboyea Diamond A. Cloud-Sayers Lailah Eliza Dow Kacie Graves Arianna Moonlight Greene Denali Hart Delwyn E. Holthusen III Yolanda J. Infante Kyriah M. Johnson Azlynn Caprice Jourdain Michael James Jourdain Jr. TierraRose Gaudalupe Kingbird Addalay Kutchara Taylor M. Lagou Morgan Margaret Loud Brycen James Lussier Aimee May...
5 Red Lake High School Graduation held on Saturday, May 29, 2021 GRADUATES: James Allen Beaulieu III Mimi Beaulieu-Morgan Kia Nicole Birr, Ryan Joseph Blackcloud Aaron Chaboyea Diamond A. Cloud-Sayers Lailah Eliza Dow Kacie Graves Arianna Moonlight Greene Denali Hart Delwyn E. Holthusen III Yolanda J. Infante Kyriah M. Johnson Azlynn Caprice Jourdain Michael James Jourdain Jr. TierraRose Gaudalupe Kingbird Addalay Kutchara Taylor M. Lagou Morgan Margaret Loud Brycen James Lussier Aimee May...
