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USDA Releases New Community Facilities Loan Program This year, for the first time, the USDA’s Community Facilities Loan Program is open to Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) and other community lenders serving high-poverty rural communities. Under the new Community Facilities Relending Program, CDFIs and other relenders will have access to long-term, low-cost, fixed-rate capital for investments in critical community facility infrastructure. Interested community development lenders within the designated high-poverty areas (see...
The nation’s new federal education law makes room for states to design and try out new and better ways to measure what kids know, because just about everyone agrees on this: Standardized tests as currently delivered in U.S. public schools leave something to be desired. The law, known as the Every Student Succeeds Act, allows seven states to design and test “innovative assessments” starting with a few districts and then scaling up to schools statewide over a period of five years. The Education Department on Wednesday proposed draft regul...
Those limits came in response to the 2003 ruling in Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State, which identified reasonable class size as a component of a “sound basic education.” The subsequent 2007 law required New York City to set specific class size reduction targets by the 2011-2012 school year. Class sizes failed to meet those targets and have only ballooned since then. The report by the Education Law Center reveals that in 2015-16, schools were even more crowded than they were before the targets were approved. At the high school level, rou...
For 14-year-old Chloe Bennett, summer is a three-month quest to avert boredom. She’s too old for camp and day care, but too young for a regular job, so she fills her days with reading, exercise, volunteering, studying for AP Chinese, Snapchatting and hanging out with friends. “The days are really long without school and it’s hard to find enough stuff to do for kids my age,” the Hopkins teenager said. With both parents working, no job of her own or a driver’s license, Bennett says boredom is inevitable. “My day is full of blank hours,” she...
Minneapolis police are investigating a fatal shooting on the city’s south side. Officers found a man lying in the street on the 3000 block of 5th Avenue S. when they arrived at 4:48 a.m. Thursday, said department spokesman John Elder. A person who had heard shots in the area which is just off Lake Street placed the 911 call, Elder said. http://www.startribune.com/man-found-fatally-shot-lying-in-minneapolis-street/385850871/...
Bad news, storm-weary Minnesotans: Swift on the heels of Tuesday night’s battering weather, two more rounds of severe weather are expected Thursday. Showers and thunderstorms, along with fresh blasts of heavy rain, high winds, large hail and potential street flooding, are expected to roll into the metro area at dawn Thursday, then again as the evening rush hour gets into high gear. The new forecast arrived as residents of the Twin Cities and other parts of southern Minnesota sweated out a sunny, steamy Wednesday cleaning up debris, repairing d...
Five numbers on an Eagan couple’s Powerball ticket added up to one big win of $1 million. Luke and Emily Lange went to dinner Friday night, after their kids went to stay with grandma, according to a Minnesota Lottery news release. The date night took them to a restaurant that only takes cash. All they had was a $100 bill, so they stopped at a SuperAmerica gas station in Burnsville to break it. They bought gas, two Mega Millions tickets and two Powerball tickets. As the couple watched the morning news on Sunday, the winning Powerball numbers f...
Having a baby can be pricey in the Twin Cities. Routine deliveries in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region cost an average of $11,527, according to a new report that ranked the figure as the third-highest typical price tag among 30 large cities. The highest cost is in Sacramento, Calif., at $15,420, followed by San Francisco at $15,204, according to the report from Castlight Health Inc., a California-based firm that sells information services to health care purchasers. http://www.startribune.com/having-a-baby-in-the-twin-cities-r...
The man, identified by relatives as Philando Castile, 32, a St. Paul schools employee, died at Hennepin County Medical Center. http://video.startribune.com/protesters-march-to-governor-s-mansion-after-falcon-heights-shooting/385826221/...
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's investigation into Hillary Clinton's email setup has been formally closed without any criminal charges, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday. The decision had been expected and was largely a formality given FBI Director James Comey's recommendation a day earlier against any prosecution. Even before Comey's public statement, Lynch had said she intended to accept the recommendations of the FBI director and of her career prosecutors. Even so, it officially closes out an FBI investigation that had d...
Ask the vast majority of American parents, and they will tell you that having kids has made them happier. The problem with this claim, as common as it is, is that research suggests it just isn’t true. People who have kids in the U.S. and in many countries around the world report being less happy than people who don’t have kids. Being a parent gives people a sense of purpose and meaning, as well as lifelong social connections. But for some reason, it doesn’t appear to bring parents more happiness. http://www.startribune.com/b...
You can’t see them when you step out of the water after a swim, but boy, can you feel them later. Microscopic parasites lurking in lake water are out in full force now, capable of causing a skin rash that’s itchy, scratchy and just plain ugly. Swimmer’s itch — also known as “duck itch” or “lake itch” — is plaguing lake-goers earlier than usual this year thanks to an early spring. The warmer water temperatures jump-started the growing season for lake vegetation — food sources for the parasites and their hosts, namely ducks, geese and snails. h...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Native Americans from all over the world make their way to Albuquerque every year for the Gathering of Nations. The world's largest powwow is moving to a new location next year--Expo New Mexico-- and now there’s more news: medical cannabis provider Ultra Health is the gathering's big new sponsor. “There has been a connection with cannabis with the Native American community for hundreds of years,” Leonard Salgado, with Ultra Health, said. http://www.koat.com/news/medical-cannabis-provider-becomes-new-gather...
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Tribal Chief Phyliss Anderson has filed a lawsuit against the 17-member Tribal Council over a policy amendment that she says unlawfully interferes with her executive authority. "At the April meeting, I objected to the policy amendments that unlawfully interfered with my authority and responsibility as chief and that required information about employee personnel actions to be turned over to the Council Committee on Human Resources, Training and Development on a quarterly basis," Anderson said in a statement....
WASHINGTON — When Dominic Peacock found out he had been selected for an unpaid summer internship at the National Congress of American Indians here, he looked up the airfare from Albuquerque, rejected the option, and boarded a bus and rode 44 hours. Now, after a long day thumbing through bills and working for legislation to protect tribal artifacts, he walks a few blocks to a hotel restaurant where he buses tables until 1 a.m. His workweek — 60 to 75 hours long — affords him one day off to catch up on chores in his American University dorm...
Chef Rich Francis has been a champion of the modern Indigenous cuisine movement for some time. His new restaurant, Seventh Fire, is expected to break down all previous misconceptions about Aboriginal food. Following the motto of "food is medicine," the menu will feature traditional ingredients and a return to its roots. For Francis, this is about more than just food—it's also about using his cooking as a vehicle towards truth and reconciliation. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/candy/the-candy-palmater-show-for-july-6-2016-1.3666806/...
After discovering a paragraph titled “Tribal Issues” in a lease agreement between Pocatello Solar 1, LLC and the Pocatello Regional Airport, the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes filed an informal discrimination complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The complaint alleges that a provision within the lease does not permit the developer or leaseholder from entering into agreements with the Tribes. “I think Pocatello and the Tribes are both prominent stakeholders in the development of this region,” said Randy’L Teton, the Shoshone-...
A Calgary indigenous woman who knocked out a Caucasian woman’s tooth while yelling “I hate white people,” didn’t commit a racially motivated crime, a judge says. Provincial court Judge Harry Van Harten, in a written decision, said Tamara Crowchief’s motivation for striking Lydia White was not related to racial bias. Crown prosecutor Karuna Ramakrishnan, who had sought a sentence of 12 to 15 months, argued Crowchief’s unprovoked attack last Nov. 1, amounted to a hate crime. http://newsok.com/indigenous-woman-yells-i-hate-whit...
PHOENIX (KSAZ) - An explosion at a Parker, Arizona fireworks celebration sent visitors into chaos. The fireworks show was being put on by the Colorado River Indian Tribe's Fire Department Monday evening. Shortly after shouts of joy turned into shouts of fear and panic. Several people captured the explosion and chaos that followed. The footage reminds people that putting on a fireworks show carries an element of risk. http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/170043513-story...
Three Nevada girls were part of the team that won the Native American Basketball Invitational tournament last week. The three are Daranda Hinkey who recently graduated from Reno High School and is enrolled in the Ft. McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of Nevada and Oregon. Hinkey was named MVP, as she scored 31 points. She will continue her academic and basketball career in the fall at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. Also from Nevada on the NetRipperz team were Precious Masters who attends McDermitt and lives on the Ft. McDermitt...
Attorneys representing roughly 300 people who face disenrollment from the Nooksack Indian Tribe received a major victoryas the tribe’s court of appeals ordered jail time for a court clerk if she does not file their paperwork. Nooksack Tribal Court Clerk Betty Leathers has until Wednesday, July 6, to return paperwork that was filed by attorneys Gabriel Galanda, Anthony Broadman, and Ryan Dreveskracht to a file that was created in March. Otherwise, the three-judge panel on the Nooksack Tribal Court of Appeals has ordered the Nooksack police c...
Bridget Tolley simply wants justice for her mother. Her life changed on October 5, 2001, when her mother, Gladys, was struck by a police cruiser and killed. “I started asking for a public inquiry into her death,” Tolley, an Algonquin woman from the Kitigan Zibi reserve in Quebec, Canada, told Vox. “There was so much wrong with the case. They didn’t let the family identify the body. The brother of the cop that killed my mother was put in charge of the investigation.” http://www.vox.com/2016/7/5/12096898/missing-indigenous-wom...
DILKON, Ariz. (AP) - A former Navajo Nation lawmaker accused of misusing tribal funds has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and ordered to pay the tribe $9,000 in restitution. Hoskie Kee pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy to commit bribery. He was accused of funneling more than $18,000 to the families of five other tribal council delegates. Kee must report to the Crownpoint Department of Corrections at noon Monday and then serve 150 days of supervised probation after completing his jail term. http://www.kob.com/new-mexico...
In one case, a 14-year-old boy, high on methamphetamine, climbed through a bedroom window with two of his friends to rape his 13-year-old sister before hitting her in the head with a hatchet. She survived but was left with the wobbly motor skills of a toddler. In another, drug dealers used a screwdriver to decapitate a “snitch” before turning on each other, with two of the killers shooting the third one in the head and burning his car. “The stories are shocking,” said Amy Proctor, a criminal justice instructor at Northeastern State Univers...
STANDOFF, Alberta — It was a child’s scream that first introduced Dr. Esther Tailfeathers to fentanyl. The family physician had just pulled in to a Walmart, shopping ahead of a July 2014 sun dance, when she saw a man passed out in a parked van. The child told her the man had taken a pill just minutes before collapsing. “He was jammed between the car door and the pavement. And he was out cold; he wasn't breathing at all,” she recalls. “I started CPR, I got a heartbeat back and some really shallow breaths, and then the ambulance arrived....
