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The median wage offered to new hires in Minnesota rose by almost a dollar an hour in the past 12 months, bolstered by the increase in the minimum wage, but the majority of open jobs in the state still don’t pay well enough to support a family. Minnesota has the most job vacancies since 2001, according to new data from the state. Median pay for the openings rose from $12.05 per hour to $12.99 per hour. “The minimum wage increase is maybe shifting that a little bit,” said Oriane Casale, an analyst at the Minnesota Department of Employment and E...
COBB, Calif. — Within 12 hours of igniting, a wildfire burning north of San Francisco had swallowed up more than 60 square miles of land, injured four firefighters and burned highways and buildings, prompting an emergency declaration and forcing thousands to flee. The fire in Lake County erupted Saturday afternoon and rapidly chewed through brush and trees parched from several years of drought, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. Entire towns as well as residents along a 35-mile stretch of highway were evacuated. S...
Despite Gov. Mark Dayton’s optimism, data will be the key factor determining whether Lake Mille Lacs can sustain walleye ice fishing this winter, Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Landwehr said in an interview Friday. Landwehr said he spoke with Dayton on Friday, a day after the governor made comments that seemed to guarantee a walleye ice fishing season this year. Landwehr said surveys of the lake will determine what the agency proposes, whether the now-closed walleye season will reopen in December and what parameters would govern it. h...
Race is ugly business. The business of race can be seen in the higher rates of incarceration of black Americans. It is in the higher rates black Americans and Native Americans are killed by law enforcement. It is an aspect of our existence that we created, and one that has no basis in fact. George F. Will attempts to attack the issue of racial separation by targeting the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). He fails. Mr. Will first attempts to attack the concept of sovereignty in his statement. “The 1978 act’s advocates say it is not about rac...
A building nearing completion across the street from Little Creek Casino and Resort is a bet that marijuana will be the next booming business on Indian reservations. If all goes as planned, the site between Shelton and Olympia will be a store where the Squaxin Island Tribe will sell the drug. Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/politics-government/article34941249.html#storylink=cpy...
Considered America’s first modern photographer, just as the Civil War is considered the first modern war, Alexander Gardner created dramatic and vivid photographs of battlefields and played a crucial role in the transformation of American culture by injecting a sobering note of realism to American photography. On Sept. 18, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will open the new exhibition “Dark Fields of the Republic: Alexander Gardner Photographs, 1859–1872.” It will run through March 13, 2016. A press preview will be held Sept. 16...
The attorney for a North Dakota man convicted by a federal jury on drug charges says a judge should not have allowed testimony from a conversation in a casino and believes his client should be acquitted. Randy Skarda was found guilty on Aug. 27 of four counts, including conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm by a drug user. Sentencing has not been scheduled. http://bismarcktribune.com/ap/state/nd-man-says-testimony-from-casino-conversation-was-unfair/article_02fe297e-85a5-55cc-890b-bceb81c3fef1....
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Ho-Chunk Nation has closed 1,550 acres at the shuttered Badger Army Ammunition Plant in Sauk County to non-tribal hunters. The tribe acquired the land through federal legislation that passed in December. Prior to the tribe's acquisition the land was open for public hunting. http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/Ho-Chunk-closes-ammunition-plant-to-non-tribal-hunters-326496801.html...
This month, the U.S. Department of Energy issued a report showing threats to tribal energy infrastructure are expected to increase, and also announced its offered a $6 million grant opportunity to establish clean energy projects on tribal lands. The report entitled “Tribal Energy System Vulnerabilities to Climate Change and Extreme Weather” was developed in response to President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. Specifically, Executive Order 13653 directs federal agencies to help communities strengthen their resilience to extreme weather and prepa...
SEATTLE (AP) - A former Swinomish Tribal employee has been charged in federal court with wire fraud and theft of tribal funds. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle says Robert Scott Miller of La Conner, Washington, was the tribe's Fish and Game Enforcement Officer for 18 years. He was charged last week with nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of theft. http://www.khq.com/story/30004466/former-swinomish-officer-charged-with-theft-of-tribal-funds...
It’s almost hard to believe at this point, but there was once a time when people living on this continent weren’t getting their caffeine fix from Starbucks. New research shows that, despite not living near any indigenous caffeinated plants, Native Americans in the American Southwest had found a way to procure the drug, probably establishing trade routes as far back as between 750 and 1,400 A.D. The findings come from a team led by Patricia Crown, a professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. According to NPR, they looked at 177...
