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Delta Air Lines is increasing base pay for all ground crew and flight attendants by 14.5 percent, a move that will lift compensation for more than 6,000 of its Twin Cities employees. The company on Wednesday announced the raise, which stands out both for its size and for appearing to be a break in the wage stagnation that persisted in the U.S. economy amid other improvements. http://www.startribune.com/delta-raises-pay-for-ground-crew-flight-attendants-by-14-5/327902451/...
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations has confirmed that it just finished an investigation on whether a Shawnee City Commissioner tried to bribe another commissioner. Spokeswoman Jessica Brown said the report was given to Pottawatomie County District Attorney Richard Smothermon on Friday. The claims come from former Shawnee Ward 1 City Commissioner Gary Vogel. Though Brown has said by state law she can’t share the OSBI report, Vogel alleges that a fellow commissioner, as well as three others in the community, had tried to pressure him t...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Eugene, that would strengthen the tribal authority and expand the land rights of three federally recognized tribes in Southwestern Oregon. DeFazio’s bill, the Western Oregon Tribal Fairness Act (H.R. 2791), provides land in trust to the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians and to the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians. Currently, those two groups do not hold any land in trust. The increase in tribal lands i...
Republican lawmakers grilled EPA Chief Administrator Gina McCarthy for not firing any agency employees or contractors after workers accidentally unleashed millions of gallons of toxic wastewater in a Colorado river last month. When pressed by Republican senators during a Wednesday hearing about which individuals were responsible for the spill, McCarthy said the agency as a whole was responsible. McCarthy said she was waiting for the Department of the Interior to release its external review of the Gold King Mine blowout before she held...
Before sunrise one morning in July, a day Ray Fryberg Jr. was scheduled to appear in court, someone smashed the windows of his car. He noticed the shattered glass on the pavement as he was leaving his home. He probably wasn’t too surprised. A month earlier, he had awoken to find that someone had broken every window in his house. Ray was once a respected member of the Tulalip Tribes, who occupy a reservation near Seattle. He worked for the tribal Natural Resource Department and led drum circles. But when he lost his teenage son Jaylen last y...
The Department of Justice today announced 206 awards, totaling more than $97 million, to American Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages, tribal consortia and tribal designees. The announcement was made in Washington, D.C., at the 2015 Tribal Leader Briefing, sponsored by the National Congress of American Indians, and included Tribal leaders, Members of Congress and Administration officials. The following eight tribes in New Mexico received grant awards totaling $8,053,088.00: http://krwg.org/post/eight-new-mexico-tribes-rece...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A former governor of Santa Ana Pueblo has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison on charges stemming from a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme. Federal prosecutors say 61-year-old Bruce Sanchez received a 56-month prison term Wednesday followed by three years of supervised release. http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3908156.shtml?cat=500#.VfqrHX0eroj...
After years of delay, a single inquest will finally investigate the deaths of seven aboriginal youths forced to leave their remote reserves in northern Ontario to attend high school in Thunder Bay, the province’s chief coroner announced Wednesday. The five-month inquest, called by Dr. Dirk Huyer, will start Oct. 5 after being stalled for three years over a fight to improve aboriginal representation on juries. Reggie Bushie, Jethro Anderson and Jordan Wabasse, all 15 years old, along with Kyle Morriseau, 17, and Curran Strang, 18, all a...
Colville Tribal Emergency Services’ staff led a Federal Emergency Management Agency team that included the Red Cross, the Washington State Emergency Management Office and the Small Business Administration into the devastation of the Colville Reservation’s fires, Sep. 16. The intent was to continue assessing damages, including damage to individuals. “This is one step in the process. It’s important to make that clear at this point. This week’s efforts are a joint—state, local, tribal, FEMA—information gathering process,” said Camilla Rossie,...
This wildfire season in the Pacific Northwest has hit tribal lands especially hard. And when it comes to fighting fires, the focus is mostly on saving property, which has left some tribal members wondering why protecting property, like farms and even second homes, comes before saving tribal forests. That's where Northwest Public Radio's Rowan Moore Gerety begins his story. ROWAN MOORE GERETY, BYLINE: Several inches of ash blanket the ground where a wildfire recently passed through a north central Washington pine forest on the Colville...
