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SEPT. 17, 2015 — The Minneapolis metro area’s 2014 rate of those without health insurance decreased from 2013, according to new statistics released today from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, the nation’s most comprehensive data source on American households. Health insurance is just one of many topics included in the American Community Survey that allows policymakers at both the national and local levels to evaluate laws and policies,” Census Bureau Director John H. Thompson said. There are more than 40 topics, in addition...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.– This Saturday, September 19th, the Minneapolis Firefighters (Local 82) will hold their 3rd Annual MFD Block Party at the NE Fulton Brewery from 3-‐10pm. A $20 donation will grant attendees access to some of the best food trucks in the city, a silent auction, cigar roller, bagpipes, and musical entertainment by multiple bands, including White Iron Band as the headliner. All proceeds will benefit the Minneapolis Firefighters’ Operation Warm program. This is the third year Minneapolis Firefighters have joined forces with n...
This week, the Minnesota Court of Appeals dealt a major setback to Enbridge’s Sandpiper pipeline proposal. In a unanimous ruling, the court acknowledged the need for a complete Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) before its Certificate of Need application can move forward. This ruling merely affirmed what was already required by the Minnesota Environmental Policy Act. Nevertheless, Republican leadership in the state legislature were quick to go on the attack in support of Enbridge’s pipeline project. But criticism of the court’s decision misse...
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ST. PAUL – Minnesota employers added 7,300 jobs in August, according to seasonally adjusted figures released today by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), but the jobless rate for the state stayed steady at 4 percent. he August job numbers, combined with July figures that were revised upward by 2,800 jobs, brought job gains in the state to 38,037 in the past year. Jobs in the state have grown 1.3 percent since August 2014, compared with a 2.1 percent growth rate nationally during that period. h...
A package that prompted the evacuation of two dormitories at the University of Wisconsin-Superior and Superior High School on Wednesday was not a bomb, according to Superior Assistant Police Chief Matthew Markon. Students were evacuated from a Ross and Hawkes halls at UWS as a precaution after a suspicious package was found Wednesday afternoon, the university reported. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/region/3841422-spoiled-meat-prompts-evacuation-multiple-schools-wisconsin...
CLEARBROOK — Clearbrook-Gonvick (4-2) edged Red Lake Falls (1-4) 3-1 in four close games, winning 25-19, 20-25, 25-22, 25-21, on Thursday night. Liz Bodensteiner led the Bears’ effort with 13 kills, while Madison Stenzel added nine and Alyssa Damm seven. The setting effort was split, with Rachel Spray contributing 18 assists and Alison Johnson adding 10. The Bears hope to keep things going at 7:30 p.m. Monday when they take on Mahnomen on the road. Laporte swept BAUDETTE — Kalei Kerby had 18 assist and 13 digs, but Laporte took the loss 3-0 T...
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders scrambled Thursday to head off a politically damaging government shutdown in two weeks over rebellious conservatives' demand that any stopgap spending bill block federal funds for Planned Parenthood. Leadership sought an outlet for GOP lawmakers' outrage after this summer's release of videos secretly recorded by abortion foes, who contend they show that Planned Parenthood illegally profits from selling tissue from aborted fetuses to medical researchers. http://www.startribune.com/gop-lea...
The employees failed the drug test, but on one South Dakota reservation, it’s their boss — the one who ordered the testing — who could lose his job. Bruce Renville, chairman of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, will appear before his tribal council Friday morning to defend his decision to spring surprise drug tests on more than 100 administrative employees in August. Council members, who suspended Renville with pay earlier this month, have called a vote to remove him from office. http://www.startr...
The total cost of medical care varies dramatically across Minnesota — from $823 per month for patients who receive their primary care at the Mayo Clinic to just $381 at a pair of suburban Twin Cities medical groups. The average medical bill was somewhere in between: $449 per month for the average privately insured patient, according to the second annual Total Cost of Care report, released Thursday by MN Community Measurement. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-s-medical-costs-rose-in-2014-but-varied-widely-from-clinic-to-c...
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve ended weeks of speculation Thursday by keeping U.S. interest rates at record lows in the face of threats from a weak global economy, persistently low inflation and unstable financial markets. But at a news conference after a Fed policy meeting, Chair Janet Yellen said a rate hike was still likely this year. A majority of Fed officials on the committee that sets the federal funds rate — which controls the interest that banks charge each other — foresee higher rates before next year. The Fed will next meet in Oc...
DETROIT — General Motors will pay $575 million to settle hundreds of civil lawsuits filed against the company over faulty small-car ignition switches, including the bulk of pending wrongful death and injury cases. The company on Thursday said it reached a deal with Texas personal injury lawyer Bob Hilliard to settle 1,385 death and injury cases that he filed over crashes caused by the switches. The money also will be used to settle a 2014 class-action lawsuit filed by shareholders claiming that GM's actions reduced the value of their stock. h...
The indigenous population in Canada is growing and projected to swell to as many as 2.6 million people by 2036, a new report by Statistics Canada says. The agency projects one in five people in Manitoba and Saskatchewan will be aboriginal by 2036 — welcome news to Diane Redsky, executive director of Winnipeg's Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre. The organization works to support and rebuild aboriginal families in the city. "I couldn't be more excited about the news. This is really going to change the landscape in the City of Winnipeg," Redsky said. h...
Hanover — Native American advocates are raising questions about the way Dartmouth College’s new director of the Native American Program has represented both her ancestry and tribal affiliation. The advocates say that Susan Taffe Reed, who began work on Sept. 1, is neither biologically native nor a member of a federally recognized tribe, and accuse her of “cultural appropriation.” http://www.vnews.com/news/18649678-95/dartmouth-native-studies-director-under-fire...
SUQUAMISH, Wash. (AP) - North Kitsap may be getting the state's first tribe-owned pot shop. The Kitsap Sun reports (http://bit.ly/1KPbel4) the state Liquor and Cannabis Board decided Monday to approve a compact that says the Suquamish Tribe can open a marijuana retail shop operated by Suquamish Evergreen Corp. A Department of Justice memo released last year opened the door for tribes to legalize marijuana, with certain stipulations. The compact says the Suquamish Tribe decriminalized selling and possessing marijuana under some circumstances....
A New Mexico teen has pleaded guilty September 16 to the brutal 2014 murders of two homeless Navajo men. Gilbert Tafoya, of Albuquerque, was 15 when he and two others savagely launched an unprovoked attack that left the bodies of the Navajo men “unrecognizable.” Tafoya admitted guilt to two counts of second-degree murder, armed robbery, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, tampering with evidence and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. http://www.lakepowelllife.com/teen-enters-plea-in-death-of-two-navajo-men/...
SHIPROCK — Representatives of Nike Inc. have informed Shiprock High School officials that the company will donate 50 new football jerseys and possibly football pants to the school's team after many of its uniforms, and some of its equipment and facilities were targeted in a vandalism incident last weekend. School staff members were contacted by Nike representatives Tuesday night and were told about the donations, head football coach Eric Stovall said. The jerseys are expected to arrive before Friday night's game against Questa. h...
FORT BERTHOLD, N. D. –– At its most recent special meeting, the Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation Tribal Business Council approved a request to provide federal investigators findings of an independent inquiry into former council Chairman Tex Hall’s alleged malfeasance. Council members had commissioned the giant international Dentons Law Firm to undertake the investigation and only released the results when a crowd insisted in storming their office just before the September primary election that eliminated Hall from the running for a fourt...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Suspended Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Chairman Bruce Renville should be commended for trying to clean up rampant drug abuse on the Dakotas reservation, not taken to task for an act of courage, a former state U.S. attorney said. The Tribal Council suspended Renville earlier this month for ordering a surprise mass drug testing of hundreds of tribal government employees in August, calling it a misuse of power. The council will hold a hearing Friday on whether to remove him from office. www.sfgate.com/news/a...
A Salt River man was found guilty Wednesday of murdering a tribal police officer last year following a trial in U.S. District Court in downtown Phoenix. Elijah Loren Arthur Sr. was found guilty in the slaying of Officer Jair Cabrera on Memorial Day weekend in 2014. Authorities said Cabrera, 37, was baited into making a traffic stop during a driving-under-the-influence task-force operation and gunned down with a rifle. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/breaking/2015/09/17/elijah-loren-arthur-sr-found-guilty-sa...
INSIDE EDITION tracked down a New York woman who was abandoned by her father as a child to tell her she is owed $86,000 from his savings account after his death. Rainwater Blackfoot, who is part American Indian, could not believe it when we told her about the unclaimed money - which she had no idea existed. http://www.aol.com/article/2015/09/17/woman-abandoned-by-her-dad-discovers-she-is-owed-86-000-from-hi/21237577/...
