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On Monday, August 22, 2016, the Red Lake Chemical Health Program hosted their annual Back to School Fest near the Cage by the Red Lake High School. They gave out 600 bags of school supplies, had carnival games with kids that gave out prizes, face painting, had a bouncy house, obstacle course and a dunk tank, and fed them all, along with giving away some bikes and backpacks in the end....
BEMIDJI—Three years after Bemidji's Nameless Coalition for the Homeless began planning a cold-weather shelter to serve chronic inebriates, the former church at the corner of Sixth Street and America Avenue NW is finally ready to open its doors for the shelter's first full winter season. The Wolfe Center opened for the first time Feb. 15, 2016 and remained open through April, but this winter marks the first time the nighttime shelter will serve clients from Oct. 1 - April 30. The center celebrated Friday with an open house to thank supporters a...
The Headwaters Alliance for Suicide Prevention (HASP) is a community-based group of individuals and agencies coordinating local and regional suicide prevention efforts. The mission is to promote healthy communities by eliminating suicide in the region through education, advocacy & community involvement. The Alliance is facilitated through the Suicide Prevention Program at Evergreen Youth & Family Services. The next meeting of the Headwaters Alliance for Suicide Prevention will be Thursday, September 29th. The agenda will include guest speaker...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Departments of Justice, of the Army, and of the Interior today invited representatives from all 567 federally recognized tribes to participate in formal, government-to-government consultations on how federal decision-making on infrastructure projects can better allow for timely and meaningful tribal input. Starting with a listening session on Oct. 11, formal tribal consultations are scheduled in six regions of the country, from Oct. 25 through Nov. 21. The deadline for written input will be Nov. 30. The three d...
Even for those following the 2016 campaigns closely, the odds are that they haven't seen a lot of attention devoted to education. The Harvard Political Review has observed that candidates "on both sides of the aisle, have ignored a plethora of worthy discussions" and that "the most glaring example is ... education policy." The Huffington Post succinctly headlined one story "Why Education Isn't a 2016 Campaign Issue." Laura Moser of Slate has wryly noted, "None of the candidates are talking about education. Like, at all." Though the...
A judge in Northern California dealt a blow this week to a controversial campaign to make teachers more accountable for their students’ level of achievement, the second key setback in recent months for those behind the effort. The ruling by Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Barry Goode went against the Bay Area group Students Matter. The group’s lawsuit aimed to force 13 school districts, including seven in Southern California, to make student standardized test scores a key part of teacher evaluations. Students Matter had hoped to bui...
The chief executive of the Prince George’s County school system has asked his top aide to step down, part of the fallout of an ongoing furor over child abuse in the Head Start program. Kevin M. Maxwell requested the resignation of George H. Margolies — his chief of staff and longtime ally — on Wednesday. At a school board meeting Thursday, Maxwell said the departure was prompted by an email Margolies wrote, which some interpreted as the administration trying to keep the county school board from publicly discussing concerns about Head Start...
The sign is large, like Texas, and unabashedly direct, like the state’s collective attitude. It’s white, nailed to two sturdy wooden posts, and coolly offers a bold-lettered warning. This year, our teachers might be packing heat, it suggests, and they’re not afraid to use it. In full, the sign reads, “Attention, please be aware that the staff at Medina ISD may be armed and will use whatever force is necessary to protect our students.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/22/texas-school-sign-our-teacher...
Status offenses are generally crimes that are age-specific. For example, an adult would not be arrested for skipping school, running away from home, or disobedience to parents, but these are all potential offenses for juveniles. When the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevent Act (JJDPA) was first enacted it provided that juveniles could not be securely confined for committing status offenses. In 1984 the JJDPA was amended to allow for the secure confinement of juveniles for status offenses if it is determined that the juvenile violated a...
All Nations Lacrosse Training Camps Saturday, Sept. 24 - Sunday, Oct. 2 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hn3s0TuOIXr5YNdPbqsGuh6K2C6RG-GCE_DI5co2y5k/pub...
"I'm a tremendous believer in education." So begins a campaign ad for Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump. But what does that mean? http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/09/25/494740056/donald-trumps-plan-for-americas-schools...
WHEELING — Detailed standardized tests results are in for West Virginia’s school districts, with most Northern Panhandle schools faring slightly better than last year. But the test scores do indicate there is room for improvement. The State Department of Education released the results of the West Virginia General Summative Assessment for the 2015-2016 school year, which was administered to the state’s students last spring. The numbers include a grade-by-grade breakdown of results within each county. http://www.theintelligenc...
An alleged manufacturing defect in hundreds of school buses purchased by metro Atlanta school districts has left taxpayers on the hook for expensive repairs and left children at times stranded in broken-down buses, local school district officials say. “There have been many cases where these buses failed while on routes carrying students,” Cobb school district officials said in an email to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In those situations, another bus has to be located, then sent to pick up the students while they wait. htt...
Arnold Palmer, a Pennsylvania greenskeeper’s son who became one of golf’s most charismatic champions and made millions of dollars by turning his popular “everyman” image into one of the most lucrative sports brands in the world, died Sunday at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, according to his longtime assistant Doc Griffin. Palmer was hospitalized in preparation for heart surgery, but Griffin said he did not know the exact cause of death. He was 87. Palmer rose from a blue-collar background to beco...
WASHINGTON — After months of tangling from afar, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will confront each other face-to-face for the first time in Monday night's presidential debate, laying out for voters their vastly different visions for the nation's future. The high-stakes showdown — the first of three presidential debates — comes as both candidates are viewed negatively by large numbers of Americans, with Democrat Clinton facing questions about her trustworthiness and Republican Trump struggling to convince many voters that he has the tempe...
The husband of a former U.S. Tax Court judge has pleaded guilty to making nearly $1 million in fraudulent deductions on tax returns over much of her tenure on the bench and making several lavish purchases in that time through his consulting firm. Robert Fackler, 63, of Minnetonka, who is in the process of divorcing Diane Kroupa, 60, admitted Friday in federal court in St. Paul to obstruction of an IRS audit in connection with allegations spanning from 2004 to 2010. The couple allegedly understated their personal income by about $1 million and...
Carolyne Giancola knew how to take “no” for an answer, but she says her bosses didn’t. When she worked as lead teller at the Elliot Park branch of Wells Fargo in Minneapolis, if a regular customer said “no” three times in a row to the offer to sit down with a personal banker, she’d stop asking. That, according to her superiors, was a mistake. She could never stop pushing additional products on customers. http://www.startribune.com/inside-wells-fargo-front-line-employees-describe-immense-pressure-few-rewards/394694611/...
CAMARILLO, Calif. — The average price of gasoline in the U.S. has risen four cents over the past two weeks to $2.25 a gallon for regular grade. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday that retailers and refiners have upped their prices in response to a rise in the cost of crude oil. Still, the average price per gallon is a dime less than it was a year ago. http://www.startribune.com/gas-prices-up-4-cents-to-2-25-a-gallon/394737981/...
BOSTON — Authorities say seven people have been injured in an apparent fight in Boston's Theater District, and police are looking for a suspect. The Boston Globe (http://bit.ly/2ctOTJX ) reports that police Superintendent Bernard O'Rourke said officers responded to a report of a fight about 2:15 a.m. Sunday in the district, where bars and restaurants cater to night-life crowds and had just closed. Police say people were stabbed with knives or bottles. http://www.startribune.com/police-6-injured-in-stabbings-in-boston-theater...
ROANOKE, Va. — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is arguing that he'll do more to help women from the White House than Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. At the same time, he's taunting her over the infidelities of her husband. As Trump campaigned in the battleground state of Virginia, Clinton stayed close to home in New York while preparing for Monday night's opening debate. She was spotted at a Westchester hotel near her home in Chappaqua, but her campaign would not comment on whether she was holding practice sessions at the h...
Echoes of the civil rights movement rang in my head when I heard that a security force guarding the Dakota Access Pipeline had unleashed dogs on protesters at a site considered sacred by North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux reservation. Since April, tribes and environmental groups from across the nation have gathered to fight the four-state, $3.8 billion oil pipeline. The pipeline would cross the Missouri River near the reservation. “We belong to the river,” a banner at the camp reads. A judge ruled on Sept. 9 that the project could proce...
WASHINGTON— When President Barack Obama reaches the podium at his final White House Tribal Nations Conference Monday afternoon, tribal leaders who acknowledge the Obama administration has brought positive change to Indian Country will be actively listening to hear what the president has to say about tribal consultation. The president is expected to address leaders from 567 federally recognized tribes in Indian Country on Monday afternoon at 3:40 p.m.-EDT. Tribal consultation is an important process to tribes across Indian Country. Adding the w...
The media was quick to report that Energy Transfer Partners, the developer of the “Dakota” Access Pipeline (DAPL), purchased the Cannonball Ranch last Thursday. What wasn’t reported was the extent to which Ranch is sacred to both Native and Non-Native society. Indeed, its sacredness spans both worlds. As the Rapid City Journal reported a decade ago: The ranch, since statehood, has been the land that bridged North Dakota to the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation, on the other side of the Cannonball River. http://lastreali...
As currently proposed, the Dakota Access pipeline would move oil out of northwestern North Dakota, through a 30-inch pipe, and along a 1,200-mile path that cuts through both Dakotas, Iowa, and a stretch of Illinois before meeting another pipeline in the town of Patoka. It would carry nearly half a million barrels of domestic sweet crude oil every day, and the project’s builder, Energy Transfer Partners, says it will bring back money. The Texas-based company says the pipeline will create up to 12,000 jobs (the Army Corps of Engineers approved t...
Obama and Native nations have worked hard over eight years to create a special and healthy relationship during his tenure. Not a perfect relationship, but definitely special. This is really the first time in the United States’ history that a Presidential Administration has really tried to live up to its treaty obligations. That’s good. Yet, if he fails to act and kill this Dakota Access Pipeline—a pipeline that directly threatens Native treaty rights and also directly threatens Native children’s health and well-being—all of that work may be fo...
