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As a reminder, per Minnesota Statute 204C.04, “every employee who is eligible to vote in an election has the right to be absent from work for the necessary time to appear at the employee’s polling place, cast a ballot, and return to work on the day of that election, without penalty or deduction from salary or wages because of the absence.” Therefore, employees may take paid time off to vote in a covered election anytime during their work day (morning, afternoon, or evening). Elections covered by this statute include “any regularly...
The National Education Association, which has endorsed Hillary Clinton, announced a six-figure digital ad and mail campaign attempting to tie bullying and fear in the classroom to the Republican nominee. The NEA is pointing to a Southern Poverty Law Center report that found that the presidential election "is producing an alarming level of fear and anxiety among children of color and inflaming racial and ethnic tensions in the classroom. Many students worry about being deported." “This is so much bigger than politics,” NEA President Lily...
(Reuters Health) - Children in low-income families who get extra help building social skills before kindergarten may behave better and get higher grades than their peers, a small study suggests. Researchers focused on kids that are traditionally at high risk for mental health problems and academic underachievement – low-income minority children attending high-poverty urban schools. The experiment included 10 public schools in New York City serving predominantly poor, black students. Half of those schools participated in ParentCorps, a...
As Hurricane Matthew makes its way through the Caribbean, travelers are preparing for its potential impact. Travel insurance comparison site InsureMyTrip reports a 20 percent jump today in calls from travelers. Licensed travel insurance agents say travelers are seeking the following: • Information on how to cancel an upcoming trip • Clarification on how travel insurance covers hurricanes • Advice on making a travel insurance purchase "This is a dangerous storm with weather forecasts suggesting that Hurricane Matthew could head closer...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Governor Mark Dayton has declared October “Farm to School Month” in Minnesota. To celebrate, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) will visit a dozen schools and childcare centers throughout the state that have received and implemented MDA Farm to School AGRI Grant funds. These grants help schools purchase equipment that will enable them to serve more locally grown and raised foods, benefitting both students and agricultural producers throughout Minnesota. What: Farm to School Month Tours Who: Farm to School...
MINNEAPOLIS - Indigenous Pink Day, on Friday October 21 , is a national breast cancer awareness campaign for American Indians/Alaska Natives. The AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION asks men and women of all ages to wear pink and share photos on social media using the hashtag #IndigenousPink to spread breast cancer awareness. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death and the most common cancer found in American Indian/Alaska Native women. The goal of Indigenous Pink Day is to educate all indigenous people on the importance of...
How many school board members have been told “It’s just one meeting a month” when asked to run for the school board? Anyone who works closely with the school board knows that doing the job well as a school board member is more than the “one meeting a month” commitment. The commitment to be a school board member involves not only the individual, but also his/her family and possibly his/her employer. Candidates for school board should understand what being a school board member means in their respective school districts. MSBA has put...
A Metro Transit bus has crashed at 12th Street and Harmon Place, according to scanner reports. Several ambulances have been dispatched to the scene and the area around 12th and Hennepin has been blocked off. There are reports of multiple injuries. http://www.startribune.com/metro-transit-bus-crashes-at-12th-and-harmon-in-downtown-minneapolis/395986471/...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida canceled classes along its Atlantic coastline and theme parks kept a watchful eye as Hurricane Matthew picked up speed heading to the East Coast. Officials in central Florida's Brevard County are ordering residents on barrier islands and in flood-prone areas to evacuate Wednesday in advance of the powerful hurricane. Residents who live in mobile and manufactured homes also are being ordered to leave. In South Carolina, Gov. Nikki Haley contemplated whether to order some 1 million people to leave the coast and...
A painting depicting one of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign slogans — “Build the Wall” — and a symbolic brick wall have created a firestorm on the University of Minnesota campus, offering students yet another lesson in freedom of speech. The mural by the Minnesota College Republicans — and its subsequent defacement — remained a frequent conversation topic Tuesday as pedestrians crossed the Washington Avenue Bridge, which connects the east and west banks of the Twin Cities campus. Now, amid hundreds of colorful panels promoting...
Two people were found dead in a southwestern Minnesota home, both with no visible wounds, and now authorities are hoping toxicology tests will unravel the mystery. Early Monday afternoon, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call from a family member requesting that deputies check on the well-being of Brian A. Johnson Sr. at his home in Hendricks, just inside the Minnesota-South Dakota border. Deputies entered the home and found Johnson, 56, and Catherine Lindberg-Baumgartner, 58, dead in different locations, the Sheriff’s...
Medicare’s fiscal watchdog has documented $1.5 billion in spending on seven types of defective heart devices that doctors implanted in thousands of beneficiaries. In addition to the money Medicare paid to health care providers for services and procedures related to recalls or premature device failures, the patients who got the defective devices paid an estimated $140 million in deductibles and coinsurance costs from their own pockets, according to a report that U.S. Health and Human Services Inspector General Daniel Levinson published...
The news has roiled the Twin Cities’ West African community: A program that allowed natives of the countries hardest hit by the 2014 Ebola epidemic to stay and work here is ending next spring. In September, U.S. officials granted a final six-month reprieve to about 5,900 visitors from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea here on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and urged them to make departure plans before the program expires in May. Community leaders had lobbied for the status and successfully pushed for extensions, arguing that the economies...
A U.S. District Court judge in Minnesota has shot down an attempt by trucking, automotive and oil industry groups to abolish the state’s requirement that diesel sold at the pump contain at least 10 percent biofuel. The business groups, in a suit filed in April 2015, alleged that Minnesota’s biodiesel mandate conflicts with federal clean air and renewable fuel laws. They asked for a permanent injunction barring the state’s mandate, as well as a planned increase to a 20 percent biodiesel threshold. But U.S. District Judge John Tunheim last...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit rose in August as a flood of imports offset the best showing for exports in 13 months. The politically sensitive deficit with China rose to the highest level in 11 months. The trade deficit increased 3 percent to $40.7 billion, up from a gap of $39.5 billion in July, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. Imports jumped 1.2 percent to $228.6 billion, reflecting big increases in shipments of foreign oil, autos and commercial aircraft. Exports were up 0.8 percent to $187.9 billion, the fourth straight...
ired after the death of a 3-year-old girl, who authorities say was left alone in a parked patrol car for four hours last week. Local media organizations report the Long Beach Board of Aldermen voted unanimously Tuesday night to terminate Officer Cassie Barker and Sgt. Clark Ladner. Chief Wayne McDowell recommended the immediate termination of the officers, who were also suspended without pay during the investigation. Reports said he cited a violation of department policies — conduct detrimental to the public. http://www.st...
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders tried Tuesday to leverage his popularity among Minnesota college students and DFLers on behalf of his former Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, while calling Republican Donald Trump “the worst candidate for president in the modern history of the United States.” Sanders’ message of political revolution found one of its most receptive audiences in Minnesota earlier this year. Though here this time to plug Clinton, his afternoon rally on the University of Minnesota campus sounded most of the same notes of his...
In a close vote, Dora Jones and Nokomis Hernandez, incumbent members of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians tribal council, were ousted in an election last weekend. Their replacements are Heather Airey and Patrick Hammond, two of 20 members who challenged for three spots on the council. Incumbent Tom Walker, tribal secretary, retained his seat. http://www.sierrastar.com/news/local/article105526991.html...
The city of Denver announced on Monday that it will join fourteen other cities across the country in recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day every year on the day that would normally be celebrated as Columbus Day. “Our city owes our very founding to the indigenous peoples in Denver,” City Councilman Paul Lopez said after the vote on Monday night. “We do this because our history books erase such history,” Lopez said, adding: “You honor it by making it no longer invisible.” The city council bill recognizes local native tribes and the...
As the eve of the 2016 US presidential election draws nearer, and the world inches ever-closer to the edge of their seats, wondering who the winner will be to lay claim to the world’s most powerful seat for committing acts of good or evil, there is yet another David & Goliath story unfolding. It’s yet one more spin on the same old story that has been told in America for eons; a story that pits ‘The People’, who seek to do good for the planet, against ‘The Powerful’ who desire to pursue the same pathways of evil that continues to...
MORTON COUNTY, N.D. – The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe disputes the conclusions of state archaeologists who found that construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline did not destroy sacred sites, after the company refused to allow tribal participation in the survey. The Morton County Sheriff’s Department made several efforts to encourage the company to involve tribal representation or at least allow the tribal historic preservation officer to be present while the property was surveyed on Sept. 21, said Capt. Jay Gruebele. But Dakota Access LLC,...
Labor unions on Monday alerted President Obama to what they consider to be a gross error by his administration in interfering last month with the construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline at a time when the courts are still sorting out lawsuits by the backers and opponents. On Wednesday oral arguments are to be heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. A lead plaintiff in the court case, Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, said Tuesday the Native American protesters...
I recently gathered with community activists in front of Oakland City Hall to express our solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the environment, and all First Nation Peoples, and spoke up in defense of the water and the Native people’s rights in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The pipeline threatens the safety of area drinking water, as the sovereignty of native lands. I introduced a Resolution to the Oakland City Council for us to officially go on record opposing the pipeline. Following this rally, I am proud to...
A representative from one of the world’s biggest oil producers will be at city hall Wednesday to announce the company will donate a former gas station site towards the construction of a long-awaited $30-million native youth centre planned for Commercial Drive and East Hastings. Details of Calgary-based Suncor Energy's involvement in the project will be released during a morning presentation to city council, which will also hear from Mukhtar Latif, the city’s chief housing officer, and Dena Klashinsky, the executive director of the Urban...
BILLINGS — The Obama administration wants a federal judge to uphold its decision to block oil and gas drilling on land considered sacred to some tribes in the U.S. and Canada, as industry groups warn the government’s move sets a precedent against energy development. Justice Department attorneys urged the judge in court documents filed Monday to reject a lawsuit that seeks to reinstate a 6,200-acre energy lease in Montana that was canceled by the Obama administration in March. http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2...