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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) supports Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ decision to reopen the state’s economy on September 25 after he consulted public health officials. Governor DeSantis’ latest executive order bars local governments from enforcing restaurant and bar closures, and bans fines and fees tied to local COVID-19 compliance efforts. Fines attached to local COVID-19 regulations, like mask mandates, are now suspended in an effort to “get away from trying to penalize people.” On September 24, Governor...
Child care providers across Minnesota are in line for more state support to help them keep operating through the end of the year – but only if they apply for funding by Oct. 14. About 7,300 providers may be eligible for COVID-19 Public Health Support Funds for Child Care from the Minnesota Department of Human Services. The non-competitive grants totaling $53 million will help family child care providers and child care centers cover the costs of safeguarding the health and safety of children and staff for three months. Many providers were a...
When Ramona Bennett became a member of the Puyallup Tribal Council in 1968, she wanted to see change. The tribe had no health clinic, no school, no large source of income like the casino they currently own. They didn't even own their cemetery. "This tribe literally had nothing," she recalled. At the time, the Puyallup Tribe was down to about 170 enrolled members, a stark contrast to the more than 5,000 it has today. "We had no services, none whatsoever, and no recognized rights," said Bennett,...
KESHENA – The Menominee Tribe had been able to keep a handle on the number of COVID-19 cases throughout much of the summer until about mid-September when cases started to skyrocket, forcing officials to partially shut down the county. Cases of COVID-19 in Menominee County, which shares roughly the same borders as the Menominee reservation, had remained in the single digits through much of the spring and the first half summer. A large spike in cases started to occur the third week of September, raising the number of people infected with C...
Last Thursday, Carol Dube travelled almost 400 kilometres (249 miles) from his home in Manawan First Nation to address federal government officials in Canada’s capital, Ottawa. Three days earlier, his 37-year-old wife, Joyce Echaquan, had died at the Centre Hospitalier de Lanaudiere in Joliette in Quebec. She had live-streamed some of her last moments on Facebook – a video that shows Echaquan writhing and shouting in pain while hospital staff taunt and degrade her, calling her a “f***ing idiot” and telling her she is only good for sex. With a...
WASHINGTON - The story of Navajo Generating Station in rural Arizona, in a approach, is a narrative about the US: the extraordinary coal-fueled enlargement of the nation after World Conflict II, the continued extraction of pure sources from Native American lands after which the speedy transfer in recent times away from coal to pure gasoline and renewable vitality. Advertisement The best way most of the now-unemployed coal miners in Arizona see it, it is usually a narrative of a Republican...
