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ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Rural Finance Authority (RFA) has lowered its interest rate on the Disaster Loan program to zero percent to help farmers cover the costs to replace and repair items lost or damaged due to flooding and not covered by insurance. As with other RFA loans, the Disaster Loan program will be available for farmers through their existing agricultural lenders for financing for these repairs. The loans can be used to help clean up, repair, or replace farm structures and to replace seed, other crop inputs, feed, and l...
October 5, 2016 Louisville, Ky.—At Cane Run Elementary School, ringing bells mark more than the start of the school day. For teachers Meghann Clem and Christine “Shay” Johnson, the sound of a chime begins another 50-minute lesson to teach students compassion, empathy, mindfulness, and resilience. These so-called soft skills, research suggests and educators believe, will translate into success inside and outside of school. It’s all part of the Compassionate Schools Project (CSP), an ambitious $11 million, six-year experiment in social and emo...
In the past few decades, research has provided compelling reasons for increasing the number of minority teachers in the classroom, such as that it could improve minority students’ academic performance. Now, a study out Wednesday adds a fresh reason to the mix: All students ― regardless of race ― might simply like these teachers better. The study by New York University professors set out to determine if middle school students tended to prefer black, Latino or white teachers. To find the answer, researchers used raw data from a 2009–2010 survey...
A University of Virginia study found that about 1 in 10 Virginia schoolchildren missed 18 or more days of school in the 2014-2015 school year, offering the first statewide look at a problem that research has shown can derail a child’s education. The study’s report aims to shine a light on the issue of chronic absenteeism across Virginia. Luke C. Miller, a research assistant professor who co-wrote the report, said he hopes it inspires more research into why students miss class and how to address it. Educators have long focused on attendance iss...
A Twin Cities man is behind bars in Polk County, Minn., on suspicion of raping two underage girls at a Bible camp this summer. Semaj Avyiair Okongwu, 18, of Burnsville, Minn., faces two charges of criminal sexual conduct in the third degree after being accused of assaulting two girls at Sand Hill Lake Bible Camp south of Fosston. The alleged assaults took place July 25 and July 28, according to court documents. An investigation led to a warrant issued by the Polk County District Court on Sept. 27. Okongwu was arrested in Itasca County on...
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DALLAS — State agents raided the Dallas headquarters of adult classified ad portal Backpage and arrested Chief Executive Officer Carl Ferrer on Thursday following allegations that adult and child sex-trafficking victims had been forced into prostitution through escort ads posted on the site. Ferrer, 55, was arrested on a California warrant after arriving at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport on a flight from Amsterdam. "Making money off the backs of innocent human beings by allowing them to be exploited for modern-day slavery is not a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Hurricane Matthew pelted Florida with heavy rains as the deadly storm steamed ever closer to the coast with potentially catastrophic winds of 130 mph Thursday. Two million people across the Southeast were warned to flee inland. It was the most powerful storm to threaten the U.S. Atlantic coast in more than a decade, and had already left more than 280 dead in its wake across the Caribbean. "This storm's a monster," Gov. Rick Scott warned as it started lashing the state with periodic heavy rains and squalls around n...
A 13-year-old boy was arrested Thursday after a social media posting "implying violence" against Valley View Middle School in Bloomington, police said. School officials were immediately notified and precautions were taken to keep students safe, police said in a news release. The boy was arrested and is being held in the Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center. Police said it appears the case is related to the social media trend involving images or videos of clowns intending to threaten or scare people. Police said that people who post...
Beer drinkers looking to take home a growler from Insight Brewing in Minneapolis can pick one up as late as 10 p.m. on weekdays. A few miles away, and across the Minneapolis-St. Paul border, someone making the same request at Urban Growler Brewing Co. would go home empty. Unlike most metro area cities, St. Paul requires liquor stores and breweries to stop selling alcohol for off-site consumption at 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday. “We’re such an outlier,” said Council Member Chris Tolbert, who wants to extend the hours to 10 p.m. That would...
The “quiet catastrophe” is particularly dismaying because it is so quiet, without social turmoil or even debate. It is this: After 88 consecutive months of the economic expansion that began in June 2009, a smaller percentage of American males in the prime working years (ages 25 to 54) are working than were working near the end of the Great Depression in 1940, when the unemployment rate was above 14 percent. If the labor force participation rate were as high today as it was as recently as 2000, nearly 10 million more Americans would have job...
The Nobel Prize for Peace will be announced Friday in Oslo. It’s awarded by a committee of five appointed by the Norwegian parliament. There’s no shoo-in candidate this year, but a think tank in Norway has issued a shortlist of front-runners. Here are the top five candidates, according to Kristian Berg Harpviken, the director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo. The White Helmets In besieged rebel-held areas of Syria, an all-volunteer team known as the Syrian Civil Defense is on the front lines rescuing and treating civilians trapped wit...
Speaking to a crowd in south Minneapolis on Thursday, Chelsea Clinton said the U.S. is nearing what she sees as the most important presidential election of her lifetime — and not just because her mother is the Democratic candidate. At a rally to encourage participation in Minnesota’s early voting system, Hillary Clinton’s daughter highlighted her mother’s plans on issues ranging from immigration reform to early education. And she criticized the tactics and commentary of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, whose campaign she said ha...
One of every 40 American adults cannot vote in November’s election because of state laws that bar people with felony convictions from casting ballots. Experts say racial disparities in sentencing have had a disproportionate effect on the voting rights of blacks and Hispanics. A report by the Sentencing Project, a nonprofit organization focused on criminal justice reform, estimates that 6.1 million Americans will not be allowed to vote next month because of these laws. State laws that bar voting vary widely. Three swing states — Florida, Iow...
NEW YORK — Victims of clergy sex abuse willing to forego lawsuits against New York's Roman Catholic archdiocese can seek compensation through a new church fund announced Thursday, but any records of such abuse and what the church did about problem priests will remain private. The program will be led by Kenneth Feinberg, who managed the federal compensation fund for Sept. 11 victims, with oversight by former New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly, among others. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the New York archbishop, said he created the f...
When the federal and state governments observe Columbus Day on Monday, Phoenix will recognize the history and contributions of Native Americans with its first Indigenous Peoples' Day. Phoenix City Council members voted 9-0 Wednesday to establish the day as an annual city commemoration event. The move neither creates an official city holiday nor does it replace Columbus Day, which Phoenix doesn't observe as a city holiday. But supporters said it will promote a more accurate understanding of history and celebrate the city's large, vibrant Native...
On Columbus Day weekend in 2015, for the first time in NYC, 6,000 Indigenous people and supporters gathered on Randall’s Island to celebrate the 523-year survival of First Nations cultures and traditions. The event received worldwide media coverage and was the beginning of Indigenous Peoples Day in NYC. On October 10th 2016, 9 Indigenous organizations in New York City will again unify to bring awareness of Indigenous Peoples Day, traditionally celebrated on Columbus Day. The groups involved are the American Indian Community House, Redhawk N...
WASHINGTON (CN) - A three-judge appellate panel questioned whether the Army Corps of Engineers skirted its requirement to consult with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe before greenlighting construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline. The tribe has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for a temporary injunction that would halt work on the pipeline in parts of North Dakota, where the tribe says sacred land will be harmed, while it appeals a lower court ruling last month refusing to block the...
Last week, water protectors from the camps near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, engaged in peaceful non-violent direct action at three different Dakota Access Construction sites. And despite the peaceful and prayerful atmosphere at all three sites, the Morton County Sheriff's Department quickly released a statement alleging that the demonstration turned violent, and that one unidentified Dakota Access security worker was assaulted by “protestors” as knives and guns were wielded. Water protectors on the ground vehemently refute this claim, and the...
CANNON BALL, N.D. –– As the month of October opened; public awareness grew about Dakota Access Pipeline pollution threats, not only to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Missouri River drinking water supply, but also to many millions of downstream people’s supplies from the Mississippi. A mounting legacy of rallies, ceremonies, civil disobedience actions and plans led to a backlash from uneasy supporters of the private oil company project and to souped-up law-enforcement activity. http://www.nativesunnews.today/news/2016-10-05/...
CANNONBALL, N.D. — The fake image of the “Protest on the Pipeline” — shared more than 350,000 times on Facebook within 24 hours — got it all wrong. Maybe you’ve seen it: a sloping hillside, swarmed by people like ants on a crumb as far as the eye could see. That’s what 400,000 people at the Woodstock concert looked like in 1969. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/opposing-a-pipeline-near-sioux-sacred-sites/?_r=0...
Greenpeace has recently uncovered that Donald Trump has multiple financial ties to the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, which hundreds of Native American tribes have been desperately resisting for months. The controversial builders of the Dakota Access route have received troubling headlines in the past for setting dogs on protesters and destroying sacred land which old treaties with the Sioux Tribe were supposed to protect. The usually opinionated Trump has been silent on the issue of the unpopular pipeline throughout his campaign, though...
At the center of the Dakota Access pipeline fight are some of the country's most impoverished and most economically powerful people. One section of the four-state pipeline would run through North Dakota's Standing Rock Sioux reservation, where 41 percent of 8,200 residents live below the poverty level and nearly a quarter are unemployed. Thousands of people have joined the Standing Rock tribe in opposing the pipeline over concerns it will contaminate their water supply and damage sacred sites and cultural artifacts. On the opposite side is...
A dispute that helped draw nationwide attention to the disenrollment epidemic in Indian Country has resulted in victory for the descendants of a treaty signer. With little fanfare, the descendants of Chief Tumulth rejoined the rolls of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde on Monday. The move comes after years of litigation that sparked deep divisions within the Oregon tribe and drew negative attention to its leadership. "WE BELONG! We have finally been restored to FULL tribal citizens!" the descendants wrote on Facebook on Tuesday after...
