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A $572 million bond measure on the November ballot — the largest ever for Denver Public Schools — would fund a new elementary and middle school in northeast Denver, expand a high school and add air conditioning in several schools. If approved by voters, nearly a quarter of that money would go to minority- and women-owned businesses as part of the district’s focus on diversifying its hiring for construction projects. But some business owners are questioning the district’s past practices and commitment to supporting such contractors. One firm ha...
ST. PAUL, MN – Anti-pipeline environmental activists have illegally tampered with two Enbridge Energy lines in Northern Minnesota, attempting to turn off valves to stop oil flow. State Representatives Dan Fabian (R-Roseau), Deb Kiel (R-Crookston) and Steve Green (R-Fosston), encouraged Governor Mark Dayton and Democrat leaders to speak out against these irresponsible protests and released the following joint statement: “Extreme environmental activists have illegally tampered with pipelines in Northern Minnesota, risking public safety and an...
This is a great opportunity for Native producers. The Sundance Institute’s Native and Indigenous Program has announced the opening of the submission period for the 2017 Time Warner Native Producers Fellowship. The Fellowship supports Native producers in their professional development and advancement of their projects. Applications will be accepted through Oct. 24, 2016. “If you are a Native producer, the Time Warner Native Producing Fellowship is a prime opportunity to further hone your craft and to be a part of a network of Native pro...
(Lincoln, Nebraska): The same year our nation celebrated its bicentennial and President Ford proclaimed a week in October as "Native American Awareness Week," six Native producers in public television met to charter the Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium (NAPBC), later known as Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT) and now Vision Maker Media. It was 1976 when these Native producers began to cultivate interest among Native American tribes to participate in developing their own media, which led to the initiation of several...
POSITION TITLE: Faculty - Adjunct DEPARTMENT: Communications REPORTS TO: VP of Academics CLASSIFICATION: Non Exempt REVISED: October 2016 DEADLINE: Friday, November 11th at 4:00 p.m. PRIMARY FUNCTION: Adjunct instructor to teach ENGL 101 (English Composition I) on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 11:53 a.m. to 12:46 p.m. at Red Lake High School for PSEO (Post-Secondary Enrollment Option) Students. ACCOUNTABILTY: The Adjunct Instructor reports directly to the VP of Academic Affairs....
A top medical researcher at the University of Minnesota has found a new way to reverse memory loss in lab mice, a discovery that could set the stage for a potential human treatment. Dr. Karen Ashe, a world-renowned expert on Alzheimer’s disease, said the research shows that it may be possible for the brain to repair itself, even after the signs of memory loss have appeared. In a study published this week in the journal Nature Medicine, Ashe and her team found that a natural enzyme called caspase-2 plays a key role in dementia. By lowering t...
A St. Francis High School soccer coach who wore a clown mask for a photo at the team’s final practice is fighting to get his job back. Ben Hildre, a volunteer coach for the junior varsity girl’s soccer team, received a letter from district Superintendent Troy Ferguson on Friday relieving him of his duties after a photo of Hildre wearing a clown mask on school grounds circulated on social media. Administrators say they had to act for the safety of students, several of whom had previously expressed anxiety about the national “creepy clown craze...
WASHINGTON — Here comes Donald Trump, unfiltered. Again. The Republican presidential candidate is vowing to win the election his own way, as party leaders step away from him. He declared on Fox News on Tuesday night that he's "just tired of non-support" from Republican leaders and "I wouldn't want to be in a foxhole with a lot of these people." http://www.startribune.com/unshackled-trump-unleashes-aggressive-attacks-on-own-party/396757811/...
Scarlett Sheeley drew along with her after-school instructor, gripping the midnight blue Crayola marker to close in the lines of her imperfect, lumpy heart. Kaitlyn Mortenson encouraged the 4-year-old along the way as she finished drawing a heart for the first time. Mortenson along with her classmate, Ali Voller, supervised a class of 4- to 5-year-olds in the Meadow Ridge after-school program for a new high school course developed to fill a need for after-school counselors. The need became acute this fall after the district switched start...
After studying the issue for nearly two years, St. Jude Medical alerted patients and doctors Tuesday that almost 350,000 of its implanted defibrillators have batteries that could fail with little warning. The Little Canada-based maker of advanced heart devices said the rare but serious problem with the lithium batteries is already linked to two deaths. Implantable defibrillators comprise St. Jude’s largest-selling product category, with $1.5 billion in global sales last year. The devices monitor the heart beat to prevent sudden cardiac a...
CANNON BALL, N.D. – Ranchers are arming themselves before they climb onto tractors or see to their livestock. Surveillance helicopters buzz low through the prairie skies. Native Americans fighting to prevent an oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation are handing out thick blankets and coats and are building maple-pole shelters that can withstand North Dakota’s bitter winter. As the first deep freeze looms, many here are bracing for a long fight as the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline races to finish the $3.7 billion pro...
GREENVILLE, N.C. — A state trooper shot and killed an armed man during a search for flood victims in a tense and dispirited North Carolina, and thousands more people were ordered to evacuate as high water from Hurricane Matthew pushed downstream Tuesday, two days after the storm blew out to sea. Matthew's death toll in the U.S. climbed to 34, more than half of them in North Carolina, in addition to the more than 500 feared dead in Haiti. In Greenville, a city of 90,000, officials warned that the Tar River would overwhelm every bridge in the c...
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the U.S. House, said Tuesday she was confident that voters would send two more women from Minnesota to Washington during a forum at the University of Minnesota. Pelosi, the 15-term Democrat from California, arrived in Minnesota the day before, headlining a fundraiser for congressional candidates Angie Craig and state Sen. Terri Bonoff. The candidates are locked in two of the most closely watched and expensive congressional races in the country. Pelosi said she's hoping for more female lawmakers in...
LONDON — Family business owners like Stephen Bowles say the timing of the pound's plunge couldn't be worse. The freight hauler, whose family business operates at Heathrow, Europe's largest airport, says a resulting five-pence per liter increase in the price of fuel for his 40-truck fleet will add as much as 50,000 pounds ($62,000) a year to his costs. Plus it comes as his trucks start to import goods for the Christmas holidays. "It's the busiest time of the year," he said, adding that the extra cost will ultimately be reflected in higher p...
CLEARFIELD, Utah — A Utah man who was cleared Tuesday after being arrested two months earlier on accusations he a drugged a police officer's drink said he's relieved but disappointed in how police handled his case and that they refuse to apologize for sullying his reputation. Speaking for the first time since the allegations — and his police mug shot — became a top national story in early August, Tanis Ukena said at a news conference that he has hardly left his northern Utah home because he feared for his safety after receiving online death...
The US government reiterated its request that construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota be paused, while authorities consider the impacts of its route on a Native American tribe. The Dakota Access Pipeline has been the subject of a months-long protest, in which Native Americans and their supporters have camped out in the state’s prairie lands to block the pipeline’s route underneath the Missouri River and the adjoining man-made Lake Oahe. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe says the project threatens its drinking water source, and could destroy...
ST. ANTHONY, N.D. — Construction on the four-state Dakota Access pipeline resumed Tuesday on private land in North Dakota that’s near a camp where thousands of protesters supporting tribal rights have gathered for months. In turn, protesters said they’re discussing nonviolent opposition measures, including chaining themselves to equipment. And at least eight people were arrested Tuesday attempting to shut down pipelines in other states as a show of solidarity with the Dakota Access protesters. Wyoming officials were not aware of incid...
A US federal court has denied a Native American tribe's appeal for an injunction to block the construction of the Dakota Access crude-oil pipeline near their reservation in the US state of North Dakota, which they say could lead to the destruction of culturally sacred sites and contaminate their water supply. Energy Transfer Partners, the Texas-based company building the pipeline that runs through four states and has been largely completed, confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that construction will resume in the vicinity of Lake Oahe, a...
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe continues to call for peace and prayer as authorities in North Dakota announced additional arrests of Dakota Access Pipeline resisters. Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said 27 people were arrested on Monday for "unlawful activities" at a construction site. Actress Shailene Woodley, who has used her celebrity to rally support for the #NoDAPL movement, is among those who are being charged for taking a stand against the pipeline. "That was all occurring on private land," Kirchmeier said during a press...
After more than 150 years, historians (and perhaps Californians) are facing the horrifying truth that Indian slavery was a key source of labor that helped create the early economy of California and enrich its first settlers. As part of the Shaping SF Public Talks series, KALW's Rose Aguilar moderated a conversation about this legacy with journalist Elias Castillo, historian Lisbeth Haas, and tribal leader Valentin Lopez. http://kalw.org/post/indigenous-peoples-day-special-emerging-history-indian-slavery-california#stream/0...
RENO — Detectives are reviewing witness accounts and “horrifying” cellphone video while they consider filing a criminal complaint after a pickup truck plowed into a crowd of people during a Native American rights demonstration Monday in downtown Reno, the police chief said. And Mike Graham, founder of the Oklahoma-based United Native American Association, said Tuesday he doesn’t understand why the driver, an 18-year-old male, hasn’t been arrested. “We are truly upset that he is not in custody. He left the scene of an accident,” Graham told T...
RENO, Nev. - The founder of a Native American rights group that was rallying in Reno, Nevada, when a pickup truck plowed through protesters wants to know why police haven’t arrested the driver. One woman remained hospitalized Tuesday with non-life threatening injuries. Four others suffered minor injuries Monday night in what one witness described as a hate crime. Another said two men in the truck had been yelling obscenities at the protesters earlier in the day. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/truck-hits-nevada-crowd-during-colu...
Every year, more cities adopt resolutions to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day as a counter-movement honoring Native Americans instead of Christopher Columbus, a 15th-century Italian explorer who arrived in the Americas by accident but helped usher in European settler colonialism. These changes have been a long time coming. Indigenous activists proposed the idea to the United Nations in 1977 at the UN’s International Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas. But it didn’t begin to happen in the...
Several climate-change activists were arrested Tuesday after shutting down five oil pipelines from Canada that can potentially carry nearly 15 percent of daily U.S. consumption, in the latest move by environmental groups to disrupt the movement of oil across North America to heighten awareness of the environmental and human dangers posed. Protesters in Montana, Minnesota, North Dakota and Washington state successfully turned off valves on pipelines that flow from Canada's oil sands into the United States, said Climate Direct Action, adding...
FARMINGTON — Former Navajo Nation Council Delegate George Arthur has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for misusing a financial assistance program intended to help tribal members facing financial hardship. Arthur, who represented Nenahnezad, San Juan and Tiis Tsoh Sikaad chapters, was sentenced Monday in Window Rock, Ariz., according to a press release from the Navajo Nation Special Prosecutor. Window Rock District Court Judge Carol Perry sentenced the former tribal lawmaker to 90 days in Window Rock jail, followed by 90 days of supervised p...
