Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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A Nebraska public school system is failing kids by forcing them to get their fingers scanned to pay for lunch, according to irate parents. Justin Osterfoss, who has a son at an elementary school in Gretna, says he received an email from Gretna Public Schools last week about the new lunch identification system. Osterfoss thinks parents should be able to decide whether their child’s fingerprints are used. https://nypost.com/2018/11/26/grade-school-rolls-out-fingerprint-id-lunch-system-parents-dont-approve/...
LACEY, WASH. — A bill aimed at stopping school lunch shaming is putting districts across Washington state thousands of dollars in debt. North Thurston Public Schools said its lunch debt hit $21,000 last week. The district started the school year $4,500 in debt. https://www.ajc.com/news/national/lunch-shaming-ban-puts-washington-state-school-district-000-debt/2P27u6tysVITmrTCrzBz0N/...
File this under “things we already knew but it’s good to have confirmation anyway”: a new report says putting more police officers in schools does not necessarily make them safer. Kenneth Alonzo Anderson, an associate professor at Howard University, conducted a study focused on North Carolina middle schools and found no relationship between increased funding for school resource officers and reduction in cases of reported school crimes. Anderson told the News & Observer that legislators around the country should look at his findings befor...
How many American children have autism? The U.S. government answers that question at least three different ways and says the latest estimate — 1 in 40 kids — doesn’t necessarily mean the numbers are rising. The new number, published Monday in Pediatrics , is from one of three periodic surveys the government uses to assess autism rates. It’s higher than a different survey’s estimate published earlier this year, but the surveys use different methods and measure different populations of kids so the results aren’t really comparable. https://apn...
More than 2.6 million Minnesotans cast ballots in this month's election, short of the 2.9 million who voted two years ago, but still good enough to hit 64.25 percent of eligible voters and once again lead the nation. State officials certified the election results Tuesday. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/11/27/minnesota-2018-voter-turnout-tops-the-nation?fbclid=IwAR3z6KjUVVoWRlMFtLqxSQK1u5HZt6yPuOHZxjLY3a-1qbAEffHxL9c1deA...
THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. -- A man was killed in a Thief River Falls construction accident earlier this month. An employee was pinned between an I-beam and lift while installing bolts at the Digi-Key construction site at 601 Barzen Ave. S. on Nov. 6, said James Honerman, communications director for Minnesota OSHA. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/accidents/4534846-man-dies-after-being-pinned-northern-minnesota-job-site?fbclid=IwAR1SJaUFF_vTD7Y_xUwFWEgQm5yfrYrUDuBoXpYLOPcrZ_wtOaLxAqA7XR0...
Donald Trump campaigned for president on a promise to Michigan auto workers that “If I’m elected, you won’t lose one plant, you’ll have plants coming into this country, you’re going to have jobs again, you won’t lose one plant, I promise you that.” Barely two years later, on the Monday after Thanksgiving, General Motors announced that it was closing major auto plants in Michigan, as well as Ohio and Maryland. Thousands of jobs are being cut, and the future for many of the remaining plants suddenly seems very insecure. https://www.t...
A Six Nations fire station has been forced to close, leading to response delays in the region, after a brazen break and enter where thieves tried to steal fire trucks, causing over $200,000 in damages. Six Nations Fire Department announced Tuesday that fire station number three, which is located at 2134 Cayuga Road, will be closed indefinitely. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/six-nations-fire-theft-1.4923539...
Police say a Canadian man charged with coercion of a minor texted kissing face emojis and wrote he was "Soooo EXCITED" to meet up with a 16-year-old American girl. In the stream of texts sent to set up the encounter, the man even suggested he could get the girl pregnant that night. https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/st-regis-mohawk-police-child-luring-sting-1.4923055...
The Supreme Court considered on Tuesday whether much of eastern Oklahoma is an Indian reservation, a question that could have enormous consequences for the area’s 1.8 million residents in matters of criminal justice and commerce. The argument was made up of equal parts history, much of it dark, and an assessment of the practical implications of a ruling that Congress had never clearly destroyed the sovereignty of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation over the area, covering about half the state. https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/supre...
A bill to repeal an 1834 law that prohibits Native American tribes from owning and operating distilleries is headed to President Donald Trump for final approval. The bipartisan legislation spearheaded by Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, and Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, D-Wash., passed the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. https://tdn.com/bill-to-allow-tribal-distilleries-headed-for-trump-s-approval/article_2b7f2e10-67ee-5eca-ae8f-cadb1187f85d.html...
Tick infestations are killing moose calves in the northeastern U.S. at an alarming rate and climate change is to blame, according to a recent study. The dead moose calves with pale or missing patches of fur, drained of their blood from parasitic winter ticks, are part of a phenomenon known as "ghost moose" which affects young and old, but with far more devastating consequences for calves. https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/ghost-moose-ticks-calf-mortality-1.4922476...
