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DENVER — A rural Colorado school district decided Wednesday night to allow its teachers and other school staff to carry guns on campus to protect students. The Hanover School District 28 board voted 3-2 to allow school employees to volunteer to be armed on the job after undergoing training. The district's two schools serve about 270 students about 30 miles southeast of Colorado Springs, and it takes law enforcement an average of 20 minutes to get there. The district currently shares an armed school resource officer with four other school d...
After refusing to practice Thursday, Gophers players donned their maroon game jerseys and announced that they are boycotting all football activities — even their Dec. 27 bowl game, if need be — in protest of the University of Minnesota’s decision to suspend 10 teammates as a result of a September sexual assault allegation. Those 10 suspended players stood directly behind seniors Drew Wolitarsky, Mitch Leidner and Duke Anyanwu — with the rest of the team arrayed behind them in support — as Wolitarsky read from a typed, two-page statement...
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Entering Thursday's NCAA semifinal against Stanford, the Gophers volleyball team knew exactly how it measured up. The Cardinal's hitters towered as high as the tree that serves as the team's mascot, with three key players 6-6 or taller and star Inky Ajanaku a relative shrimp at 6-3. The top-ranked Gophers had seen Stanford earlier this season, in a four-set loss in August. "You can talk about the fact that the block's going to be sizable, but it had been a while,'' coach Hugh McCutcheon said. "And there's no other team r...
It's official: date labels on food don't quite represent the peril that people think. For years, foodmakers have put sell-by and use-by dates on a number of products. But some food experts and environmentalists have argued that people are throwing out perfectly good food because of those dates. And on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture agreed. The department's food safety division released new industry guidance that recommends that manufacturers use the phrase "best if used by" rather than "sell by" or "use by" when putting dates on...
What started out as some playful fun among teenage boys turned frightening late Wednesday when a west metro man who feared being burglarized fired his handgun three times into the ground, leading to charges against him. The 34-year-old Carver man fired the gun after he saw what he thought was a stranger or strangers on the roof of his shed at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Carver County Sheriff’s Office. The roof climber was a 16-year-old boy trying to retrieve his hat from the roof. http://www.startribune.com/man-ch...
Charges were filed Thursday against the principal of Chanhassen High School for allegedly possessing child pornography depicting young girls. Timothy Dorway, 44, appeared late Thursday morning for a bail hearing in Carver County District Court in Chaska on seven felony counts of possessing child porn videos. According to the charges, he had been involved in such behavior for a decade. Agents with the state’s internet Crimes Against Children Task Force acted on a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and arrested D...
The Dakota Access Pipeline, an oil pipeline that starts in North Dakota and will route to Illinois, has been marred by a steady stream of misinformation and rumor. As governor of North Dakota, I feel it is important to share the facts of how the route was permitted through our state, as well as our North Dakota law enforcement’s exemplary management of protesters who have made national headlines. Many around the world have come to know this project as simply “DAPL,” and have used limited information shared through traditional and social media...
The two-word agenda item tucked at the end of a recent Anoka County committee meeting spoke volumes to the few observers lining the walls, clipboards in hand. That brief item, which listed “public comment” as the final order of business, tapped into one citizen group’s broader beef with county officials about government transparency. Known as the Observer Corps, this group, made up of volunteers from the north metro’s League of Women Voters as well as community members, has been keeping tabs on the Anoka County Board for the past year, attendi...
Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges vowed to defend the city against the policies of president-elect Donald Trump as she kicked off her re-election bid Thursday evening, painting a bleak picture of what she sees as looming threats to the city. After checking off accomplishments during her first term — including passing an earned sick time ordinance, equipping Minneapolis police officers with body cameras and leading fundraising for Downtown East Commons — Hodges turned to the aftermath of November’s presidential election. “We know that progres...
A pharmaceutical saleswoman in Minnesota was a key figure in a conspiracy by six generic drug manufacturers to curtail competition and raise prices, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the attorney generals of Minnesota and 19 other states. The complaint says executives and salespeople for the companies arranged “Girls Night Out” and “Women in the Industry” meetings or dinners, which ultimately led to agreements to raise prices of the generic drug Glyburide for diabetes and the antibiotic Doxycycline Hyclate for infections. The local s...
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Dr. Anna Miller sits with her legs pulled up, boots kicked off, in an exam chair at Cherokee Nation W.W. Hastings Hospital. She’s waiting for her first Suboxone patient of the day. She knows the odds are stacked against these patients struggling to get off opioids. She’s seen firsthand how crooked the path to recovery can be. She also knows she has a few singular advantages, unique to Indian Country, in tackling the crisis. But those advantages are double-edged — and all too swiftly can turn into obstacles. https:/...
WASHINGTON— The surreal meeting on Friday, December 9, 2016 in Washington, D.C. was a direct result of frontline water protectors, tribal leaders, spiritual leaders and elders, the camps at Standing Rock, and allies all across the world praying and participating in non-violent direct actions for the successful denial of the Dakota Access Pipeline easement and the repeated tribal requests for an Environmental Impact Statement (“EIS”). At a meeting coordinated by the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association, tribal representatives from the lea...
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The blockade was imposed at the Backwater Bridge, the site of a violent clash in November between law enforcement and protesters opposing the $3.7 billion Dakota Access Pipeline construction because of environmental concerns. "The blockade has been a serious issue for our people as it cuts us off from the shortest route to major hospitals and other emergency services," Archambault said on Wednesday. North Dakota Oil Spill © AP Photo/ Scott Stockdill Large Oil Leak in North Dakota Confirms Water Protectors’ Fears Arch...
FT. YATES, N.D. –– As thousands of Dakota Access Pipeline opponents in resistance camps responded to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s appeal to fold up their tents for the winter, organizers turned attention toward a boycott of investment banks and other campaigns to prevent revival of the project. The appeal came in the wake of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision Dec. 4 favoring their demand to deny a permit for construction across the Missouri River. “As we reflect on the decision by the U.S. Army to suspend the Dakota Access Pipeline...
The standoff at North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux Reservation — with Indian tribes and supporters on one side, and police and private security for the Dakota Access Pipeline on the other – also finds labor union members on both sides. North America’s Building Trades Unions and the AFL-CIO have come out in favor of the project moving forward, because it’s a big source of union jobs. But other labor organizations have declared support for pipeline protesters, and in Oregon and Washington, a number of union members have traveled to Standing...
For months supporters of the Standing Rock Sioux have been urged to boycott Wells Fargo, the world’s second largest bank, because of its financing of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Many closed their Wells Fargo checking and savings accounts, moving the money to credit unions. The amounts weren’t much, perhaps a few hundred or a few thousand dollars each. One supporter, however, represented a bit more, about $3 billion. On Monday, December 12, the Seattle City Council introduced legislation that would effectively sever the city’s relat...
The strike has ended at Nisichawayasihk Personal Care Home in Nelson House, Man. On Nov. 28 about 30 Manitoba Government Employees Union (MGEU) workers walked off the job because they said they were not paid the same as other personal care home workers in Manitoba. They had been pushing for better wages for six years, the union said. MGEU president Michelle Gawronsky said workers were paid 27 per cent, or $4 per hour, less than other employees with the same level of training. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/personal-c...
On Tuesday a group of masked men kidnapped at gunpoint Anabela Carlon Flores, a lawyer for the Yaqui tribe, who are facing increasingly violent repression in their fight against the cross-border Agua Prieta pipeline in Northern Mexico. Anabela Carlon Flores told reporters she was driving with her husband to a community meeting in the Yaqui community of Bacum on Tuesday at approximately 7 p.m. when their car was stopped by a group of armed masked men. She and her husband were blindfolded and put in another car where the human rights lawyer was t...
PINE RIDGE --One Oglala Lakota rancher believes that his right to due process has been undermined by the Bureau of Indian Affairs' refusal to adhere to a tribal court ruling. Curtis Temple, a tribal citizen, landowner, and third generation rancher, has had over 250-head of cattle seized by the BIA since a May 2015 tribal court ruling that stopped was supposed to stop any further seizures of Temple's cattle. "I have followed the law. That's all I can do. Why don't they have to follow the law," asked Temple. http://www.indianz...
This time it's official -- Republican president-elect Donald Trump has tapped a lawmaker with a more favorable record on tribal issues to head up the Interior Department. Since joining Congress in 2015, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Montana) has supported tribes on water, taxation, health care, federal recognition, economic development, energy, violence against Native women, and sovereignty matters. If he is confirmed as Secretary of the Interior, he would be the key person in the incoming administration that deals with Indian issues. But Trump didn't...
Legislation that makes it easier for two tribes in Oregon to restore their homelands has been signed into law by President Barack Obama. Under S.817, any land that the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians acquire within the original 1855 Coast Reservation will be considered a part of the current reservation. For the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, S.818 reduces the number of steps required for land to be acquired in trust and declared a part of the reservation. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/12/15/president-obama-sign...
WASHINGTON – The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service Wednesday announced it has finalized a rule that will help protect and conserve eagle populations through revised permitting processes and monitoring requirements. The revised rule engages a variety of industries more fully in eagle conservation and helps the Service better understand how human activities across the landscape affect eagles. The rule includes revisions to the permitting system for unintentional prohibited impacts to eagles and will help protect local populations by providing m...
The federal government is investing up to $500 million to bring high-speed, broadband Internet access to 300 rural and remote communities by 2021. Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says the "Connect to Innovate" program is the modern equivalent of building roads or railway spurs to remote locations, providing Internet access to schools, hospitals and First Nation band offices. He says high-speed Internet access can unlock tremendous economic potential, leading to the creation of new jobs, products and businesses. http://www....
Law enforcement, and other segments of Alaska's justice system, are quite concerned about deep changes the Legislature began making to the state Criminal Code this year. The aim of Senate Bill 91 is to reduce sentences and jail time for many low level offenders, opening the way to more rehabilitation and treatment options as well as reducing recidivism. In Western Alaska, proponents say that this could give local tribes power to take a seat at the table, but are they ready for that increased responsibility? As Alaska tribes continue to explore...
On a rainy Wednesday afternoon, four American Indian teenagers are gathered in a nondescript building along rural Okmulgee, Oklahoma's main street. As the headquarters of the Muscogee Creek Nation, Okmulgee takes pride in its American Indian heritage. Street signs in the downtown area are in both English and Muscogee languages and tribal insignia is seen throughout the community. Outside the building, a man drives a truck hauling bales of hay while inside the building, posters of American Indian youth in traditional regalia hang on one wall....
