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With all the carols sung and eggnog consumed, Americans will now be indulging in a more modern and growing holiday pastime: returning unwanted gifts. Many shoppers, if they give it any thought, assume those ill-fitting sweaters and unloved blenders will go right back onto store shelves. But returns, an increasing headache for retailers, are spawning a huge industry of middlemen, technology firms and discount sellers dedicated to figuring out what to do with all those goods. The weeks after Christmas are their busiest time. h...
Lower gas prices and the ease of online shopping may be giving retailers an extra spark this holiday season. After years of recessionary belt tightening, consumers spent 7.9 percent more than last year during the dash between Black Friday and Christmas Eve and ponied up for furniture and other high-priced items, according to MasterCard SpendingPulse. The report, released Monday, doesn't include sales of cars or gas and is based on an analysis of actual spending data as well as surveys of consumers using credit cards, cash and checks....
Last-minute shoppers endured long waits at the MNsure call center as the state’s health insurance exchange, insurers and consumer advisers all reported heavy traffic before Monday’s deadline for January coverage. Callers to MNsure on Sunday waited an average of nearly 50 minutes on hold, according to figures reported Monday by the government-run exchange. By 3 p.m. on Monday, callers were waiting an average of 53 minutes. The Sunday figure was the longest average daily wait during the current open enrollment period, which started Nov. 1. htt...
TOKYO — Japan and South Korea have reached an agreement to resolve their decades-long dispute over Korean victims of Japan's World War II-era military prostitution system, with an apology by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a pledge to set up a 1 billion yen ($8 million) fund for the victims, euphemistically called "comfort women." Here are statements Monday by Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his South Korean counterpart, Yun Byung-se, released by Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "Announcement by Foreign Ministers of Japan and t...
The first thing I did when I woke up this morning? Twenty minutes of hide-and-seek under the covers of my bed, with my 8-month-old son and my nearly 3-year-old daughter laughing maniacally. In the last two months, I’ve baked two cakes, a dozen muffins and one batch of brownies. I’ve even rolled out at least 80 Play-Doh “pie crusts” with my industrious daughter, Ruby, who loves to follow “wessipes” and say “check!” after we place each “ingweedient” on the kitchen table, real or not. http://www.startribune.com/my-self-employed...
The other week the federal government chose to lift sanctions and restore salaries for the 43 First Nation chiefs that were not complying with the First Nations Transparency Act and withholding basic financial information from their members and the Canadian public. The First Nations Transparency Act requires chiefs to publicly release the band’s audited financial statements as well as chief and councillors salaries, thereby informing First Nations members how their band finances are managed and informing Canadian taxpayers how their tax d...
MarijuanaMISSION, Ore. – The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Board of Trustees is expected to revisit marijuana legalization issues in the new year. Director of Communications Chuck Sams says the trustees will also look at a recent move on marijuana-related businesses made by the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs. “Our cousins did pass a marijuana referendum, but what’s unique about that one is that they didn’t decriminalize in on the reservation,” he said. “The only thing that they passed by referendum – which was...
Having a Native land, Choctaw Indians have been granted the sovereignty to take over legal cases or issues that are experienced by their people. However, with this current issue, the main premise is whether or not the tribal courts of the Indian country have jurisdiction over non-Native individuals. The decade-long battle is about the case of a 13-year old Choctaw who worked in a Dollar general company. As reported by Slate the child purportedly have experienced being sexually harassed by his Dollar general employer and when the child's family...
RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson is making life more difficult for rank-and-file officers by stating publicly that there are racists on the force who he would like to remove from duty, the association that represents the force’s members says. In a strongly worded statement, it said the commissioner’s response earlier this month to questions about racism against indigenous people was rife with sweeping generalizations and puts officers in harm’s way, both legally and personally. “How is the public supposed to respect officers now, after their o...
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — The state's busiest courthouse has revived a program that gives Native American with two or more DWIs an alternative to jail time with treatment that incorporates traditional aspects of Native American cultures. The treatment program runs as a tract in the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court's DWI and Drug court. It was suspended in 2009, but re-started a year ago under Judge Maria Dominguez. http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/b5af6fd91e2e447ab73bdd0256cc7ffe/NM--DWI-Court-Native-Americans...
About 5.3 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, the latest statistics suggest, and it's probably about as common on Native American reservations as anywhere else. But a diagnosis in Indian Country is rarer, say mental health workers. That's likely at least partly because of a cultural belief — many Native American communities don't recognize dementia as a disorder. "In fact, many tribal communities do not have a word for dementia," says Dr. Anna Burke, a geriatric psychiatrist and specialist in dementia care at Banner Alzheimer's I...
Northern California-based Reach Medical Holdings LLC announced on Dec. 22 that it is opening an air ambulance base at the Viejas Indian Reservation near Alpine, where it will station a helicopter. It is the sixth Reach vehicle providing service in Southern California. Santa Rosa-based Reach said it worked with the Viejas band and its fire department for several years to place the air ambulance. Reach will provide its service with a two-engine Airbus EC135 helicopter. Source: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Company-to-D...
A Manitoba advocate for people who suffered from illnesses linked to vermiculite insulation has died of a cancer closely associated with asbestos, her daughter says. Raven ThunderSky grew up in a home on Poplar River First Nation with asbestos-laced insulation and lost several family members to related illnesses. Her daughter, Raven-Dominique Gobeil, says ThunderSky died on Christmas Eve of mesothelioma at the age of 50. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/manitoba-woman-who-wanted-inquiry-into-asbestos-tainted-insu...