By Graham Lee Brewer, Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (AP) — A new study has found that systemic barriers to voting on tribal lands contribute to substantial disparities in Native American turnout, particularly for presidential elections. The study, released Tuesday by the Brennan Center for Justice, looked at 21 states with federally recognized tribal lands that have […]
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Posted inStatewide News, Westside Albuquerque
Tent Rocks reopens under Pueblo management
By Alice Fordham, KUNM The striking rock formations known as Tent Rocks closed like most sites during the pandemic. But this national monument, close to Cochiti Pueblo, did not reopen. Now, after years of negotiations between the Bureau of Land Management and the tribe, a new way of visiting begins Thursday. The Kasha-Katuwe (white rocks, […]
Posted inStatewide News, Westside Albuquerque
Tent Rocks reopens under Pueblo management
By Alice Fordham, KUNM The striking rock formations known as Tent Rocks closed like most sites during the pandemic. But this national monument, close to Cochiti Pueblo, did not reopen. Now, after years of negotiations between the Bureau of Land Management and the tribe, a new way of visiting begins Thursday. The Kasha-Katuwe (white rocks, […]
Posted inStatewide News, Westside Albuquerque
Environmental group, feds and irrigation district reach settlement in silvery minnow suit
By Danielle Prokop, Source NM A big fight over a small, endangered fish that lives in the Rio Grande has come to a resolution, as a federal judge in New Mexico OK’d a settlement Tuesday proposed by the parties. U.S. District of New Mexico Magistrate Judge Gregory Fouratt approved an agreement between WildEarth Guardians, an […]
Posted inStatewide News, Westside Albuquerque
Environmental group, feds and irrigation district reach settlement in silvery minnow suit
By Danielle Prokop, Source NM A big fight over a small, endangered fish that lives in the Rio Grande has come to a resolution, as a federal judge in New Mexico OK’d a settlement Tuesday proposed by the parties. U.S. District of New Mexico Magistrate Judge Gregory Fouratt approved an agreement between WildEarth Guardians, an […]
Posted inPueblos, Westside Albuquerque
GOP senators say RFK Jr. must ‘explain’ vaccine criticism, other views
By Rachel Roubein, Dan Diamond · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Republican senators are poised to decide whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. becomes the nation’s next health secretary. But in interviews this week, a half-dozen GOP lawmakers said they had questions or outright concerns about his selection, with several citing his vaccine skepticism, as they weighed whether […]
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GOP senators say RFK Jr. must ‘explain’ vaccine criticism, other views
By Rachel Roubein, Dan Diamond · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Republican senators are poised to decide whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. becomes the nation’s next health secretary. But in interviews this week, a half-dozen GOP lawmakers said they had questions or outright concerns about his selection, with several citing his vaccine skepticism, as they weighed whether […]
Posted inPueblos, Westside Albuquerque
Amazon and SpaceX aim to defang the federal labor board. Trump may help.
By Caroline O’Donovan, Lauren Kaori Gurley · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump’s presidential administration is poised to oversee major cuts to the powers of the federal agency that protects unions, as corporations including Elon Musk’s SpaceX barrage the National Labor Relations Board with lawsuits and Trump allies consider firing its Democratic members. This week, Amazon, […]
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Amazon and SpaceX aim to defang the federal labor board. Trump may help.
By Caroline O’Donovan, Lauren Kaori Gurley · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump’s presidential administration is poised to oversee major cuts to the powers of the federal agency that protects unions, as corporations including Elon Musk’s SpaceX barrage the National Labor Relations Board with lawsuits and Trump allies consider firing its Democratic members. This week, Amazon, […]
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GOP effort to police trans bathroom use could extend to D.C. schools, agencies
By Emily Davies, Lauren Lumpkin · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) on Wednesday introduced a bill to ban transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity in buildings owned by the federal or D.C. governments – thrusting the nation’s progressive capital onto the front lines of a conservative culture […]