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Congressman Ben Ray Luján visits McKinley County (The Gallup Independent)
Congressman Ben Ray Luján looks over a pre-built home that is waiting to be delivered on Monday. Luján visited the Southwest Indian Foundation facilities to lean more about the TAOS program. — © 2010 Gallup Independent / Brian LeddyGovernor inks 3 Native American-related bills Flanked by Sen. John Pinto, left, and state Rep. Patty Lundstrom, right ... (The Gallup Independent) GALLUP — Gov. Bill Richardson was joined Friday by tribal leaders, chapter officials, city and county officials, area state legislators and members of the public at the rotunda of the McKinley County Courthouse as he signed three Native American related bills, including the Severance Bonds for Tribal Infrastructure Bill, which creates a permanent funding source for New Mexico’s tribal communities.
Diné projects hard hit by N.M. budget cutting (Navajo Times) New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson Wednesday signed a bill - SB182 - that cancels dozens of state capital outlay grants for projects on Navajo lands. Statewide, he froze or stalled more than 2,500 projects in an effort to save more than $141 million for the deficit-ridden budget.
Socorro County ranks high on list for DWI repeat offenders (El Defensor Chieftain) Socorro County had the dubious honor of being near the top of a list published recently by the New Mexico Department of Health. A 2009 NMDOH report on DWI recidivism (repeat arrests for driving while intoxicated) for the period 2000-2007 showed Socorro County to have the second highest re-arrest rate— after McKinley and Mora counties, which tied for first. Just over 30 percent of convicted DWI ...
Court denies review of uranium mining permit in NM (AP via Yahoo! Finance) A federal appeals court has upheld a Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision that allows a company to leach uranium at an aquifer that supplies drinking water to thousands of Navajos in northwestern New Mexico.
Baseball, college basketball, NBA (The Toledo Blade) COLLEGE BASKETBALL Men AP Top 25 Record Pts Pvs 1. Kansas (63) 29-2 1,623 2 2. Kentucky (2) 29-2 1,553 3 3. Syracuse 28-3 1,500 1 4. Duke 26-5 1,348 4 5. Ohio St. 24-7 1,344 6 6. Purdue 26-4 1,252 7 7. West Virginia 24-6 1,231 10 8. New Mexico 28-3 1,188 8 9. Kansas St. 24-6 1,063 5 10. Villanova 24-6 1,016 9 11. Michigan St. 24-7 1,015 11 12. Butler 27-4 796 12 13. Wisconsin 23-7 710 15 14. BYU ...
Diné Food (The Gallup Independent) WINDOW ROCK — Four Sacred Diné Food will be 10 a.m., March 10, in the kitchen/snack bar, Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock. Info contact Char Kruger 928-810-8536 or char@navajonationmuseum.org.
Uranium Resources Inc. Announces Tenth Circuit Upholds NRC Licensing of Churchrock and Crownpoint Projects (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) LEWISVILLE, Texas----Uranium Resources, Inc. a uranium exploration, development and production company, announced today that the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Mach 8, 2010 denied the petition by the Southwest Research and Information Center and other parties for review of URI’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to conduct in situ recovery uranium mining at four ...
Soup Supper (The Gallup Independent) GALLUP — United Methodist Women of First United Methodist Church, Gallup, Soup Supper will be 4-7 p.m., Feb. 27, at the church. A variety of soups and breads will provide the main course. Dessert and drink are included in the $6.50 ticket.
Harlem-inspired Children's Zone envisioned for San Jose's troubled Santee neighborhood (San Jose Mercury News) Next Friday, propelled by the shock of a gruesome beating, community leaders will begin work on the Franklin-McKinley Children's Zone. Beginning with a $200,000 planning grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, representatives of the city and county and 10 agencies hope to create in one of San Jose's poorest neighborhoods what middle-class families take for granted: a safe, fun ...