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Arizona Republicans call on GOP candidate to withdraw for misrepresenting military service
6 months ago

Arizona Republicans call on GOP candidate to withdraw for misrepresenting military service

Raw Story  

A Republican candidate should "immediately withdraw" from the Arizona House of Representatives LD-7 race for "misrepresenting his military service," according to the local county's GOP. The Navajo County Republican Committee over the weekend called for Steve Slaton, candidate and the owner of a "Trumped" store, to remove himself from the race, saying he "provided an altered DD-214 claiming combat veteran …

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Opinion: Native Americans face huge healthcare disparities. Here’s a way to help close the gaps
6 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Native Americans face huge healthcare disparities. Here’s a way to help close the gaps

LA Times  

One of my patients who lives in Diné Bikéyah, the vast Navajo reservation in New Mexico, sleeps in an old Ford pickup truck that often doesn’t start. The U.S. government budgeted $4,104 per patient enrolled in the Indian Health Service in 2018, compared with $8,093 per Medicaid enrollee, $13,257 per Medicare enrollee and $9,574 per VA patient. Now, as a …

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Pressure mounts for language services at New Mexico agencies
2 years, 9 months ago

Pressure mounts for language services at New Mexico agencies

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico welfare agencies are coming under new pressure from a federal judge and state lawmakers to expand translation and oral interpretation services to minority households that don’t speak English or Spanish. Advocacy groups for immigrants and Indigenous populations also are highlighting a federal court order to expand language services under the state Human Services Department. …

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Tribes welcome infusion of money in infrastructure bill
3 years, 1 month ago

Tribes welcome infusion of money in infrastructure bill

Associated Press  

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Tribes welcomed an infusion of money in the massive infrastructure bill to expand broadband coverage, fix roads and address water and sanitation needs, but they say real change will come only with sustained investment. “In these and several other tribal communities, sanitation and clean water systems would never be built because the annual appropriations were insufficient to …

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Judge won’t extend time to count ballots from Navajo Nation
4 years, 2 months ago

Judge won’t extend time to count ballots from Navajo Nation

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — A judge has refused to give officials an extra 10 days after election day to count mail-in ballots for Navajo Nation members who live on the tribe’s reservation in Arizona and whose ballots are postmarked by the close of voting on Nov. 3. U.S. District Judge Murray Snow said in a ruling Friday that most Navajo Nation residents …

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