WASHINGTON, D.C. — Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Navajo Nation Washington Office Executive Director Lashawna Tso met with the U.S. Secretary of Labor, Martin J. Walsh, and Tribal Liaison Jack Jackson, Jr. in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 14 to coordinate the implementation of federal funding and identify additional grants and opportunities to improve workforce development on the Navajo Nation.

Nez spoke about the Navajo Nation’s ongoing work to implement federal funding from the CARES Act and American Rescue Plan Act for infrastructure development, which will require a skilled workforce to complete projects that will deliver more water, electricity, broadband, and other...

Washington D.C. – Senator Ben Ray Luján D-N.M., joined Senator Patty Murray D-WA, Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Senator Alex Padilla D-CA, and Senator Jacky Rosen D-NV, on Aug. 2 and introduced the Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act to protect doctors against Republicans’ non-stop attacks and ensure they can safely provide abortion care in states where it is still legal. The Senators took to the Senate floor later that week to seek unanimous consent to pass the legislation.

Republicans’ nonstop attacks against women’s reproductive freedom has long targeted doctors, with state laws like Texas’ SB8 allowing for anyone to...

Democrats from McKinley County’s District 1 will gather Aug. 13 to nominate a new candidate for the County Commission, following the withdrawal of Ernest C. “Charles” Becenti III from the District 1 race.




Democrats from McKinley County’s District 1 will gather Aug. 13 to nominate a new candidate for the County Commission, following the withdrawal of Ernest C. “Charles” Becenti III from the District 1 race.




The meeting is open to all Democrats, and any registered Democrat living in District 1 is eligible to run for the job, but hopefuls are encouraged to pick up forms from the Democrats’ County Central Committee Chair Maryann Armijo and return them by Aug. 10....

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and 24th Navajo Nation Council Speaker Seth Damon met with the City of Gallup Mayor, Louie Bonaguidi, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Gallup Inter-tribal Ceremonial Director Melissa Sanchez, and state legislators on Aug. 5 to address the events that occurred during the Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial Night Parade on Aug. 4 in Gallup when a suspected impaired driver drove recklessly through the parade route.

According to a report from the City of Gallup, during the parade, Gallup Police Officers were notified that several people were consuming alcohol in a vehicle that was parked along the parade route. Contact was made, the driver put the...