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Sobriety checkpoint brings out the dogs

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Even the dogs got into the act when the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office participated in the annual Mothers Against Drunk Driving Saturation Saturday event Aug. 28 at a Navajo, N.M. checkpoint on Route 12.

A law enforcement presence was requested in the area and MCSO checked 167 vehicles for sobriety and even a few...

WEEKLY DWI REPORT

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Cooper Pat
July 22, 6:36 pm
Aggravated DWI

A call about a fight at an address on Second Street led Gallup Police Officer Richard Rangel III to the area where he met with the victim. While the two were in discussion, the suspect vehicle, a green Ford Explorer, passed them and Rangel followed it, and conducted a traffic stop.

The driver, Cooper Pat, 39, Rock Springs, N.M., told Rangel he had only witnessed the fight, but was not involved in jumping the victim, nor were any of the passengers in his vehicle. He went on to say he had witnessed the incident but did not get involved.

Pat exited the vehicle on Rangel’s command, at which point the officer noted Pat had bloodshot eyes...

Boarding school history underpins Yazzie Martinez findings on Native education

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Part Two: A way forward

The Yazzie/Martinez decision has brought into sharp focus a long simmering debate about how best to educate Native American children.

New Mexico has passed laws since the 1970s intent on providing culturally relevant education and language programs to Native children, most notably the Bilingual Multicultural Education Act of 1973, and the Indian Education Act of 2003. It’s these laws that [late New Mexico Judge Sarah] Singleton pointed to as an existing state blueprint for adequate education, if only they were followed.

The decision described as ideal an educational framework that draws on decades of Native scholarship about the needs of Indigenous...

Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World

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Week ending Friday, August 27, 2021


Greenland Rain

The second freakish heat wave to blow across Greenland so far this summer caused rain to fall at the highest point of the country’s ice sheet for the first time in recorded history. The instruments at Greenland’s Summit Station, established in 1950, recorded temperatures above freezing for more than nine hours on Aug. 15, with rain falling off and on for 13 hours. But since there are no rain gauges at the typically frigid location, the research staff was unable to say how much rain actually fell.  Parts of the ice cap were 18 degrees Celsius above average on that day, triggering a massive melting event that was seven times above...

It’s not about the money

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Rehoboth doctors respond to hospital’s anti-union letter
Date: Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 09:32
Subject: Response to Board

The super-majority of the employed physicians of the medical staff of RMCHCS who are seeking to unionize appreciate the efforts of our hospital’s Board of Directors to serve our community. We were blindsided and saddened to receive a statement from the Chair of the Board opposing our unionization and further, stating that it would not be in the best interests of patients, without even meeting with us first. We respect Mr. McKernan and his accomplishments, which were achieved with the help of unionized resident doctors, nurses, technicians, and other staff...

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