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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — In a significant step toward enhancing the Navajo Nation’s judicial system, the Navajo Nation Law and Order Committee has unanimously recommended the permanent appointments of Judges Victor Clyde, Malcolm Laughing, and Letitia Stover as of Oct. 3. These judges, each having successfully completed...Politics
LOC recommends permanent appointment for probationary judges
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — In a significant step toward enhancing the Navajo Nation’s judicial system, the Navajo Nation Law and Order Committee has unanimously recommended the permanent appointments of Judges Victor Clyde, Malcolm Laughing, and Letitia Stover as of Oct. 3. These judges, each having successfully completed...Preparing to vote in the 2024 General Election
The 2024 General Election is on Nov. 5, 2024. There are some key local elections on the ballot, along with who will become the 47th President of the U.S.
See below for important election dates and voting information.
KEY ELECTION DATES
Oct. 8: Early in-person absentee voting begins statewide. To file an in-person absentee ballot, visit the McKinley County Clerk’s Office. Online and mail-in voting will close on this day. However, anyone can still register to vote using same-day voter registration at any polling location.
Oct. 19: Expanded early voting begins in New Mexico.
Nov. 2: Early voting ends.
Nov. 5: Statewide primary election day. All absentee ballots must be in the...
See below for important election dates and voting information.
KEY ELECTION DATES
Oct. 8: Early in-person absentee voting begins statewide. To file an in-person absentee ballot, visit the McKinley County Clerk’s Office. Online and mail-in voting will close on this day. However, anyone can still register to vote using same-day voter registration at any polling location.
Oct. 19: Expanded early voting begins in New Mexico.
Nov. 2: Early voting ends.
Nov. 5: Statewide primary election day. All absentee ballots must be in the...
Preparing to vote in the 2024 General Election
The 2024 General Election is on Nov. 5, 2024. There are some key local elections on the ballot, along with who will become the 47th President of the U.S.
See below for important election dates and voting information.
KEY ELECTION DATES
Oct. 8: Early in-person absentee voting begins statewide. To file an in-person absentee ballot, visit the McKinley County Clerk’s Office. Online and mail-in voting will close on this day. However, anyone can still register to vote using same-day voter registration at any polling location.
Oct. 19: Expanded early voting begins in New Mexico.
Nov. 2: Early voting ends.
Nov. 5: Statewide primary election day. All absentee ballots must be in the...
See below for important election dates and voting information.
KEY ELECTION DATES
Oct. 8: Early in-person absentee voting begins statewide. To file an in-person absentee ballot, visit the McKinley County Clerk’s Office. Online and mail-in voting will close on this day. However, anyone can still register to vote using same-day voter registration at any polling location.
Oct. 19: Expanded early voting begins in New Mexico.
Nov. 2: Early voting ends.
Nov. 5: Statewide primary election day. All absentee ballots must be in the...
Navajo Nation Council questions Nygren’s use of the line-item veto authority
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Members of the 25th Navajo Nation Council are voicing their disapproval of Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren’s recent line item vetoes, which eliminated critical funding for the Legislative Branch.The funds were included in a six-month Continuing Resolution adopted unanimously by the Council on Sept. 16, in order to avoid employee layoffs and continue critical government operations beyond the end of the current fiscal year which concluded on Sept. 30.
“President Nygren campaigned on working together with the Navajo Nation Council, but his recent line item veto actions contradict his promises," Speaker Crystalyne Curley said. "Taking away critical funding...
Nygren line-item vetoes Continuing Resolution
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren has line-item vetoed $2.7 million from the Navajo Nation Council’s Sept. 17 Continuing Resolution, off-Navajo Nation travel, while retaining funding for veterans, elders, domestic violence shelters and scholarships.He said the Council’s unprecedented and muddled Continuing Resolution, Legislation CS-39-24, provides only 50% of Fiscal Year 2024 Comprehensive Budget amounts for some Navajo programs, departments and divisions, while others are funded at 100% for a six-month period, rather than approving the FY 2025 Comprehensive Budget that complies with an established Three Branch Chiefs agreement approach.
“Though this...
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