Targeted News Service back issues from June 2007:
WASHINGTON: Outreach to Native American Small Businesses in Line for Increased Funding
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The Small Business Administration's Native American Outreach efforts may soon be getting increased funding - from $772,000 to $2 million in 2008 thanks to an amendment to a budget resolution passed by the Senate. The resolution provides guidance to the Appropriations ...
Grants for Small, Minority Ag Producers Could Benefit Tribes
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Agriculture Department's Rural Business-Cooperative Service has announced the availability of $1.1 million in competitive grant funds to assist small, minority agricultural producers in rural areas. Cooperatives and associations of cooperatives are eligible ...
ALASKA: BLM to Convey Lands to Bering Straits Native Corp.
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Interior's Bureau of Land Management has approved the conveyance of Christmas Mountain in the vicinity of Shaktoolik to Bering Straits Native Corp. under the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. In a separate decision, BLM has approved the conveyance of ...
ALASKA: Walrus, Polar Bear Rule Affects Alaska Native Tribes
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed regulations that would authorize the take of small numbers of Pacific walruses and polar bears during year-round oil and gas industry exploration activities in the Chukchi Sea and adjacent western coast of ...
WASHINGTON: House Subcommittee Approves Indian Health Service Funding Increase
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 -- The House Appropriations subcommittee on the Interior and the Environment has cleared a fiscal 2008 spending bill that would boost funding for the Indian Health Service by $204 million to $3.4 billion, according to Congressional Quarterly Today. Appropriations ...
ALASKA: Cook Inlet Pollutant Discharge Permit Affects Tribal Interests
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Office of Water and Watersheds has announced the availability of the final National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit authorizing discharges from exploration, development, and production platforms and ...
Tribal Entities May Apply for Indoor Air Quality Grants
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 office has requested proposals for indoor air quality projects. Region 7 includes nine tribal nations in the states of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. Tribal entities are eligible applicants under this funding ...
WASHINGTON: Yurok Tribal Member Named to IRS Advisory Committee
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service has named Dennis Puzz Jr., a member of the Yurok Tribe of Northern California and an attorney in the Native American Law section of Best & Flanagan LLC, Minneapolis, to the Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt ...
WASHINGTON: Grants for Research into Health Disparities Available to Tribes
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has announced the availability of grants to support disease intervention research aimed at reducing and eliminating health disparities. The funds will support community-based participatory research that is jointly conducted by ...
IDAHO: University Appoints Two Native Americans To Positions Serving Indian Students
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The University of Idaho has announced the appointments of Arthur M. Taylor (Nez Perce) and Steven Martin (Muskogee Creek) to its administrative staff. Taylor will serve in the university's new position of tribal liaison. He will be charged with developing culturally ...
MONTANA: Food Assistance to Tribes Will Continue for Now
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 -- Montana Indian reservations will benefit from the U.S. Agriculture Department's decision to delay cutting one of the state's major food assistance programs, according to information released by the Montana Health and Human Services Department. Residents of seven Montana ...
WASHINGTON: Tribes, NOAA, Will Prepare Plan for Lower Duwamish River
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced that the Bush administration, Suquamish Tribe of Indians, Muckleshoot Tribe of Indians, and other federal trustees intend to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement and conduct restoration ...
WASHINGTON: HUD Publishes Rule for Insuring Indian Housing Block Grant Homes
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department's Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing has published a final rule establishing standards for recipients under the Indian Housing Block Grant program to purchase insurance through nonprofit insurance entities ...
WASHINGTON: Tribal Fishing Resources Threatened by Bacteria
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission has raised concerns about the level of coliform bacteria in Oakland Bay, Wash. "Tribal members always have depended on shellfish as a source of nutrition, for income and as a way of life," said Andy Whitener, natural ...
WASHINGTON: EPA Announces Receipt of Environmental Impact Statements for Project in Indian Country
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The Environmental Protection Agency has announced receipt of several environmental impact statements that may affect tribal interests. IDAHO, OREGON, UTAH: EPA has received the Forest Service's draft supplement EIS (Doc. No. 20070216) for the Southwest Idaho Ecogroup ...
WASHINGTON: Decision on Whale Listing May Affect Tribal Interests
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced that it will not list the global populations of right whales with the common name Black Whale as a single species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The decision is effective immediately. For further ...
COLORADO: Consent Decree Affects Tribal Lands in the Uinta Basin
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Justice Department has announced that a proposed consent decree in U.S. v. Kerr-McGee Corp. has been filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The consent decree resolves claims by the U.S. against Kerr-McGee under the Clean Air Act at ...
Bureau of Reclamation to Fund Tribes' Participation in Water Project
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation has announced that it will provide financial assistance over a five-year period to the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation to participate in the monitoring and regulation of project-related water ...
WASHINGTON: Legislation Introduced for Reauthorization of Indian Diabetes Programs
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - Senators Pete V. Domenici, R-N.M., and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., have introduced the Special Diabetes Program for Indians Act of 2007 (S.1494), legislation that would reauthorize two programs that address diabetes among American Indian and Alaska Native populations. In ...
WASHINGTON: EPA Expresses Concerns About Projects That May Affect Indian Country
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has expressed concerns about several projects that may affect tribal interests. ALASKA: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's draft EIS (Doc. No. 20070119) looking at proposed Outer Continental Shelf seismic ...
WASHINGTON: New HUD Rule for Housing Choice Voucher Program Affects Tribes
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department's Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing has published a proposed rule revising HUD's regulations for the homeownership option authorized under the Housing Choice Voucher program. The proposed rule would permit the ...
ALASKA: BLM to Convey Lands Near Port Graham to Alaska Native Group
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management has announced its decision to convey lands in the vicinity of Port Graham to the Port Graham Corp. The subsurface estate in these lands will be conveyed to Chugach Alaska Corp. Appeals to the decision are due June 28 ....
WASHINGTON: Delinquency Prevention Funding Available to Tribes
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention has announced the availability of grants to serve substance-abusing juvenile offenders by developing and establishing juvenile drug courts conjointly with the Reclaiming Futures program model ....
NEVADA: Mt. Charleston Blue Butterfly Listing May Affect Tribes
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that it will initiate a 12-month status review of the Mt. Charleston blue butterfly to determine if the subspecies should be listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ....
ALASKA: Lands to Be Conveyed to Gana-a'Yoo Ltd.
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management has approved the conveyance of 6,000 acres of lands in the vicinity of Galena, Alaska, to the Alaska Native corporation Gana-a'Yoo Ltd., the successor to Notaaghleedin Ltd. The subsurface estate in these lands will be ...
WASHINGTON: EPA Expresses Concern About Projects That May Impact Indian Country
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The Environmental Protection Agency has environmental concerns about the following projects that may affect tribal interests. SOUTH DAKOTA: EPA has environmental concerns about human health exposure to pollutants from smoke and impacts to air quality, and impacts ...
WASHINGTON: EPA Receives EISs that May Affect Tribes
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has received the following environmental impact statements that may affect tribal interests. ALASKA: The Forest Service has issued the final EIS (Agency Doc. No. 20070195) for the Traitors Cove Timber Sale Project in the ...
ALASKA: Proposed Beluga Whales Endangered Species Listing to Affect Tribal Interests
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has extended the comment period on the proposed Endangered Species Act listing of Beluga whales in Cook Inlet. The new deadline is Aug. 3. NOAA has also scheduled additional public hearings, one in Homer and one in ...
TENN., N.C., GA: TVA to Prepare EIS for Project Affecting Tribal Interests
Jun 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, June 1 - The Tennessee Valley Authority has announced that it intends to prepare an environmental impact statement addressing the impacts of various alternatives for the Mountain Reservoirs Land Management Plan on nine TVA reservoirs in southeastern Tennessee, southwest North ...
Sacramento City to Continue Visual/Performing Arts Option for Students in 2007-2008 School Year
Jun 01, 2007 ... Sacramento City Unified School District issued the following news release: Sacramento City Unified School District Board President Manny Hernandez announced today the District will continue to offer students a visual and performing arts program in the fall. Notification was given ...
LBUSD's Holthe, Barham Tie for Employee of the Year
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Long Beach Unified School District has issued the following news release: Food Service supervisor Jay Holthe and school secretary Joanne Barham both accepted the Classified Employee of the Year Award at the annual employee barbecue, where hundreds of colleagues cheered the ...
Plantation and Flanagan High School Rocketry Teams Place in Top 10 at Team American Rocketry Challenge 2007
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Broward County Public Schools issued the following news release: The rocketry teams at Plantation and Charles W. Flanagan High Schools earned top honors at the Aerospace Industries Association-sponsored 5th Annual Team America Rocketry Challenge National Finals Fly-Off, held at the ...
Desert Canyon Middle School Students' Have Missile Defense Day
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Scottsdale Unified School District issued the following news release: Honor students at Desert Canyon Middle School will have a chance to explore careers in engineering, aerospace and missile defense by building and launching a variety of rockets while applying force and motion ...
HISD Seniors Receive $2.6 Million in Project GRAD Scholarships
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Houston Independent School District has issued the following news release: More than 650 graduating seniors from HISD schools received $4,000 scholarships recently during a Project GRAD (Graduation Really Achieves Dreams) scholarship ceremony held at the Arabia Shrine ...
Long Beach Schools Superintendent Writes About How LBUSD is Preparing Students for Success
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Long Beach Unified School District has issued the following news release: In just a few days, 5,000 high school seniors throughout our school district will step across the stage to accept their diplomas. The true measure of our schools is whether these students are prepared for ...
National Broad Prize Reviewers Impressed
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Long Beach Unified School District has issued the following news release: National education experts came away impressed after four days of visiting schools and central offices recently to help determine whether the Long Beach Unified School District will win the national Broad Prize ...
$250,000 Best Buy Teach Award Goes To San Diego Unified School District
Jun 01, 2007 ... San Diego Unified School District issued the following news release: The San Diego Unified School District is the 2007 recipient of the $250,000 Best Buy Teach Award for demonstrating exceptional creative use of interactive technology to help make learning fun for its K-12 students ....
Balboa Named Nation's Top Math Elementary
Jun 01, 2007 ... San Diego Unified School District issued the following news release: Balboa Elementary has been named top elementary school math program in Intel Corporation's annual Schools of Distinction Award. The Shelltown campus was honored for its rigorous, challenging and engaging ...
Broward County's Summer School is for Principals, Assistant Principals and District Administrators
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Broward County Public Schools issued the following news release: School may be out for more than 260,000 Broward County Public Schools students, but it's back to class for nearly 700 principals, assistant principals and other District administrators who will attend a Summer ...
Denver Public Schools' Special Public Hearing On 2007-2008 Budget
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Denver Public Schools issued the following news release: Notice is hereby given that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Education of School District No. 1 in the City and County of Denver and State of Colorado for the ensuing fiscal year of July 1, 2007 to June 30, ...
Graduations Planned for More than 5,000 LBUSD Students
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Long Beach Unified School District has issued the following news release: Poised to receive their diplomas this month are 5,023 local high school seniors in the Long Beach Unified School District. Poly and Poly Accelerated Academy of Learning (PAAL) have the largest combined ...
A PROSECUTOR APPARENTLY TARGETED FOR FIRING HAD SUPPORTED VOTING RIGHTS FOR NATIVE AMERICANS
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: The Los Angeles Times reported today that one of the U.S. Attorneys apparently targeted for politically motivated firings by the Bush Administration was singled out for trying to "protect voting rights for Native ...
'PRESIDENT BUSH STILL DOESN'T GET IT...DO THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS?' DEAN ASKS
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean responded to the Bush Administration's announcement that President Bush "envisions a long-term U.S. troop presence in Iraq similar to the one in South Korea where ...
DODD CAMPAIGN PROVIDES WALL TO WALL COVERAGE OF DEBATE WEEKEND
Jun 01, 2007 ... The presidential campaign of Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., issued the following news release: The Dodd Campaign today announced plans to provide an unprecedented amount of debate content to participants this weekend on their website, www.chrisdodd.com. Beginning Saturday, June 2nd, there ...
BIDEN URGES THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES TO PARTICIPATE ON IRAQ DEBATE
Jun 01, 2007 ... The presidential campaign of Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., issued the following news release: Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the U.S. commander for daily operations in Iraq, said that by September he would likely be unable to determine whether President Bush's surge strategy was working and that ...
MCCAIN BRINGS IMMIGRATION DOUBLE TALK TO IOWA
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: Republican Presidential candidate John McCain will bring his immigration doubletalk to Des Moines today where he'll hold a town hall meeting at the cafeteria of Nationwide Agribusiness Insurance. The visit comes just ...
BIDEN SUPPORTS GOV. PATRICK'S EDUCATION PLAN
Jun 01, 2007 ... The presidential campaign of Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., issued the following news release: Senator Joe Biden today applauded Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's plan to make college education more affordable and accessible. Governor Patrick's proposal would eventually make his state's ...
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE RAISES ISSUE ON RAGING CAGING
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: Little attention has been paid to Monica Goodling's revelation of Republican "vote caging" in her testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week. Goodling identified former Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty ...
DNC SAYS BUSH ADMINISTRATION OWES APOLOGY OVER ASSAULT ON VOTING RIGHTS
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: Donna Brazile, Chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute, joined the Chairs of the DNC's Black Caucus, Hispanic Caucus, AAPI Caucus, Seniors Coordinating Council, and Native American ...
DNC STATEMENT ON DEATH OF WASHINGTON, DC ACTIVIST RICHARD RAUSCH
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement offering condolences on the death of Washington, DC Democratic activist Richard Rausch: "As a founding member of the Gertrude ...
Edison, Chantilly Academies Win Grants From Lowe's and Skills USA
Jun 01, 2007 ... Fairfax Public Schools issued the following press release: The Edison Academy heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) program has been selected to receive a $10,000 community service grant from Lowe's and Skills USA to educate and inform the public about carbon monoxide ...
Oneida Nation Awards $20,000 in Grants to 20 Community Groups
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Turning Stone Resort & Casino, owned by the Oneida Indian Nation, issued the following news release: Twenty local organizations that help veterans, low-income residents, people with developmental disabilities, and serve several other critical missions, were each awarded a $1,000 ...
Lees Corner Elementary Plans 20th Anniversary Celebration
Jun 01, 2007 ... Fairfax Public Schools issued the following press release: A new climbing wall and playground will be on display at Lees Corner Elementary School when the school celebrates its 20th anniversary on Thursday, June 14, from 5 to 7 p.m. Current and former students, faculty and staff members, ...
B.B. King to Perform at the Paragon Resort for One Night Only
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Paragon Casino Resort, owned by the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe, issued the following news release: Officials at Paragon Casino Resort, Central Louisiana's only casino resort destination, have announced American Blues icon B.B. King will take the stage for a live performance at the new Mari ...
Spokane Public Schools Announce Summer Possibilities
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Spokane Public Schools issued the following news release: Spokane Public Schools students can fill their summer days with a number of different programs offered by the district. Our Express childcare program hosts a summer activity program for elementary school students, and ...
Community Invited for Workshop About High School Redesign
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Madison Metropolitan School District issued the following news release: On Thursday, June 7, 2007, the Board of Education will have a meeting to receive an update of the high school redesign process and to discuss with the community a $5.5 million dollar grant application to the U.S ....
Michael Buble Returns to the Event Center in July
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Turning Stone Resort & Casino, owned by the Oneida Indian Nation, issued the following news release: With his new CD, 'Call Me Irresponsible,' already one of the top sellers heading into summer, Michael Buble returns to the Event Center at the Oneida Nation's Turning Stone ...
Fairfax County Public Schools Honored With 2007 'CIO 100' Award
Jun 01, 2007 ... Fairfax Public Schools issued the following press release: Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) has been named a winner of the prestigious 2007 CIO 100 Award from Chief Information Officer (CIO) magazine in recognition of its innovative use of information technology. This is the fourth ...
Paragon Branded Bus Makes First Arrival
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Paragon Casino Resort, owned by the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe, issued the following news release: Officials at Paragon Casino Resort, Central Louisiana's only casino resort destination, have announced the official new Paragon Branded Bus, another innovative component of Paragon's Tour and ...
Newport Mill MS Named National School of Character
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Montgomery County Public Schools issued the following news release: The Character Education Partnership (CEP) has named Newport Mill Middle School a 2007 National School of Character in its prestigious annual awards program. Ten schools around the nation were honored this year, ...
Progress Energy Gift to Sustain and Expand Research Opportunities at the Governor's School for Science and Mathematics
Jun 01, 2007 ... The South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics issued the following press release: Thanks to Progress Energy, students at the Governor's School for Science and Mathematics will continue to benefit from hands-on scientific research in a variety of fields critical to our ...
Abington Student Wins Newark 'Do The Write Thing' Essay Challenge
Jun 01, 2007 ... Newark Public Schools issued the following release: In Newark, N.J., an Abington Avenue School student, Alexandra Melara, has been selected as a finalist in the 2007 Newark Middle School Do the Write Thing Essay Challenge. Melara, along with the other finalist, will be honored at an ...
Boston Schools Ask, 'Who Are The Students in the 2007 Graduating Class?'
Jun 01, 2007 ... Boston Public Schools issued the following news release: This month, more than 2500 students will graduate from the 38 Boston Public Schools (BPS) high schools. Each one has a unique story to tell about how he or she persevered to earn a diploma. Some have been in the BPS since ...
Cleveland Municipal School District Students Present Guys and Dolls
Jun 01, 2007 ... Cleveland Municipal School District issued the following news release: The Cleveland Municipal School District (CMSD) in partnership with Great Lakes Theater Festival (GLTF) and Playhouse Square Center (PSC) will collaborate to present the eighth annual All-City Musical, Guys and Dolls ...
Anchorage Schools Reinstate Budget Cuts, Adds Instructional Enhancements and Lowers Class Size
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Anchorage School District issued the following news release: Superintendent Carol Comeau and the Anchorage School Board Thursday night used increased state education funding to restore most of the instructional programs and positions eliminated from the 2007-08 Anchorage School ...