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...million. "With three consecutive hurricanes and skyrocketing energy prices, the fiscal environment is quite different, and we have to think about what is doable," Snowe told TIME. Her resolve, which rankled Senate G.O.P. leaders and the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, inspired a literal thumbs-up from North Dakota Democrat Kent Conrad as he headed to the Senate floor. "It took real courage for her to stand up and say, 'We've got to change course,'" Conrad said...
...videoconference. Harriet Miers was picked for the Supreme Court, and he found out secondhand. On Capitol Hill last week, the Republican Party was coping with an impasse over spending cuts and the fallout from an embarrassing loss in the Virginia Governor's race, and he was in South Dakota for a week of pheasant hunting. "I just haven't seen him around as much lately," said Sam Brownback, the conservative Republican Senator from Kansas...
...program, wrote in an e-mail. She also emphasized the program’s unique approach to job rehabilitation. “The curriculum is based on Emotional Intelligence,” she wrote. According to Country, PEP has strongly impacted the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate nation in South Dakota “by providing a resource to people to help them achieve success.” She said that PEP plans to use its $10,000 grant to upgrade its equipment. The Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council—an organization representing 62 indigenous governments across the northwestern...
...senior at the University of North Dakota (UND), and for the past 16 years of my life I have attended UND athletic events at home and away. I understand that there are a lot of different opinions regarding this issue, but what troubles me the most is that you included an illustration of what the artist assumes to be the atmosphere at one of our university’s athletic contests. I work at the Ralph Engelstad Arena, and I have never seen anyone attending any UND game resemble the person in her picture. Anyone dressed like that...
...sent a letter to officials at several hundred universities, asking them not to schedule athletic events against schools that continue to use these names. This December, Harvard’s men’s ice hockey team will play two games against my alma mater, the University of North Dakota (UND), which uses the team name “Fighting Sioux,” and given my own experience as an American Indian student at UND, I urge the Harvard team to reconsider playing these games.My story is just one of the many stories of how this issue affects UND?...