Navajo Nation Council to form four standing committees
The 24 member Navajo Nation Council identified committee restructuring and the 2011 Comprehensive Budget as priorities ahead of the Jan 24 winter session. Two think tanks met to consolidate 12 committees into four under a Supreme Court mandate with input from the Diné Policy Institute on integrating Navajo concepts into the new system.
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Rock
Navajo Nation Council
Alastair Bitsoi
Volcetion
Council
Legislative Branch
Supreme Court
Diné Policy Institute
Bitsoi
Martinez plans State of the State opposition to tax hikes
Gov. Susana Martinez will deliver her first State of the State address to a joint Legislature session in Santa Fe as lawmakers return for a 60 day session. She plans to renew opposition to tax increases meant to balance the budget, signaling fiscal restraint from the Republican governor.
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Santa FE
Susana Martinez
Gallup remembers King with march and ceremony
In Gallup a Freedom March from the Cultural Center to the Community Service Center honored Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mayor Mendoza and Library Director Pellington spoke, reading from I Have a Dream. About 100 participants marched two miles as escorts, led by a sanitation truck with equal pay and safe working conditions signs, organized by Mona Frazier who has run the event since 1991.
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Cable Hoover/independent
Tyara Commack
Castles
Martin Luther King
James Crutcher
Mona Frazier
Gallup
William Damon
Gabi Barton
Jessica Triplett
Kara Damon
Lallup
Martin Luther King Jr
Gall ‘Cultural Center
Harry Mendoza
Mary Ellen Pellington
King
Mendoza
Cultural Center
Community Service Center
Miyamura
Frazier
Memphis
Tenn
Death of Orlando Yee reported in Gallup arroyo discovery
Gallup police said Orlando Yee, 42, was found dead Friday afternoon in an arroyo on Gallup's north side. An autopsy is pending results, with authorities noting the death as the fourth reported case in the area this season. Yee had recently lived in Albuquerque. Local officials named Deputy Chief John Allen as the spokesman on Tuesday. The body was spotted by a passerby near Azigo Avenue and Victim Page Street.
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Gallup
A: m
Orlando
W. Maloney
Gallup Police Department
John Allen
Albi
Allen
Ogio
Restraining order issued against school board chair
A restraining order was granted in Window Rock District Court against Claira Kirk former Hunters Point Boarding School board chair and Evangeline Logg. The protection order cites confrontational and harassing behavior toward a student and grandchild, with Kirk previously serving on the board and the monitoring office recommending removal in November.
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Hunters Point
Roth District Court
Schoo
Claira Kirk
Evangeline Logg
Order of Protection
Kirk
Olunio
Haskan
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Barry Massey
Riathia
Mark Martin Luther King Jr
Bernie Dotson
Hoover
Independent
Dr Kies
Albuquerque
Saga Dianis
Wep
Dalvna Castellanos
Diné Bureau
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