Navajo Council backs Boos amid debate on advertising post
Speaker Edward Begay defended keeping Steve Boos as chief legislative counsel without advertising the job, citing Navajo staff concerns and the preference law. Delegates pressed for Navajo hiring priority, while Begay outlined Local Governance Act progress and aid distributions across agencies.
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Window Rock
Navajo Nation Council
Edward T. Bégay
Steve Boos
Council
Boos
Bezay
Wallace Charley
Boo
Begay
Charley
Young
Shiprock
Ex-miners at P and M get day in court
Nearly 100 former Pittsburgh and Midway Coal Mining Co. workers who chose early retirement or resignation in 1996 will appear in Navajo Nation District Court on February 1. They filed a class action in September alleging P&M terminated older, higher paid workers and replaced them with younger, cheaper labor. The suit claims hours were cut starting in 1996 due to declining coal demand, with a planned McKinley mine closure in 1998, while Chevron Corp. presents a different view.
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Window Rock
Pittsburgh and Midway Coal Mining Co
Navajo Nation District
Tember
P&m
McKinley
Chevron Corp
Tribe's fight over state capital outlay cuts and stalled projects
Navajo Nation and New Mexico lawmakers clash as tribal officials press for a 15.2 percent cut in administrative costs and a spending freeze while lawmakers press for capital outlay funds. Sen. John Pinto has long pushed expansive project lists to aid communities, including chapter house renovations and sewage lagoons, many of which remain incomplete since the 1980s. The Navajo Nation has halted these state projects as tensions intensify.
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Shonto
Begay
Council
Chinle
Fort Defiance
U.S
Navajo Nation
New Mexico
Walter Howerton Jr
Santa Fe
John Pinto
D-Mckinley
San Juan
Dispute over Navajo judge's leave erupts into pay cut
Navajo Chief Justice Robert Yazzie says associate justice Wayne Cadman must stop sick leave and will not be paid after February 11. Cadman, on long illness since last March, calls Yazzie's action malicious and seeks a medical disability retirement with support from the Judiciary Committee.
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Gallup
Robert Yazzie
Wayne Cadman
Supreme Court
Cadman
Yazzie
Tribe
Judiciary Committee
Yarvie
Judicial Branch
BIA tells McKinley Pay for road access
At the McKinley County Commission meeting officials said the U S Bureau of Indian Affairs demands payment for right of way before paving county roads. The Roads Department seeks rights of way on 12 roads crossing BIA allotment land and fears fees could strain already tight funds. The BIA may allocate a share of appraised road land value to land allottees.
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Gallup
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
McKinley County
BIA
McKinley County Commission
Diane Villatto
County Roads Department
David Acosta
Direc
Tor
Roads Department
Villatto
McKinley
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Jim Maniaci
Diné
Zarania Sanghani
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Independent Missionary of Charity Sisters
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Teresa
Calcutta
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