Navajo Reservation Faces Third World Living Standards
A 1991 Economist review highlights Navajo Nation poverty with 35 percent unemployment and high underemployment. Off-reservation earnings largely vanish into town economies, leaving many homes without basic utilities. The piece warns of an bleak economic outlook if prosperity does not improve.
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Economist Newspaper Ltd
Window Rock
Ariz
Flagstaff
Gallup
Farmington
Rodger Boyd
United States
County sells trailers to recover unpaid taxes in Gallup
McKinley County auctioned a mobile home for 1500 dollars after owners failed to pay delinquent taxes. County Treasurer Leroy Gabaldon said roughly 35,000 dollars in mobile home taxes have been collected, with 4,800 to 5,000 such cases statewide and 100 more in the county from 1984 to 1988. This marks a first in New Mexico for actual bills of sale replacing unpaid mobile home taxes.
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Craig Wall
Gallup
McKinley County Treasurers Office
Leroy Gabaldon
McKinley County
Gabaldon
New Mexico
House vote saves space station plan
The House approved 240 to 173 a 1.9 billion dollar NASA funding request for the space station for the fiscal year starting Oct 1. The vote preserves the centerpiece project amid debate over costs and priorities with advocates invoking von Braun Armstrong and lunar goals to stress its importance.
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Harry F. Rosenthal
Associated Press
Washington
House
NASA
Bush
Space Agency
Jack Brooks
D-Texas
Wernher von Braun
Neil Armstrong
Daniel Webster
Star
America
Moon
Mars
Hopi Court Refuses Dismissal in Navajo Man Case
Alvin Clinton 67, a medicine man from Star Mountain near Teesto, faces assault and battery, resisting arrest, and malicious mischief charges after interfering with a Bureau of Indian Affairs cattle fence project on Hopi Partitioned Land in March. A June 25 hearing and later trial date were set by Judge Delfred Leslie in Hopi tribal court. Navajo Broadcast Services captured the incident with Clinton clinging to a fencepost as officers attempted to erect fence posts. the battery charge stems from a clash with Hopi ranger Gary Begay.
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Western Bureau
Keams Canyon
Ariz
Alvin Clinton
Star Mountain
Teesto
Delfred Leslie
Clinton
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Gary Begay
More protection sought for Chaco
Rep. Bill Richardson introduced legislation to expand the Chaco Archaeological Protection Site System in New Mexico. The plan adds eight sites totaling 4356 acres and expands 13 existing sites by 2354 acres, extending protection to 14287 acres. The bill would require the National Park Service to partner with the Navajo Nation for planning and management.
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Washington
New Mexico
Chaco Canyon
Bill Richardson
Richardson
D-N.m
Chaco
National Park Service
Navajo Nation
New Mexico forms task force to boost math learning
Gov. Bruce King and education officials announce a new task force led by First Lady Alice King to pursue a National Science Foundation grant up to 1 million dollars. The effort aims to raise performance in advanced math with an October education summit and aligns with a national math proficiency report.
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Associated Press
Santa FE
New Mexico
Bruce King
Alice King
National Science Foundation
King
Washington
Alan Mor
State leads nation in accidental deaths in New Mexico
SANTA FE AP state health officials say they are troubled by a high rate of accidental deaths in New Mexico. Epidemiologist Mack Sewell notes the rural landscape high speeds old vehicles and low seat belt use fuel the toll. He cites motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause across major ethnic groups and urges behavioral and environmental changes.
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Santa FE
New Mexico
Mack Sewell
University of New Mexico Medical Center
Sewell
University Hospital
Albuquerque
David Sklar
Sklar
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Karl Tate
General Accounting Office
Jim Chapman
Dtexas
Bill Lowery
R-Calif
Schlitz
Milwaukee
White-Dove Trading
Coal Gallup
N.M
Paul Lopez
Evelyn Montano
Vincent Lopez
Ford Canyon Park
Nicole Montano
Betty
Michael Montano
San Juan Basin
House Interior Committee
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Gan
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Morgan
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