by Jordan Anderson | May 24, 2022 | Health, Urban Indian Healthcare
May 2, 2022 – Edwina Valdo found herself on the receiving end of a desperate phone call last year on the suicide crisis line at Acoma Pueblo Behavioral Health Services in New Mexico. Valdo, whose regular job is as a grant manager, was filling in because the pandemic...
by Jordan Anderson | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured, Social Justice
WASHINGTON — As a child, Cathy Chavers, a member of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, never knew her family suffered in U.S. boarding schools. She only learned after her grandmother’s death that she was sent to Minnesota’s Vermilion Lake Indian...
by Jordan Anderson | Feb 10, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — A new watchdog report has uncovered potential conflicts of interest in dozens of sheriffs’ offices nationwide, including Pinellas County. The research shows Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri has received campaign donations from a group connected to...
by Jordan Anderson | Jan 18, 2022 | Featured, Politics, Science + Technology
Frederick, Montgomery and Washington county residents Thursday evening questioned Rep. David Trone (D-Dist. 6) about how the area’s health care systems are handling the recent spike of COVID-19 cases caused by the omicron variant, the availability of higher-protection...
