Sioux Coronavirus Checkpoints Conflicts
South Dakota Governor Demands Reservation Checkpoints Removed Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux tribe in...
Month: August 2020
177 new cases and two new deaths related to COVID-19
The state Department of Health announced 177 additional cases of COVID-19 and two related deaths Thursday. The 177 confirmed cases...
BIA: Navajo members can ‘work around’ connectivity issues to participate in online forum on oil and gas development
Representatives from the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) told participants of...
Greenland Ice Sheets Melt to Point of No Return
Point of no return It was reported by a study in Ohio State University last week that the Greenland Ice...
Florida’s Cautionary Tale: How Starving and Muzzling Public Health Fueled COVID Fire
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On a sweltering July morning, Rose Wilson struggled to breathe as she sat in her bed, the...
UK Holds First Social Distance Concert
Coronavirus and the music industry Ever since the global spread of the coronavirus has caused the countries around the world...
California’s Data Failures Stymie Efforts to Curb the Virus
The failure of California’s infectious disease monitoring system for a stretch of at least 20 days in July and August...
Pandemic-related job loss nixes health insurance for nearly 200,000
North Carolinians interested in the fate of Medicaid expansion certainly are familiar with the characters and well-worn script, by now....
Surge In Enrollment As Californians Avoid Penalty, Receive State Aid
Hundreds of thousands of new enrollees signed up for 2020 coverage through Covered California, driven by new carrot-and-stick state policies...
A VERY MODERN DILEMMA
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