Politics

Newly appointed Fiscal Recovery Fund Office Director Tom Platero told the Navajo Times last Friday that his office, tasked to manage and administer American Rescue Plan Act projects, is up and running.

President Jonathan Nez on Monday joined President Joe Biden and members of Congress for the bipartisan ceremony commemorating the signing of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act held on the White House lawn.

Last week Law and Order Committee Chairwoman Eugenia Charles-Newton lobbied members of Congress in Washington, D.C., to garner support for public safety facilities, justice centers, tribal law enforcement, funds for a medical examiner and the prosecutor’s office, and for updating the BIA funding formula for tribes.

On the corner of Harvard and Silver, near the University of New Mexico campus, there’s a large mural of Leonard Peltier in his younger years painted on the side of the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice.