Politics

The 24th Navajo Nation Council summer session started off with a surprising resignation.

In his State of the Navajo Nation address Monday — the six-month anniversary of the new administration — President Jonathan Nez stressed the importance of putting into practice traditional teachings, living a healthy lifestyle, and collaborating as leaders.

Preventing delegates from serving in more than one elected office at a time is a popular notion that has never gone anywhere.

Council delegates and others arrive Monday morning, July 15, 2019, at the summer session of the Navajo Nation Council in Window Rock. See the photo.

The McKinley County and San Juan County commissions have made their choices of whom they want to see replace the late Sen. John Pinto, and neither county nominated his granddaughter.