Politics

Navajo Nation Council Delegate Leonard Tsosie’s first item of business as a newly minted member of the Budget and Finance committee was to get the tribal budget sent directly to the committee without a public comment period and only some discussion with the other committees.

For more than five decades, Navajo tribal leaders have been promising to find a solution to the reservation’s economic problems.

Both former Navajo Times editor Candace Begody-Begay and her husband, Arizona State Sen. Carlyle Begay, are out of their respective political races.

Disqualified Arizona State Senate candidate Candace Begody-Begay told the Navajo Times Friday she missed the hearing on her petition signatures because of a family emergency.

The Arizona Secretary of state Office Friday confirmed that former Navajo Times editor Candace Begody-Begay will not be in the Republican primary.