28 September 2011 –The United Nations committee entrusted with helping countries tackle terrorism held a day-long meeting at UN Headquarters in New York today, withSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon warning that the threat is still as great as it was at the time of the 2001 attacks against the United States.
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA-Judge Eric Aarseth, of the Superior Court in Anchorage, ruled on Monday, on a 2009 case, that the State of Alaska was not required to give public notice before issuing exploratory permits for the Pebble project site, nor was it required to study the potential impacts of the activities at that site.
With winter rapidly approaching, U.S. Sen. Mark Begich wrote on Monday to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Eric Shinseki to remind the administration of the need to reduce homelessness among Alaska’s veterans and suggest ways the VA can act to help.
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of Senators urged Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other top administration officials to act quickly to improve health care delivery to American Indians and Alaska Natives.