HUD offers grants for housing counseling

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced that $79 million is available for a broad range of housing counseling programs to help families find and preserve housing. The available funding is an increase of $21 million, or 27 percent, over last year. These grants will be awarded competitively to hundreds of HUD-approved [...]

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NLRB Orders Union Election to Be Held at Foxwoods

The National Labor Relations Board’s Regional Office in Connecticut has ordered that a union election be held at Foxwoods Resort and Casino, operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, according to a press release issued by the NLRB on July 8. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 371, had filed a petition for the [...]

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Tribes Are Helping Native Entrepreneurs

By Darryl Noble As Native American tribes have begun to prosper with gaming, some of the more progressive tribes have turned to assisting entrepreneurship. This buoying of new small businesses extends the teach a man to fish idea. Feed a man to fish he eats for a day, teach a man to fish he eats [...]

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Alabama Upscales Casinos To Rival Mississippi

SHORTER, Ala. (AP) – Alabama casinos are making a $500 million bet that luxury hotels, celebrity restaurants and big-name entertainment will give southbound tourists an alternative to Mississippi’s Gulf Coast gambling destinations. Tourists headed through Alabama to the Gulf can now stop at top-line restaurants opened by country singers John Anderson and Lorrie Morgan, catch [...]

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Arizona’s First Commercial Scale Wind Energy Development

PHOENIX – Calling it a reflection of growing energy concerns across the nation, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today lauded the public-private partnership that developed the Dry Lake Wind Power Project that now feeds clean, renewable energy to homes and businesses in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. “The successful completion of this vital project reflects [...]

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Energy Department Commits To Tribal Clean Energy Projects

Today at the White House Tribal Nations Conference, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu highlighted the Department of Energy’s continued commitment to partnering with Native Americans to support the development of clean energy projects on tribal lands that will help reduce energy use, limit carbon pollution, and create new jobs for tribal communities across the country. [...]

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