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Sen. Schatz good afternoon, welcome to the committees oversight hearing on volume one of the department of the interiors federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative report and a legislative hearing on s2907. A bill to establish a truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School policies in the United States. The Indian Boarding School era was a dark period in our nations history and a painful example of how past federal policy failed. American indians, alaskan natives and native hawaiians. As the Department Report lays out, the federal government supported boarding schools wi...

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The board overseeing St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve counties’ 911 operations used its Dec. 17 meeting to discuss the Simms Mountain Tower project and an initiative to be placed on the April 6 ballot. The taxpayers in the 911 service region approved a 3/8-cent sales tax in 2014 that has been the 911 center’s chief source of revenue since landlines lost popularity more than a decade ago. The money has been used for a variety of major projects, including improving and expanding the center’s once-outdated facility and updating the system’s technology and software. Set to suns...