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  • Majority of Americans want masks for travelers: AP-NORC poll

    04/20/2022 12:06:13 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 80 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | April 20, 2022 | By DAVE KOLPACK
    FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A majority of Americans continue to support a mask requirement for people traveling on airplanes and other shared transportation, a new poll finds. A ruling by a federal judge has put the government’s transportation mask mandate on hold. The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that despite opposition to that requirement that included verbal abuse and physical violence against flight attendants, 56% of Americans favor requiring people on planes, trains and public transportation to wear masks, compared with 24% opposed and 20% who say they’re neither in favor nor opposed. Interviews...
  • Biden solicitor swings mineral rights title back to tribes

    02/04/2022 1:42:48 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 19 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | February 4, 2022 | By DAVE KOLPACK
    FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The interior solicitor in the Biden administration said in an opinion released Friday that the mineral rights under the original Missouri River riverbed belong to a North Dakota tribal nation. The 68-page memorandum posted by the U.S. Department of Interior is contrary to a May 2020 Trump administration opinion concluding that the state is legal owner of submerged lands beneath the river where it flows through the Fort Berthold Reservation. The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation had sued over that memo, which rolled back an Obama administration opinion favoring the nation, also known as the Three...