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Navajo Nation applauds expected extension of San Juan voting rights deal
Agreement would require the Utah county to continue offering language assistance and early voting opportunities on the Navajo Nation into 2024.
(Zak Podmore | Tribune file photo) Geri Hernandez, a certified Navajo interpreter working for San Juan County, holds a bilingual I voted sticker at an early voting day at the Red Mesa Chapter House on the Navajo Nation in San Juan County on Oct. 8, 2020.
| Feb. 25, 2021, 2:00 p.m.
A landmark voting rights settlement between San Juan County and the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission will likely be extended into 2024.
Supporters say the deal will ensure access to Navajo language assistance during elections as well as expanded early voting opportunities for residents of Utah’s only majority-minority county, which overlaps with the Navajo and Ute Mountain Ute nations.
Willie Grayeyes and Kenneth Maryboy: Support for restoring Bears Ears is strong, and growing stronger
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Two buttes that make up the namesake for Utah s Bears Ears National Monument are shown on Dec. 28, 2016, in southeastern Utah.
By Willie Grayeyes and Kenneth Maryboy | Special to The Tribune
| Feb. 5, 2021, 3:00 p.m. | Updated: 3:25 p.m.
We local elected officials on the Colorado Plateau have been scratching our heads in recent days as we witness attention given to the Utah politicians who oppose restoration of the Bears Ears National Monument. We support Bears Ears, and we also deserve a voice.
Rally on the Rocks, an annual UTV event that has sparked heated debates between event organizers and county officials over the past two years, will not take place in Grand County this spring.
âFollowing advice from our legal team, the entirety of the Rally will be held in San Juan County,â reads a statement on the eventâs website.
Scheduled for May 11 through 15, the event will be headquartered off Highway 191, less than a mile south of the border between Grand and San Juan counties at the Dixie 4WD auto repair shop and the Moab Off Road Compound, a rental accommodation geared toward off-road enthusiasts.
On Jan. 20, Utahâs congressional delegation issued a statement opposing the Biden Administrationâs intent to immediately restore the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, which were reduced by former President Donald Trump.
In its statement, Utahâs congressional delegation argues that âroughly two-thirds of our backyard belongs to the federal government, which has meant land management actions have often been done to us rather than with us.â
âWe share a sincere desire to find a collaborative, broadly supported solution to the political football of national monuments in Utah, specifically Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments,â the statement reads.