FARMINGTON The Navajo Nation Council has removed Pearline Kirk as the top financial officer for the tribal government, stemming from allegations that her office entered an illegal contract for COVID-19 testing on employees and other related services.
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez on May 20 named former auditor general Elizabeth Begay as acting controller. Begay will start work on May 21, according to the president s office.
Delegates voted 13 in favor and 10 opposed on May 19 on emergency legislation brought forward last week by Delegate Pernell Halona.
While the bill does not cite reasons for removing Kirk, it states the council no longer desires to retain her as controller and finds it to be in the best interest to remove her from the office.
At a senior complex, a Covid vaccine clinic imbues sense of relief amid discussions of racial gap
BALTIMORE In the 1960s and ’70s, they called him “Dancing Harry.”
A fixture at Baltimore Bullets and then New York Knicks basketball games, Edward Marvin Cooper was a fan well-known for his moves, his costumes and the hexes he cast on whatever opponents dared set foot in the Baltimore Civic Center or Madison Square Garden.
Cooper, 77, said he doesn’t dance quite like that anymore, but he was celebrating Sunday nonetheless.
Cooper received his second shot of the coronavirus vaccine at his senior living facility in the Park Circle area of Northwest Baltimore on Sunday, along with dozens of others.
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