Alex Perez

Sep 30, 2024 | sahanjournal.com | Alex Perez |Àlex Pérez |Nancy Spears |Trisha Collopy

This story is being co-published with The Imprint, a national nonprofit news outlet covering child welfare and youth justice. Amid drums, smudging and chants to “bring our children home,” supporters of the Indian Child Welfare Act gathered early this morning outside the Minnesota Capitol building, as the state’s highest court considered the latest legal threat to the bedrock 1978 law. The rally outside the Supreme Court today was deeply personal for Korina Barry, of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.

Sep 5, 2024 | sahanjournal.com | Alex Perez |Àlex Pérez |Trisha Collopy

This story is being co-published withThe Imprint, a national nonprofit news outlet covering child welfare and youth justice. Last week, Minnesota’s state Supreme Court announced the launch of its first Council for Child Protection and Maltreatment Prevention. The 26-member group of experts will spend the next year recommending policies and laws to improve outcomes for kids and families in the child welfare system and those at risk of abuse and neglect.

Mar 5, 2024 | sahanjournal.com | Michael FitzGerald |Michael Fitzgerald |Alex Perez |Àlex Pérez |Sara Tiano

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Mar 5, 2024 | sahanjournal.com | Michael FitzGerald |Michael Fitzgerald |Alex Perez |Àlex Pérez |Sara Tiano

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Aug 13, 2023 | piratewires.com | Alex Perez |Alex Perez

Last November, in defiance of a broad, national failure for Republicans, the nation looked in shock to Ron DeSantis’ staggering gubernatorial re-election. In part, the story was Florida, once considered a “swing state” now firmly in the red. But much of the punditry’s conversation fell on a single city — Miami, the hispanic capital of America, which tipped Republican for the first time in memory.