Katheryn Houghton
Montana Correspondent at KFF Health News
Montana-based journalist for KFF Health News | [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
baltimoresun.com | Katheryn Houghton |Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez |Arielle Zionts
By Katheryn Houghton, Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez and Arielle Zionts, KFF Health NewsWINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation leaders took turns talking with the U.S. government’s top health official as they hiked along a sandstone ridge overlooking their rural, high-desert town before the morning sun grew too hot. Buu Nygren, president of the Navajo Nation, paused at the edge with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
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2 weeks ago |
utahnewsdispatch.com | Katheryn Houghton |Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez |Arielle Zionts
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation leaders took turns talking with the U.S. government’s top health official as they hiked along a sandstone ridge overlooking their rural, high-desert town before the morning sun grew too hot. Buu Nygren, president of the Navajo Nation, paused at the edge with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Below them, tribal government buildings, homes, and juniper trees dotted the tan and deep-red landscape.
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2 weeks ago |
dailymontanan.com | Katheryn Houghton
HAMILTON — Scientists are often careful to take off their work badges when they leave the campus of one of the nation’s top research facilities, here in southwestern Montana’s Bitterroot Valley. It’s a reflection of the long-standing tension caused by Rocky Mountain Laboratories’ improbable location in this conservative, blue-collar town of 5,000 that was built on logging.
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3 weeks ago |
medicalxpress.com | Katheryn Houghton |Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez |Arielle Zionts |Sadie Harley
Navajo Nation leaders took turns talking with the U.S. government's top health official as they hiked along a sandstone ridge overlooking their rural, high-desert town before the morning sun grew too hot. Buu Nygren, president of the Navajo Nation, paused at the edge with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Below them, tribal government buildings, homes, and juniper trees dotted the tan and deep-red landscape.
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3 weeks ago |
gazettextra.com | Katheryn Houghton |Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez |Arielle Zionts
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - Navajo Nation leaders took turns talking with the U.S. government's top health official as they hiked along a sandstone ridge overlooking their rural, high-desert town before the morning sun grew too hot. Buu Nygren, president of the Navajo Nation, paused at the edge with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Below them, tribal government buildings, homes, and juniper trees dotted the tan and deep-red landscape. Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.
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So far, @IHSgov has mostly been spared in the fed's widespread scale back. But tribal nations and orgs have lost funding elsewhere in the melee of cuts. “You’re disrupting real lives,” said Navajo council delegate, Cherilyn Yazzie. A collab with @Ajzionts and @jazmin1orozco
NEW: Tribes and Native American organizations lost grants for community health workers, vaccinations, data modernization, and other public health efforts, the chair of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe told Congress. 📝: @K_Hought + @jazmin1orozco + @Ajzionts https://t.co/4yqekQPQYo
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