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The Week in Review
ending April 21
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Neal McCaleb.
Headed to BIA?
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McCaleb announced for Bureau of Indian Affairs post
In the biggest news to hit Indian Country
since the week before last, President George W.
Bush announced his intention to nominate Oklahoma
Secretary of Transportation Neal McCaleb to run the Bureau of
Indian Affairs.
The move surprised a number of tribal leaders who
were impressed by the speed at which the Bush administration
announced someone to head the Bureau. They weren't
always pleased with McCaleb himself, however, although
most reviews were positive.
Meanwhile, McCaleb is facing a political firestorm back
home as he and two state officials volley charges
against one another over alleged ethics violations.
Whether or not the battle will affect his chances
to join the Department of Interior remains to be seen.
Get the Story:
McCaleb
named to Indian Affairs post (Politics 4/18)
Reagan returns
with new administration (4/18)
Tribal leaders
have advice for McCaleb (4/18)
Okla. tribes
remember McCaleb (4/18)
In The Hoop: Neal
McCaleb Coverage
(4/19)
Plains gives
mixed reviews to McCaleb (4/19)
McCaleb gets
good reviews in Conn. (4/19)
In The Hoop: Dirty Tricks
(4/20)
Timing of
McCaleb charges questioned (4/20)
Trust reform gets special scrutiny
Neal McCaleb hasn't yet been approved to head the
Bureau of Indian Affairs but he faces a tough job
when it comes to trust reform.
The federal judge overseeing the Department of Interior's
attempt to fix more than one hundred years of financial
mismanagement placed yet another level of scrutiny on
the government and appointed a court monitor to watch
over trust reform efforts. The move comes after
Interior officials conflicted one another with just
exactly how much progress they are making.
The court's confidence in the abilities at the
Department of Treasury were no less striking.
Despite receiving orders to preserve documents,
the court's special investigator had to give
the Treasury even more explicit instructions on
how to prevent trust records from being destroyed.
Get the Story:
Court monitor to
oversee trust reform (4/17)
Court
investigator faults Federal Reserve (4/19)
EDITORIAL: Trust
fund monitor a good idea (4/19)
Fed instructed
to preserve documents (4/20)
more stories
There's still more to read in the recap
of the top stories.
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