{"id":14866,"date":"2014-10-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mentalhe180dev.wpenginepowered.com\/news\/begich-issues-statement-on-congressman-youngs-comments-about-suicide\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:56:15","slug":"begich-issues-statement-on-congressman-youngs-comments-about-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/begich-issues-statement-on-congressman-youngs-comments-about-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Begich issues statement on Congressman Young&#8217;s comments about suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senator Mark Begich issued a statement today on comments about suicide made by Congressman Don Young to a group of students at Wasilla High School.\u00a0 Begich is issuing his statement after spending the past two days speaking with Alaska Natives at the 2014 Elders and Youth Conference and the Alaska Federation of Natives 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