SAN JOSE — When customers enter Mi Pueblo Food Center to do their weekly shopping, the goal is to make them feel at home.
Each of the grocery chain’s 21 outlets, which are scattered throughout the Bay Area, Monterey Bay region and Central Valley, is styled to emulate a distinct Mexican region. Boisterous rancheras stream from
Two Republican state senators who provided pivotal votes to legalize same-sex marriage last year fought opponents to a standstill on Thursday in primary races so close that they will be decided only after absentee ballots are counted.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/nyregion/primary-results-close-for-2-gop-legislators-who-voted-for-same-sex-marriage.html?_r=1&hp
Officials of the Maricopa County Community College District, in Arizona, said on Wednesday that young illegal immigrants who obtained work permits under the terms of the Obama administration’s deferred-action program would be allowed to use those documents to prove their state residency, thus giving them access to lower in-state tuition rates.
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A new online education think tank that aims to expand the involvement of people of color in the growing national debate over how best to educate America’s children is being launched this week in Washington by a group of Black business and education veterans complemented by a broad-based corps of volunteers with special interests in
BERKELEY — Four decades ago, people with severe disabilities had little political voice. Then Ed Roberts came on the scene, building the Center for Independent Living here into a model emulated worldwide.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0913-disability-rights-20120913,0,2197160.story
WASHINGTON — The U.S. poverty rate leveled off last year for the first time since the Great Recession, but the halting recovery deepened the financial pain for middle-class families and pushed to a new high the income gap between the country’s richest and poorest citizens.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-census-poverty-rate-20120913,0,4738274.story
This week in Washington, people from Detroit, Tucson, New Orleans, San Diego, Atlanta and nine other cities gathered to celebrate doing the impossible. The participants share a tough job: getting homeless veterans off the street and into apartments and social services. They work in cities that have large numbers of homeless vets — but most
In response to the California Assembly’s recent passage of a resolution calling on university administations to address what it calls “anti-Semitism” on California campuses, a group of academics have written an open letter of opposition to each of the 66 Assemblymembers who authored and/or sponsored the resolution.
Read more in The Electronic Intifada: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora/scholars-voice-opposition-california-assembly-resolution-anti-semitism
A course at the Franciscan University of Steubenville that cites homosexuality as “deviant behavior” has sparked an outcry from the Ohio institution’s gay alumni, and could jeopardize the accreditation of its social-work program, NPR reports.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/catholic-college-draws-fire-for-course-that-calls-homosexuality-deviant/48498?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The Republican-dominated U.S. House of Representatives is scrutinizing the National Labor Relations Board for its recent actions on labor organizing in higher education.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/US-House-Scrutinizes-NLRB/134292/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en