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JUST WHAT QUESTIONS ARE BEING ASKED ON CENSUS FORMS
WASHINGTON, March 15 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE - The census mailing package includes a cover letter, the 2010 Census form and a postage-paid return envelope. The 10 questions are basic and should take about 10 minutes to complete. The 2010 Censu....
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CHANGE AND MY FRIEND ANABEL, THE LIFE-LONG REPUBLICAN
Hispanic Link News Service
HOUSTON—Anabel, a friend and life-long Republican, contacted me to report her increasing alarm over a trend that’s testing her party loyalty.
Anabel is part of that fortunate class that isn’t hurting from....
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Government and Pov.
Hispanic Link News Service
HOUSTON, Texas — I was one of the students hearing Professor Homer G. Barnett’s lectures on the history of anthropology at the University of Oregon the year before he retired. That was more than three decades ago.
Barne....
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Are Latinos Ethnics or a
Racial Minority?
Some years ago, I shared cocktails along San Antonio’s River Walk with Richard Estrada, the legendary columnist for The Dallas Morning News. Estrada would trace the nuances of the Mexican-American experience while framing it in the long sweep of A....
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THE FOURTH OF JULIO — A HOLIDAY FOR REAL AMERICANS
My mother Pepa and I were shopping in the South Texas town of Del Río, where I was born and raised, preparing for our regular family Fourth of July picnic, when a Little League teammate of mine, Bubba, bumped into us.
“Howdy!” roared ....
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Government-Run Health Care
This week saw revolution in Iran, North Korean saber-rattling, the City Council setting a public hearing to discuss the animal shelter, and S.C. Governor Mark Sanford on a four day tryst with a woman in Argentina; describing his foray in this way: ....
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Support for Sotomayor, Obama Continues Widespread
Hispanic Link News Service
Brushing off right-wing attacks over the nomination of New York federal judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court, Hispanic groups remain steadfast in hailing President Obama’s historic act and Sotomayor’s unbl.... 
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Questions Unanswered following Caldera Resignation
Hispanic Link News Service
On May 8, President Barack Obama accepted Louis Caldera’s resignation as director of the White House Military Office. That translates into “he was fired.”
The circumstances stem from an expensive photo op authorized by C....
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AFTER 220 YEARS, MUST WE STILL WAIT?
Replacing Justice David Souter will be no easy feat. Although there are a number of issues to consider, the opportunity to diversify the Court so it reflects the composition of the nation is particularly salient. Essential to the judicial tem....
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FBI agent: Criminals targeting Hispanics
Criminals increasingly see newly arrived Hispanic immigrants as targets for easy money, a top FBI agent said Saturday at a conference on issues facing the Hispanic community.
Steven F. Burroughs, a supervisory special agent and the agency’s civi....
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Do Texas Dems hold winning hand?
Texas Democrats are in the process of trying to draw an inside straight. If successful, they will elect the first Democratic governor since Ann Richards, who was defeated by George W. Bush in 1994. This is not as crazy as you might think.
In p....
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