London, England (AP) — Venezuelan driver Pastor Maldonado will partner Rubens Barrichello at Formula One team Williams in 2011. The 25-year-old Maldonado joins the British team after winning the championship in GP2, which acts as a feeder series to F1. “GP2 is a very good championship, it really prepares drivers well for F1,” Maldonado said. [...]
Julie Cortez El Hispanic News Writer Portland, OR — A thing of beauty is a joy forever, but the realities of life and economics mean that sometimes the places where we find that beauty are less permanent. Onda Gallery, home base for Latin American and Latino artists and their admirers in Portland for 12 years, [...]
Jonathan J. Cooper Associated Press Salem, OR (AP) — Thousands of state workers took an unpaid day off Nov. 26, earning a smaller paycheck to help Oregon balance its struggling budget. With a bigger gap looming in the next two-year budget, public employees are likely to be asked to contribute even more, but they’re resisting [...]
Richard Jones El Hispanic News Writer McMinnville, OR — Eight months ago the small Iglesia Católica San Martín de Porres in nearby Dayton was on the verge of being sold — in effect eliminating the site where a few hundred Hispanics choose to worship. Like the storyline of a dramatic movie, the church has dodged [...]
Richard Jones El Hispanic News Writer Cornelius, OR — As retirement parties go, the one for Sabino Sardineta will probably rate as among the most memorable ever for most of the 200 or so guests who showed up at Lincoln Elementary School in nearby Hillsboro the night of Nov. 12. Over the last 18 years [...]
Laura Wides-Muñoz AP Hispanic Affairs Writer Miami, FL (AP) — She hung up on the next president, Barack Obama. Twice. She thought it was a prank. In an expert stroke of political spin, she immediately sent out a press release explaining the apparent snub as a mix-up. Meet Florida U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the first [...]
Manuel Valdes Associated Press Seattle, WA (AP) — The number of deportations of undocumented immigrants from Washington, Oregon, and Alaska dropped by nearly 9 percent during the last fiscal year, while deportations of immigrants considered convicted criminals were on the rise, according to new federal data. It was the second consecutive year that U.S. Immigration [...]
Beaverton, OR — Portland Community College scored a five-year, $2.24 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Migrant Education to start the High School Equivalency Program (HEP) on its Rock Creek Campus. HEP, a sister program of College Assistance for Migrants Program (CAMP), will assist migrant and seasonal farm workers and members [...]
Portland, OR (AP) — Oregon ranks fifth nationally for prescription painkiller abuse and has the highest rate in the country among 18- to 25-year-olds, according to federal officials. Those figures were among the numbers presented at a drug abuse prevention summit in Portland on Nov. 19 that brought together state and federal officials, physicians, pharmacists, [...]
