Bradley Brooks Associated Press Brasilia, Brazil (AP) — From torture in a dictatorship-era jail cell to the helm of Latin America’s largest nation, it’s been an unlikely political rise for President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist rebel turned career technocrat who claimed Brazil’s seat of power Jan. 1. In becoming the country’s 36th president, Rousseff [...]
Richard Jones El Hispanic News Writer Portland, OR — December 2010 brought more than its share of disappointments to Hispanic civil rights advocates. The story closest to home concerns a former Rex Putnam High School student body president. In September 2010 Héctor López was deported to Mexico — a country that he has no memory [...]
Portland, OR — On the very day the Dream Act passed away in the Senate, people gathered in Portland to show that the indigenous cultures of the Americas are still very much alive. Dec. 18, 2010, was International Migrants Day, and local activists and community members commemorated the day with the Fifth Annual Indigenous Forum. [...]
Richard Jones El Hispanic News Writer Portland, OR — The Tower of Babel was small change compared to what Portland Public Schools (PPS) face. In this district students speak more than 70 different languages and dialects according to District Performance Auditor Richard C. Tracy. In the 2009-10 school year more than 4,700 PPS students qualified [...]
Lillian Shirley, RN, MPH, MPA Multnomah County Health Department Director Most of us know that eating well and exercising frequently is good for our health. Yet, many of us are not eating nearly enough healthy food or getting enough physical activity. It is recommended that most adults eat two cups of fruit and two and [...]
Richard Jones El Hispanic News Writer Dayton, OR — Two days before Christmas, members of San MartÃn de Porres Mission received the present that they had been hoping for. It came in the form of a memorandum from the Rev. Patrick S. Brennan, a priest of the Archdiocese of Portland. Brennan fills several roles in [...]
Portland, OR (AP) — Portland Police Chief Mike Reese says his city’s recent spate of shootings involving officers is unacceptable. The Oregonian reports Portland saw six officer-involved shootings in 2010. Four of those ended with fatalities. There were two officer-involved shootings in the first two days of the new year.
Portland, OR — The holidays are behind us, but the most basic human needs — for food and warm clothing — remain. In light of the continuing economic recession that has put many families on the verge of homelessness and greatly increased the demand for county services, the Multnomah County Board of County Commissioners is [...]
Portland, OR — The Portland Water Bureau announced Jan. 3 its intent to develop a request for a variance to the treatment requirements of a federal water treatment rule after a year of tests came up negative for the parasite Cryptosporidium. The variance, if recommended by the federal EPA and granted by the Oregon Department [...]
