Portland, OR — March 27 is the 24th Annual American Diabetes Association Alert Day, a one-day “wake-up call” asking the American public to take the Diabetes Risk Test at diabetes.org/alert to find out if they are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes. In 2011, the American Diabetes Association encouraged Americans to “Join the Million [...]
Galo Legarda El Hispanic News Portland, OR — In a match with two completely different halves, the Portland Timbers treated their fans to a win in their first home game by a final score of 3-1 against the Philadelphia Union. The first half brought no luck for the Timbers, who had most of the scoring [...]
Can a new model for development bring health, wealth, and equity to a neighborhood? Julie Cortez El Hispanic News Portland, OR — Bucking a system that skews to the lowest bidder, the powerful, and the well-connected, the Let Us Build Cully Park! project is envisioned not only as an opportunity to bring a park to [...]
Richard Jones El Hispanic News Portland, OR — TriMet may soon ask you to drop a few more coins into the box to pay for your rides to work and back. In addition to that pocket change, some fairly serious numbers are under discussion at TriMet — the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon. It’s [...]
Richard Jones El Hispanic News Milwaukie, OR — The death threat Saúl Reyes Salazar received could not have been more clear. In brief it warned, “Mind your own business or we’ll cut your head off at the neck.” That was not the first threat of that nature Reyes had received. The Chihuahua native estimated that [...]
Julie Cortez El Hispanic News Portland, OR — Ernesto Domínguez, 23, has firsthand knowledge of the types of challenges facing the youth he helps through his work at Cascade AIDS Project, Advocates for Youth, and the Oregon Queer Youth Summit. Domínguez experienced homelessness for nearly a year and a half when his mother kicked him [...]
Washington, D.C. — An ongoing series in the Cato Journal calls on a small army of experts to address the question of what’s good for the United States. In the Winter 2012 issue more than a dozen writers, writing 13 essays, overwhelmingly supported the notion that immigration is good for the United States. The essay [...]
Olga Sanchez Community columnist How do you fill an empty stage with magic? This is the challenge for the artists involved in the creation of “Jardin de Sueños,” an original work which will have its world premier on March 23 at the Milagro Theatre in Portland. In this case, we begin with a script that [...]
Erin Rook PQ Monthly Growing up, Jedidiah Chávez didn’t have a lot, but there was always music. His mother, a concert pianist, bartended and waited tables to support her son and provide for his musical education. “She had a jar she would put her tips in, and she would put a couple dollars in another [...]
