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Truckers dread Mexican big rigs

Herndon, a driver for Panther Expedited Services Inc., Seville, Ohio, and thousands of other U.S. truckers may soon have to accept the presence of Mexican trucks and drivers. The Bush administration is pushing forward with long-stalled plans to open U.S. highways to Mexican trucks to fulfill an obligation under the North American Free Trade Agreement signed in 1993.

Mexican Mobile Consulate shifts visit to Appleton

One of two mobile programs in the country, Chicago’s was established five years ago to serve a region in the Midwest roughly the size of one-third of Mexico. The consulate targeted communities where there was a relatively large Mexican population and whose residents could not afford to travel to Chicago for the paperwork. At the time, the consulate’s service also included Minnesota, Indiana and Ohio.

City toughens lead rules (Cincinnati

Some children’s toys and cheap jewelry contain lead, he pointed out, and in the Hispanic community, some candies also contain lead. One popular Hispanic folk remedy used to treat colds “is almost 100 percent lead,” he said.

**what are they talking about in regards to “Hispanic folk remedy”? 1. What do you mean ‘Hispanic’? 2. What folk remedy are you referring to?**

Ohio test scores up overall

Although Ohio’s black and Hispanic students were passing achievement tests at lower rates than white and Asian students this year, there was some progress at narrowing achievement gaps in the past year:

A majority of black students did not pass this year’s math tests in fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. A majority of Hispanic students in fifth grade did not pass the math test this year. A majority of white students and Asian students passed math in all grades.

While 71 percent or more of white students passed the new science tests in fifth and eighth grades, less than a third of black students did, and less than half of Hispanic students passed.
While most white and Asian students passed social studies in eighth grade, only 20 percent of black eighth-graders passed it, and 30 percent of Hispanic eighth-graders passed. Similar gaps appeared in the fifth-grade social studies results.

**The headline wants to distract us from the fact that only 20% of black eighth graders, and 30% of Hispanic eighth-graders passed the social studies portion, compared to the majority of White and Asian students who passed? **

U.S.’s First Broadcast Media Training Program for Spanish-Speaking Students

July 18, 2007 — Denver, Colorado — The Ohio and Illinois Centers for Broadcasting today announced plans to start the United States’ first broadcasting training program dedicated to Spanish-speaking Americans. As part of the program plans, the school today launched www.mediosuno.com , a comprehensive website dedicated to the School’s Hispanic Media Broadcasting Training Program

Richardson plays trump card at Latino meeting.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio also won applause for his labored reading of a closing speech in Spanish, by which he meant to demonstrate his commitment to Spanish as “something that is promoted in our schools.”