AltWeeklies Wire
Photos: La Nueva Generacionnew
Santa Cruz's Beach Flats neighborhood is a community in transition. The older generations, having immigrated mostly from Mexico, South and Central America, have started new families. Through their children, they are both changing the way that they’ve lived for decades and changing the way that the rest of Santa Cruz lives today.
Good Times Santa Cruz |
Curtis Cartier |
09-16-2009 |
Immigration
Citizen Claranew
Taxpayers should be concerned about the way one powerful Hispanic businesswoman is getting ahead in Multnomah County, Oregon.
Willamette Week |
Ian Demsky |
06-28-2006 |
Business & Labor
Don't Drink the Waternew
In the urban colonias of the Greater Houston area, the water stinks.
The Texas Observer |
Jake Bernstein |
12-05-2005 |
Environment
The Minuteman's 15 Minutes of Fame (Minute 14.5)new
Looking for illegal immigrants on the U.S.-Mexican border, the Minutemen end up getting spooked by rattlesnakes and the suspicious light of the moon.
SF Weekly |
Harmon Leon |
07-01-2005 |
Immigration
Lives of a Drinker and a Dancer Intersect, Cutting Both Shortnew
A friend insisted on driving Shawn Patrick Scott home the night of Sept. 2, but he split when she was in the restroom. On the highway, he ended dancer Vanessa Marie Fernandez's life as he destroyed his own.
Reno News & Review |
Michael Sion |
11-12-2004 |
Policy Issues
