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Monthly Archives: July 2011

Summer Celebrations! : what’s on YOUR plate?

Summer Celebrations! : what’s on YOUR plate?

Chances are you heard that the food pyramid (mypyramid) was replaced this month by My Plate ( www.choosemyplate.gov ). This exciting new meal planning tool is a simple, easy to… Read more »

Illinois Students Spend Summer Searching for a Cure

Illinois Students Spend Summer Searching for a Cure

Selected Illinois students are trading in their bathing suit and sun block for a lab coat and test tubes. One local junior, Mark Rizko, attending Nazareth Academy High School, will… Read more »

Fumadores Adolescentes se Enfrentan a ‘Truth’

Fumadores Adolescentes se Enfrentan a ‘Truth’

Por: Ashmar Mandou Es verdad, la mayor campaña de prevención contra el tabaco para jóvenes y Vans Warped Tour llegaron a Chicago el sábado, 9 de julio, para dar a… Read more »

¡A celebrar el verano! – ¿Qué traes en tu plato?

¡A celebrar el verano! – ¿Qué traes en tu plato?

Tal vez te has enterado de que la pirámide alimenticia (mypyramid) ha sido modificada este mes por My Plate ( www.choosemyplate.gov ). Esta nueva y emocionante herramienta para planificar las… Read more »

Some Things are Best Left Unsaid

Some Things are Best Left Unsaid

By: Daniel Nardini In a bid for his 2012 presidential reelection campaign, U.S. President Barack Obama said that Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans have the right “to choose statehood or… Read more »

Immigrant Community Gets ‘Ready to Lead’

Immigrant Community Gets ‘Ready to Lead’

Thirty-five Latino, Polish, Arab, African and Asian immigrants and children of immigrants were selected to participate in a statewide non-partisan immigrant candidate training program Saturday, July 9th. The Illinois Coalition… Read more »

Latino or Indigenous?

Latino or Indigenous?

By: Daniel Nardini Here is a fact. More Latinos in the United States are registering themselves as Amerindians. An Amerindian is a native indigenous person who was born into a… Read more »

On Mandating Sick Leave

On Mandating Sick Leave

By: Daniel Nardini The State of Connecticut will require that all workers, both in the public and private sectors, be granted by their employers paid sick leave. Yes, the state… Read more »

The Price for Trashing the Constitution

The Price for Trashing the Constitution

By: Daniel Nardini Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio may be the toughest law enforcement officer in the United States, but he has now paid a price for that. In… Read more »

The Mexican Immigration Decline

The Mexican Immigration Decline

By: Daniel Nardini According to a study at Princeton University, the number of Mexicans trying to enter the United States—both legal and illegal—is in fact declining. The study, called the… Read more »