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Save this story for later. Bertica Cabrera Morris, a business and political consultant who was born in Cuba and has spent most of her adult life in central Florida, has helped several Republican Presidential candidates with Latino outreach, among them George W. Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Donald Trump. Some won; some lost, as Trump did this fall, but not before increasing his share of the Latino vote to thirty-two per cent, up four points from 2016, according to exit polls. “We are te...

Echo Pilot May 5 The Greencastle-Antrim School Board officially put furloughs, teacher and program cuts and the elimination of extracurricular activities on the table during a virtual meeting. "Pre-COVID-19, it wasnt good; post-COVID-19, its disastrous," Caroline Royer, chief financial officer, said in describing the districts fiscal position. Projected revenues for 2020-21 are $39,999,478 and projected expenses are $42,448,579 for a deficit of $2,449,101. Greencastle-Antrim High School stude...

The Mountain Top and Taylor locations of 10X Fitness opened Saturday despite a statewide order that gyms must stay closed until Jan. 4 to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Daniel Cronauer, co-owner of 10X Fitness, said he decided to open nine days before the state order expires for the sake of the fitness centers’ members and employees. It is also a matter of fairness, Cronauer said Sunday. “We are tired of seeing the overwhelming crowds in shopping centers while small businesses are g...

President Donald Trump on Sunday evening signed the $2.3 trillion pandemic relief and spending bill after reaching an ...

Democrats Applaud Trump for Signing Relief Bill, Drum Up Support for $2,000 Checks Democrats on Capitol Hill applauded President Donald Trump’s signing of the $2.3 trillion funding measure that includes $1.4 trillion for government funding  through next September and $900 billion for pandemic relief, while drumming up support for the $2,000 stimulus checks the president, and others, have called for. “The signing of the bipartisan, bicameral coronavirus relief legislation is welco...

HIV/Aids stigma in courts is the dilemma for lawyers and judges December 23, 2020 Written by PAUL MUKIIBI According to the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, the HIV epidemic remains one of the leadi...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The global pandemic has had a significant adverse impact on United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (“USCIS”) operations. We previously reported on the impact of COVID-related office closures on U.S. consular operations; however, USCIS was subject to similar office closures. Specifically, USCIS Application Support Centers (ASCs) and Field Offices were closed from March until June 4 and then partially reopened. ASCs, which...

Lawmakers must limit the Control Yuan now By Chang Sue-chung 張淑中 There have been media reports that Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus whip Ker Chien-ming (柯建銘) last month thumped a table in anger while speaking with a National Human Rights Commission representative during a session of the Legislative Yuan’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee. The committee was reviewing a draft of the Control Yuan National Human Rights Commission Power Exercise Act (監察�...

The year of reckoning: How 2020 revealed the fault lines in American policing, and what we can expect next CNN 12/18/2020 © Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images Every morning, Victor Wahl walks into his office with a sense of dread. © Riverside Police Department Riverside, Illinois, Police Chief Tom Weitzel Months of intense protests and heightened scrutiny have left the acting police chief of Madison, Wisconsin, like many in his shoes, on edge about what lies ahead. © Mark Makela/Getty ...

The Abolition Amendment wont End Prison Labor | Opinion Chandra Bozelko On 12/11/20 at 7:00 AM EST With only days left in the 116th Congress, the "Abolition Amendment" has appeared. Its a bicameral effort to remove the words "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted" from the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Removing this exception to the 13th Amendments ban on slavery is a necessary step to ensure that the United Stat...