This dance will continue with or without Arizona’s new law, because unlike the cultures of Wal-Mart and Wall Street, a cornerstone of Mexican culture is an immense patience. Those of Mexican heritage I know, some legal some illegal, are almost without exception honest, hard-working, humble, family-oriented people. They just happen to have been born in the barrio of North America, a land we hurt more than help with our drug lust and imbalanced trade agreements. The “values” our politicians glibly use as sound bites are the values most Mexicans actually live by. I believe our often shallow, asocial, and materialistic culture can stand to become more tempered by their presence.
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In an attempt to save four Boston Public Library branches that are slated to close due to budget shortfalls, some state legislators from Boston have threatened to block all state funding the library receives if it shutters any of its 26 branches.
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Taxed Enuff Already!
- GOP’s state convention delivers the bland brand
Massachusetts Republican candidates for office this November might be well-advised to legally change their names and appear on the ballot as “Someone Else,” “Another Option,” or “Available Alternative.”
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- An immigrant song
Arizona has declared war on Mexico. SB1070, the incendiary new immigration bill signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer, has set off national boycotts, lawsuits, protests, and denouncements.
- ‘There are no rules’
On April 19, the Globe first reported that arbitrators had awarded the Boston firefighters union a 19-percent raise. By the next morning, both the Globe and the Herald were citing Menino administration figures of a $74 million cost.
- Your words are not your own
Plagiarism is a serious charge.
- Boston tucks away a $125 million windfall
As debate continues over the city’s finances — and whether the city of Boston can afford firefighters’ raises, branch libraries, community-center staffing, and other costs in tight times — the city is planning to quietly tuck away a one-time windfall of more than $125 million.
- The powerless rise
I’m an even-tempered guy. I don’t lose my cool more than, maybe, once or twice a day.
- Oil, oil, everywhere
It is not enough that British Petroleum’s wounded oil well in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico continues to bleed millions of gallons of viscous crude oil, killing marshes that could offer protection from future hurricanes, destroying habitats for migrating birds, fouling coastal commercial-fishing grounds.
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