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Long time Latino and Democratic Party activist Edwin Vargas, Jr. has announced a bid for the Hartford Connecticut mayoralty. One of several announced candidates for the November election, Vargas, who currently serves on Hartford's planning and zoning commission, must be considered a strong contender. Vargas' activist roots go back to 1971 when Hartford Connecticut received an influx of 30 Puerto Rican university students, who came to the city to teach and study - many, including Edwin Vargas, were active members of the pro Cuban, and staunchly Marxist-Leninist Puerto Rican Socialist Party.

While many became enraged by an op-ed column by local GOP leaders, Yomin Postelnik came to their defense. Postelnik, a Republican candidate for Florida’s House District 91, wrote a column that was quickly circulated among blogs and online community forums in which he, a Jewish man, defended the actions of the Orangeburg and Bamberg Republican Party chairmen. The column by Jim S. Ulmer Jr., Orangeburg County chairman, and Edwin O. Merwin Jr., Bamberg County chairman, praised U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint’s stand against congressional earmarks. In lauding DeMint’s frugality, the two men wrote: “There is a saying that the Jews who...

Candy faces life without her husband She plans return to work, considers a baby. John Hill / Louisiana Gannett News Posted on October 21, 2002 BATON ROUGE - The sadness showed in Candy Edwards' eyes as she struggled to capture her feelings in the final few days of her husband's freedom. "As long as this man is alive, I am going to be his wife," she said, her eyes glistening, her arm around his waist in the sunny breakfast room courtyard of their luxurious home. "I didn't want to do any interviews," she said, explaining why she declined all but...