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  • St. Paul to gang: Stay out of Cinco de Mayo (MN)

    03/31/2009 6:21:39 AM PDT · by WOBBLY BOB · 21 replies · 1,190+ views
    Pioneer dePressed ^ | 3-31-09 | Dave Orrick
    St. Paul doesn't want gang bangers anywhere near fun family festivals this summer. So, in a first-of-its-kind legal action in Minnesota, the city this morning filed papers in Ramsey County Court seeking to bar alleged members of the Sureno 13 gang from the city's Cinco de Mayo Fiesta May 1-2. Ten known leaders of the gang were served with court papers over the weekend, city officials said. The action, which will need the approval of a Ramsey County judge, is allowed under a relatively new state law pushed by St. Paul to mirror crackdowns in other major American cities. Those...
  • The Black-Brown Divide

    01/28/2008 4:52:51 PM PST · by PRePublic · 11 replies · 6,735+ views
    Time ^ | Jan. 26, 2008 | GREGORY RODRIGUEZ
    The Black-Brown Divide By GREGORY RODRIGUEZ Jan. 26, 2008 I imagine he said it as if he were confessing a deep, dark secret. And, of course (wink, wink), he had no idea his little confession would make the rounds. But when Sergio Bendixen, Hillary Clinton's pollster and resident Latino expert, told the New Yorker after her win in New Hampshire that "the Hispanic voter--and I want to say this very carefully--has not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates," he started a firestorm of innuendo that has begun to shape how the media are covering the...