Census Bureau shouldn’t try to track race of Americans
This month, all of us will be asked to participate in a $14.5 billion federal program — the 2010 census. One of the questions on the report form will be one concerning your race, and the possible answers seem endless. Are you white, black, mulatto, Chinese, Mexican, Mexican- American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Asian Indian, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Native Hawaiian, Guamanian, American Indian or Alaska Indian, Vietnamese or “other”? How do you record mixed marriages? President Barack Obama said in his election night speech, “... young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled ... we have never been a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
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At the January meeting of the Hopewell-Loudon Board of Education, the board passed the final resolution necessary to go on the May 4 ballot seeking funds to build a new K-12 school facility with the assistance of $13.
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I have only a couple weeks yet to be here in Hebron, West Bank, before I leave for Tiffin again. Until this last month, I thought this rotation was going to be the easiest and least violent I’ve experienced yet in the neighborhood I live.
» Full StoryYou can volunteer to help at a local disaster, too
DAT is an acronym for Disaster Action Team. What does an American Red Cross DAT member do? DAT members are volunteers who respond to area disasters.
Those disasters most likely involve a serious house or other structure fire.
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