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Law enforcement believes that the shots were from straying area hunters and claim that shots are fired in the area during hunting season very, very often.
Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact
Phalen Lim fled Cambodia at the age of 2 in 1975, during the regime of the Khmer Rouge, and has never forgotten what it was like to start over as an i...
Deepak Bhargava | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Faced now with an incredible opportunity to reform health care, we must ensure we are on the right side of history and our truest values of inclusion.
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Church leaders who have been personally and privately supportive of immigrants and their struggles have now publicly declared that it is morally wrong to keep families apart.
The New York Times | Ian Urbina | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
Thousands of immigrants came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for a day of lobbying and an afternoon rally calling for comprehensive immigration reform. Th...
Mark Olmsted | Posted 10.02.2009 | Green
Some of the worst offenders were the middle-aged men who smoked mountains of Capri cigarettes; if I had $5 for every one I eventually picked up, I would now be living in a villa inCapri.
Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Why is there a glaring mismatch between charter school enrollments and the growing English language learner population?
Jim Wallis | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.
Reverend Billy | Posted 09.23.2009 | New York
The city-as-monoculture can only continue with surveillance, stop-and-frisks, eminent domain, developer tax windfalls and all the illegal activity brazenly called Progress and New York Greatness.
Wall Street Journal | CONOR DOUGHERTY and MIRIAM JORDAN | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business
The number of foreign-born residents of the U.S. declined for the first time since at least 1970, as a recession and tight labor market dented America...
Ali Noorani | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
Claims that undocumented immigrants would benefit or even participate in a reformed health insurance system are false. Medicare and Medicaid already do a good job of excluding ineligible immigrants.
Len Levitt | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York
The Intelligence Division's lone wolves appear to have mishandled the investigation into New York's first known major terrorism threat since 9/11.
Wayne Trujillo | Posted 09.15.2009 | Denver
How long before Lower Highland becomes the neighborhood equivalent of a tourist trap where long-time Latino locals can't afford to live?
Venkat Srinivasan | Posted 09.12.2009 | New York
Serving a long line of hungry customers from his vegan dosa cart at a busy square in Manhattan, Thirukumar Kandasamy, it would seem, knows his constituency. Nobody knows him by that name though.
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
For communities of color, 'recovery' can be a vapid term. People of color consistently face rates of unemployment higher than what whites experience in the worst recessions.
Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
"Many people think that migrants just easily appear at the U.S. border," said Camissa. "But the tough journey begins at the Mexico-Guatemala border."
Leslie Gilbert-Lurie | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
From the beginning, our national pastime has attracted immigrants. Baseball has provided a physical and emotional link to becoming American -- to health, freedom, opportunity and joy.
The Wall Street Journal | MIRIAM JORDAN | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
The amount of money Latin American expatriates send home is expected to drop by 11% in 2009, as the global recession shrinks job opportunities for imm...
Anis Shivani | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
The Schumer mandate for the undocumented to register within a short period of time, or else be permanently barred from becoming U.S. residents, is a prime example of the law run amok.
Renee Feltz | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
On the heels of an announcement that it will stop holding children in its Hutto facility, the nation's largest private prison provider assured investors they still expect business from the government.
Louise Mirrer | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York
For people today who wonder whether the American Dream is still viable -- or if it is, how to achieve it -- The Education of an American Dreamer offers a fascinating and complex answer.
The New York Times | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
After early pledges by President Obama that he would moderate the Bush administration's tough policy on immigration enforcement, his administration is...
AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
MIAMI — A hospital that sent a seriously brain injured illegal immigrant back to Guatemala – over the objections of his family and legal g...
Nikki Cicerani | Posted 08.22.2009 | Business
It is time to shift some of our risk taking and innovation to the human capital markets and see if we can create a richer society based on a new foundation of inclusion.
Emily Henry | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics
If these children -- who are American citizens -- experience such a dramatic blow to their already-limited resource bank, the consequences for the entire state will be dire.
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Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver