Season’s greetings at area confectioners By Sherry Slater The Journal Gazette
Bryan, Ohio-based Spangler’s 400 Bryan employees and 150 Mexican contract workers have been producing 3 million candy canes a day in about 20 flavors for the coming holiday season since November. You read that right – 3 million a day since last November.
“Contract workers”? Are these H2 workers?
Phone cards exploit Latino callers
McMinnville News-Register – McMinnville,OR,USA
There are so many different fees, it’s almost like stealing,” says calling card wholesaler Bob Collette of Independence, Ohio. “It’s an ugly business.”
We’ve all seen these phone cards and their sales are very predatory. I had not however heard of the scam of selling cards that never worked in the first place…just once that found other ways to steal (via connection fees, disconnection fees, no more than 3 days to use the minutes etc).
Minorities targeted, records suggest
By Jack Baessler Toledo Blade – Toledo,OH,USA
But a review by The Blade of those cases as well as those for the previous two years found that a disproportionate number of the motorists stopped and arrested in high-profile drug cases were minorities – mostly Hispanics but also some blacks and Asians.
I used to work up in Northern Ohio (where most of these racial profiling stops are made) and it was absurd how blatent the racial profiling was by the Ohio Highway Patrol. I remember one of our union members a young woman about 20 years old being stopped for “speeding” though there were three cars ahead of her and two behind her and everyone was traveling in a slow trail, below the speed limit. She however, unlike the other drivers, was Mexican. It was/is a frequent occurance especially during the summer months—migrant farm working season.
An official language isn’t discriminatory Ronald Rich Bluffton, Ohio
Not so, this issue is different, and my ancestors were not damaged or discriminated against in going beyond Pennsylvania Dutch….
…Don’t Mexico and many other countries have an official national language?…
…Establishing an “official” language would cut official costs and promote official understanding but would not interfere at all with teaching linguistic skills or cultural openness or with speaking whatever at home. Most states have established English legally, and their Hispanic citizens have voted for it, against their “leaders” vested interests….
Yes, go ahead and compare deine Deutsch mit Spanisch. Here is the thing, in regions in this country Spanish was spoken long before English. And in many regions in this country English has yet to arrive. No, Mexico does not have “an” offical national language. And Yes, most government business is done in Spanish but there are HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of people in Mexico who are not Spanish speakers. It isn’t just discrimnatory to create an official language, but ignorant and uncouth.