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Columbus becoming a mini melting pot
Columbus Dispatch – Columbus,OH,USA
… In central Ohio, people from India, Mexico, China and eastern Africa, including Somalia,…

I find this funny (forgetting the fact we aren’t a melting pot but rather a salad bowl) particularly since this Article was published by the Columbus Dispatch whom recently started a Spanish language newspaper “Fronteras“…yes that’s right they titled their Spanish newspaper Fronteras! Anyone want to let them know how culturally backwards that is? A Mexican friend of mine laughed and said they might as well call it “La Migra“.

Racial equality views differ
Cincinnati Post – OH,USA
The fast-growing Hispanic population in Greater Cincinnati is still, in some respects, on the outside looking in. Twenty-eight percent of city respondents and 21 percent of suburban respondents reported feeling “closeness” to Hispanics.

Key Underwrites Local Efforts To Strengthen Hispanic Outreach
CSRwire.com (press release) – USA
… 2000 (US Census Bureau), concentrated growth has mainly occurred in pockets in Northeast Ohio such as the Painesville community where Hispanic population has …

La Voz (AZ Central) – USA
Pareja ofrece servicio de taxi para hispanos en Kentucky… Su nuevo negocio se llama Taxi Latino y empezó a operar hace aproximadamente un mes. … al día de un lado a otro en Owensboro y el vecino condado de Ohio. …

Couple filling a transportation need for Hispanics
Kentucky.com – Lexington,KY,USA
… The couple decided to start a taxi service, Latino Taxi, which began running about a … 25 people back and forth to work in Owensboro and neighboring Ohio County. …

Toledo’s history a ‘her-story’ of trailblazing women
Toledo Blade – Toledo,OH,USA
… Sofia Quintero (1948-1994), the first Hispanic president of the Toledo Board of Education … be the first woman elected to public office in northwest Ohio when she …

Two arrested in fake document sting
LimaOhio.com – OH
… The documents were to be distributed in Ohio and Illinois, Beck said, and … in the community about how best to address Lima’s increasing Hispanic population. …

Columbus Hispanic firms count for 16% in state
Columbus Business First – Columbus,OH,USA
Central Ohio was home to 1,166 Hispanic-owned businesses in 2002, about 16 percent of such businesses in the state, the Census Bureau said Tuesday in a report. …

Latino Taxi
WBKO – Bowling Green,KY,USA
… It’s a one-car operation, but Latino Taxi is driving about 20 to 25 people back and forth to work in Owensboro and neighboring Ohio County. …