YRC union workers vote to accept concessions Aug 8, 2009
4 million workers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Reader Comments. (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)
Sotomayor Confirmed as Supreme Court Justice Aug 8, 2009
She is from Puerto Rico, which does not make her Mexican nor was she raised south of the border because if you are from Puerto Rico guess what. You are a US citizen. (KWTX.com, TX)
ATK to Extend Offer to Repurchase 2.75% Convertible Notes Due 2024, Upon the Election of Holders Aug 1, 2009
ATK is a premier aerospace and defense company with more than 18,000 employees in 22 states, Puerto Rico and internationally, and revenues in excess of $4. 7 billion. (PR Newswire)
Puerto Rican politician dies in New York Aug 1, 2009
Born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Mendez moved to the Mainland U.S. after receiving a bachelor's degree from the Universidad de Puerto Rico in 1950. She received a master's degree in psychology from the Teacher's College at Columbia University in 1960 and a doctorate's in educational psychology from Yeshiva University in 1975. (CNN -- World)
The giant is still sleeping Jul 31, 2009
It is clear that the Republican Party, as (it takes) positions of special interest to the Latino voters, like the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, comprehensive immigration reform, the political status of Puerto Rico, and others, needs to understand this reality. Falcon said. (Paragould Daily Press, AR)
Tampa Airport Concessions Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Join Workers United Jul 25, 2009
SEIU -- With 2 million members in Canada, the United States and Puerto Rico, SEIU is the fastest-growing union in the Americas. Focused on uniting workers in healthcare, public services and property services, SEIU members are winning better wages, healthcare and more secure jobs for our communities, while uniting their strength with their counterparts around the world to help ensure that workers -- not just corporations and CEOs -- benefit from today's global economy. (PR Newswire)
Click to read:Protestors Clash over Texas Dragging Death Jul 22, 2009
I personally would consider it a favor if we renamed Oklahoma, 'Texoma', made Puerto Rico a state to preserve the 50 state union and then kicked 'Texas' out of the union if they so choose not to secede. These are a bloody, redneck, '**********' people, very violent, religious but evil. (CBS News)
Judges skeptics are wrong Jul 18, 2009
Her parents left Puerto Rico during World War II; her mother, then Celina Baez, enlisted at 17 in the Womens Army Corps. She raised her children alone after her husband died of heart ailments at the age of 42. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Tarver has right skills, lawyers say Jul 12, 2009
There are 93 U.S. attorneys, including those stationed in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. They have three statutory responsibilities under U.S. law. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Ouch! The nominee's pre-game injury Jul 11, 2009
Puerto Rico for Dummies ... "The Island of Enchantment," aka the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ... Like Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and that inside-the-beltway island known as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico gets only one nonvoting member in the House of Representatives and zilch in the Senate. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Boston lawyer named new chairman at Cambridge College Jul 9, 2009
Cambridge College has sites in Cambridge, Springfield, and Lawrence, MA; Memphis, TN, Chesapeake, VA; Augusta, GA; Ontario, CA; and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Loading commenting interface. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
Thompson on Hollywood Jul 5, 2009
Nicole Kidman; Margot at the wedding; jennifer jason leigh; vareity review; movie review; variety; review; A young man from the South Bronx dreams of making it as a rapper, until a run-in with local thugs forces him to hide in Puerto Rico with the father he never knew. You have to believe it to see it. (Variety)
Veterans, Unions Rally for Employee Free Choice Act Jul 4, 2009
4 million hardworking men and women in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. SOURCE Teamsters Local 878. (PR Newswire)
Advisory firms split on CPI board battle Jul 1, 2009
St. Louis-based (NYSE: CPY), led by President and CEO Renato Cataldo, offers photography services in about 3,100 locations in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico, principally in Sears and Wal-Mart stores. Reader Comments. (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)
Bailout of U.S. Banks Gives British Rum Maker Diageo $2.7 Billion Benefit Jun 29, 2009
June 26 (Bloomberg) -- In June 2008, U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John deJongh Jr. agreed to give London-based billions of dollars in tax incentives to move its production of Captain Morgan rum from one U.S. island -- Puerto Rico -- to another, namely St. Croix ... DeJonghs compact with the British liquor company meant his territory would get a much larger share of federal tax dollars from rum exports -- and Puerto Rico would lose that money ... We learned about it in March when Puerto Rico... (Bloomberg)
Freed Uighurs Relishing Bermuda's Sun And Sand Jun 21, 2009
Brennan Linsley reported from Hamilton, and Danica Coto from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. (CBS News -- World)
For Puerto Rican veterans,an honor years in the making Jun 20, 2009
The Army s 65th Infantry Regiment, almost exclusively from Puerto Rico, took part in some of the most brutal battles in Korea ... The 65th traces its roots to a volunteer battalion created in Puerto Rico a year after Spain ceded the Caribbean island to the United States in 1898 in the Spanish-American War, though the unit was officially activated in 1920 ... At the time, Puerto Rico was five years away from democratically electing its first governor. (Boston Globe)
YTB Elects Three New Board Members Jun 19, 2009
June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- YTB International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: YTBLA) ("YTB" or the "Company"), a provider of Internet-based travel booking services for travel agencies and home-based independent representatives in the United States, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Canada, today announced the election of Thomas B. Baker, Jr., Jack H. Humes, Jr., and Patricia S. Williams to the Company's Board of Directors on Monday, June 15, 2009 ... YTB provides... (PR Newswire)
NYT: Sotomayors focus on race may be hurdle May 30, 2009
Judge Sotomayor, whose parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico, has championed the importance of considering race and ethnicity in admissions, hiring and even judicial selection at almost every stage of her career as a student activist at Princeton and at Yale Law School, as a board member of left-leaning Hispanic advocacy groups and as a federal judge arguing for diversity on the bench. Now conservatives say her strong identification with such race-based approaches to the law is perhaps... (Huntington WSAZ-TV, WV)
Opposing Sotomayor is the Right's Thing to Do May 29, 2009
As a woman (check one) with parents from Puerto Rico (check two), she is by accident of birth virtually above criticism, a condition of neo-royalty that is death to a democratic republic. Worse, she is seen in these sacred terms by far too many Republicans, thus revealing the extent to which they, too, have bought into the dehumanizing givens of identity politics. (Townhall.com)
Biased or brilliant? Scrutiny of Sotomayor begins. May 27, 2009
"Along the way, she's faced down barriers, overcome the odds, lived out the American dream that brought her parents here [from Puerto Rico] so long ago," Obama said, alluding to a personal history with clear parallels to his own. "And even as she has accomplished so much in her life, she has never forgotten where she began, never lost touch with the community that supported her.". (Christian Science Monitor)
The Judge They Feared May 27, 2009
She is the daughter of parents who moved from Puerto Rico to New York, and her childhood was firmly working class. Her father was a laborer, her mother a nurse; they worked hard to send their daughter to private Catholic schools. (Slate)
Five Defendants Sentenced In Puerto Rico Corruption Case May 23, 2009
WASHINGTON, May 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Five defendants were sentenced this week for their participation in a corruption scheme involving the 2000 resident commissioner and 2004 gubernatorial campaigns of a former governor of Puerto Rico, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez. The defendants were sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico by U.S.... (PR Newswire)
'Everyone should havea chief of staff and a set of personal assistants'... May 9, 2009
Maryland $68,080 New Jersey $67,035 Connecticut $65,967 Alaska $64,333 Hawaii $63,746 New Hampshire $62,369 Massachusetts $62,365 California $59,948 Virginia $59,562 Washington $55,591 Colorado $55,212 Utah $55,109 Minnesota $55,082 Nevada $55,062 Delaware $54,610 District of Columbia $54,317 Illinois $54,124 Rhode Island $53,568 New York $53,514 Wyoming $51,731 United States of America $50,740 Wisconsin ... (The Drudge Report)
Ex-girlfriend withdraws civil suit against Alomar May 6, 2009
Alomar, who splits his time between Florida and Puerto Rico, could not be reached for comment. A career. (ESPN -- Baseball)
Cobb EMC raids stall image repair Apr 28, 2009
Puerto Rico, Paris, South Africa, Bahamas, San Francisco. See where Atlantans traveled. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
County recorder offices: Ground zero in same-sex marriage battle Apr 28, 2009
The other 46 states, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C. will not recognize their marriages. They won't have property, inheritance, insurance, ownership or any other marital rights in these other states and protectorates. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Young pays lawyers from defense fund Apr 16, 2009
Young has had three fundraisers this spring: a Puerto Rico event in February, one in Washington this spring and a third in Anchorage this week. The Puerto Rico fundraiser appears to have netted the congressman about $17,450, according to an analysis of donors with addresses on the island or in Miami. (Anchorage Daily News)
Gitmo Prisoner's Call To Journalist Probed Apr 16, 2009
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, April 15, 2009. Text Size. (CBS News -- World)
U.S. Probes Gitmo-Inmate Press Interview Apr 16, 2009
(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) Authorities are investigating a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's interview with a Middle East television network, but officials have not revoked the man's permission to make weekly phone calls to his family, a prison spokesman said Wednesday. Related. (Time.com)
Al-Jazeera: Gitmo Prisoner Calls for Interview Apr 15, 2009
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico A Guantanamo detainee phoned a Middle Eastern TV network to say he was severely beaten for refusing to leave his cell, giving the first media interview with someone held at the U.S. prison in Cuba. Mohammed el Gharani, a 21-year-old from Chad, told Al-Jazeera that guards beat him with batons and sprayed him with tear gas, according to the network. (Fox News)
Justice Dept under microscope after Stevens trial... Apr 6, 2009
In Puerto Rico last year, prosecutors filed a new indictment against Democratic Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila three months before the election. He lost the race, but a jury found him not guilty of all charges. (The Drudge Report)
Tester remiss in voting in favor of Senate Bill 160 Apr 2, 2009
alan_rainey wrote on Mar 19, 2009 2:42 PM:" Socrates:Unlike U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico or Guam, which also have non-voting delegates, citizens of the District of Columbia are subject to all U.S. federal taxes. In the financial year 2007, D.C. residents and businesses paid $20.4 billion in federal taxes; more than the taxes collected from 19 states and the highest federal taxes per capita. This is truly taxation without representation. To draw comparisons to US territories is simply be... (Helena Independent Record)
Singer quizzed over plane sex act Mar 27, 2009
Crespo, whose 1998 debut album Suavemente became a hit, married his manager in Puerto Rico earlier this month. He was due to visit New York on Thursday to discuss commitments relating to the city's annual Puerto Rico Day parade, which is due to take place in June. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Aventura, Juanes, Vicente Fernandez, Wisin y Yandel, Enrique Iglesias, Jenni Rivera, Olga Tañon, Alacranes Musical and Victor Manuelle Take Home Top Awards at Univision's "Premio Lo Nuestro a La Música Latina®" Mar 27, 2009
Its operations include Univision Network, the most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television network in the U.S. reaching 97% of U.S. Hispanic Households; TeleFutura Network, a general-interest Spanish-language broadcast television network, which was launched in 2002 and now reaches 85% of U.S. Hispanic Households; Galavisin, the countrys leading Spanish-language cable network; Univision Television Group, which owns and operates 64 television stations in major U.S. Hispanic markets and... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Philadelphia Inquirer reports: Mar 24, 2009
Ex-Puerto Rico governor acquitted ... SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A jury acquitted Puerto Rico's former governor Friday on all nine counts including conspiracy, money laundering, and lying to the FBI, concluding his monthlong corruption trial in a case with Philadelphia ties ... At the time, he was Puerto Rico's nonvoting delegate to the House of Representatives. (Harper's Magazine)
Lodi council approves environmental reports for Wal-Mart Supercenter (931) Mar 19, 2009
" Journey wrote on Mar 12, 2009 12:28 PM:" Wal-Mart operates in 15 international markets, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. I've visited stores in 7 of the above and I just can't figure out why Lodi has a problem with this store. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Ordonez receives mix of boos, cheers at WBC Mar 17, 2009
He was booed again Monday during pregame introductions and his first at-bat against Puerto Rico, though this time there were shouts of support as well. "I don't regret anything," Ordonez said before the game when he was asked if he was sorry he'd taken part in television spots backing the constitutional amendment, which passed on Feb. 15. (ESPN -- Baseball)
A Teamster in the Making, Part IV: Becoming vice president Mar 3, 2009
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has a proud history since 1903 and has had to overcome a great deal of adversity to emerge as a stronger, more unified organization, to negotiate more than 50,000 collective bargaining agreements for more than two million workers across America, Canada and Puerto Rico. The superior wages, benefits and working conditions, beginning with the fight against child labor to today, happened because of the hard-working people who committed their lives to the... (Wakefield Daily Item, MA)
Amendment needed for D.C. to get vote Mar 3, 2009
"They are claiming the right to create a new type of voting member." The bill opens the door for Congress to give the vote to Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories, he said. If Washington is to get a voting member in Congress, there is a sure way to go about making it reality: a constitutional amendment. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
More on Moyers Feb 24, 2009
Moyers: If you'll take a couple of days and fly down to the Dorado Beach [Hotel] in Puerto Rico, you can be my guest. LBJ: [laughs] Jack Valenti is going off as somebody's guest at Palm Springs. (Slate)
- Viewpoint: A double minority (1) Feb 22, 2009
They come mostly from Caribbean countries including the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico where African roots run deep and date back to the 15th century. According to historians, European invaders in the Caribbean virtually wiped out the indigenous groups that inhabited some of the islands and replaced them with African slaves to supply their labor needs. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Juniper Content Raises $900,000 in a Private Placement Feb 14, 2009
is offered on Cablevision, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, Verizon FiOS and participating National Cable TV Cooperative systems and in Puerto Rico on Liberty Cable Systems and OneLink. Sorpresa. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
LETTER: Freedom of Choice Act should be stopped Feb 10, 2009
As used in this Act, the term "State" includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and each other territory or posession of the United States. . (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
