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Residents push for community gardens

Jason Donati has dreams and aspirations for a green, more communal city and he’s throwing his efforts behind the Urban Gardening Initiative to plant community gardens where vacant land resides.




Rise of Latino population blurs US racial lines

A historic decline in the number of U.S. whites and the fast growth of Latinos are blurring traditional black-white color lines, testing the limits of civil rights laws and reshaping political alliances as “whiteness” begins to lose its numerical dominance.


Bills seek end to farm animal abuse videos

An undercover video that showed California cows struggling to stand as they were prodded to slaughter by forklifts led to the largest meat recall in U.S. history. In Vermont, a video of veal calves skinned alive and tossed like sacks of potatoes ended with the plant’s closure and criminal convictions.