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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Now that the California Citizens Redistricting Commission has approved new political boundaries for the state, civil rights groups are weighing what impact the maps will have on communities of color.</p>

<p><strong>Scripps Howard Foundation Wire </strong></p>
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    Mexico’s ongoing spasm of violence and mayhem is frequently portrayed in the US media as a Mexican phenomenon that threatens to spill across the nation’s borders and sweep up hapless cities in the relentless expansion of powerful, foreign criminal organizations.

    Looking south, many US citizens gasp in horror as they watch a mounting death toll from the so-called drug war and the seeming breakdown of any semblance of civilized behavior and law and order south of the border.

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Uno de los sueños de mi vida lo truncó la implacable parca que se llevó antes de que nadie lo hubiera previsto a mi amigo el periodista George Ramos, uno de los ganadores del Premio Pulitzer en 1984 por una serie colectiva del diario sobre la comunidad latina.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Una ciudad ordenada como Fullerton, conocida por sus instituciones educativas y un centro citadino que refleja la diversidad de su gente, está en el ojo del huracán. Unos policías actuaron en forma indebida y abusaron de un indigente esquizofrénico.</p>