The number of minority-owned businesses increased by 45.6 percent to 5.8 million between 2002 and 2007, more than twice the national rate of all U.S. businesses, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition, the number of women-owned businesses increased 20.1 percent during the same period. The total number of U.S. businesses increased between 2002 and 2007 by 18.0 percent to 27.1 million.
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Governing Board Selects Echo Pacific Construction to Build Concept Design
Southwestern College today moved one step closer to beginning construction of the corner lot development for its main campus in Chula Vista, including new classroom space and a state-of-the-art bookstore. Funded by Proposition R, the project is the largest new development since the college’s original construction in 1961.
LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL
El Soporte Informativo Para Millones de Hispanos
Por Luisa Fernanda Montero
La exhuberancia de la naturaleza, predominante en la gran mayoría de países latinoamericanos, quizás sea la causa de que muchos hispanos, sintamos que la decadencia del planeta, el calentamiento global y sus devastadoras consecuencias, son cosas “de otro mundo”.
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<p> It’s not the game of soccer that means so much to people around the world. It’s the way soccer connects them.</p>
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<p><strong>Part II</strong></p>
Saturday, July 10, 2010
posted by Jim Sills
UPDATE…. 7 am, Saturday, July 10, 2010 Riverside County just put up another new vote count at 6 a.m. today. They tabulated just 5 votes in SD 40… and all 5 of them went to Juan Vargas.
That puts Juan Vargas at +22 overall in the sprawling 3-county district….
Juan Vargas now… 24,282…. while Mary Salas …24,260
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<p><strong>Part I</strong></p>