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CLEARWATER -The Suncoast Conchologists Seashell Club will hear Peggy Williams of Tallavast, FL, describe her experiences shelling in Puerto Rico at their November 10th meeting (a week later than normal due to elections).
Not having a voting member of Congress doesn’t seem to have hurt Puerto Rico in its quest for jobs and economic recovery. In the middle of a four-year-long recession, the self-governing US territory has managed to add 17,000 new jobs for a grand total of over 4,000 per million residents, putting ...
BOSTON - No Latinos and only a few blacks held any type of elected office in Massachusetts when Tomas Gonzalez's family moved from Puerto Rico to Boston in 1968.
No Latinos and only a few blacks held any type of elected office in Massachusetts when Tomas Gonzalez's family moved from Puerto Rico to Boston in 1968. Now, more than 40 years later, Gonzalez hopes that on Tuesday he'll become only the second Latino to win a Boston city council seat.