Seeking Legal Status: A Ventura County couple navigating through the immigration process (Ventura County Star)
- Part I: Port Hueneme couple is relying on new immigration policy to stay together
- Part II: Ventura County couple worry about path to immigration
- Part III: Ventura County couple stalled in bid for immigration waiver
- Part IV: Moorpark woman seeks alternate route after immigration struggles
Hearst Castle waived event fees as nearby parks struggled (California Watch)
While nearly 70 of California’s state parks fought to escape closure from budget cuts, the crown jewel of the park system – Hearst Castle – waived $611,000 in private event fees over the last decade for select individuals and organizations, including the politically connected.
Farmers markets thrive while concerns grow (News21: How Safe is Your Food?)
Congress exempted small farms from the more rigorous safety requirements of the new Food Safety Modernization Act. The exemption applies to farms that gross under $500,000 annually and sell the majority of their products directly to consumers, restaurants or stores in their state or within 275 miles of the farm.
Stateless in the Dominican Republic: Border markets provide passage for undocumented immigrants (Cronkite Borderlands Initiative)
COMENDADOR, Dominican Republic – Haitians stream through a low-lying metal gate into the Dominican Republic, past uniformed and armed guards who give them only a casual glance.
It’s market day, when Haitians don’t have to present a visa or passport to cross into this capital city, one of the Dominican Republican’s poorest, or into two other Dominican cities, Dajabon and Pedernales.
But there is a catch: Haitians without documentation are not permitted to travel more than about 100 yards into the Dominican Republic, and they are expected to return to their country by 6 p.m.
A year after preferential treatment ban, little change on state's campuses (Cronkite News Service)
WASHINGTON – It’s been more than a year since Arizona voters banned preferential treatment in state services based on race, ethnicity and gender – but little has changed on the state’s university campuses in that time.