Deporting mother inflames emotions
The lightning-swift deportation of Elvira Arellano triggered an equally sharp debate Monday about whether her dramatic battle to stay in the U.S. will help or hurt attempts to liberalize immigration...
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Anti-hate law shifts to debate on gays
Back in April, despite everything he had gone through, it looked as if David Ritcheson was finally going to get a happy ending. The 18-year-old high school senior from suburban...
Beating victim’s advocates face off
The first time Billy Ray Johnson was victimized, a group of white youths lured the mentally retarded black man to a party, made him dance for their entertainment as they...
Breaking the rules
My late grandmother Ann Stein was not, by modern standards, a great cook. Like a lot of Jewish grandmothers, she had mastered a basic repertoire of unadorned dishes--baked chicken, beef...
In minority neighborhood, kids’ risk of cancer soars
Like so many of their poor and working-class Hispanic neighbors, Rosario Marroquin's family settled in the southeast Houston neighborhood of Manchester a generation ago because the clapboard houses were cheap,...
Why the scourge of alcoholism defies a cure
The titillating gossip this week might be all about the latest Hollywood celebrity to fall off the wagon and get arrested for alleged drunken driving just weeks after completing a...
Levee improvements bring flood of suspicion
The Lizanos and the Baileys, two upper-middle-class New Orleans families, lost their homes when Hurricane Katrina sent torrents of water coursing over the floodwalls that were supposed to protect them....
New Orleans wary of this parade
Like religious pilgrims performing the Stations of the Cross, the presidential candidates keep coming to New Orleans to visit the Lower 9th Ward, the Industrial Canal levee, the 17th Street...
Texas denies teen’s appeal of conviction
A Texas appellate court Thursday let stand the conviction of Shaquanda Cotton, the black teenager from the small east Texas town of Paris whose sentence of up to 7 years...
Teen’s controversial conviction stands
A Texas appellate court on Thursday let stand the conviction of Shaquanda Cotton, the black teenager from the small east Texas town of Paris whose sentence of up to seven...