Residents of Sugar Land, Texas, know they have something special. Considered the fittest and the safest city in Texas, it’s also a symbol of the increasing diversity within the Lone Star State. Its population is composed of almost equal quarters of Hispanics, blacks, whites and Asians. Sugar Land’s South Asians, in particular, are the focus [...]
Tag Archives: Texas
Anti-Immigration Measures Get Micro-Local
August 12, 2008 – 12:54 pm
Over the past two years, towns and suburbs around the country (Hazleton, Pa.; Farmers Branch, Texas) have cracked down on illegal immigration with local ordinances. These laws are usually designed to make it hard for illegal immigrants to find jobs or rent homes, and they have had mixed success. Now, it looks like the Washington, [...]
A Big Yeehaw for Wind Power in the Texas Panhandle?
July 18, 2008 – 3:17 pm
By Dori Glanz and Rupa Shenoy, Medill Pampa, TX—The folks up in the Texas Panhandle still hang on to the lifestyle of the great state’s past, and Texas kitsch surrounds you here in “the top of Texas.” In the Palo Duro Canyon State Park, we hitched a ride to our car from a cowboy with [...]
Direction Sugar Land
June 20, 2008 – 1:04 pm
The Congressional seat in the 22nd District of Texas has been much in the news in recent years. Former Republican Majority House Leader Tom DeLay held it for 11 years, until his indictment in 2006 (for campaign finance violations) triggered a bizarre chain of events, that included a general election with a Republican write-in candidate [...]
Local Solutions for Illegal Immigration Problems?
June 17, 2008 – 5:36 pm
Last month, a federal court struck down an ordinance in Farmers Branch, Texas, that sought to ban landlords from renting to illegal immigrants. This Dallas suburb of 27,500 people is now waiting to hear from the court on a second ordinance – one that requires tenants to get a residency permit from City Hall in [...]
Will Latino Pendulum Sway to Obama?
March 27, 2008 – 8:48 am
While much media ado is being made about the boost among Latino voters that Barack Obama may have won following his endorsement last week from New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, the bigger payoff could come in the form of diplomatic cover that the onetime Clinton ally now provides for other superdelegates that might follow suit. [...]
