Legislative updates

02/18/10 Gov. Butch Otter supports expanding a state income-tax credit on donations to Idaho Public Television, the Commission of Hispanic Affairs, Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Council on Developmental Disabilities, State Independent Living Council, and Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. All those agencies were targeted in his budget to be weaned off state funding.

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Events & Networking

09/10/10 Jessy Mejia (left) of the Governor's Commission on Hispanic Affairs visits with Bruce Clauser of Clauser Construction of Mount Airy and Lorna Virgili of the National Hispanic Communications Group of Silver Spring at the annual business conference staged Tuesday by the Maryland, Montgomery County and Baltimore Hispanic chambers of commerce at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Bethesda.

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Cuban doctors struggle to prove credentials in US

03/26/11 LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ AP Hispanic Affairs Writer MIAMI Roberto Carmona sneaked away from his superiors disguised as a South African cowboy. While working in Namibia, the doctor donned boots and a big hat so he could slip out to the American Embassy, where he asked about qualifying for a special program for Cuban physicians that he hoped would let him defect to the U.S. Nearly a year later, he was ...

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