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		<title>The three-part series at a glance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Derek Gee/Buffalo News Damien Littleton, age 3, rides his bike past an abandoned home on Northumberland Street. Buffalo is one of the poorest cities in the country. Many children here are living in such desperate, all-encompassing poverty that the American Dream for them has all but vanished. The Buffalo News has done in-depth, first-hand research [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shron.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1387878&amp;post=52&amp;subd=shron&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Youth Commission</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abuse scandal rocks TYC MICHAEL AINSWORTH/DMN Inmates at the West Texas State School in Pyote move around the facility in single-file lines. About the investigation: Since Feb. 18, The Dallas Morning News has been writing about the sexual and physical abuse scandal inside the Texas Youth Commission. Our coverage began in Pyote at the West [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shron.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1387878&amp;post=49&amp;subd=shron&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TYC urged to shut down another lockup: The privately run facility in North Texas is dangerous, youth advocate says</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oct. 18, 2007, 10:44AM By POLLY ROSS HUGHES Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau AUSTIN — An independent advocate for adolescents confined by the troubled Texas Youth Commission is recommending the state shut down a dilapidated lockup that he calls dirty and dangerous and covered in gang graffiti. &#60;!&#8211; &#8211;&#62; The assessment from TYC&#8217;s independent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shron.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1387878&amp;post=48&amp;subd=shron&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ATTENTION DREAM STUDENTS AND SUPPORTERS!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATTENTION DREAM STUDENTS AND SUPPORTERS! Recommendations from both Washington and Texas legislators (and their staff) have arisen in light of this week&#8217;s lobbying effort for the DREAM Act. Among these strong suggestions is that EVERY DREAM student/supporter that we know write a &#8220;1-2 pages biography or summary of your own experience(s) and/or those of friends&#8221;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shron.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1387878&amp;post=44&amp;subd=shron&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HPD Officer Who Shot Boy Failed Firearms Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2005, officer Arthur J. Carbonneau was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and sentenced to 60 days in jail and five years&#8217; probation. He was allowed to resign from the department. BRETT COOMER: HOUSTON CHRONICLE FILE By LISE OLSEN Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle The rookie Houston Police Department officer who shot and killed a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shron.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1387878&amp;post=43&amp;subd=shron&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Libraries and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment—How Librarians Are Coping with Discrimination To Better Serve Hispanic Communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Loida García-Febo &#8212; Criticas, 10/1/2007Last summer, controversy ensued in Lawrence, GA, when the Gwinnett County Public Library board decided to cut $3000 from the annual budget designated for Spanish-language adult fiction. According to one board member, the decision was based on the premise that the library didn&#8217;t need to cater to illegal aliens. Board [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shron.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1387878&amp;post=41&amp;subd=shron&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Texas: Immigrants Pull Children From School</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: October 5, 2007 The superintendent of the Irving school district said that some immigrant parents had pulled their children from school over fears that they or their families would be deported. The superintendent, Jack Singley, said that about 90 children had been withdrawn from 33,000-student public school district in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shron.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1387878&amp;post=39&amp;subd=shron&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the Raids</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times October 4, 2007 Editorial Armed squads bursting into homes in the dead of night with shotguns and automatic weapons, terrorizing families and taking away anyone who lacks identity papers, even if they have raided the wrong house. It may sound like Baghdad, but it is the suburbs of New York City, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shron.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1387878&amp;post=37&amp;subd=shron&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The winner of the Worst Jail in Texas , fall, 07, is&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TAYLOR COUNTY JAIL &#38; CAMERON COUNTY JAIL were both very close seconds and will be considered for Worst Jail in Texas , Winter &#8217;07. *Despite terrible conditions in the Dallas County Jail, it will not be considered at this time since it moved to a new low and is now a contender in the national [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shron.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1387878&amp;post=34&amp;subd=shron&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Lot of Nerve</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas Observer SPECIAL WEB RELEASE A Lot of Nerve The Army&#8217;s deadly VX waste is burning in Port Arthur by RUSTY MIDDLETON Once again an impoverished Texas neighborhood, in this case in the town of Port Arthur, has become the disposal point for hazardous waste, only this time the waste is potentially so lethal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shron.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1387878&amp;post=33&amp;subd=shron&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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