The Boston Globe / Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, March 31, 2007

The gentrification of rundown city neighborhoods conjures an image of well-off whites displacing poor minorities. What's actually going on is far more complex, and the winners and losers can be hard to predict.

The Wall Street Journal / Julia Vitullo-Martin, March 30, 2007

The fate of a two-year-old war on illegal immigrants declared by the mayor of tiny Hazleton, Pa., a former coal town, is now in the hands of a federal judge. He will rule by June on Hazleton's Illegal Immigration Relief Act, which penalizes local businesses and landlords who employ or rent to illegal immigrants.

The San Francisco Chronicle, November 14, 2008

A new exhibit in one of San Francisco's oldest buildings tells the story of America's nearly forgotten war in the Philippines, a struggle with heroes, atrocities, tragedies, and a strong anti-war movement in the United States.  

The Republican, October 13, 2008

HOLYOKE - Standing in a community garden wedged between brick buildings on Cabot Street, Tito Santana pointed out several benches and a shed erected alongside rows of fenced-in garden plots.

The garden was the first one created in 1992 by Nuestras Raices, a nonprofit organization which recently received a national award for its various programs, which include urban farming and other community-based initiatives.

Pacific Business News, August 20, 2008

The Hawaii Community Foundation has given leaders of four nonprofits its annual Hookele Award.

Each winner, selected through community nominations, received $10,000 to be used for their personal "professional development," meaning the money cannot go to their organizations. The prize is aimed at encouraging the winners to remain in the nonprofit sector.