November 2008 Archives

Nearly a hundred wildfire evacuees slept in the Katella High School gymnasium Saturday night, on neat rows of cots placed over a vinyl tarp to protect the gym floor. Laying on them, looking up at the ceiling, there was no way to miss the 130 championship banners lining the top of the walls, two deep. There's been a lot of winning in this gym.  Some here now had lost everything.

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The day after Barack Obama's win, think tanks used the words "surge," "swept," and "broadly rejected" to describe Latino voting patterns in different parts of the country. Two thirds of Latino voters nationwide picked Obama over McCain. Latinos in California favored Obama by 74%. And in Florida, 57% of Latino voters picked the Illinois senator.

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From New York City: There's really no iconic "Made in the U.S.A." emblem. Sure, the words are stamped on anything and everything made in part or entirely in this country. For decades, Mexico's stenciled crates and boxes with an emblem that's the stylized profile of a screaming eagle. Before globalization Mexico's leaders had tried to replace most imports with products produced within the country. So the "Hecho en Mexico" emblem was their way to brag that it was working. The emblem's eagle resembles the one on the Mexican flag or the one drawn by the Aztecs to represent the eagle warriors, the Marines of their time.

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