by Chelsea Wallis | Dec 15, 2011 | Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – Tracye Redd won’t be home in Waterloo, Iowa, for Christmas. The 20-year-old will stay in Washington and pull in a few extra hours of work. The holidays don’t inspire warm memories of family and friends for Redd. They’re a hard reminder of the absence of a...
by Chelsea Wallis | Dec 6, 2011 | Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – The GOP presidential primary is drawing a lot of early attention, and one group watching closely is the Hispanic community. America’s immigration laws and enforcement drew a lot of attention this year both from the Obama Administration’s...
by Chelsea Wallis | Dec 2, 2011 | Politics
Washington kicked off December with the lighting of a new national Christmas tree. President Barack Obama oversaw the festivities.
by Chelsea Wallis | Nov 22, 2011 | Education
WASHINGTON – Tiffany Fung spent the summer in Paris. The senior art history major at Oberlin College had wanted to study abroad since her freshman year, inspired by the famous works she read about in “The Da Vinci Code.” She learned to operate outside her comfort...
by Chelsea Wallis | Nov 21, 2011 | Business & Tech, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama signed into law a bill Monday giving tax incentives to employers who hire veterans, the first part of his American Jobs Act to pass through Congress. The VOW to Hire Heroes Act offers tax credits up to $9,600 to employers and...
