Sunday, November 23, 2014

Puerto Rico needs a financial control board - The Hill

Puerto Rico needs a financial control board - The Hill (blog)

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Puerto Rico needs a financial control board
The Hill (blog)
Indeed, the fundamentals of Puerto Rico resemble those of New York City in the mid-1970s and of other municipalities on which a Financial Control Board has been imposed. NYC lost a chunk of its middle class and 16 percent of its jobs between 1969 and ...

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Celebration of Puerto Rican poet Pedro Pietri coming to Hoboken Historical ... - The Jersey Journal - NJ.com

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Celebration of Puerto Rican poet Pedro Pietri coming to Hoboken Historical ...
The Jersey Journal - NJ.com
Hoboken historically has had a large Puerto Rican population, as well as a thriving artisticcommunity, a museum press release notes. ... He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on March 21, 1944, died in 2004, and lived most of his adult life in New York City.

Reconnecting The Circuit Of Puerto Rican Identity Through Music - WPRL

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Reconnecting The Circuit Of Puerto Rican Identity Through Music
WPRL
Arun Rath: This album explores what it means to be Puerto Rican outside of Puerto Rico, specifically in New York City. Tell us about your background — you are one of these Puerto Rican New Yorkers, right? Miguel Zenón: I was actually born and raised ...
Miguel Zenon, 'Identities Are Changeable'Buffalo News

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Fitch: Santander First Puerto Rico Funds Get New Management; Notes Ratings ... - MarketWatch

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Fitch: Santander First Puerto Rico Funds Get New Management; Notes Ratings ...
MarketWatch
NEW YORK, Nov 03, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Following Paul Hopgood and Jaime Pandal's departure on Sept. 25, 2014, Santander Asset Management, LLC (SAM) has successfully implemented its business continuity plan for interim portfolio management ...

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Political News, Now. - New York Times

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Political News, Now.
New York Times
If Congress agrees, the Department of Health and Human Services would designate 55 hospitals — one in every state, as well as extra ones in the Chicago, the District of Columbia, Los Angeles, New York City and Puerto Rico — to serve as Ebola Virus ...

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Bill de Blasio, NY Democrats heading to Puerto Rico for Somos el Futuro junket - New York Daily News

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Bill de Blasio, NY Democrats heading to Puerto Rico for Somos el Futuro junket
New York Daily News
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico--Here's one way to get over that Election Day thrashing. New York top Democrats - including Mayor de Blasio, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito - will be yukking it up in sunny Puerto ...
Mark-Viverio criticizes Somos for Herbalife sponsorshipCapital New York

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Democrat split in state Senate talk of Puerto Rico conference attended by de ... - New York Daily News

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Democrat split in state Senate talk of Puerto Rico conference attended by de ...
New York Daily News
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — Political intrigue in the state Senate dominated conversation Friday as hundreds of New York politicos — including Mayor de Blasio — gathered for the Somos el Futuro Conference. De Blasio, accompanied by First Lady ... 
In Puerto Rico, Mark-Viverito calls for aid on canal projectCapital New York

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NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio and Fellow Democrats Head To Puerto Rico For ... - Latin Post

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NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio and Fellow Democrats Head To Puerto Rico For ...
Latin Post
After the midterm elections, and a resounding win for the Republicans, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and other New York Democrats head to Puerto Rico for the annual Somos Conference. The Somos Conference is a big deal for de Blasio and his ... 
Bill de Blasio skips Puerto Rico's beach for politickingNew York Daily News

NYC mayor calls on feds to fix Puerto Rican canal Newsday

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Democrat split in state Senate talk of Puerto Rico conference attended by de ...New York Daily News
In Puerto Rico, Mark-Viverito calls for aid on canal projectCapital New York

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NYC mayor calls on feds to fix Puerto Rican canal - Albany Times Union

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NYC mayor calls on feds to fix Puerto Rican canal
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Puerto Rico's Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla, left, and visiting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, sit inside the Cafe Cuatro Sombras coffee shop where they stopped in for a cup of coffee, during a tour of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturday, Nov. 8 ...

NYC mayor calls on feds to fix Puerto Rican canal - Yahoo News

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NYC mayor calls on feds to fix Puerto Rican canal
Yahoo News
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — New York City's mayor visited a polluted canal in Puerto Rico'scapital city on Saturday and said the federal government must do more to clean it up. Mayor Bill de Blasio visited the Canal Martin Pena with other elected ...

Bill de Blasio skips Puerto Rico's beach for politicking - New York Daily News

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Bill de Blasio skips Puerto Rico's beach for politicking
New York Daily News
... Puerto Rico, Mayor de Blasio skipped the beach Saturday to opt for his true favorite pastime — behind-the-scenes politicking. The mayor, attending the Somos el Futuro conference along with hundreds of other New York politicos, privately met with ...

Mayor Tours Puerto Rican Neighborhood, Meets with IDC Head - NY1

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Mayor Tours Puerto Rican Neighborhood, Meets with IDC Head
NY1
Mayor Bill de Blasio is down in Puerto Rico for the annual Somos El Futuro conference for New York's elected officials. Saturday morning, he held ... So we have to amplify the voice of the Island, of the community," Mark-Viverito said. In the morning ...

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New York City Mayor Visits Puerto Rico, Meets With Governor - Caribbean Journal

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New York City Mayor Visits Puerto Rico, Meets With Governor
Caribbean Journal
A few weeks after a high-profile visit by New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo to Puerto Ricoand the Dominican Republic, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio headed to Puerto Rico, visiting the island for the Somos el Futuro conference. Over the weekend ...
Council members call for same-sex marriage in Puerto RicoCapital New York
Mayor Tours Puerto Rican Neighborhood, Meets with IDC HeadNY1
Democrat split in state Senate talk of Puerto Rico conference attended by de ...New York Daily News
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Puerto Rico Is Where The Highest Heels In The U.S. Are Worn - Huffington Post

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Puerto Rico Is Where The Highest Heels In The U.S. Are Worn
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Puerto Rico took the top spot with an average heel height of 2.87 inches, followed by Nevada (2.72 in.), Florida (2.46 in.), and Arkansas (2.37 in.). New York didn't even make the top ten list with an average of 2.09 inches and California came in tenth ...

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Latin America Is Losing Its Catholic Identity - New York Times

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Latin America Is Losing Its Catholic Identity
New York Times
In most countries, a majority of Catholics say the church should allow contraceptive use and divorce. A majority of Catholics in Brazil, Chile, Puerto Rico and Uruguay support ordaining women as priests and allowing priests to marry, but there is ...
Poll: Latin America Catholics steadily leave faithNEWS10 ABC

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Puerto Rico bank chief aims for up to $2.9 bln bond deal in Nov -report - Reuters

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Puerto Rico bank chief aims for up to $2.9 bln bond deal in Nov -report
Reuters
NEW YORK Nov 13 (Reuters) - Puerto Rico will aim to raise $2.5 billion to $2.9 billion in a bond deal in November, the head of Puerto Rico's Government Development Bank (GDB) told the El Nuevo Dia newspaper in an interview late on Thursday.

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Puerto Rico Governor to Call Special Session on Bond Bill - Bloomberg

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Puerto Rico Governor to Call Special Session on Bond Bill
Bloomberg
Dave Millar, a New York-based spokesman for the GDB, didn't immediately respond to an e-mail and phone message seeking comment on the plan. For Related News and Information: Puerto Rico Plans Infrastructure Agency Bonds by March 31 (1) Puerto ...

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Puerto Rico seeks insurance for up to $2.9 bln bond deal-GDB head - Reuters

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Puerto Rico seeks insurance for up to $2.9 bln bond deal-GDB head
Reuters
SAN JUAN Puerto Rico/NEW YORK Nov 14 (Reuters) - Puerto Rico is in talks with four bond insurers to insure at least part of up to $2.9 billion in bonds that the troubled U.S. commonwealth wants to issue later this year, the president of the Government ...
Puerto Rico Governor to Call Special Session on Bond BillBloomberg

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UPDATE 2-Puerto Rico seeks to insure new bonds -government bank - Reuters

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UPDATE 2-Puerto Rico seeks to insure new bonds -government bank
Reuters
SAN JUAN Puerto Rico/NEW YORK Nov 14 (Reuters) - Puerto Rico is in talks with four bond insurers to insure at least part of up to $2.9 billion in bonds the troubled U.S. commonwealth wants to issue later this year, the president of the Government ...
Puerto Rico Governor to Call Special Session on Bond BillBloomberg

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For Puerto Rican Worshipers, La Providencia Is the Saint Who Protects - New York Times

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For Puerto Rican Worshipers, La Providencia Is the Saint Who Protects
New York Times
Yet six decades after the devotion was introduced to New York by a Spanish Jesuit, the trail blazed by Puerto Ricans has been forgotten, outpaced by the growth in Dominican or Mexican Catholics who bring their own devotions. Earlier this month, the ...

Nine Reasons You Should Visit Puerto Rico Today - Clapway

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Nine Reasons You Should Visit Puerto Rico Today
Clapway
It's a dreary Monday in New York City, and I'm dreaming of an island getaway. That's wherePuerto Rico comes in. Nestled in the Caribbean, the small island is an easy escape for us American folk, but is definitely still worth the trip for those ...

Puerto Rico's PREPA urged to get tough on $1.8 bln owed - Reuters

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Puerto Rico's PREPA urged to get tough on $1.8 bln owed
Reuters
NEW YORK Nov 17 (Reuters) - The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), a troubled public utility, should take action on up to $1.8 billion it is owed, mainly by customers, including cutting off services to public corporations not paying their ...
Puerto Rico Electric Utility's Late Accounts Surge 219% From '12Bloomberg

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Thanksgiving Recipes Across the United States - New York Times

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Thanksgiving Recipes Across the United States
New York Times
“I flavored what I consider a very American pumpkin pie with a staple of Indian cuisine: garam masala,” Mr. Samuelsson wrote in his new cookbook, “Marcus Off Duty: The Recipes I Cook At Home,” where he gives the recipe, but as a large tart, not an ...

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NBC dropping plans for new Bill Cosby program - wwlp.com

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NBC dropping plans for new Bill Cosby program
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NEW YORK (AP) — NBC says it has scrapped a Bill Cosby comedy that was under development, the second outlet within a day to put off or abandon a Cosby project after another sexual assault allegation against the comic emerged. NBC spokeswoman ...

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Puerto Rico celebrates its discovery with debate about Columbus's arrival

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San Juan, Nov 19 (EFEUSA).- Puerto Rico on Wednesday is celebrating the 521st anniversary of its discovery with an open debate about exactly when Christopher Columbus first set foot on the Caribbean island and claimed it for the Spanish Crown.
Añasco Mayor Jorge Estevez Martinez told Efe that the explorer arrived at a beach in his town on the island's western coast and not at a point between Aguada and Aguadilla as has been accepted up to now, an idea that has sparked debate on such an important date for Puerto Ricans.
Estevez Martinez said that the theory of the former official historian of Puerto Rico, Aurelio Tio, and various studies by a team of oceanographers from the University of Puerto Rico, about which he gave no details, are the basis for the claim that Añasco was the place on the island where Columbus first landed.
He said that, although for many years it had been accepted that Columbus arrived between Aguada and Aguadilla, that was because those two municipalities appropriated and pushed the idea, an initiative that Añasco had no way to counter until now.
The mayor said he believes that the archaeological finds dating back to the Spanish colonizers in Añasco, which has a deep bay with optimum conditions for an anchorage and a navigable river, are other facts that add weight to his theory.
Estevez Martinez is prepared to promote his theory outside Puerto Rico, specifically during the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City next year, where a delegation from Añasco will be present.
Puerto Rico's current official historian, Luis Gonzalez Vales, told Efe that Nov. 19, 1493, is the date on which it is estimated that Columbus first landed on the Caribbean island on his second trip to the New World.
From that point forward, he said, Spain was tightly linked to the Caribbean island until the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898 brought the Spanish presence to an end.
Although Puerto Rico was discovered and its coastline explored by Columbus and his expedition of 17 ships in 1493, it was not until 1508 that the island - which was inhabited by Native Americans - began to be colonized by the Spaniards. EFE
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Puerto Rico celebrates its discovery with debate about Columbus's arrival - Fox News Latino

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Puerto Rico celebrates its discovery with debate about Columbus's arrival
Fox News Latino
Estevez Martinez is prepared to promote his theory outside Puerto Rico, specifically during the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City next year, where a delegation from Añasco will be present. Puerto Rico's current official historian, Luis ...

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Capturing Puerto Rico: a “Nation on the Move” | The Progress

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It is really good to know there was a Puerto Rican (Latino) equivalent to Jacob Riis an early 20th century photographer who documented communities across NYC. Today, even more so there is more Puerto Rican's on the ...

Mayor Tours Puerto Rican Neighborhood, Meets with IDC Head - NY1 

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Mayor Bill de Blasio is down in Puerto Rico for the annual Somos El Futuro conference for New York's elected officials. Saturday morning ... So we have to amplify the voice of the Island, of thecommunity," Mark-Viverito said.

New York City's Dominican Population Becomes Largest Latino ... 

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A new study found that Dominicans have become the largest Latino group in New York City, surpassing the Puerto Rican population for the first time, The Latin Post reports. The study also ... “If anything, this examination of the three American Community Survey data sets for 2013 indicates the difficulty of arriving at precise population estimates for subgroups of the population, such as Latino nationalities in New York City and its surrounding counties,” Bergad said.

Dominicans Have Likely Surpassed Puerto Ricans as NYC's Largest ... 

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The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies (CLALCS) announced today a new study – “Have Dominicans Surpassed Puerto Ricans to Become New York City's ... “If anything, this examination of the three American Community Survey (ACS) data sets for 2013 indicates the difficulty of arriving at precise population estimates for subgroups of the population, such as Latino nationalities in New York City and ...

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