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    To protect underage farmworkers, California expands oversight of field conditions

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    La veneración a Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe continúa, a pesar del temor de los migrantes

    Posted in Español by Alan Haffa
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    Salinas City Council moves forward with new rental assistance program

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    Veneration of Our Lady of Guadalupe to continue despite immigrants’ fears

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    Washington’s financial disruption means fewer teachers for Monterey County’s migrant students

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    Escasa vigilancia y pocas inspecciones dejan a agricultores menores de edad expuestos a pesticidas tóxicos

    Posted in Agriculture by Alan Haffa
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    Lax oversight, few inspections leave child farmworkers exposed to toxic pesticides

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    California’s child farmworkers: exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields

    Posted in Agriculture by Alan Haffa
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    Los niños jornaleros de California: agotados, mal pagados y trabajando en campos de cultivo tóxicos

    Posted in Agriculture by Alan Haffa
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    Q+A: How Hawaiian princes brought surfing to Santa Cruz

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    Monterey County awards new $139 million jail health care contract

    Posted in Criminal Justice by Alan Haffa
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    Los temores a ICE están perjudicando la salud pública

    Posted in Español by Alan Haffa
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    ‘Te acaban de llevar’

    Posted in Español by Alan Haffa
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    With little apparent evidence, DA investigators question petition process

    Posted in Features by Alan Haffa
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    Programa de cocinas domésticas del condado de Monterey abre nuevas oportunidades

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    Se estima que 80,000 personas en los condados de Monterey y Santa Cruz dependen de los beneficios del SNAP

    Posted in Features by Alan Haffa
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    Roughly 80,000 people in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties depend on SNAP benefits

    Posted in Features by Alan Haffa
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    When this California Spanish-language TV station closed, a news desert opened for Latino viewers

    Posted in Features by Alan Haffa
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    Immigration fears are harming public health

    Posted in Features by Alan Haffa
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    ‘They just took you away’

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About Alan Haffa

Dr. Alan Haffa has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been teaching English at Monterey Peninsula College since 2003. He has been bringing MPC students in the Gentrain Program to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival since 2009.

August 13, 2019

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