Tag: Rosa Olascoaga
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After Years As Youth Volunteer, City Heights Activist Hired To Lead Others
The newest community organizer at the nonprofit Mid-City Community Advocacy Network has a long history of pushing for change in her neighborhood and now hopes to inspire others.
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Canyons Considered Dangerous Despite Improvements
By Brian Myers Rosa Olascoaga never walks alone through the canyon next to her home in City Heights, opting to take the longer route to get to the other side of the neighborhood. Despite steep illegal dumping fines, garbage, broken furniture and toxic pollution find their way into the canyons from residents and storm runoff.…
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Tweet City Heights: Mexican Migration to U.S. Slows to Trickle
By Megan Burks Study: Just As Many Mexican Immigrants Leaving U.S. as Arriving Adrian Florido of KPBS reports net migration from Mexico to the United States decreased to zero between 2005 and 2010. According to a study by the Pew Hispanic Center, just as many Mexicans returned to Mexico as came to the U.S. And…