Hispanic Match: Analysis: Voters in battleground state of New Mexico give their opinions on President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry
RENEE MONTAGNE, host: During the course of this year's presidential election, MORNING EDITION is looking at the battleground states, where the race is expected to be close. One is New Mexico, which Al Gore carried four years ago by fewer than 400 votes. NPR's Linda Wertheimer went home to New Mexico to find out how the contest between President George Bush and Senator John Kerry is shaping up.LINDA WERTHEIMER reporting: New Mexico is a sprawling state of deserts...
Hispanic Match: Program matches first Hispanic marrow donor
After an exhaustive search for donors to participate in the National Marrow Donor Program, Florida Blood Services has found its first Hispanic match. Arnulfo Roman, 53, a Brandon resident born in Colombia, is a confirmed match with a 40-year-old man who lives in another state. The recipient, who is married with three children, has leukemia and has been waiting five years for a donor.Roman went to H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in February for the marrow harvesting process. The name of the...
Historic Hispanic match celebrates youth's remission/Marrow donor and recipient conquer odds of 1 in 20,000
When Santiago Cruz hugged Erick Chaires on Monday, it was more than a simple meeting of a blood-marrow donor and the recipient. It was symbolic, health officials say, of the importance of minorities registering as donors.Only 21 percent of the nation's 2.4 million registered marrow donors are minorities. The odds of matching someone to a nonrelative is about 1 in 20,000, and matches typically are within the same race, health officials said. Cruz and Chaires, for instance, are...
Hispanic Match: Latin music-video station takes to the air in San Antonio
It's a cross between MTV and Country Music Television - en espanol. It's called MasMusica TeVe 2, and it's the brainchild of Cuban-American Eduardo Caballero.MasMusica began broadcasting a 24-hour music video format in San Antonio last month, with plans to have stations in Houston and Dallas up and running by this summer.But lest red flags be raised at the mere thought of some of the seamier MTV images invading Hispanic households, relax....
Hispanic Match: Daily
AGENDAS A summary of agendas of public meetings to be held today Weber County Commission 10 a.m., 2380 Washington Blvd.A resolution of the Board of County Commissioners of Weber County proclaiming October "Zero Tolerance to Domestic Violence Month" in Weber County Appointment to the Weber/Morgan Health Department Board of Directors Extension request for Monastery Cove Subdivision, Phase II and III until Nov. 1 Request for final subdivision...
