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EDUCATION

DENVER, Colorado (AP)

When a Colorado teacher got her English language stu-dents talking and writing

about the police shooting of a black teen in Ferguson, Missouri, she was able to draw parallels to events close to home. Cara Luchies, who works in a high school that is 50-percent Hispanic, used an archive on the region’s Latino history for information on two young Mexican-Americans who were killed by law enforcement in Longmont in 1980.

Luchies is among educators and activists across the country who say they are working to ensure young Americans of any back-ground learn through ethnic studies about the hard work of nation-building. The push has at times met opposition.

Lawmakers in Arizona passed a 2010 ban on ethnic studies that forced a Tucson school board to shutter a Mexican-Ameri-can program. In Texas, a push for a statewide Mexican-American studies high school elective faltered in the face of concern that it might introduce leftist politics into class-

rooms.But in Colorado, a government class that

by state law must cover “the history and culture of minorities, including but not limited to the American Indians, the His-panic Americans and the African Ameri-cans” has been a graduation requirement for a decade. A measure before the state Legis-lature would strengthen that law.

The proposal would create an ethnically diverse commission to help school districts develop the kind of curricula for which teachers like Luchies have been searching.

“We want to move that law forward,” said state Rep. Joseph Salazar, a Dem-ocrat who introduced the proposal this session. Last month, the House education committee referred the pro-posal to appropriations.

Salazar doesn’t expect much oppo-sition to the proposal he made in response to constituent concern that implementation of the law on ethnic studies has been weak.

“I hope we don’t start hearing the language that we heard in Arizona,” Salazar, who is Hispanic, said in an interview.

John Kavanagh, an Arizona state senator, said in a recent interview that students should learn about the ethnic groups that are part of America, but in general history courses, not in stand-alone classes that “tend inevitably to become highly politi-cized.”

Ethnic studies “doesn’t bring people together, the Republican said. “It rips us apart.”

Proponents, however, argue ethnic studies helps students.

Stanford University researchers looked at an ethnic studies pilot started in 2012 in San Francisco, where ninth-graders were offered classes that included projects focusing on their communities, families and selves. In a report released in January, the research-ers concluded such classes helped increase grades and attendance among struggling students. In 2014, the San Francisco school board voted to offer the program at high schools.

Even when the call is for broad ethnic studies programs, plans often allow schools to focus on material deemed most rele-vant to their populations. The Los Angeles school board voted in 2014 to make ethnic studies a graduation requirement. Else-where in California, the Oakland board is among several to direct high schools to offer ethnic studies courses.

Deisy de Luna Cervantes, who was 11 when her mother brought her to the United States from Mexico on a tourist visa, helped record interviews for the Boulder history project. Now 21 and studying to become an accountant, de Luna Cervantes was inspired by the stories of immigrants who came to the United States generations ago.

Her work increased her self-awareness, de Luna Cervantes said.

“I am Mexican. I can consider myself His-panic. But I can also be American,” she said.

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File photo from 2009 of students in a Mexican-American studies class at a high school in Tucson, Arizona.

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EDUCACION: Educators, activists lobby for Hispanic studies

NORTHWEST: Oregon looks to benefit from lifting of U.S. embargo to Cuba

HEALTH LITERACY: Tri-Cities Cancer Center Breakthroughs

LATIN AMERICA: Mexico to confront criticisms from US political campaigns

SAFETY: Safety features in your car that you may not know about

OUR FAITH: The Hardness of Our Hearts

NORTHWEST: Pacific Northwest could become hub for methanol production

COLUMN: Dave Says: Making grown-up choices

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ALBANY, Oregon (AP)

It’s too early to tell what will come from this week’s visit by President Barack Obama and his family to

Cuba — both politically and economically — but one outcome could be increased agricultural sales of Oregon products to the island.

Politically, the United States slapped a trade embargo on the Caribbean island of 11 million residents after Fidel Castro’s guerrilla army took control in 1959 and allied with communist China and Russia.

But in reality, more than $300 million in U.S. agricultural products were exported to Cuba in 2014 under the Trade Sanc-tions and Export Enhancement Act of 2000.

In fact, the United States was the leading exporter of agricultural products to Cuba for nine of 11 years since 2000, topping out at $658 million in 2008.

Leading exports have been chicken, corn and soybean meal.

An estimated 70 to 80 percent of all food

consumed by Cubans is imported.President Obama spent two

years in secret talks with Cuban officials and in December 2014 announced that diplomatic rela-tionships would be restored. A symbol of that effort was the recent reopening of the U.S. embassy in Cuba.

Bruce Pokarney of the Oregon Department of Agriculture said that although other states in the Southeast or along the Eastern Seaboard would have an easier trade path to Cuba, just 90 miles away from Florida, the expanded Panama Canal has made the trip from the Pacific Northwest to Cuba more economically feasible.

“Obviously, our top market is Asia,” Pokarney said. “But we are always open to looking at new markets. It’s a situa-tion where we want to maintain existing markets and to find new ones.”

Pokarney said Oregon could play a role in providing specialty products such as

hazelnuts, which are on a marked upswing among products grown in Oregon. New hazelnut orchards are popping up throughout the mid-valley.

Oregon wines could also be welcomed in Cuba, if not necessarily for its own resi-dents but for the flood of tourists, expected to jump from last year’s 3.5 million.

The number of tourists from the United States jumped 77 percent last year alone.

Those tourists generated almost $2 billion in revenue, or more than 10

percent of the country’s total gross domestic product.

In 2015, U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., traveled to Cuba with Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.

Schrader noted that his grandmother had emigrated from Cuba and he was interested in learning how the Cuban government has treated Cuban-Amer-icans.

He reported being “welcomed by a warm people who didn’t seem to harp on the embargo and the apparent effect

it’s had on the Cuban economy.”He said Cubans appeared interested in

Oregon fruits such as pears and apples and other Northwest produce.

Schrader said there is great opportu-nity to help Cuban farmers modernize their operations with modern irrigation systems and newer farm equipment.

Schrader said the U.S. can also learn a lot from Cuban farmers, who are well-versed on organic farming since agricul-tural chemicals were on the embargoed list.

Oregon looks to benefit from lifting of U.S. embargo to Cuba

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This past year, physician specialists from across our region partnered with the Cancer Center to launch the Thoracic Center of Excellence and the Genitourinary Center of Excellence, which focus on lung cancer and prostate cancer respectively. This is in addition to the Breast Center of Excellence we are seeking accreditation for this year. The goals of these programs are to shorten time to treatment and improve outcomes for patients. Thanks to our talented and dedicated physician community, we are meeting our goals.

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LATIN AMERICA

MEXICO CITY (AP)

The Mexican government has come up with a plan to con-front criticism of the country

during the U.S. presidential campaigns, but it doesn’t include getting into verbal duels with the candidates.

The government instead will approach the campaigns of the Republican and Dem-ocratic nominees once they are chosen and share information about how the U.S. rela-tionship with Mexico is an opportunity and not a threat, Francisco Guzman, an official in President Enrique Pena Nieto’s office, said Tuesday.

Outlining the plan to journalists, he said Mexican consulates in the U.S. have been instructed to start meeting with organiza-tions and public opinion leaders to discuss the contributions Mexicans make to the United States.

Republican front-runner Donald Trump, in particular, has drawn atten-tion in Mexico by talking about Mexican migrants being rapists and bringing drugs to the United States, and he has repeatedly

promised to build a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border.

Two former Mexican presidents struck back at Trump in the past week. Vicente Fox called him crazy and a false prophet, while Felipe Calderon compared Trump to Hitler in the way he plays on people’s anxi-eties.

Guzman said Mexico’s current adminis-tration will not get into confronting indi-viduals.

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“We could win the front page of all the newspapers here or in other places with a swear word and the next day that would not be good for anyone,” he said.

“What the government will do is deploy a greater effort to counteract the misin-formation about the bilateral relation-ship, about the contributions of Mexican immigrants to the United States, but in a very neutral way,” Guzman added. “It is not to go against one candidate.”

Annual trade between the two coun-

tries amounts to more than $500 billion.Guzman’s comments came on Super

Tuesday in the U.S. with each party’s can-didates competing in 11 states. He said he expected comments by American can-didates to become more moderate as the contest advances.

Just last week, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called some of the campaign rhetoric “damaging” during a visit to Mexico City and assured his hosts it did not represent the attitudes of the majority of Americans.

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Our Faith

By Dr. Joseph Castleberry

You have six days each week for your

ordinary work, but on the seventh day you must stop working. This gives your ox and your donkey a chance to rest. It also allows your slaves and the for-eigners living among you to be refreshed.—Éxodo 23:12, NTV

The mention of slaves in the Law of Moses provokes scandal in the mind of today’s reader.   How could the Law of God have permit-ted    the Israelites to keep other people in slavery?  The fact that the Hebrews had suf-fered slavery in Egypt should have conscien-tized them to the evil of that nefarious institution.   Despite this explicit hypoc-risy, they never developed such a convic-tion during Biblical history.

Why dd God permit the continuation of slavery in Israel?   In reality, the Law of Moses did not perfectly express the justice of God.  In the matter of divorce—another tragic institution that the Law left in place–Jesus Christ commented that “Moses permitted divorce only as a concession to your hard hearts, but it was not what God had originally intended. ” (Matthew 19:8). As for slavery, God made the same concession.   It seems that not only Pharaoh had a hard heart.   In the Sermon on the Mount  (Matthew 5-7), Jesus explained in detail how the justice of God greatly exceeded that of the Law of Moses.

Nevertheless, God made provi-sions to soften the hardness of hearts in Israel.  The slaves and immigrants had the same right to a day of rest and worship as free Israelites had, and God insisted that they should receive it.   In our time also, justice calls our for equal, defined work-place rights for all, whatever their eco-nomic situation or national origin.

Some would accuse God of evil for permitting slavery and injustice in the world.   But those same people do not submit their free will to God and would not opt for God depriving human beings of their freedom.  The  task of establish-ing justice in the earth belongs to us as human beings, and legal codes consti-tute the instrument for supporting justice. As in Ancient Israel, it is useless to estab-lish laws that no one will  execute.   The imposition of laws always takes into account the culture and relative goodness of the people and seeks a balance between perfect justice and the possible.   We should pray that the country where we live might have just laws and a righteous population with a conscience to execute them to the benefit of everyone.

Copyright©2013 by  Joseph L. Castle-berry.   All Rights Reserved.  joseph.castle-berry@northwestu.edu

Dr. Joseph Castleberry is  president of Northwest University in Kirkland, Wash-ington.  He is the author of The New Pil-grims:   How Immigrants are Renewing America’s Faith  (Worthy Publishing). Follow him on  Twitter @DrCastleberry and at  http://www.facebook.com/Joseph.Castleberry.

The Hardness of Our Hearts

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drivers, make passengers more comfort-able and provide real-time information about a vehicle’s health. Most impor-tantly, many vehicle technologies today are designed with safety in mind and have the potential to save lives.

The trouble is, too many drivers do not realize these features exist, or know how to use them to their full potential.

A recent University of Iowa study found 40 percent of drivers have been startled or surprised by something their vehicle has done -- a troubling finding given that car crashes are a leading cause of preventable death in the United States.

“Technology can be a game-changer when it comes to safety,” said Deborah A.P. Hersman, president and CEO of the National Safety Council. “In order to fully recognize the benefits of these new systems, drivers need to be aware of them and also understand their limita-tions.”

With this need in mind, NSC part-nered with the University of Iowa to launch “My Car Does What” -- a virtual owner’s manual that demystifies the latest, most cutting-edge vehicle features.

The campaign’s website, www.MyCar-DoesWhat.org, highlights technologies

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of the blind zone directly behind the car when the vehicle is in reverse

• Blind spot monitors that alert drivers when something is in their blind spot

• Forward collision warnings that warn drivers when they are closing in on the vehicle ahead too quickly

• Automatic emergency braking systems that apply the brakes if the system detects an imminent collision

• Anti-lock braking systems that prevent wheels from locking up, helping to avoid uncontrolled skidding and pro-viding some steering control in slippery conditions

• Rear cross traffic alerts that warn drivers if traffic is approaching from the left or the right when the vehicle is in reverse

• Adaptive cruise control that main-tains the speed set by the driver and a pre-set following distance

• Lane departure warnings that alert drivers if they drift into another lane when the turn signal is not activated.

For a full list of vehicle safety technol-ogies, explanatory videos, graphics and articles, visit MyCarDoesWhat.org.

“The driver will always be a car’s best safety feature; no technology today will change that,” Hersman said. “But these features can help mitigate errors before they result in deaths and injuries.”

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SEATTLE, Washington (AP)

The Pacific Northwest could become a major hub for meth-anol production if three pro-

posed refineries are built along the Columbia River and Puget Sound.

A China-backed consortium, North-west Innovation Works, has proposed two plants in Washington state and a third in Oregon to convert natural gas to methanol, which would be shipped to China to make plastics and other con-sumer goods.

But those plans are running into oppo-sition. On Friday, the company tempo-rarily put its project in Tacoma on hold, saying it has been “surprised by the tone and substance of vocal opposition.”

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee has embraced the projects as a boost to the state’s clean energy future. He has said the investments — about $7 billion for the three plants — would be one of the largest foreign investments in the U.S. by a Chinese company.

Supporters say the projects would create

hundreds of jobs and infuse billions to the region. Opponents are concerned about environmental and health impacts.

More than 1,000 people attended a hearing this month on the Tacoma project, which would produce 20,000 metric tons a day and dwarf other methanol plants planned or being built in the U.S. A citi-zens group is sponsoring an initiative to require voter approval for water permits exceeding one million gallons (3.8 million liters) a day. The city of Federal Way passed a resolution opposing the project.

“We’re talking about building enormous petrochemical refineries on the shorelines

of our most important water bodies. That’s dangerous,” said Eric de Place, policy director for Sightline Institute, a pro-gressive think tank.

Company president Murray Godley said in a statement Friday that the project “pro-vides an exciting opportunity for Washington and Oregon to become world leaders in addressing climate change through innovation by pro-

ducing methanol and the products we use every day in more environmentally responsible way.” But he said the company would take the next few months to engage the Tacoma community in more dialogue

Methanol, a wood alcohol, is used to make olefins, a component in every-day products such as eyeglasses, insulin pumps and fleece jackets, said Mandy Putney, a company spokeswoman.

Most methanol in China is produced using coal, but the Northwest plants would use natural gas, which is cleaner, she said.

Pacific Northwest could become hub for methanol production

In this photo taken February 10, 2016, protestors hold a sign that reads “No Methanol,” as they protest in Tacoma, Washington.

Dear Dave,

My husband and I are on Baby Step 2 of your plan. We’ve got our starter emer-gency fund of $1,000 in the bank, and we’re busy paying off credit cards and unpaid taxes from previous years. He thinks it’s okay to take trips and save up for other fun things while we’re doing this, but I disagree. I want to cut out all extra spending and pay off our debt as fast as pos-sible. What’s your opinion?

— Laura

Dear Laura,

It’s okay to do those things in the general philosophy of life. Unfortu-nately, that’s not what I teach when it comes to getting out of debt and gaining control of your finances. The reason people are successful following my plan is because I teach common sense combined with an unbridled, scorched-earth kind of intensity.

Let’s take a closer look at this. You have unpaid taxes, not to mention credit card debt hanging over your heads, and he’s talking about going on a trip and saving up for toys? I’m sorry, but that’s completely irre-sponsible.

There’s a process here. There’s an idea and a concept behind what I teach, and when you plug into it, you’re going to start moving in a positive direction. In short, behav-iors have to change, Laura. The more dramatically they change, the better results you get and the faster you fix things.

— Dave

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