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Community | Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho remains on paid leave FLAD | Carlos Costa Neves appointed director of the Luso-American Development Foundation Book | Reduction in Force: Poems by Hugo dos Santos  Community | Portuguese diaspora entrepreneurs network to be created Debate | Portuguese lawmakers propose shift in gender identity laws
 

Community | Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho remains on paid leave – Los Angeles, CA

Alberto M. Carvalho, the Portuguese-American superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), remains on paid administrative leave following a federal investigation involving the nation’s second-largest school system.  The move comes after agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed search warrants at Carvalho’s residence and district offices in late February 2026, in […]

FLAD | Carlos Costa Neves appointed director of the Luso-American Development Foundation – Portugal

The Board of Trustees of Lisbon based, Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) appointed Dr. Carlos Henrique da Costa Neves, 72, to the Executive Board, chaired since January 15, 2026, by José Manuel Durão Barroso. Born in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Azores,  Costa Neves holds a degree in Law from the University of Lisbon. He has held […]

Book | Reduction in Force: Poems by Hugo dos Santos  – Review

By Millicent Borges Accardi Born in Lisboa, Portugal, Hugo dos Santos was raised in New Jersey. An award-winning writer and translator, his books include a collection of short stories about Newark, Then, there (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), his upcoming book, book A Reduction in Force (Bauhan Publishing, 2026), winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry […]

Community | Portuguese diaspora entrepreneurs network to be created – Portugal

The Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities, Emídio Sousa, has expressed his intention to foster the creation of an economic community that connects Portuguese citizens and their descendants worldwide, aiming to strengthen ties between the diaspora and Portugal’s economy. His proposal centers on leveraging the global Portuguese diaspora, estimated at more than five million people, […]

Debate | Portuguese lawmakers propose shift in gender identity laws – Portugal

Portugal’s parliament has voted in a preliminary session to advance three controversial bills that would significantly alter the country’s gender identity framework, marking a potential shift away from one of Europe’s most progressive legal models.  The proposals, backed by center-right and right-wing parties including the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Chega, and CDS-PP, would move forward […]

Travel: ‘SATA International’ rebranding to become ‘Azores Airlines’ – Azores

08 January 2015

The Azores based ‘SATA International’ – also referred as ‘SATA Air Azores’ – has announced it is undergoing the process of changing its brand name and image to become “Azores Airlines.’ According to a source close to the process, the ‘Azores Airlines’ is not a new company, but the same company under a new name […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Travel

Opinion: Hopes fading for a peaceful happy new year – By Len Port

07 January 2015

A review of the first week suggests we can expect more of the same over the next fifty-one. No sooner had families and friends around the world exchanged best wishes for a healthy, happy and prosperous 2015 than the news broke about Her Majesty’s second son. A woman alleged that a billionaire American investment banker […]

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Posted in Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Awarded: Portuguese bioengineering team wins ‘Mars One Seed’ competition – Netherlands

06 January 2015

The Portuguese ‘Seed Team,’ comprised of bioengineering students, is the winner of the ‘Mars One University Competition: Seed’ an international contest organized by the Mars One Foundation, based in Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands. The ‘Seed Team’ consists of four bioengineering students from the University of Porto and two PhD students from MIT Portugal and the University […]

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Posted in Awards, Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal

Book: ‘Frontiers of Possession’ Portugal and Spain in Europe and the Americas – Editor’s Note

06 January 2015

‘Frontiers of Possession’ asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas during the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are largely determined by military conflicts and treaties. Focusing on Spanish and Portuguese claims in the New and Old Worlds, Tamar Herzog reconstructs the different ways land rights were […]

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Furnas: Recurrent seismic activity above normal values – Azores

05 January 2015

Experts in the Azores have alerted the population for recurrent seismic activity which they considered to be “above normal values.” According to the Information Center for Seismic-Volcanic Surveillance of the Azores (CIVISA) multiple seismic events have been recorded on São Miguel and Terceira islands on January 4 and 5. On Monday, CIVISA registered an earthquake […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Portugal, São Miguel, Terceira

Book: ‘How Peripheral is the Periphery? Translating Portugal Back and Forth’ – Editor’s Note

04 January 2015

This volume is a result of the need to reflect upon Portugal’s position from the viewpoint of the literary assets imported and exported through translation. It brings together a number of scholars working in the field of Translation Studies directly concerned with the Portuguese cultural system in order to analyze this question from various theoretical […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Portugal