09 March 2013
By Michael Colson, Contributor (*) California leads the nation with its Portuguese-American population of over 330, 000 people. The second largest concentration of those who claim Portuguese ancestry is in the Central Valley, which spans 450 miles from Sacramento in the north to Bakersfield in the south and is one of the world’s most vital […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, Terceira
07 March 2013
By David Mendonça, Contributor (*) The fadista Rodrigo Costa Félix will be performing on 16 March, in Toronto, Canada, at the Casa do Alentejo, where he will be joined by the musicians Marta Pereira da Costa (the two are married), Pedro Pinhal, and Rodrigo Serrão. Both Rodrigo and Marta are fiercely hard working. In the […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Music, People, Portugal, World
06 March 2013
According to Michael C. Cook, responsible for the US Census Bureau public affairs and media relations, the US Census Bureau does not intend “to classify people of Portuguese origin as Hispanic,” in 2020. In a statement reacting to an article published by the Washington Examiner, Cook remarked, “We have received calls about this topic over […]
05 March 2013
Unions representing 7,000 workers, at state-owned TAP Air Portugal, called a strike for March 21, 22 and 23 over concerns relating to budget reductions, layoffs and pay cuts between 3.5% and 10% in gross wages. The strike, which will also affect Azores-based SATA airline, will the first to be backed by all eight unions representing […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Madeira, Politics, Portugal, Travel, World
05 March 2013
President Barack Obama has appointed Portuguese-American physicist, Ernest Moniz, to head the US Department of Energy. Described by many as having a brilliant scientific mind, Moniz, 68, is a descendant of Azorean immigrants from São Miguel Island, Azores. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) physicist, Moniz will replace Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize for Physics […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Education, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, São Miguel, World
03 March 2013
Portugal’s long-distance runner, Sara Moreira, was the decisive Gold Medal winner in the women’s 3000m final race, at the Athletics European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, Sunday, March 3, 2013. Dominating much of the race, Moreira finished in 8:58.50, two seconds ahead of Harrer, while Britton took bronze. Runner-up four years ago in the Turim […]
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