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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, 72, holds a degree in Law from the University of Lisbon. He has […]

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: Azores among the most beautiful places in the world to visit – National Geographic

06 November 2022

The Azores archipelago comes among the “Best of the World” categories listing the 25 most beautiful, must-visit places in 2023, according to the December edition of National Geographic Traveler magazine. This is the second time the Azores are awarded this distinction. In 2016, the Azores was among best places in the world to visit, as […]

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Posted in Awards, Azores, Featured, Heritage, Portugal, Travel, World

Almeida Maia: One of the most compelling Azorean writers of his generation – Interview

05 November 2022

By Carolina Matos, Editor Novelist and poet, Pedro Filipe Almeida Maia was born in 1979, in Ponta Delgada, Azores, where he lives. A psychologist by training, he stepped into his literary career in 1996 as a lyricist, writing for local musicians. One of the most acclaimed, most prolific, and most awarded Azorean writers of his […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Brazil, Featured, Heritage, Interviews, People, Portugal

Opinion|The COP 27 Climate Conference must ensure action – By Len Port

03 November 2022

The United Nations COP 27 climate conference, which starts at the end of this week, could be of pivotal importance to the entire planet and of special significance to Portugal. Portugal is doing all the right things to limit global warming, but it remains highly vulnerable because of what much bigger nations are not doing. […]

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Posted in Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Travel Alert: TAP Air Portugal cabin workers to strike early December – Portugal

03 November 2022

TAP Air Portugal cabin crew workers, represented by the National Civil Aviation Flight Personnel Union (SNPVAC), advanced this Thursday a strike notice for December 8 and 9. The workers’ action, supported by the airliner pilots, is in response to a proposed new workers’ contract presented by the carrier. According to the notice, the workers demand […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal, Travel, World

Web Summit: The world’s largest technology event returns to Lisbon – Portugal

31 October 2022

The Web Summit, the world’s largest technology event in the world, and Europe’s largest tech event, returns to Lisbon with more than 70,000 worldwide attendees, 2,630 exhibiting start-ups and companies, 1,120 investors, and 1,040 speakers from 160 countries attending. Starting November 1 through November 4, the event returned to the Altice Arena, a multi-purpose indoor […]

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Book | Leaving Pico: A Novel | by Frank X. Gaspar – Editor’s Note

28 October 2022

This new 3rd edition of Leaving Pico makes Frank X. Gaspar’s award-winning coming-of-age novel accessible to a new generation the insular Portuguese fishing community of Provincetown (MA), where Josie Carvalho’s life has been shaped by the annual influx of summer tourists and his great aunt’s fervent, if idiosyncratic, Catholicism. The counterweight to these forces has […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Pico, World