Salinas

Salinas

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  Mexico plays hardball in jailing of union boss

  The arrest of Mexico's most powerful union leader echoes the hardball tactics of Mexico's once-imperial presidency while pushing forward an education ... 

• Calif. school named after bandido ignites debate

  Scaffolding climbs the walls of the new elementary school in Salinas, an agricultural city celebrated as John Steinbeck's birthplace but plagued by ... 

• Program trains farmworkers to be organic farmers

  Bending over beds of shriveled strawberry plants, former farmworker Domitila Martinez pulls pieces of black plastic row covers in preparation for next ...