Flamenco Fever A group of flamenco dancers entertain students during a noontime concert series held at the Southwest Terrace on Monday.

News

• Poverty challenges Long Beach residents
  The City of Long Beach now has more to boast than a diverse population that is fifth largest in California and the busiest port on the West Coast.

• Barbara Parks bids farewell to CSULB after 39 years
  Barbara Parks bid farewell to her friends and colleagues and to the institution that has played a major role in her life since she first began work here in 1964.

• Federal appeals court postpones recall vote to improve ballots
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The federal appeals court that postponed California's historic Oct. 7 gubernatorial recall election on Monday repeatedly referred to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore as its primary rationale.

• NAACP chairman criticizes Proposition 54 in speech
  Berkeley (U-Wire)--National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Chairman Julian Bond made an appearance in Berkeley Saturday, railing against California's recall election, condemning Proposition 54 and renewing a 1963 civil rights pledge.

• GOP offers language on hydrogen, Alaska pipeline
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans offered a tentative package of proposals for energy legislation Monday to help build a natural gas pipeline in Alaska, develop hydrogen as a fuel and expand research into how to cut pollution from burning coal.

   

Opinion

• Our View: WTO falls to workers
  The institution that was brought into the spotlight by the massive protests in Seattle in 1999, the World Trade Organization has been dealt a blow from workers and farmers around the world.

• With friends like this
  According to Webster's New World Dictionary, the definition of the word 'ally' is, "To unite or form a connection between."

• Is monogamy really a joke? (No me calles)
  For those of you that don't speak Spanish, the title of this column will not make sense.

• Media owes workers info
  The economic situation in the United States is ill, and the media's failure to keep us informed on the basic facts is disappointing.
  

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