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Justice Department Monitors Election in Texas for Anti-Discrimination, Minority-Language Requirements
The Justice Department monitored the Jan. 23 special municipal election in Hondo, Texas, to ensure compliance with the anti-discrimination and minority language requirements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The act prohibits discrimination in the election process on the basis of race, color or membership in a minority language group. It also requires certain covered jurisdictions, such as Hondo, to provide language assistance in Spanish.

Under the act, the Justice Department is authorized to ask the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to send federal observers to areas that are certified by the attorney general or by a federal court order. Federal observers will be assigned to monitor polling place activities in Hondo. Observers will watch and record activities during voting hours at the polling location in Hondo and a civil rights division attorney will coordinate federal activities and maintain contact with local election officials.
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Small businesses win a record $96.8 billion in federal prime contracts.
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SPECIALS
U.S. Department of Education Awards $28.8 Million to School Districts

School districts across the country will be able to improve and strengthen their emergency management plans as a result of $28.8 million in grants awarded today...

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"Senator Thompson: Prior Law Allowed Tenants to be Forced from Homes without Notice."

Senator Antoine M. Thompson (D- Parts of Erie and Niagara counties) announced that a new law guaranteeing greater protections (S7139) for tenants of buildings in foreclosure...

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Davenport will receive the Ronald H. Brown Leadership Award at MED Week 2010

Today the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) announced that Ronald R. Davenport, chairman of Sheridan Communications Corporation ...

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Op-Ed

No one group of professionals within the African-American community should be held responsible for the conditions impacting all African-Americans.

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Community Roundup

The U.S. Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) and the U.S. Census Bureau recently announced that the number of minority-owned firms ...

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Small Business Success

That’s the mantra by which Lily Bengfort, President of Consulting and Engineering Next Generation Networks (CenGen, Inc.) in Columbia, Md.,...

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