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Bilingual commentary: The Good Sin
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Bilingual commentary: Sunshine: Friend or foe?
Editor’s note: David Magallanes is on vacation this week. This is a reprint from last year about an important topic: protecting ourselves from sunshine. Amigos805 welcomes guest columns, letters to the editor and other submissions from our readers. All opinions expressed…
Bilingual commentary: Learning to swim
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Bilingual commentary: The death of a parent
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Bilingual commentary: Student hopes and dreams
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Bilingual commentary: Dooming ourselves in California? — Part II
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Bilingual commentary: Oxnard: A large city?
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Bilingual commentary: Immigration and the GOP
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Bilingual commentary: Why is everything so dim?
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Bilingual commentary: Patron of the arts
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Bilingual commentary: The Church and Latinos
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Bilingual commentary: Cold War II?
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Bilingual commentary: Short lives in Port Hueneme
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Bilingual commentary: Internet marketing — The new frontier
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Bilingual commentary: ‘Someone’ has to do something…
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Bilingual commentary: Music by which we grieve
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Bilingual commentary: Fighting with Finesse
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Bilingual commentary: Desiderata — Part VII Achievements and Plans
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Bilingual commentary: Desiderata — Part VI — Comparing ourselves
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Bilingual commentary: Young Latinos and the New Economy
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Bilingual commentary: The Demise of the Mall?
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Bilingual commentary: Desiderata — Part V — Loud and aggressive persons
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Bilingual commentary: The Wisdom of Desiderata — Part IV — Speaking Our Truth
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Bilingual commentary: Father-daughter Christmas gifts
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Bilingual commentary: The Wisdom of Desiderata — Part III — On good terms with others
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Bilingual commentary: The Wisdom of Desiderata — Part I
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Bilingual commentary: New family holiday ‘Traditions’
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Bilingual commentary: When Friends Say, ‘Don’t Do It!’
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Bilingual commentary: Republican obstinacy
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Bilingual commentary: Cultural Jews … But Cultural Catholics?
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Bilingual commentary: Literature by women
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Bilingual commentary: Love of words
Editor’s note: Amigos805 welcomes guest columns, letters to the editor and other submissions from our readers. All opinions expressed in submitted material are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of Amigos805. By David Magallanes / Guest contributor “Books…
Bilingual commentary: On strike for more pay
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Bilingual commentary: Poetry and careers
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Bilingual commentary: Poverty and riches
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Bilingual commentary: Sunshine: Friend or foe?
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Bilingual commentary: Dancing into middle age
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Bilingual commentary: Knowing oneself
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Bilingual commentary: The nature of work
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Bilingual commentary: Rowing Our Boat … But How?
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Bilingual commentary: Mexican novelas and mythology
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Commentary: Sensitive male in a macho world
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Bilingual commentary: The end of textbooks?
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Bilingual commentary: Mexican novelas and language
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Bilingual commentary: My baby turns thirty
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Bilingual commentary: Baby steps
By David Magallanes / Guest contributor When I was younger (and more foolish), night would come and once again I would question why I dared to think that I could do it all. Like the superwoman who believes that she can…
Bilingual commentary: Communicating, or missing brain cells?
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Commentary: Is U.S. education unraveling?
By David Magallanes / Guest contributor As I walk across campus at the community college where I teach, I sometimes get the impression that I can almost hear my own footsteps as I walk toward my classroom or to an office…