A faithful reader recently wrote in a question for my ¡Ask a Mexican! column wondering why the city of Westminster doesn't acknowledge Mendez vs. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case that allowed Mexican kids to attend school with their white peers and served as a precursor to the much-more-famous Brown vs. Board of Education. I thought the letter-writer was mistaken...but nope!The SanTana Unified School District (one of the four school districts named as Mexican-segregators in the Mend
When the postman drops letters, magazines and packages off at your Orange County home or business on Saturday, he or she is going to want something in return: food.To help combat a sharply increasing need for emergency food assistance, U.S. Postal Service letter carriers will seek donated food items from every home and business they hit on their Saturday rounds. You can help by setting non-perishable food items by your mailbox that morning.The collected food will be donated to various local char
