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ISU expert: Latino businesses crucial for Iowa’s downtowns

By Douglas Burns 10/15/08

Nearly all Latino-owned businesses in Iowa initially open in a downtown commercial district, a phenomenon that has helped resurrect many rural towns crippled by the farm crisis two decades ago and the ongoing brain drain, says an Iowa State University field specialist.

Western Iowa’s Spanish voice

By Douglas Burns 5/11/07

One of the more influential venues for discussion and debate in western Iowa’s burgeoning Hispanic community is published in Carroll.

The 1-year-old Spanish-language paper, La Prensa (The Press), is a family operation, the product of an ambitious mother-son team originally from Nicaragua but with deepening roots in Carroll.

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