They are changing America by changing the people
Later on June 5th: Lewiston folks should check out Nashville Somali fraud allegations, here. Update June 5th: Sure enough it was the Somali home health care businesses that were raided according to today’s updated story. Note that reader, Susan, has posted several of our earlier posts on fraud in the Somali community elsewhere in the … Continue reading Federal agents raid home health care offices in Lewiston, ME
Your tax dollars: Yesterday our friend Janet sent a link to this very neat database called Stimulus Watch here. Keep in mind these projects are not in the Stimulus package per se but as the site says, they are listed as projects that are more or less “shovel-ready” for when the bill passes. StimulusWatch.org was built … Continue reading Lewiston Dog Parks proposal gives new meaning to shovel-ready
Our friend Mars sent us a blog post from a Maine writer named Jim who is ticked off at the author of the Newsweek article Ann has been commenting on (here and here). He knows the local area inside-out, and much of the article is too locally-oriented to be of great interest to those who don’t live … Continue reading Another slam at Newsweek’s article on Lewiston
The Mayor of Lewiston, Maine, home to many thousands of Somali refugees (see here, here, and here for a few of Ann’s posts), has written an informative column on his blog, explaining why so many of them are unemployed. He is reporting on a research project done by students in an anthropology course at Bates College. Like so many of these studies, the results … Continue reading Mayor of Lewiston reports on why Somalis have trouble getting jobs
Last Saturday I reported that a Newsweek magazine story on Lewiston, ME credited the large number of Somali immigrants there with the economic boom the city is experiencing. It made no sense to me and today, thanks to Mars, I see it makes no sense to the citizens of Lewiston either. From the Sun-Journal (the local … Continue reading Lewiston, ME: Newsweek screwed up the story