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A Growing Population

In Redmond, Latino population numbers are rising faster than in other parts of Central Oregon

Latinos make up a small slice of the population in Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties, but their numbers in Redmond have grown faster than the rest of Central Oregon. While the region’s Latino population more than doubled since 2000 to an estimated 19,820 people, in Redmond, a count of 739 people in 2000 rose to […]

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Mariachi Sol de Mexico

A festive sound comes to the Tower

Mariachi Sol de Mexico is a 13-piece band that plays the traditional sounds and experiences of Mexico. This genre of music is said to have originated in the 19th century in the southern state of Jalisco and is a mostly male-dominated style of music. In a culture that is very much patriarchal, it is said […]

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Give This Film An Oscar

Cartel Land is an unflinching documentary

Within the first two minutes of Cartel Land, the quality and moral depth of the film is evident. It is a nighttime scene as several men, presumably Mexican, unload ingredients from a truck and begin to cook meth in smoking drum barrels. At first, there is nothing terribly novel about the scene; a man, masked […]

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