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State Library Moves Ahead At Snail's Pace

Saturday, 22 March 2008
Jalisco's much-trumpeted new state library is around one-quarter complete and won't be finished until August 2009.

State Powerless To Clean Mucky Santiago River

Saturday, 22 March 2008

'A 2004 study shows that manufacturers in El Salto's industrial zone dump 375 kilos of nickel, cyanide, lead, arsenic, mercury, chrome and cadmium annually into the Arroyo Ahogada, which then empties into the Santiago River.
' - Photo By Megan Smith

Sometimes seeing is believing. State legislators and agency leaders uniformly vowed to take action to clean the contaminated Santiago River after they toured its most polluted spots March 6.

Airport Buys Hi-tech Bag Check

Saturday, 15 March 2008
The laborious process of manually revising each bag prior to check-in at the Guadalajara Airport will be a thing of the past once the facility gets new gamma-ray detectors and computer tomography x-ray machines later this year.

Former Prime Minister Visits Jailed Canadian

Saturday, 15 March 2008
'One time Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin is the latest politician to take an interest in the Brenda Martin case. ' - Photo By CR Files Canadian Brenda Martin will stay in the Puente Grande women's prison after a local court rejected a constitutional challenge mounted by her defense counsel to get the criminal charges lodged against her thrown out.

Cycling Through The Primavera

Saturday, 08 March 2008
'Jalisco Governor Emilio Gonzalez (left) finds the going easy on a new cycle path running through the Primavera Forest outside Guad-alajara.' - Photo By CR Files Being photographed sitting in the saddle of a bike appears to be the red-hot ambition of politicians in Jalisco.