While many Iowa families gather through this weekend to celebrate Thanksgiving in traditional ways with food and family, thousands of people take to the streets in Des Moines 8th Annual Turkey Trot. Some 5,000 athletes from 38 states and three countries converge on Iowa s capital city on Thanksgiving morning to run in the Turkey Trot. Michael Zimmerman, director of Rip Roar Events and the Turkey Trot promoter, said Thanksgiving is the busiest running event of the year in the area, based on the number of participants who enter. .
For some Minnesota small businesses, it s been harder to fully recover from major events of the past two years. A state grant program has a new round of funding for capital improvements, and partners say the goal is to get the money to areas of high need. Minnesota is in its latest phase of the Main Street Economic Revitalization Program, established last year. .
Massachusetts residents are being asked to step up, just as they did five years ago, to help their fellow Americans in Puerto Rico. The Massachusetts United for Puerto Rico Fund raised more than $4 million after Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017. But government dysfunction, and the immense structural damage from the storm, allowed many of the donated goods to go to waste. .
Without Latino population, New England could have lost seats in House
Updated May 7, 2021, 7:15 a.m.
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Re âPopulation up, state keeps House seats: Mass. leads New England in growth, census figures revealâ (Page A1, April 27): Itâs good news that, for now, New England will maintain its 21 seats in the House of Representatives. But the fact is that without Latinos, that wouldnât be the case.
From 2010 to 2017, the Latino population of Massachusetts increased by 28 percent. This represented about 60 percent of all population growth in the Commonwealth, according to the Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Across the border in Rhode Island, data show that that stateâs population would have declined without Latino growth, which could have led to the loss of a congressional seat.