Holiday Travel Chaos Ahead after Atlanta Airport Outage--Beyond Education

Ticketing and baggage areas were a bit backed up, but security lines were moving quickly in Atlanta on Monday morning as the world's busiest airport recovered from a crippling power outage. Thousands of people remained stranded a day after the outage at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where more than 1,000 flights were grounded just days before the start of the Christmas travel rush. A sudden power outage that Georgia Power said was caused by a fire in an underground electrical facility brought the airport to a standstill Sunday around 1 p.m.

Holiday Travel Chaos Looms

Thousands of people remain stranded in Atlanta even after power is restored at the world's busiest airport. For the time being, President Donald Trump is not considering firing Robert Mueller. Trump is set to reveal his "America First" security plan. Olympic athletes are facing challenges related to climate change.

Christmas Comes for Thousands of Poor Children on Skid Row--On a Positive Note (Beyond Education)

Fred Jordan Missions brought Christmas to thousands of impoverished inner city children who received toys at Los Angeles' largest Christmas Toy Party on Saturday, December 16. The party also included a Christmas show featuring Mickey and Minnie Mouse singing Christmas Carols, courtesy of The Walt Disney Company. Friends of Disney greeted the children and escorted them to the Toy Giveaway tables where each child received multiple toys, as well as blankets, hats, mittens and socks. In addition, each mother received a Christmas dinner food bag filled with fresh turkeys or chickens, fresh vegetables and fruit, and enough food to feed their family a special Christmas dinner.

Airlines Inch Back to Normal Flow after Atlanta Airport Fire--Beyond Education

Delta Air Lines and other carriers that operate out of Atlanta's busy airport said they expected to be running normally Tuesday after a fire and blackout there forced the cancellation of over 1,500 flights days before the start of the Christmas rush.

Higher Education Institution in Las Vegas Has Chance for Library Grant to Document Latino History

Officials say the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has a chance to get a $100,000 library grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to document Latino contributions to southern Nevada.

Tennessee Higher Education Institution Gets $148k USDA Ginseng Project Grant

Middle Tennessee State University has landed a $148,000 federal grant for a ginseng experiment. According to a university news release, the U.S. Department of Agriculture grant will help MTSU support planting up to 100 acres (40 hectares) of ginseng in Tennessee, depending on participation by growers. MTSU says this could add $4 million in farm profit annually once the harvest is normalized.

House Passes $1.5T Tax Bill in Major Win for GOP-- Breaking News (Beyond Education)

The House has passed the most sweeping rewrite of the nation's tax laws in more than three decades. The bill now goes to the Senate for an expected vote Tuesday evening. The House approved the bill by a mostly party line vote of 227-203. The bill represents the first major legislative victory for President Donald Trump. The $1.5 trillion package would provide steep tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy and more modest cuts for middle- and low-income families. The business tax cuts would take effect in January. Workers would start to see changes in the amount of taxes withheld from their paychecks in February.

Program Aims to Help Virginia Students Apply to College

Every public four-year college and university in Virginia will participate in a program aimed at helping thousands of high school students apply to college.

Available Now! HO Reveals Top 25 Summer Programs for 2017

The special Top 25 Summer Programs issue of Hispanic Outlook (HO) available today.

Top 25 summer programs

Top 25 summer programs

Arkansas State University Revises Mexican Campus Contract

Arkansas State University is finalizing plans to open a campus in Mexico.

Next Week HO Reveals Top 25 Summer Programs for 2017

The special Top 25 Summer Programs issue of Hispanic Outlook (HO) is going live on Monday, March 20, on the magazine’s website, www.hispanicoutlook.com

Chronic Shortage of Spanish-speaking Doctors in US Results in Growing Demand for Multi-Lingual Health Professionals, Courtesy of Instituto Cervantes

According to Spain’s nonprofit organization Instituto Cervantes, the U.S. now has the world’s second-largest population of Spanish speakers behind only Mexico. With a growing number of Spanish-speaking patients, hospitals and health clinics are facing an immediate and chronic shortage of bilingual physicians -- a serious problem in a field where lives can depend on an accurate exchange of information between doctor and patient, and where the use of interpreters raises privacy concerns.

Helping DREAMers Pursuing Medical Careers Qualify for State Loan Forgiveness Scholarship Programs, by Senator Ricardo Lara

Battling Childhood Obesity in Hispanics, Still, by Frank DiMaria

In June of 2005, Hispanic Outlook reported on the health of the children living in Rio Grande City, a border town in Starr County, Texas, one of the poorest counties in the U.S. Most of the children living there were Mexican American, and at the time, their rates of obesity were among some of the highest in the nation. Unfortunately, little has changed in the past 11 years for the children of Starr County and for Hispanic children in general, according to Nancy F. Butte, Ph.D, professor of pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.