The voters of Nashville, TN, rejected a proposal requiring all city documents and business, save for a few safety and health matters, to be conducted in English. (See posting for Jan.11, 2009.) English is the official language for Tennessee, but official materials can be published in a number of languages other than English in the city. (See New York Times article.)
EL PASO, TX, AND JUAREZ, MEXICO: A TALE OF TWO CITIES
More than just the Rio Grande divides El Paso from neighbor Juarez, Mexico. The level of violence does most dramatically. Juarez with 1.5 million inhabitants reported more than 1,500 murders last year, while EL Paso, admittedly half the size at 600,000, reported only 16. That made the city the third safest in United States. Obviously Juarez carries the burden of a nasty drug war, that has led to slaughter of young men brought into fight for cartels mixing it up over turf. The killing has spilled over to the civilian population, including U.S. citizens either working in Juarez or visiting. With the violence tourism and commercial business has drastically declined between the two cities.(See New York Times article.)
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