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Many Hispanic journalists with established careers in the so-called mainstream press are attracted to these ventures because of the opportunity to focus exclusively on the Latino community. Guillermo Martinez, a Cuban who was senior editor of the Miami Herald, left to join Univision, where he heads the news department. Univision anchorwoman and producer Teresa Rodriguez has turned down offers from Good Morning, America and two NBC affiliates, preferring to cover Hispanic America in depth...
Nothing better illustrated the growing fear of a pro-choice voter backlash than the special session of the Florida legislature. Just days after the Supreme Court's Webster ruling, first-term Republican Governor Bob Martinez, a staunch pro-lifer, called the session to consider new antiabortion laws. In a state with a fast-growing G.O.P., it appeared to be a politically astute move...
...polls quickly showed that more than 60% of Floridians opposed further restrictions and that only 24% would vote for Martinez again. Even members of his own party, worried that an antiabortion label would hurt Republicans among suburban and women voters, began denouncing the special session as a costly waste of time. Just days before the session opened, Florida's supreme court ruled that abortion was protected by the state constitution, which contains a right-to-privacy clause approved by the voters in 1980. The court went on to overturn a state law requiring that parents be notified when their teenage...
...Joseph Martinez...
Critics of the Everglades suit charged -- correctly -- that Lehtinen went to court without consulting either the Justice or the Interior Department. Governor Martinez asked Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to settle the suit or drop it. Last December Lehtinen was summoned to Washington for a review of his actions. It seemed the suit would be scrapped, but Lehtinen, by agreeing to drop the most sweeping charges, returned with both Justice and Interior on his side...