Battle Over a Spanish-Language Billboard

NJBIZAugust 11, 2009

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"When I asked them to pull the sign down, all that I was hoping would happen is that they would take the sign down," he adds. "The first thing out of a lot of peoples' mouths was, 'You're racist and a bigot and this can't be talked about.' It really struck a nerve in America."

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Battle Over a Spanish-Language Billboard

WHAT BEGAN AS A FLAP over a billboard in the town of Bogota has thrust the Bergen County community into the center of a national debate over linguistic diversity. Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan says he was being neither racist nor anti-business this month when he fired o...

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