The economic crisis has resulted in the loss of homes for many immigrants, including Brazilian factory owner José Bertolini, who depended on subprime lending, reports NEWz. 

An Anne Tyler novel about two families, one of them Iranian, who meet in an airport while awaiting their Korean baby adoptees, is the theme of a real-life upcoming celebration, reports BostonKAP.com.

NewHavenIndependent.org reports on newly-released internal e-mails of government officials who sought to kill New Haven's ID card program, which undocumented immigrants could apply for.

Cape Verdeans in Massachusetts want their fellow compatriots to vote for Obama.  Bristol County, the heart of New England's Cape Verdean community, leans rightward, reports DotNews.com. 

Race has become an issue between Mass. state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, supported by mostly non-white districts, and opponent Chang-Diaz, backed largely by white progressives, reports BayStateBanner.com. 

Tibetan Buddhist monks at a Peterborough, NH, museum spent days creating a mandala, a multi-colored design made of sand, only to promptly destroy it upon completion, reports INDIAnewEngland.com.

Marblehead, Mass., resident Susan Kauder is thriving in her second career as an artist.  Her "Polymer and Paper" exhibit is at the town's public library until Oct. 23, 2008, reports TheJewishAdvocate.com

East African garb was just one of many inspirations behind the works of local and international designers Prajje Couture, Kosibah Creations, and others at Boston Fashion Week, reports the Banner. 

India will have its own edition of the world's oldest technology publication, MIT's Technology Review, as of early 2009, reports IndUSBusinesJournal.com

A rabbi in Anchorage, AK, tells TheJewishAdvocate.com his views on Gov. Palin, calling her "a friend of the Jews."  Sen. Obama would be just as friendly, too, he says. 

Mass. state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, defeated in the primary election, will still run on Nov 4.  One of her supporters questioned her opponent's ethnicity, reports DotNews.com.

Presidential candidate John McCain vowed to address the immigration issue, if elected, and put the undocumented on a path to citizenship, reports Feetin2Worlds.org. 

Indians in Connecticut observed India's 61st Independence Day at a flag-raising ceremony in Danbury.  In Hartford, the Indian flag flew for three days over the capital dome, reports CTindianLife.com.

Salvadorans in Lawrence, Mass., raised their flag to honor El Salvador's Independence Day.  State Rep. Lantigua and the Salvadoran honorary and vice consuls came to the event, reports RumboNews.com

Protesters opposed the display of the Mexican flag on city grounds in New Haven, Conn.  The mayor decried the protest, joined by Jewish, black, Irish and other leaders, reports NewHavenIndependent.org