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YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Mateo Arteaga has closely watched the demographics change in Yakima since he moved here in 1988. A longtime educator, Arteaga visits kindergarten classes where smiling Hispanic faces dominate the room. Hispanics now make up more than a third of Yakima's population, as farm workers travel to central Washington's fruit bowl to work in agriculture and those who have come b

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — The ACLU of Washington says it plans a news conference Wednesday to announce the filing of a major voting rights lawsuit against the city of Yakima. The group declined to provide details Tuesday. The Yakima Herald-Republic previously reported that the ACLU began investigating how City Council members are elected last year, after council members refused to put an initiat