Article: START THE PRESSES.(Working)(Former 20Below columnist is now running his own newspaper - a Spanish-language monthly serving the local Hispanic community)

Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard

Where's Rodrigo?

Seven years ago, the answer was: Right here on the pages of 20Below. Then a student at Lane Community College, Rodrigo Hidalgo was a staff columnist who wrote about trying to score a Carlos Santana concert ticket and celebrating Mexico's version of Halloween.

But Hidalgo, then 19, wasn't afraid to tackle weightier issues, such as his decision to sell plasma to make ends meet, or the in-your-face discrimination he sometimes encountered because of his skin color and accent.

"I'm an immigrant; I'm an outsider," he wrote in one column. "The melting pot is a myth."

But ...

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