The key value of democratic process is based on the belief in the integrity and rights of all people and promotes ideals of equal participation and access for individuals and groups, civil and political rights, citizenship, and democratic decision making in all aspects of life, including public and private life.
 Last week we made mention of [...]

By Jorge Mariscal
 The impact of the economic crisis on the University of California has been in the headlines over the last two weeks. 
 Last Saturday’s Union Tribune article on the UC budget meltdown drew heavily on a letter that was signed by 23 department chairmen at UC San Diego. Unfortunately, this has been the only public [...]

By Victor M. Rodriguez Dominguez
 Higher Education in California is facing the greatest challenge in its history. But Latino youth will pay a disproportionate share of the consequences for the crisis in the next few years. The impasse between Governor Schwarz-enegger and the state legislature have created the conditions for an ever further worsening of the [...]

By Assembly Member Lori Saldaña
 With this year’s unprecedented drop in state revenues, policymakers were forced to confront the problem of preserving programs and services that the public values – like affordable higher education and state parks – using the extremely limited resources at our disposal.
 We recognize the need to reduce spending; however, we do not [...]

By Jason Leon
 Foreign travel can be quite frustrating if you don’t know the language. Ordering food can resemble a game of charades, replete with wild hand gestures and grunting noises. Simply getting directions from a local can become an exercise in futility.
 The frustration associated with an overseas trip is generally worth it, though.
 Imagine if you [...]

Por Humberto Caspa, Ph.D
 Se ve con toda claridad –de arriba hacia abajo y de izquierda a la derecha— que la nueva propuesta de un grupo de activistas radicales de la derecha atenta contra los derechos constitucionales de un sector de la ciudadanía.
 Su nueva meta ahora es negar la ciudadanía a los hijos de las personas [...]

By Gustavo Arellano
Dear Mexican: How can I get Mexicans to arrive to a meeting ON TIME?
Punctual Pete
Dear Gabacho: Tell them you’re offering green cards on a first-come, first-serve basis. And then diles a gabachos to eliminate the concept of arriving “fashionably late” the way they did the Polish joke.
I was reading through the glossary in [...]

Ricardo Zurita – Con algunos puyazos previos a su organización,se dará la cuarta corrida de la temporada en Tijuana.
 TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA- Tal y como entitula su libro Rafael Loret de Mola… “Si los toros no dieran cornadas”, la organización de cualquier festejo taurino: novillada, corrida de toros, etcétera, conlleva sus particulares riesgos y tiene sus [...]

By John Philip Wyllie
 With a pair of impressive wins last weekend San Diego’s second place WPSL team, San Diego United (9-1-2) is headed for the league playoffs. Saturday’s 3-0 victory over the San Diego Sea Lions and their 9-0 drubbing of the hapless PSSCV Rooks on Sunday insured United a spot in the postseason. [...]

Reseña:
Por: Paco Zavala
 Circuló la invitación a los medios para asistir al homenaje que le rindieron el pasado martes 14 de julio, la administración del H. XIX Ayuntamiento de Tijuana que encabeza el Lic. Jorge Ramos, Presidente Municipal, sumándose al evento el Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura, dirigido por la Maestra Teresa Riqué, en el [...]

Este espacio museístico ofrece la oportunidad de conocer el pasado de nuestra ciudad y península.
TIJUANA, B.C. — En el marco de los festejos por el 120avo aniversario de la ciudad, el Centro Cultural Tijuana invita a visitar el Museo de las Californias, que ofrece un recorrido por la historia de nuestra península y de [...]

First Person:
By Al Carlos Hernandez
 Been in a malaise-a-funk as it were ever since the MJ funeral. Ignoble icon or not, his music was part of the sound track of my life for many years. And now he is gone. What was hurtful to me was the looks on the Jackson brothers faces. I know how [...]

Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz
 Una nueva campaña en español tratará de prevenir el uso del cristal entre la comunidad latina del Condado de San Diego.
 A Través del Cristal Meth (On the Other Side of Crystal Meth), que fue lanzada el jueves 9 de julio en la Rosa Parks Elementary School, es parte de una campaña nacional [...]

By Michael Novinson
Scripps Howard Foundation Wire
WASHINGTON — The achieve-ment gap between black and white students has narrowed, according to a National Center for Education Statistics report released Tuesday.
 The gaps in 2007 were smaller than in previous assessments in the fourth and eighth grades in math and in fourth-grade reading.
 Although test scores for both races increased [...]

Por Eduardo Stanley
 En los ultimos años el tema de los valores familiares dejó de ser personal —o familiar— para convertirse en asunto político estadounidense.
 Sectores conservadores de la sociedad, agrupados en la llamada “derecha cristiana” —cuya expresión política se encuentra principalmente en el Partido Republicano— incorporaron con decisión y empeño elementos morales de su arsenal en [...]

Frontera NorteSur
 International labor activists and their supporters are ramping up pressure on the Mexican government to resolve several outstanding disputes. On a five-day visit to Mexico this past week, a delegation of several dozen labor leaders representing millions of workers from the US, Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and South America renewed their backing of [...]

 El Secretario General Adjunto de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA), Embajador Albert Ramdin, se reunió hoy con miembros del Grupo de Congresistas Hispanos del Congreso de los Estados Unidos (Congressional Hispanic Caucus) para informar acerca de las gestiones que la OEA realizó y está realizando en Honduras antes y después del golpe de [...]

Por Rani Gupta
 Cuando era un niño, Eugene Johnson compartió su pasión por las artes marciales con un amigo cercano en su barrio natal de Logan Heights.
 Juntos participaban en competencias de artes marciales, algo que se le daba muy fácil al amigo de Johnson.
 “Él podía simplemente mirar una película de artes marciales y agarrar los movimientos [...]

 El juego de Lacrosse – en parte soccer, basketball y hockey – es un deporte que ha definido a los guerreros indígenas americanos desde el siglo XIV. Para Alanna Parker, alumna de último año de la escuela Monte Vista High School, el Lacrosse es una pasión que la impulsa a tener éxito en todo lo [...]

By: Dave Macek
 Did you ever think that being healthy can also make you wealthy? It’s true! Making healthy choices in your life can actually save you money! You can make changes in your health right now that will help reduce next month’s bills and also help years into the future. Are you ready? All that [...]

LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL
El Soporte Informativo Para Millones de Hispanos
Por Luisa Fernanda Montero
 Un reporte publicado recientemente por la Agencia Internacional de Investigación sobre el cáncer, reveló que por primera vez en una década, hubo un descenso en la incidencia de muertes causadas por el cáncer en Estados Unidos.
 La noticia es buena por muchas cosas, pero principalmente [...]

¡No Se Deje!
Por Lic. Jess J. Araujo
 El 1ro de Mayo de 2007 miles de Latinos, mayormente Mexicanos, se reunieron en diferentes localidades para protestar por las crueles políticas de inmigración y para apoyar la reforma migratoria. Una de las multitudes más grandes se reunió en el Parque MacArthur en Los Angeles. Los protestantes tenían permisos [...]

 Especialmente diseñadas para padres que se encuentran en estos momentos en proceso de divorcio o Padres divorciados quienes en la actualidad tienen muchos problemas tratando de resolver conflictos, se encuentran cordialmente invitados a participar en un programa de asistencia gratuita que consiste en 12 semanas de “Clases para Padres para evitar un divorcio que sea [...]

Voz Alta Fundraiser. Opening Reception July 18, 2009 at 4:20pm Hosted by Agua Dulce at Voz Alta Project. The fund-raiser will include live music by the legendary group Agua Dulce, well know for their musical community service efforts are going to play two sets of original soul, latin, salsa, funk music as they do best, With [...]

By Pablo Jaime Sáinz
  A new Spanish-language campaign will try to prevent abuse of crystal meth among the Latino community of San Diego County.
 A Través del Cristal Meth (On the Other Side of Crystal Meth), which was launched on Thursday, July 9th, at Rosa Parks Elementary School, is part of a national campaign aimed at Spanish-speaking [...]

By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez
New America Media
Analysis
 Nine years into the new millennium and conservatives and Republicans — with straight faces – insist that it is they who should define the nation’s racial debate and that it is their views that are fair and objective and part of the U.S. mainstream. Nowhere is this fallacy more [...]

By Michael Novinson
Scripps Howard Foundation Wire
WASHINGTON – Charter schools will find themselves staring down the two-headed monster of an awful economy and mixed achievement results over the next couple of years. But thus far, the fastest-growing reform movement in education history has shown no signs of slowing down.
 Charters receive public money, but aren’t constrained by [...]

 Punctuated by hundreds of shots, a police pursuit and shootout terrorized the streets of Tijuana last weekend. When the mayhem was over, one suspected drug gang member was dead and two others were wounded and in police custody. Two Federal Police officers were also reported injured in the running clash.
 The gun battle was among countless [...]