“ED 6.5 Attract upscale restaurants in strategic locations of the City, in-cluding the regional serving visitor and commercial centers.”
 This statement is a part of the Economic Development (ED) for the city of Chula Vista and a part of the “Vision Statement 2020” developed over several years and after 100s of hours of community meetings, staff [...]

Por El Congresista Mike Honda y El Congresista Raúl M. Grijalva
 El 72% del pueblo Estadounidense apoya una fuerte opción pública del sistema médico que sea accesible a todos. La opción pública es buena para nuestras familias, para la recuperación económica, y cuenta con el apoyo del público Estadounidense. Conforme, el Congreso tome la acción necesaria [...]

By Israel Ortega
It’s no secret that our economy is hurting. Here in Washington, the response has been predictable: increase federal spending. Beginning last fall and continuing through the spring, Congress has been spending at a feverish pace, highlighted by two massively expensive “stimulus bills” with a combined price tag of almost $1 trillion.
Unfortunately, it’s not [...]

Por Israel Ortega y Anna Dorminey
 No cabe duda que nuestra economía esta sufriendo. Aquí en Washington, D.C., la respuesta ha sido: gastar más y más. Empezando desde el otoño pasado y continuando durante toda esta primavera, el Congreso estadounidense ha estado gastando sin parar incluyendo dos carísimas medidas firmadas a ley con el propósito de [...]

By Alvaro Huerta
 I’m baffled that some Republicans have viciously attacked Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
 Too often I’ve heard Republicans talk about the lack of the so-called Protestant work ethic in minority communities and how if only poor minorities worked harder, pursued higher education and stopped depending on government welfare programs, then they, too, could achieve the American [...]

Por Humberto Caspa, Ph.D.
 Definitivamente a la democracia es muy difícil de entenderla. Algunos periodistas, locutores de radio y reporteros de la televisión –especialmente un comentarista de Univisión que se cree el alma de los latinos— pecan por mirar a la democracia en forma superficial y sufren de una miopía política generada por su falta de [...]

Por José R. Uzal
 En Estados Unidos lo que cuenta no es el peso del voto de cada individuo. Lo que en realidad cuenta son los pesos y los votos.
 Los hispanos somos un poderoso bloque económico, con un poder adquisitivo combinado de más de un trillón de dólares; pero no somos todavía un bloque  importante de [...]

By Gustavo Arellano

 Dear Mexican: The mainstream media is making big noise of Sonia Sotomayor likely being the first Latina Supreme Court justice, and that all Latinos should be proud. But Puerto Rican ain’t Mexican! The Supreme Court won’t have a shade of brown until a Mexican is among Roberts and Scalia. What does the Mexican [...]

Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz
 La cantante colombiana Tati acepta que es una chica tímida. En especial cuando tuvo que grabar escenas muy sensuales para el video de su canción Ámame.
 “No me podía concentrar”, dice Tati, riendo, hace unos días cuando estuvo en San Diego para promocionar su primer disco, El latido de mi corazón. “Conocí al [...]

By Pablo Jaime Sáinz
 Colombian Singer Tati accepts she’s a shy girl, especially when she had to film sensual scenes for the video of her song Ámame.
 “I couldn’t concentrate,” said Tati, laughing, a few days ago when she visited San Diego to promote her debut álbum, El latido de mi corazón. “I met the model actor [...]

First Person:
By Al Carlos Hernandez
  If you have watched TV or have gone to the movies over the last thirty years you know his face, even his voice, but may not know his name. He is Richard Yniquez, a seminal, in-demand character actor who has appeared in more than one hundred prime time television programs and [...]

 ** El director del Centro Cultural Tijuana se entrevistó con integrantes de la Comisión de Arte y Cultura de San Diego.
** La directora ejecutiva de la Comisión, Victoria L. Hamilton, encabezó la visita de un grupo de consejeros al CECUT.
 
 Tijuana, B.C.
— Un promisorio programa de colaboración binacional con grandes posibilidades de intercambios recíprocos quedó esbozado [...]

 The New Mambo Kings extended for one extra night due to popular demand
 WHAT: The New Mambo Kings is coming to the historic Starlight Theatre in Balboa Park for a three night limited engagement. Starlight Theatre is thrilled to announce that a new date of Sunday, August 2nd has just been released to the public due [...]

 Car collectors and automotive enthusiasts, community members, business owners, and the City’s regional visitors will gather for the Eighteenth Annual Automobile Heritage Day on Sunday, August 2nd  in National City. Automobile Heritage Day celebrates the City’s rich automotive history. The event is free to the public and will kick off with a parade at 9:00 [...]

 The U.S. Jr. Olympic Skills competition, the official youth skills competition of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), converge on the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. July 23-26 for the National Finals. Seventy-two athletes ages 8-13 will compete in four fundamental sports – basketball, soccer, tennis and track & field – for [...]

By John Philip Wyllie 
 With a Hispanic mother and an African-American father, Olympian High junior Dre Gibson enjoys the best of both worlds.
 “The food is the great part about it. You go to my grand-mother’s house on my Dad’s side and she will be cooking some kind of soul food. On my mom’s side we’ll have [...]

 MEXICALI, B. C. — Luego de más de un año de preparación y planeación, la gran fiesta ha dado inicio.
México dio la bienvenida a todos los equipos participantes que desde ayer arrancaron en la competencia que se de-sarrolla en dos sedes: Tijuana y Mexicali.
El Audtiorio del Estado se convirtió en el gran escenario de esta [...]

Reduced rates available for San Diego State’s six-game 2009 home schedule
 Single-game group tickets for the 2009 San Diego State home football season went on sale  Monday, July 20, at 9 a.m. PT through the Aztec Athletic Department. The group rates are available for those purchasing 20 or more tickets to any one of the Aztecs’ [...]

Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz
 En 20 años, el sur del Condado de San Diego ha visto un tremendo crecimiento y desarrollo.
 El este de Chula Vista ha vivido la expansión de comunidades residenciales en East Lake y Otay Ranch. Abrió el Olympic Training Center. Ha habido mejoras considerables en los tiempos de espera en la frontera. Han [...]

By Mariana Martinez
 Two hours in the scorching heat. The endless line of cars is unbearable, nothing is moving except inside the metal cans holding restless passengers hostage, fighting their way to move through just four lanes.
 No, this is not a description of the border wait going north, but about the futile intent of thousands of [...]

Analysis
 “PRI crushes the President,” declared Mexico City’s Milenio newspaper following the midterm elections on July 5. Mexico’s conservative President Felipe Calderón endured a significant setback when his Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) was unseated by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in the House of Deputies (the lower house of Congress) and suffered losses in gubernatorial elections. [...]

Por: Paco Zavala
 Asistimos a una rueda de prensa a la que se convocó el pasado martes 21 de julio a realizarse en el Auditorio del Palacio de la Cultura de Tijuana, en el marco del 120avo Aniversario de la Fundación de Tijuana, el H. XIX Ayuntamiento de Tijuana, a través del Instituto Municipal de Arte [...]

Frontera NorteSur
 Across the US-Mexico borderlands, unbearably hot temperatures and extreme weather events kept many people jumpy this week. Temperatures topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit prompted authorities to open emergency shelters, shut down swimming pools and issue health alerts. In the state of Coahuila, a high of 122 degrees was reported.
 In Eagle Pass, Texas, where the thermometer [...]

 (An Old Man Just Sharing Good Memories Sparked by a Picture)
By Ernie McCray
 The house I live in was built in 1911 of some pretty sturdy wood; it had to be with twin girls traveling up and down its stairs in various teenage moods and posing like Tyra Banks in a photo shoot on its roof; [...]

By Leslie Thomas
 These challenging economic times are increasing stress for many of us, and increased stress can take its toll on the mind and body. Stress can interrupt your sleep pattern, leaving you fatigued and may even impair your immune system, causing your risk for illness to increase.
 You may be wondering what you can do [...]

LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL
El Soporte Informativo Para Millones de Hispanos
Por Viviana Avila Lindo
 “Tú puedes”, “Qué bien”, “Inténtalo de nuevo” son algunas de las frases que los padres de familia deben utilizar a la hora de hablarle a sus hijos, y que sin duda marcan la diferencia para que ellos incrementen la confianza en sí mismos.
 Expertos en [...]

 More than 70,000 students in the Chula Vista Elementary and Sweetwater Union High school districts will start the 2009-10 academic year on Monday, July 27. It is the first time in 40 years that the two school districts—the two largest in the South County—have aligned their schedules.
 The districts have been busily preparing support services to ensure [...]

By Pablo Jaime Sáinz
 In 20 years, South San Diego County has seen tremendous growth and development.
 Eastern Chula Vista has seen the expansion of residential communities in East Lake and Otay Ranch. The Olympic Training Center opened. There have been major enhancements to the U.S./Mexico border crossings. New roads have opened, such as State Route 125.
 All [...]

Por Mariana Martinez
 Dos horas en el asfixiante calor… y la fila que no avanza, extendiéndose en cientos de latas metálicas atrapando a sus tripulantes que intentan pasar por apenas unos cuantos carriles.
 No, esto no es una crónica del cruce a San Diego por la garita de San Ysidro, sino del intento de miles de tijuanenses [...]