yet trouble is brewing. 
In these difficult economic times, education has taken a huge hit when it comes to funding. The California state budget passed this week cut $7.2 billion dollars from education, on top of the $11 billion cut in February. Pink slips have become an annual ritual for the past four years, and school [...]

By David A. Love
 When a suburban Philadelphia swim club kicked out a group of black and Latino kids on June 29 because of their skin color, the incident generated much outrage throughout the country.
 But it would be a mistake to think that such incidents and attitudes are a rare exception.
 The Valley Swim Club — located [...]

By Sal Osio, JD
 A week ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the venue of Harvard University, Harvard Professor Henry Gates, Jr. was arrested in his home by a veteran local police officer, Sgt. James Crowley. A national scandal developed by virtue of the fact that the professor is Black and the policeman is White. Racial profiling is [...]

Por Humberto Caspa, Ph.D
 Los problemas raciales se encresparon a raíz de los comentarios del presidente Barack Obama con relación a la trifulca verbal de un profesor de la Universidad de Harvard y un sargento de policía.
 ¿Quién tiene razón? ¿El profesor o el policía? Todo depende de quién hace el análisis de la situación. Créanme, eso [...]

Por José R. Uzal
 El guerrero Ulises embarcó hacia su hogar en la isla de Ítaca tras la batalla de Troya. Según relata el poeta griego Homero en “La Odisea”, el héroe vagó durante diez años por las costas del mar Mediterráneo enfrentándose a los cíclopes, las peores tempestades, los cantos de las sirenas, monstruos marinos [...]

 Sweetwater Union High School District supertinendent, Jesus Gandara finally got it right with his welcome back to school speech. Last year he spent thousands of dollars renting a big old church and over the top productions. This year he did a television broadcast into the schools. Not as flashy but serves the purpose and is [...]

 By Gustavo Arellano

SPECIAL HOUSTON EDITION
 Dear Mexican: Why do Mexicans at construction sites always draw a dick and vagina on the interiors of port-a-potties? They sure are not as poetic as they are artistic. Then you got the white boy reply, “Here I sit flexing a…” You should know the rest.
Original Schreck in Houston
 Dear Gabacho: Me [...]

By Mariana Martinez
 Salud, doesn’t just mean “health” in Spanish, but it also means xcheersx, a good wish to those who join us in the happiness of having a drink.
Wishing Salud is going to become the greeting of choice in the upcoming weeks when the Baja Wine Harvest festivities begins its 19th annual edition, supported by [...]

Por Mariana Martinez
 Salud, es la palabra que más se va a escuchar en las próximas semanas en las ya tradicionales fiestas de la vendimia, que este año vienen ya con la inercia fuerte de años de trabajo que las ha llevado a colocarse como las mejores fiestas del vino en todo el país.
 Formalmente, las fiestas [...]

Por: Paco Zavala
 Estamos terminando con el séptimo mes del año y las actividades culturales que diariamente realizan todas las instituciones públicas y privadas encargadas de llevarlas a feliz término, no cejan en el empeño de mejorarlas en cada uno de los retos que se les presentan.
 El Gobierno del Estado de Baja California, que comanda el [...]

 The Escondido Public Library Endowment Foundation (ELEF) and the Downtown Business Association will present an evening of food, fun and Cuban/Latin jazz on Saturday, August 8, 2009 to benefit library operations. The outdoor concert will take place from 5:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. at the corner of Kalmia and Grand Avenues in downtown Escondido.
 The concert [...]

Nancy De Los Santos and Azucena Maldonado celebrate Sonia Sotomayor with “Wise Latina” T-shirts
By Nancy De Los Santos
 In most of modern day media, Latinas have been stereotyped as hot-blooded, sexy, passionate and jealous spitfires quick to anger, burst out in rapid-fire Spanish when insulted or rip off their clothes whenever presented with the opportunity. At [...]

He just keeps going and going and going
By John P. Wyllie
 The high school wrestling season won’t began again until November, but that is no excuse for Olympian High’s two-time Masters wrestler, Victor Viesca to start goofing off. Instead you will find Viesca most Tuesday’s working out on the weights, on the mat or both.
 “Victor Viesca [...]

¿Qué dice tu Facebook?
Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz
 Hace unos meses, Kiera Murphy, de 16 años, visitó la página de My Space de una compañera de su equipo de fútbol y leyó algunos comentarios inapropiados hechos por su amiga sobre sí misma.
 Kiera, quien es estudiante de último grado en la Hilltop High School en Chula Vista, dijo [...]

By Mariana Martinez
 Border Patrol agent Robert Rosas was just 30 years old. A husband and father of two small children, he was assigned to patrol the Campo area near the border with Tecate Mexico, where he died last Thursday July 23rd, from a gunshot wound.
 His murder was followed by a massive man-hunt lead by authorities [...]

Por Mariana Martinez
 Robert Rosas, agente de la patrulla fronteriza de 30 años de edad y padre de dos hijos, asignado al área de Tecate murió la noche del jueves 23 de julio en una zona montañosa de El Campo, herido de bala.
 Su asesinato fue seguido por un operativo de autoridades de ambos lados de la [...]

Frontera NorteSur
 Although it evades the sensational headlines of the drug war, another crisis is gripping Ciudad Juarez and other Mexican cities. With each passing day, the consumer credit crisis is sucking more and more Mexicans into a deepening financial hole. In the credit card segment alone, at least 13 percent of the 245,000 credit card [...]

By Seth Hoy
 On July 20, the U.S. Census Bureau published new data, Voting and Registration in the Election of 2008, which tracks demographic characteristics of the 131 million U.S. citizens who reported that they voted in the 2008 presidential election. The Census Bureau’s new data set shows a significant increase of about 5 million voters [...]

México del Norte
Por Jorge Mújica Murias
 Ayer me cayó un e-mail, el forward del forward del forward de un par de centenares de personas, advirtiendo sobre una campaña de la derecha que consiste en reunir firmas para enviárselas al presidente Barack Obama oponiéndose a que se le de acceso a los beneficios del Seguro Social a [...]

By Pablo Jaime Sáinz
 Amid budget cuts to public education, there were at least some good news when the two major school districts in the South Bay began classes on Monday, July 27.
 Both the Sweetwater Union High School District and the Chula Vista Elementary School District, which between the two have about 70,000 students, didn’t lay-off [...]

Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz
 En medio de recortes al presupuesto a la educación pública, al menos hubo algunas buenas noticias cuando los dos distritos escolares más grandes del sur del Condado de San Diego regresaron a clases el lunes, 27 de julio.
 Ambos, el Sweetwater Union High School District y el Chula Vista Elementary School District, que [...]

New America Media, Commentary, David Pacheco

Editor’s Note: Lack of health insurance is a growing problem for older Americans, and for Latinos it is especially serious. By 2050, Latinos will make up a quarter of all Americans aged 50 to 69, a reason for them to become more vocal and active participants in the health care [...]

¡No Se Deje!
Por Lic. Jess J. Araujo
Aún los Inmigrantes Indocumentados Deberían Devolver las Formas Completadas
 La Constitución de Estados Unidos exige que cada 10 años se haga un censo de la población. Muchos derechos importantes son determinados al contar el número de personas que viven en cada estado y en diferentes partes de cada estado. La [...]

How to measure physical activity intensity
 Huffing and puffing, out of breath, can’t do anymore!  Or, feeling good, breathing heavy, “in the zone.” At least one person in your life has told you that physical activity is good for your health, but how difficult should it be, and how should you feel during?
 Before we decide how [...]

LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL
El Soporte Informativo Para Millones de Hispanos
Por Marangely Rodríguez
 Muchas familias aprovecharon el receso escolar para tomar un descanso y salir de la rutina diaria, pero si tú aun no lo has hecho no te desanimes, todavía hay tiempo y existen muchas formas de darle a toda la familia unas buenas vacaciones sin afectar [...]

Los fondos se usarán para limpiar y restaurar las cuencas de los ríos de Otay y Tijuana
 California American Water anunció en días pasados que WiLDCOAST, en Imperial Beach, recibirá recursos de su programa de apoyos al medio ambiente 2009. WiLDCOAST, un grupo internacional de conservación, sin fines de lucro, que protege y conserva ecosistemas costeros. [...]

 The University of San Diego has been awarded a $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program to help combat the shortage of mathematics and science teachers.
 The grant will fund scholarships and provide mentoring and other support for students, especially those from under-represented minority groups, to pursue careers in teaching.
 “We are [...]

Critters and Cocktails Coming to Chula Vista Nature Center
 Furry friends from around the globe have decided to cool off this summer with a Critters and Cocktails evening soiree at the Chula Vista Nature Center Thursday, Aug. 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. Sea World and Busch Gardens Animal Ambassador Julie Scardina will entertain the crowds [...]

 Beginning August 3 through August 31, the City of Chula Vista will accept applications for Port Commissioner for the term expiring on January 2, 2011. Chula Vista has one representative on the San Diego Unified Port District’s Board of Port Commissioners. Applicants must be Chula Vista residents at the time of appointment and during the [...]

The realities of social media and sexting messages among teens
 
By Pablo Jaime Sáinz
 Earlier this year 16-year-old Kiera Murphy visited her soccer teammate’s My Space page and read some inappropriate comments on her younger friend’s status description.
 Kiera, a senior at Hilltop High School in Chula Vista, said that her friend was writing provocative, sexually-charged words about [...]