It came as a bit of surprise when it was announced this week that David Bejarano was the new Chief of Police for the City of Chula Vista. It would have been a bigger surprise if it hadn’t been leaked that he had applied and was one of the four top candidates for the position [...]

By Congressman Bob Filner
 What happened to the vision? A grand public gateway consisting of a continuous 10-acre park and gathering place at the foot of Broadway was promised to San Diegans in the Port of San Diego’s Master Plan (PMP). Now we have the old “bait and switch.”
 The waterfront is to serve as the City’s [...]

By Pedro Morillas and Jon Coupal
 Readers of this column may do a double take to see CALPIRG and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association advocating an identical position. But when it comes to government transparency, we are surely reading off the same sheet of music.
 There is little debate that confidence in California government is at a [...]

Por José R.Uzal
 En 233 años de república han habido solamente 111 jueces de la Corte Suprema. De ese número 3 han sido mujeres, dos negros y una hispana. Esto no es extraño si tomamos en consideración que las mujeres obtuvieron el derecho al voto en Estados Unidos el 26 de Agosto de 1920 y los [...]

By Oscar Montero
“Affinity of character is more powerful than affinity of color.”
— José Martí

 In recent weeks it seems as if the dreaded race card has become the race billboard. Questions of “race,” with or without the scare quotes, surface everywhere. The genteel discretions of old, walking on eggshells around a “difficult” topic, have vanished, and [...]

By Raoul Lowery Contreras
 Former Philippines President Corazon (Heart) Aquino died the other day. She not only was the first woman President of the Philippines she was a good President. She was as important to the world as she was to Filipinos.
 First, after her opposition politician husband Benigno Aquino was assassinated, she rose to the top [...]

By Gustavo Arellano

 Dear Readers: We begin, as we do each week, with cojones, although the huevos in question deal with my column a couple of semanas ago on why gabachos prefer the former term for testicles as opposed to the latter. I gave a rough etymology of the two (cojones comes from the Spanish singular [...]

By Pablo Jaime Sáinz
  The guitar, more than a life-long companion, has been José Feliciano’s life.
 “The guitar has been my life, my passport to traveling,” said Feliciano via phone from his home in Connecticut.
 Feliciano will bring all the passion he feels for his guitar when he performs in San Diego as part of the San Diego [...]

 El Festival de Cine Latino de San Diego del Media Arts Center San Diego se complace en presentar su décima serie cinematografical Cinema en tu Idioma que exhibe el nuevo cine latino Americano, mexicano y español. La serie de 4 meses arranca en agosto con la exhibición de CASI DIVAS, protagnizada entre otros por  Maya [...]

Construyen el Museo de Historia de Tijuana Adjunto al Palacio de la Cultura
Por: Paco Zavala
 Ya se nos había comentado la idea de construir el Museo de Historia de Tijuana, pero como están las condiciones, pensamos que sería para más adelante, a un mayor plazo de tiempo, porque de acuerdo con información proveniente, las instituciones municipales [...]

Concerts in the Park
 The City of Oceanside presents a “Concert in the Park” on Friday, August 14, at Mance Buchanan Park on 425 College Blvd.  Music will begin at 5:30 pm. The band “Upstream” will perform calypso/Caribbean music!!
 Hunter Steakhouse will sell hamburgers, hotdogs, sandwiches and sodas. The Concert is free and open to the public. [...]

First Person:

 By Al Carlos Hernandez
 By default, it was my turn to take our Bichon pup Miss Sally for her booster shots. She was very trusting, thinking we were probably going to the park or for a cruise. She started to get nervous when we got to the pet hospital, no doubt skeptical at the smell [...]

Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz
 David Bejarano se ha convertido en el primer jefe de policía latino de Chula Vista. Él es el tercer jefe de policía en la ciudad en 50 años.
 “Siento mucho orgullo,” dijo en español Bejarano, quien de 1999 al 2003 fue el primer jefe de policía latino de la Ciudad de San Diego.
 El [...]

By Laura Carlsen
 President Zelaya spoke to hundreds of Mexican supporters in Mexico City on August 5, to affirm his commitment to restore democracy in his country and underline the importance of the Mexican and U.S. governments in ending the coup.
 The Mexico City government, which earlier presented Zelaya with the keys to the city, organized the [...]

By Kent Paterson
Frontera NorteSur
 Getting doused with pesticides is the first memory Sebastian Coral has of the United States. Crossing the border as a young bracero, or contract farmworker, in the 1950s, Coral made the obligatory stop at a reception center near El Paso, Texas, where he and other guest workers were subjected to delousing and [...]

Mexico del Norte
Por Jorge Mujica
Hace apenas unos dos meses, una encuesta de la ABC News/Washington Post nos daba toda la razón. Un 61 por ciento de xla gente en Estados Unidosx (léase las mil personas que fueron entrevistadas por teléfono un fin de semana), favorecían xun programa que le diera a los inmigrantes ilegales que [...]

By Mariana Martinez
 The theft of gas and other oil products is a relatively new crime that in just a few years has become a serious threat to Mexico’s financial stability.
 The crime involves both drug cartels and corrupt government officials in Mexico and an undetermined number of oil refineries and companies in the US who have [...]

Por Mariana Martinez
 El robo de hidrocarburos, es un crimen relativamente nuevo que se ha convertido en una creciente amenaza que involucra a grupos narcotraficantes y funcionarios corruptos en México, pero también a un número aún no determinado de refinerías en Estados Unidos que compran el combustible robado.
 El tráfico de combustible ha crecido de manera exponencial [...]

LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL
El Soporte Informativo Para Millones de Hispanos
Por: Viviana Ávila Lindo
 El ejemplo debe empezar por casa. Los padres de familia deben ser los primeros en atacar la deserción escolar en Estados Unidos. Cifras nada alentadoras de Americas Promise Alliance indican que anualmente 1 millón 300 mil alumnos de secundaria dejan las aulas para siempre.
 Esto [...]

By Vivian Moon
 Summer is the time to get out, get involved, and get active. The California Children’s 5 a Day – Power Play! campaign is a state health initiative that encourages children to take charge of their health and fitness. Designed for at-risk children, the campaign works to fight childhood obesity and its short- and [...]

By: Crystal Nguyen
 Have you ever stopped to think about where your food comes from? If you ask a child where milk comes from, she or he may say, “The grocery store.” Yes, that is true. Milk does come from the store, but the store gets it from dairy farms. These farms raise cows then get [...]

Applications for Chula Vista Interim City Councilmember
 The City of Chula Vista will accept applications for the appointment of an Interim City Councilmember to serve for the duration of John McCann’s prolonged absence from the City Council while he is on military duty. Applications will be accepted beginning August 7 through 5 p.m., August 31, 2009.
 Applicants [...]

By Pablo Jaime Sáinz
 David Bejarano has become the first Latino chief of the Chula Vista Police Deparment. He’s the third police chief here in 50 years.
 “I feel a lot of pride,” said in Spanish by Bejarano, who from 1999 to 2003 was the City of San Diego’s first Latino police chief.
 On Wednesday, he accepted the [...]

Por Enrique Davis Mazlum
 Los días 9 y 10 de agosto 2009 se realizó la cumbre de mandatarios de América del Norte en el Centro Cultural Hospicios Cabañas, ubicado en la ciudad de Guadalajara, Jalisco. Aquí se reunieron el Presidente de México Felipe Calderón Hinojosa; el Presidente de Estados Unidos Barack Hussein Obama y el Primer [...]

 Washington, D.C.
(ConCienciaNews) — President Barack Obama, in a meeting in the White House with some journalists, showed himself worried and ensured that the cases of the influenza H1N1, continue appearing in the south of the continent, are being monitored and that with the arrival of winter in the north, the disease may affect more the [...]

By Paul Kleyman
New America Media
 Renowned bassist Ortiz Walton was once the youngest person and first African American to play in the Boston Symphony.
 But at 75, not only can’t Walton play his bass, but he cannot bathe, dress, eat or move in his wheelchair without the help of his wife, Carol, and assistance from state-subsidized services [...]

By Justine Drennan
 “First, he walked slower, then with a cane and now he’s in a wheelchair,” said Carol Walton about her husband of 52 years, professional bass player, music educator and author Ortiz Walton.
 The Waltons are among the 22.9 million households in the United States that struggle daily to maintain an elderly relative or sick [...]