Mexico’s drug problem is out of control! This is not news. It is a daily occurrence and focus, in particular for border cities such as San Diego, where we are reminded of the drug problem daily. On the front page of today’s paper is yet another story of a major drug bust in Baja California. [...]

By Yolanda Chávez Leyva

 Being a good Samaritan should not be a crime. Nor should preventing immigrants from dying of dehydration.
 But on Aug. 11, Walt Staton of No More Deaths, an Arizona-based humanitarian organization, was sentenced to 300 hours of community service for “knowingly littering.”
 His so-called litter consisted of water bottles he left in the Arizona [...]

By Marty Block
Assemblymember 78th District
 The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
 Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

 The 19th amendment to the Constitution of the United States contains only 39 words. [...]

By Linda Meric

 Each year, on August 26, we celebrate Women’s Equality Day to pay tribute to those brave suffragists, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul and Ida B. Wells Barnett, who led the struggle for American women to win the most critical tool of democracy — the right to vote.
 Women today not only have the [...]

Por José R. Uzal
 En pocos días el Presidente Obama, proclamará del 15 de septiembre al 15 de octubre de 2009 el Mes Nacional de la Hispanidad. La Honorable Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), líder del Congreso ha expresado al respecto en previas ocasiones: “Celebrar a la comunidad Hispana un mes al año no es suficiente. Los Latinos [...]

 Southwestern College still rumbling over the changes at the college, professors and union mighty upset about their perks being taken away. Those professors might want to take a step back before someone really takes a look and finds out that some of them are way overpaid for teaching one class a day and earning over [...]

By Gustavo Arellano
SPECIAL TWO-LINERS EDITION

 Dear Mexican: A gabacho in the local daily suggested that some of our prisons be outsourced to Mexico to save us some money. What are your thoughts? Would wabs make for good guards looking after homies and white-trash inmates? Have a chew on that taco.  
Mike the Mick from Missouri

 Dear Mick: My [...]

By John Philip Wyllie

 On September 5 the San Diego State Aztecs will kick off their 2009 football season in the Rose Bowl with PAC-10 opponent UCLA. That series has not gone well for the Aztecs in recent years and there is no reason to expect what would be a major upset this time around, but [...]

Por Mariana Martinez

 La violencia de Tijuana es digerida y transformada en una obra de teatro que refleja la compleja realidad de la ciudad de Tijuana en la producción de danza-teatro “I love TJ”, que trata el tema de la violencia asociada al narcotráfico en Tijuana.
 Bajo la dirección de Rodolfo Álvarez este montaje se presentará el [...]

 Media Arts Center San Diego’s San Diego Latino Film Festival and Otay Ranch Town Center bring the best of Latin American films to enjoy this September at the 3rd Annual Que Viva! Cine Latino 2009. In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month the public is invited to experience a collection of popular Latino films. In addition [...]

Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz

 Hace más de 15 años, la hija de Yolanda Hernández fue su inspiración para tratar de mejorar las oportunidades educativas para todos los estudiantes en San Ysidro.
 Hernández sentía que las necesidades de estudiantes con discapacidades como su hija no estaban siendo llenadas por el sistema escolar local.
 “Los niños en educación especial no [...]

By Pablo Jaime Sáinz

 More than 15 years ago, Yolanda Hernandez’s daughter was her inspiration to try to improve the educational opportunities for the students in San Ysidro.
 Hernandez felt that the needs of special students like her daughter weren’t being met by the local school district.
 “The children in special education didn’t have much support,” she remembers. [...]

Entrevista:
“El Centro Cultural Tecate en serios problemas”
Por: Paco Zavala

 Indudablemente que aún en estos tiempos la ceguera de algunos funcionarios públicos no les permite ver, ni valorar la trascendencia de sus actos, creen y piensan que las instituciones que se les confieren a su responsabilidad son de su propiedad y pueden hacer con ellas lo que [...]

México del Norte
Por Jorge Mújica Murias
 “Despiden al cónsul en Dallas por sospecha de corrupción”. Así canta el encabezado de una nota publicada esta semana, en la que la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores Patricia Espinoza confirma lo publicado por el Dallas Morning News hace una semana.
 Enrique Hubbard, hasta ahora Cónsul General de México en Dallas “fue [...]

This Teacher is also a Student of the Game
 Teacher Ric Ramirez has been lifted from his elementary classroom, swirled around in a euphoric tornado of peak experiences and awe-inspiring good fortune, and dropped gently in the middle of Pennsylvania.
 However, it’s the location in The Quaker State that has Ramirez gushing with excitement and anticipation—South Williamsport, [...]

 Women’s History Museum & Educational Center Celebrates Women’s Equality Day with Second Annual Suffrage Parade and Ball Saturday, August 29th, Balboa Park
 Women’s history is alive and well in San Diego and marching across the Laurel Street Bridge!
 It’s time to toss away the outdated image of a history museum as only a building which displays artifacts [...]

A Conversation with Nancy Sutley, Head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality
By Javier Sierra

 During the first months of the Obama administration, we have observed a 180-degree turn in the country’s environmental direction.
 We have gone from disregard and neglect of those communities punished by environmental degradation, from the close ties with the energy industry [...]

LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL
El Soporte Informativo Para Millones de Hispanos
Por José López Zamorano
 Entre la larga lista de lamentables rezagos que padecemos los latinos de Estados Unidos, quizás ningún asunto es más preocupante que el déficit de cobertura médica. Casi un tercio de nuestra comunidad, unas 15 millones de personas, no tiene seguro médico.
 La alarmante cifra debe [...]

 The City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture (Commission) announces workshops in September and October to inform the public about the application and review processes for FY 2011 funding for arts and culture programs. The City supports art and culture through two programs that provide funding to nonprofit organizations through a competitive review [...]

The military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free employment, entrepreneurship, and education event for job seekers who have military backgrounds in San Diego on Thursday, September 3. This event, the RecruitMilitary Opportunity Expo, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Qualcomm Stadium, home of the San Diego Chargers.
 The military-to-civilian recruiting firm [...]

By Mariana Martínez

 Under the blazing August sun, amongst arid terrains and dust covered trees, it is hard to think about drug trafficking and easy instead about having a picnic in the shade.
 But it is precisely in this odd setting, far from roads and houses, that Mexican Military found what is believed to be the biggest [...]

Por Mariana Martínez

 Bajo el sol ardiente de agosto, entre terrenos áridos y arboledas polvorosas es difícil pensar en las garras del narcotráfico y no en un buen picnic.
 Pero es precisamente en esta zona despoblada, alejada por completo de la ciudad y las carreteras, donde los militares mexicanos encontraron uno de los laboratorios clandestinos de cristal [...]

Hilda Pacheco-Taylor’s Foundation, Corazon De Vida Provides Funding to 14 Different Orphanages in Baja Serving 750- 900 Children a Day
By Susie Albin-Najera

 Raised eight years in an orphanage in Baja California, Mexico, Hilda Pacheco-Taylor never forgot her roots. Born in Ensenada, Pacheco-Taylor grew up in Puerta de Fe (Door of Faith), an orphanage in La Mision, [...]

Stefania Fernandez, Miss Venezuela 2008, de la Organización Miss Venezuela, Coronada a Miss Universo 2009
 CARACAS, VENEZUELA — Stefanía Fernández, de 18 años de edad, clasificó desde el inicio del certámen entre las favoritas, primero entre las quince semifinalistas y finalmente entre las cinco que se disputaron la corona este pasado domingo, 23 de agosto, en [...]

Por Enrique Davis Mazlum

 El Buró de Referencia Poblacional (PRF) indica que el 51 por ciento de la población a nivel mundial son mujeres; en el caso de México, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas nos informa que de cada 105 mujeres hay 100 hombres. Lo que me llama la atención de estos datos es que [...]

Frontera NorteSur
 It could have been a suspenseful scene from any old action flick. Gathered in Chihuahua City this past week for the inauguration of the International Film Festival, a star-studded crowd of movie producers, actors and politicians listened to an orchestra pound out themes from Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Actors dressed like Charlie Chaplin, [...]