By John Philip Wyllie
 With their star-studded lineup the eighth-ranked Eastlake Titans are clear favorites to win another Mesa League football title and drive deep into the CIF playoffs this season. Much has been written about their electrifying, UCLA-bound running back and safety, Tony Jeffer-son, but without some guys up front paving the way for him [...]

By John Philip Wyllie
 After dropping their first two matches of the season by one goal margins the San Diego State Men’s Soccer Team has roared back to go five consecutive games without a loss. In that span the Aztecs have defeated sixth ranked Santa Barbara, and highly-touted Princeton and Wisconsin. This week they Aztecs will [...]

Por: Paco Zavala
 El Maestro herrero, Jesús Flores Rivera, proveniente del estado de Aguascalientes, pertenece a una familia de herreros, desde hace cuatro generaciones, se ha dedicado a la práctica de este noble oficio. El Maestro herrero, Jesús Flores Rivera, desde su infancia vivió en constante contacto con los menesteres de la herrería, sus juguetes fueron [...]

 El periodista y escritor Pablo Jaime Sáinz presentará sus dos nuevos libros en la Feria Internacional del Libro de San Diego el sábado 3 de octubre.
 “Mica chueca” es una novela sobre inmigrantes sinaloenses en Los Angeles.
 Se presenta el sábado 3 de octubre a las 2:30 p.m. en el área de Literatura Infatil y Juvenil en [...]

Editorial:
In the City of Chula Vista there are two long time dreams for the city that for one reason or another have failed to move beyond the vision statement. Those two dreams have been the development of the bay front and a four year university developed in East Chula Vista. Each is seen as the [...]

 Since October 1st 1994 and the launching of Operation Gatekeeper here in San Diego, thousands have died. Nobody knows the exact number 5,000, 6,000, 10,000. How many more?
 These are not numbers, these are human beings ! How dare the US goverment build a wall to kill people. How else can you describe it? It does [...]

 Editor’s Note: The following is in response to the commentary in La Prensa San Diego, “An Open letter to the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Charles B. Reed, California State University System,” by Gracia Molina de Pick, published Sept. 18, 2009, written in response to SDSU’s new admissions policy.

An Open Letter to the SDSU Community
 As [...]

Commentary:
By Israel Ortega
 According to a recently released federal government report, the U.S. poverty rate is at its highest level since 1987. Some 13.2 percent of Americans — 39.8 million — live in poverty. A stark figure, to be sure, but it particularly hits home because, according to the report, Hispanics were among the groups that [...]

Comentario:
Por Jose Uzal
 Hugo Chávez, el presidente de Venezuela y dictador en entrenamiento,  trabaja activamente para conseguir el objetivo de su mentor Castro: destruir al capitalismo.
 El peligro más grande que presenta el hispano Chávez, es que parece ser un mequetrefe. Nada más lejos de la verdad. El incipiente dictador es un formidable adversario, con dinero, con [...]

Comentario:
Por Maribel Hastings
America’s Voice
 Walter, Huerta, Alonso. Son algunos nombres que han cruzado nuestra vista y nuestros corazones en las redes sociales que se han dado a la tarea de ponerle rostro a esos nombres, de humanizarlos en las diversas peticiones que han buscado frenar, a veces con éxito a veces sin él, una deportación que [...]

By Gustavo Arellano

 SPECIAL, ANNUAL CANADIAN EDITION

 Dear Mexican: As a Mexican-American, I’ve lived in St. Louis for about 17 years and have seen a substantial influx of my brethren. Nevertheless, I’m for border security—against the no-good, godless Canadians. I hate Canadians! Funny accents and cold weather—ha! Why is America not closing the Canadian border? Those bunch [...]

By Randy Shaw
 In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor threw out the first pitch at Saturday’s Yankees-Red Sox game in the Bronx. Sotomayor’s appointment was a signature achievement for the nation’s Latinos, and represents President Obama’s leading accomplishment for a constituency that helped elect him. But after Latino voters gave Democrats [...]

By Kent Paterson
Frontera NorteSur
 El Paso was the scene this month as academics, students, journalists, community members, and a smattering of government officials from the United States, Mexico and other parts of the world gathered to analyze and debate the 40-year war on drugs. Located next door to blood-soaked Ciudad Juarez, the event took place at [...]

Perspective
By Rinku Sen
New America Media
 Over the last 18 months, conservatives have launched a nationwide assault on the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which is now peaking with widespread media coverage and Congressional action. This isn’t the first time that the 37-year-old organization has been under attack. With chapters in more than half [...]

Por Enrique Davis Mazlum
 En los últimos años hemos visto como se han desatado mayores desastres naturales, los cuales no nos hubiéramos imaginado: cambios de temperatura, sequias, huracanes, tsunamis, deslaves, aumento en niveles del mar, granizadas, entre otros.
 Los humanos somos los responsables de estos cambios drásticos en el medio ambiente y muchos no creían que nuestros [...]

Frontera NorteSur
 Taking a cue from Argentina’s Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, relatives of disappeared persons staged a loud demonstration in Tijuana on Friday, September 25. Banging pots and pans, protesters gathered outside the Baja California state government building to demand answers about the whereabouts of 320 people forcibly disappeared or kidnapped. In an action that [...]

By Mariana Martinez
 “We all have a responsibility to what is happening in our community and the world,-the so called butterfly effect-, so nothing is foreign and we are all a part of the solution” explains María Aurora Garza Hernández, executive director of the Foundation for the Protection of Children, in Tijuana.
 Five years ago, she became [...]

Perspective:
By Ernie McCray
 I feel like Arsenio Hall because everywhere I roam I see things that make me go: “Hmmm.” Like these crazy people I’ve seen on TV. You know the ones, they’re all blue in the face, looking scarily Incredible Hulkish, some of them without a shred of insurance, shrieking at a man who has: [...]

 Adults looking for assistance in pursuing a GED or  postsecondary education can find it at Palomar College’s North County Educational Opportunity Center (NCEOC), with offices located at both Palomar’s San Marcos campus and Escondido Education Center.
 Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, NCEOC is a free program designed to assist adults with academic advisement, completing [...]

LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL
El Soporte Informativo Para Millones de Hispanos
Por Viviana Ávila Lindo
 “Quisiera ser mi propio jefe” es una de las frases que – seguramente – usted ha dicho cuando no está cómodo en su trabajo, quiere generar dinero extra ó simplemente siente que es hora de independizarse e iniciar una nueva etapa. Cualquiera que sea [...]

AFSCME LOCAL 127 and the City of San Diego mutually reach impasse over privatization guidelines
 After several months of negotiating with the City of San Diego over the guidelines of Mayor Jerry Sanders’ privati-zation program, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 127 (AFSCME Local 127) and the City of San Diego have [...]

By David Maung
 Playas de Tijuana, Mexico – Separated by a 150-foot divide and two international border fences, Daniel Watman in San Diego and Fernando Ruiz in Tijuana, Mexico, had a conversation in a park next to the Pacific Ocean.
 Watman probably couldn’t see the 16-year-old Ruiz’ teenage acne and Ruiz no doubt couldn’t see Watman’s brown [...]

Lupe Chavez, a housekeeper at the San Francisco Hilton, tells her story to David Bacon
By David Bacon

 SAN FRANCISCO
—  I was born in Santa Tecla, near San Salvador. My father was a big rig driver and my mother was a stay at home mom. We had a big family — four brothers and two sisters. When [...]

By Cindy Von Quednow
Scripps Howard Foundation Wire
WASHINGTON – Corey Jacinto, 18, knew that he wouldn’t have been able to attend Pomona College in Clare-mont, Calif., if it wasn’t for scholarships and financial aid.
 He lives with his 85-year-old grandmother, and it was up to him to finance his education – $51,000 a year at Pomona. The [...]

By Justin Anthony Monarez
Scripps Howard Foundation Wire
WASHINGTON – The last four decades of efforts to subdue cartel violence and illicit drug trafficking in the Western Hemisphere have not gone to waste.
 But with Mexican cities boiling in brooding bloodshed, Colombia crackdowns having some success and Costa Rica fearing the internal spread of drugs, three Latin American [...]