Por Mariana Martinez

 La Cruz Roja, anunció el inminente cierre de sus servicios hospitalarios y apenas al día siguiente un ataque armado contra policías municipales dejó 3 muertos y 5 heridos que fueron atendidos en su sala de emergencias.
 Este hecho subraya la necesidad que existe de los servicios de la Cruz Roja, ya que esta institución [...]

Editorial:
In 2006, San Diego City voters passed Proposition C which gave the mayor the option of outsourcing city jobs. Since that time, while the mayor has rattled his saber in regards to outsourcing, no jobs have been outsourced. Part of the reason has been due to the pressure from city unions as they try and [...]

Commentary:
By Alvaro Huerta

 The American government, in my opinion, contributed to the deaths of my parents by not providing universal health care.
 In every other advanced industrial nation, they would have received quality health care as a right.
 Here, they did not.
 My father first came to this country as an agricultural worker from Mexico during the Bracero Program, [...]

Commentary:
By Nativo Vigil Lopez

 After thirty years of dutifully cooperating with the census count, and even enthusiastically promoting and organizing for a successful enumeration in 1990 and 2000, I have decided this year to sit it out and not comply with the federal law. I do so very conscious of the implications of such noncooperation and [...]

Commentary:
By Armando Rendón, J.D.
 I would make just the opposite argument to Nativo Lopez’ call for undocumented people to abstain from answering the census. Mr. Lopez says, “Their resounding demand is – before you count you must legalize us!” Mr. Lopez seems to have already contacted the undocumented people in the U.S., a task which the [...]

Yesterday (Tuesday) I learned that among the bills Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed was AB 24, the bill I authored that would have provided a feasibility study (using no state funds) for a new California State University campus in Chula Vista.
When built, that university would create thousands of quality jobs, increase local property values, boost San Diegoxs [...]

Commentary:
By Robert Valencia

 Soccer has been popular in the United States for decades, and our country hosted one of the most successful World Cups in history in 1994. But the sport has received a notable boost from Hispanics, who are becoming some of the sport’s staunchest fans.
 Yet the Center for Immigration Studies’ David Seminara uses soccer [...]

Comentario:
Por José R. Uzal

 La culpa de todo la tiene el totí (pájaro negro prevalente en Cuba). Este dicho básicamente racista describe la presente situación política en Estados Unidos.
 Es imposible que con solo 9 meses en el poder, el primer presidente negro, Barack Obama, sea culpable de la presente situación en que se encuentra el país.
 Los [...]

 By Gustavo Arellano

 Dear Mexican: An uninsured wetback just hit my car and totaled his. He had no insurance and no license, but did have a nice cell phone. I asked him if he was okay in my limited Spanish, but he did not ask about me or my children. He was handcuffed and taken away [...]

By John Philip Wyllie
 San Diego State’s Men’s Soccer Team raised some eyebrows in the soccer world on Sunday when they battled second-ranked UCLA to a 2-2 tie. Not to be outdone, the Aztecs’ women’s side tied 13th ranked BYU last week and put its eight-game unbeaten streak on the line yesterday at Wyoming. The result [...]

By John Philip Wyllie
 Coming into this season, long-time Bonita Vista High football coach Carl Parrick didn’t know who his starting quarterback would be. With Patrick Schneemann not expected back until mid-season due to a lingering baseball injury it came down to a two-way battle between senior Ryan Hoggard and junior Joel Gutierrez. Both were impressive [...]

By Mariana Martinez

 The Tijuana Red Cross announced the closure of some hospital services and just the next day, an armed commando fired upon a group of local police, killing three and wounding another 5, who were taken to the Red Cross for treatment.
 The event underlined the mission of the Red Cross, an institution providing 98% of [...]

México del Norte
Por Jorge Mújica Murias
 No cabe duda. La administración de Obama, por no echarle la culpa a Barack solito, está llena de genios. Después de todo, sí hay un lugar para “los ilegales que están aquí” (como dijera el presi hace un par de semanas), y les toca un papel importante en la solución [...]

Frontera NorteSur
 Statements made by an official with Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) this week confirmed the depth of his country’s tourism crisis.
 According to Ernesto Rodriguez Chavez, director of the federal agency’s migration studies center, the number of foreign visitors to Mexico registered an 18 percent drop between the months of January and August of this [...]

NEW YORK —Yoani Sánchez, a Cuban blogger critical of her country, has been denied permission to travel to New York City and receive a Maria Moors Cabot Prize special citation, administered by Columbia University School of Journalism School and scheduled to be presented on Wednesday, October 14 at Columbia University.
 In barely two years, Sánchez’s weekly [...]

By Raoul Lowery Contreras
 Not long ago in the Oceanside WalMart, I observed a little 12 or 13 year old Mexican girl, probably a Zapotec Indian from the 3000 of them that live in Oceanside, in the furniture section.
 Her father, obviously a farm worker, was listening attentively to her as she told him that this particular [...]

By Javier Sierra
 At the end of the 31st annual Hispanic Heritage month, Latinos in the US are still waiting to celebrate a crucial victory —getting rid of the toxic water that poisons so many of our communities. This problem is nationwide, but as far as we are concerned, the situation is much more critical.
 This issue [...]

 The United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission (USIBWC) has scheduled a public meeting of the USIBWC Citizens Forum on Thursday, October 22, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Tijuana Estuary Meeting Room, 301 Caspian Way, Imperial Beach, CA 91932. The meeting will focus on sediment, trash, and sanitation issues affecting the [...]

Take a look at your Social Security Statement, which comes in the mail about 2 or 3 months before your birthday
By Mario Valdez Juarez
 As Halloween hovers on the horizon, the most frightening prospect for some adults has nothing to do with ghosts or goblins. Rather, it’s their scary lack of preparation when it comes to [...]

Latinos Most Worried About Getting Sick
By Annette Fuentes
New America Media
 More than seven in 10 Californians say they would roll up their sleeves and get a flu shot if their doctors recommended it, according to a poll released Tuesday by The Field Poll.
 But 27 percent say they are unlikely to get a shot, despite medical recommendations.
 With [...]

By Susanne Reno
 When Planned Parenthood offers workshops on talking to teens about sexuality, parents tell us that broaching this sensitive topic is one of the toughest parts of raising children. Let’s face it, it can be a little uncomfortable talking to your kids about sex.
 Parents ask us about the best time to have “the talk.” [...]

SACRAMENTO – En tiempos en que el costo del cuidado médico sigue subiendo, los californianos se merecen la información y herramientas que les ayuden a entender el mundo de la cobertura médica que a menudo puede ser confuso. ¿Alguna vez ha tenido usted o algún ser querido dificultades explicándole sus malestares al doctor porque no [...]

 San Ysidro Health Center (SYHC) will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Paradise Hills Family Clinic, 2400 E. 8th St., National City on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009.  The event, which will be attended by Congressman Bob Filner, will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. with the ribbon cutting scheduled for 11:45 [...]

By Charles Spratley
 Francis Grierson died last night. I read the old and yellowed telegram several times over, digesting the words. Looking at the date, May 30, 1927, I think back on the history of Grierson, the pen name of Jesse Shepard—from conducting séances in Russia, dining with the likes of Alexandre Dumas and Oscar Wilde [...]

Pumpkin Patch Storytimes at the Oceanside Public Library
 It’s the time of year again for the Oceanside Public Library’s annual Pumpkin Patch story-times. The Pumpkin Patch programs will be held on Tuesday, October 27, 2009, at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. at the Civic Center Library and on Friday, October 30, 2009, at 10:30 a.m. at [...]

Environmental activists to be recognized as the “Coastal Community Defense Champion”
By Mariana Martínez
 Human borders have no meaning to air, earth, and water, something well understood by environmental activists, whom in the last decade have worked closely, shoulder to shoulder, with their counterparts in San Diego-Tijuana in the search of environmental justice needed for all.
 It has [...]

Por Mariana Martínez
 Las fronteras humanas no tienen mayor relevancia para el aire, la tierra o el agua, algo entendido bien por los activistas ambientales, que desde hace al menos una década han colaborado de manera cercana con sus contrapartes en Tijuana-San Diego en búsqueda de la justicia ambiental que merecemos todos.
 Esta ha sido exactamente la [...]

By Roberto Lovato
AlterNet
 As CNN begins broadcasting its Latino in America series — its most important and expensive attempt to capture Latino audiences — Latinos are of one mind about the two faces of CNN.
 I know this because I just spent the last two weeks traveling the country talking to Latino communities about Lou Dobbs and [...]

By Cindy Von Quednow
WASHINGTON — A month-old commission brought star power to the Capitol Tuesday to promote the idea of a National Museum of the American Latino.
 Actor Eva Longoria Parker and music producer Emilio Estefan joined two Cabinet secretaries, members of Congress and commission members at a press conference.
 “If you walk through the Mall of [...]