ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER
The Environmental Planner will play a key role in coordinating the environmental review for various capital projects. The Planner also will participate in technical studies and design programs for the region’s environmental conservation and preservation efforts. Qualifications: a degree in regional planning, environmental science, geography, public administration, or a related field, and recent experience [...]

CITY OF SAN DIEGO
Engineering & Capital Projects Department
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
FOR
Otay Truck Route Phase IV – Brittania Blvd. to Drucker Lane  (H104933)
The City of San Diego (City) is requesting proposals from highly qualified civil engineering firms for consultant services for Otay Truck Route Phase IV – Brittania Blvd. to Drucker Lane (H104933).
It is the policy of [...]

By Yvette Doss

We need to get back to a simpler way of living.
 My Mexican grandparents had a distrust of financial institutions, a tradition of living day-to-day and only buying what they had money for, a reluctance to borrow money and an allergy to credit cards.
 Maybe our abuelitas and abuelitos had it right all along.
 Spend little.
 Live [...]

Commentary:
By Angela Maria Kelley, Marshall Fitz, Gebe Martinez

 When the Obama administration took control of government nine months ago, the Department of Homeland Security stood out as the agency most in need of repair. Of the many problems DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano inherited, many related to our failed immigration policies. Though Napolitano has recently taken administrative [...]

Commentary:

By James Bovard

 It seems like only yesterday that President George W. Bush was bragging about having brought “freedom and democracy” to 25 million Afghans, a key theme in his second inaugural address.
 For 8 years, the American people have been fed one big lie after another regarding Afghanistan. Now, when the Pentagon is saber-rattling to vastly [...]

Commentary:
By Congressman Bob Filner

 As the people of San Diego stare down a $180 million city budget deficit for the next year, some people are again calling for the wholesale privatization of city government in the foolhardy hope that outsourcing public services will save them. Before taking that leap, I urge city leaders to look at [...]

Comentario:
Por Humberto Caspa, Ph.D.

 El presidente Barack Obama se encuentra en una encrucijada en torno al conflicto bélico y a la situación política en Afganistán.
 Que prosiga el gobierno corrupto de Hamid Karzai le conviene muy poco. Tampoco le ayuda una victoria de su contrincante, el ex ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Abdullah Abdullah. Dejar que las tropas [...]

 Hijole! Los Chargers continue to disappoint. The team doesn’t look good, the whole team looks a step slow. Este Indio still on the bandwagon but the team has to turn it around muy pronto.
 Herman Baca of the CCR shows once again what a person can do by raising your voice. City of National City charging [...]

 By Gustavo Arellano

 Dear Mexican: As a teacher, we’ve been exhorted to expand our efforts in closing the achievement gap between majority and minority students (read: Anglos and Mexicans). I teach all of my students in the best ways that I can determine for each individual student, within the constraints of a classroom of twenty or [...]

Halloween Literacy Activities Planned at Local Barnes & Nobel
Come join Rolling Readers as they celebrate Halloween with authors, books and treats!
 This Halloween weekend Rolling Readers will be hosting a 3-day Bookfair at the Point Loma Barnes & Noble Bookstar, complete with authors, story time, activities and fun! A percentage of proceeds from the weekend will [...]

By John Philip Wyllie

 Otay Ranch senior Jordan Melendo doesn’t get a lot of notice playing center for the Mustangs football team, but he doesn’t mind a bit. Centers generally only get noticed when they do something wrong such as botch the snap. His job is to open the holes that his running backs slip through [...]

 El clasificado #1 peso ligero por el Consejo Mundial de Boxeo, Antonio DeMarco se encuentra en plena preparación para su siguiente reto en la forma del noqueador Nicaraguense José “Quebra Quijadas” Alfaro (23-4, 20KO) el próximo 31 de Octubre desde el Treasure Island Casino en Las Vegas, NV.
 DeMarco (22-1-1, 16KO) de los Los Mochis, Sinaloa, [...]

 Oct.29 – Nov.1st, 2009.  The Foundation for the Pure Spanish Horse invites the public to attend “A Taste of Spain in America,” the P.R.E. (Pura Raza Española) National Celebration Horse Show at the DelMar ShowPark October 29th – November 1st.  Highlighting the show will be the popular “Theatre of the Spanish Horse” on Friday night, [...]

California Rural Legal Assistance partners with Award-Winning Photographer to present a traveling photo exhibit:
 A partnership between David Bacon and the non-profits, California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. and the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations, Living Under the Trees will tour locations throughout California during 2009, accompanied by public events that promote cross-cultural understanding and community dialogue. 
 Living [...]

Por Enrique Davis Mazlum
 En 1833 nació Alfred Nobel en la ciudad de Estocolmo, Suecia, amasó su fortuna al desarrollar y patentar la dinamita. Antes de morir el 10 de diciembre de 1896, Nobel firmó en Paris su tercer testamento donde especificó el uso de su fortuna y las bases para designar los distintos premios Nobel [...]

Saqueadores Amenazan Playas de Anidación – Piden Campamentos Tortugeros Portección A Policías y Militares
Por Sergio Flores Hernández

 PETATLÁN, Guerrero
 - El campamento tortuguero La Tortuga Feliz, ubicado en Juluchuca, Municipio de Petatlán liberó este fin de semana mil 500 tortuguitas marinas, con la presencia de organizaciones civiles como COSTASALVAjE de protección al medio ambiente marino y ecosistemas [...]

Born in a broke country with a black president
First Person:
By Al Carlos Hernandez

 By process of elimination, it fell on me to babysit our infant granddaughter. The babysitter was ill, everybody had to work, and Papa Al works at home. I viewed this as a daunting yet sacred trust. I can’t remember when I had full [...]

New report finds that community college students work too many hours at the expense of academic success
 Community College students could graduate faster and with better grades if they spent less time working at their jobs and more time studying and taking classes, according to a new report released today by the public interest group CALPIRG. [...]

Students Participate in 2nd Annual Perspectives Conference
 The diversity of the South Bay and San Diego Region was on display this week when community members were asked to speak to students during San Ysidro High’s 2nd Annual Perspectives Conference.
 The purpose of the conference was to give students positive perspectives on careers, diversity and life experiences. The [...]

 MORELIA, MICH.— En lo que va de este 2009, la Secretaría del Migrante ha recibido 104 solicitudes de familiares de migrantes que requieren localizar a los paisanos por diferentes causas, informó la titular de la Secretaría del Migrante, Zaira Mandujano Fernández.
 De estas 104 solicitudes, la Secretaría ha dado respuesta satisfactoria al 95 por ciento con [...]

LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL
El Soporte Informativo Para Millones de Hispanos
Por Sonia Schott
 Si hay algo que permite llegar muy lejos en los Estados Unidos es el deporte; de hecho, son muchos los hispanos que han hecho realidad “el sueño americano”, practicándolo.
 Inculcar el hábito de hacer deporte en nuestra familia y en nuestra comunidad, no solamente podría abrirle [...]

By: Andrea M. Aguirre
Graduate Student at SDSU School of Public Health
 Halloween is a fun time of year when children dress up as monsters, cartoon characters, princesses, or superheroes. It’s also a time of year when children get lots of candy as treats, which is not only bad for their pancitas but also bad for their [...]

Por Kristina Millikan
 ¿Cómo es posible que la muerte y la colorida celebración sean dos caras de la misma moneda?
 Este noviembre 1º y 2º veremos a la gente en sitios públicos, en los cementerios y en las casas por todo el área de San Diego celebrando la vida de sus queridos difuntos que ya han partido.
 La [...]

By Kristina Millikan
 How is it that the event of death and a joyous celebration are two sides to one coin?
 This November 1st and 2nd all around San Diego County we will see people gather in public sites, gravesites and in their homes to celebrate the lives of loved ones who have passed on. This celebration [...]

Por Emily Alpert
 Patty Cueva se molestó cuando nadie sabía el nombre del difunto.
 Su familia había finalizado temprano sus rezos aquella noche de fin de año cuando escucharon un estrepitoso choque, un vecino gritando. Ellos salieron alarmados corriendo a toda velocidad de su casa en la avenida Julian para ver un carro destrozado, un cuerpo y [...]

By Emily Mullin
Scripps Howard Foundation Wire
WASHINGTON — Representatives of 29 civil rights organizations gathered on Capitol Hill Tuesday to express their opposition to legislation that would require individuals to indicate their citizenship status in the 2010 census.
 Simon Rosenberg, president of the liberal Washington think tank NDN, said the amendment put forth by Sens. David Vitter, [...]